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High tech spy gadgets may find their way into poker machines in the near future, if Deleon Guerrero, R-Saipan has anything to say about it. The representative suggested that the idea is under review, with the purpose of ensuring the right amount of taxes are being paid and collected from the poker machines. Vice Speaker Joseph P…

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The poker world got a big shot in the arm from Chris Moneymaker in 2003, when that player won the World Series of Poker after qualifying for his seat in a $40 online tournament. The trend continued recently when Tim Vance from St. Louis, Missouri, took down the Scandinavian Open, part of the European Poker Tour…

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The pro poker player known as “the Magician” has been hired to work some magic for the World Poker Tour. Antonio Esfandiari, who was a pro magician before he became a pro poker player, was hired once before by the WPT to perform magic with cards and coins, and has been hired once more to perform a different kind of magic. Esfandiari will be the official spokesman for the “WPT Poker-Made Millionaire” segment of the company, representing the 84 players who have earned a million dollars or more on the World Poker Tour, which routinely pays out at least a million dollars to winners of their various events.Related Articles:WPT on GSN announcedWPT celeb event coming soon…

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In the most World Poker Tour events a similar format is followed. Players buy in and play at events over a period of time, sometimes as long as a month, leading up to a final event. Such was the case for the WPT L.A…

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Online poker rooms are sometimes where pro players and amateur high rollers log on to toss money around in very large amounts, as witnesses to one match at Full Tilt Poker can attest to. Phil Ivey, known as the “Tiger Woods of poker”, was the pro while another player, a mystery man known as seda1, took on the role of high stakes amateur. Seda1 lost $600k to Ivey in one match, but according to reports made up some ground in a follow up session at a “Deathmatch” table…

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Online poker room Full Tilt is well known for putting on a lengthy, action-packed poker series that rivals many live series in terms of player participation and cash. The FTOPS, or Full Tilt Online Poker Series, boasts dozens of events with star players acting as hosts and covers most popular forms of poker. This year’s FTOPS has just concluded and paid out close to half a million dollars to the winner of the main event…

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They say that the best poker style to play a game like No Limit Texas Holdem is Tight Aggressive. This means that a player does not get involved in too many pots (that makes them tight versus loose) and when they take action, they bet hard (that makes them aggressive instead of passive.)

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When you fake someone out, you trick them. It is the same thing as a bluff. An out in poker is someone’s chance of developing a hand. When it looks like you are going to develop your hand the way you want it to, it is a fake out. It is the same thing as the game bluffing you.

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We have all seen it: someone delivers a bad beat to Phil Hellmuth, and he calls them a donkey then proceeds to throw a tantrum that would embarrass a two-year-old. During his tirade he usually berates his competition for daring to go all the way to the river with inferior cards. Not folding when you should really sends Phil over the edge. Of course after having a good cry, he generally comes back and breaks the person who has upset him to the point of going tilt.

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