Arena Of Poker

When poker players sign up for a poker account they choose a username. Players can easily create new accounts with different names, which can make it hard to stop cheaters who simply activate new accounts after they are caught the first time. A new poker software will read players’ behaviors to give them a virtual “fingerprint” of sorts, helping the poker rooms keep track of poker fraud and fake accounts…

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When a Delaware country club high stakes poker game was held up by three armed men, the victims were forced to don red pillowcases on their heads. One of the players, a state trooper, left before police arrived, and when the police found surveillance tapes at a local Wal Mart where those pillowcases were sold, they found the trooper making the purchase. Trooper First Class Hyun Jin Kim, 27, has been arrested and charged with 11 counts of robbery as well as various other charges…

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William Chen, who recently won two World Series of Poker bracelets, was the new guy at the table during a $100k buy in cash game on the Game Show Network called High Stakes Poker.

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When you sit down to play tournament poker, you have to be ready. Time and time again you are going to be asked to make a decision, and that decision could mean the end of the game for you at any time. There are hundreds if not thousands of factors to consider during the course of a poker tournament, and knowing what strategies or tactics to employ can be a difficult proposition. Your poker strategy should be like a deck of cards itself, with you ready to deal out the cards you need to address a particular situation.

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A lot of time and server space is consumed telling players how to get the chips of their opponents. Unfortunately, not nearly enough effort is spent informing players about the ways their own stacks will be attacked. Often the assumption is that if we know what to do, automatically we also know what not to do. Just watch any tournament where a seasoned pro will mutter under his breath, “I shouldn’t do this” before calling a big bet, and then they find out too late that their instincts were right: they shouldn’t have done it.

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The online poker room that bears the likeness of poker legend Dave Ulliott recently floated on the PLUS market in London, and in the process raised more than 1 Million GBP. The company is valued at GBP 3.2 million, and the extra funds will be useful for expanding the business. The site, Devilfish Gaming, sports the face of Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, best known for his tough guy manner and dapper dress on the Great Britain and global poker scenes…

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Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, the salmon swimming upstream for some fishy version of nookie, or a chocolate addict making his way to a buffet line, one of the most anticipated times in the poker calendar has arrived: players can now pre-register for the World Series of Poker.

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