Each week that NBC airs its poker show Poker After Dark it has a theme, such as Hecklers Week or Champions Week. In an upcoming week PAD will feature the poker player once on the People Magazine’s Most Sexy list and a table full of women. Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen will be playing with Vanessa Rousso, Beth Shak, Clonie Gowen, J.J…
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College is a time of life when many kids learn about juggling a work/life balance with academics in order to pay for their tuition, which at some universities can easily range into the mid to upper five figure ranges. Some college students are turning to online poker in order to help pay the bills, and some experts see this as a growing trend. While loans are common when it comes to acquiring college money, these experts, like Rep…
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Online poker website Part Time Poker announced recently the acquisition of a poker staking site called NeverBeg. The acquisition was staged in order to provide an additional service to the users of the Part Time Poker site. The additional traffic boost from Never Beg’s regular customers was also a factor: those users will now find the same services under a new name, Part Time Poker Staking, which boasts 15,000 members…
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Some people when asked what the world’s oldest profession is will blush and get silly little grin on their face; others will think about it for a moment and then say that farming is the oldest human vocation. Those of you who are in that latter category probably need to get out more. It is a well traveled notion that prostitution is the planet’s oldest service industry job. At many points in history women of negotiable affection have gone with the poker industry in the same complimentary fashion as a warm glass of milk and a bag of Oreos go together.
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In poker, a smooth call is something you do when you are trying to trap your opponent and get them to feed the pot with their hard earned money. For example, in pre-flop betting if you are in the late position, but not the last to act, and you have a pair of aces, you may want to encourage action without tipping off how strong your position is. If you are at an aggressive and loose table, chances are pretty good that somebody will not only call the big blind, but raise. In the event that someone raises, you will re-raise them with your pair of Aces.
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Poker players looking for a way to put money into their poker accounts can now use a company called Poker eChecks, according to the company’s recent press release. According to the company notice, eChecks work as fast as credit card deposits, and are as relable and secure as regular paper checks. Players use a regular bank account, from which the funds are drawn for the eCheck electronically, and then deposited in the poker room account…
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A final table that sported players like Phil Ivey, Michael Mizrachi and David Pham could be one of the toughest poker tournamets around, and that was just what Lee Markholt faced when he played in the World Poker Challenge, a World Poker Tour event. Lee managed not only to avoid elimination by this tough table of pros, but went on to win the whole event. He beat out 260 players to win, and managed a first place cash prize of $493,000…
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A well known high stakes pro poker player has his name on a list of clients run by Kristin Davis, according to various reports. Davis is the high profile madam linked to the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Allegedly Davis ran more than one prostitution ring, and is facing charges on prostitution and money laundering…
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It seems to have been coming a while back, but now Australian cricket player Shane Warne has made it official - he is retiring from cricket for poker. Warne, who represents www.888.com, has already had conflicts with playing poker, despite a leadership position on his team. Now the 38 year old cricket legend has officially backed away from the sport that made his fortune as he tries for a different kind of fortune…
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The 2008 Nautica Charity Poker Festival recently moved their activities indoors at the Powerhouse, and as such are planning on a year long poker palooza. The festival was opened on March 27th at the Nautica Entertainment Complex, where it will stay for now. The poker will be running from Thursday through Sunday…
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Last year the World Series of Poker influenced a number of big time poker pros to organize and play in their second favorite game - golf. The 2007 World Series of Golf was a big deal to the players, who teamed up to try and take each other’s bankroll down to zero and win all the “chips”, like in poker. The game will return to Las Vegas in May, from the 12th to the 15th, as the 2008 World Series of Golf…
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Think about the following scenario: you play three ring games in one night. In the first, you win three hundred dollars. In the second, you win three hundred and fifty dollars. In the last you lose five hundred dollars. That five hundred sounds like a big loss, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s not. In the course of the night, you’re up one hundred and fifty bucks. It’s important to think long term when playing poker for money. We are not just talking about the long term of a game, but in the total long term.
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Bluffing is always risky, especially in poker. In this particular hand we saw how one player was trying to play on his table image, which is fairly common and usually works fairly well. But he was playing with five of the toughest No Limit Holdem players at the time.
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It only took approximately one month of travel, poker, and playing tournaments for David Plastik to rake in $100,000. It’s no wonder then that once he started playing poker it quickly became a way of life for him. Although his total earnings to date of over $2,000,000 are far from the huge profits realized by many seasoned pros - David is steadily making a name for himself.
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Here is a poker variation called “Choose Your Own” that would make an interesting addition to any regular games you enjoy. Much about this variation is reminiscent of 7-Card Stud so it might be an easy transition and an appropriate change of pace if you play 7-Card Stud on a regular basis. This game accommodates anywhere from three to seven players. Play begins with every player contributing to the ante. The first deal follows the ante and each player gets two face-down cards and one face-up card.
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