Arena Of Poker

While Joe Montana from the San Francisco 49ers would have made a great poker player - he seems like the type who could put other people on a hand with ease - Ronnie Lott is completely different. Instead of poker, he would have made a great demolition derby driver. We have repeated an observation that was made about Mr. Lott several years ago. It was referenced by a reporter whose name is now lost to history, “If he doesn’t care about his own body, what do you think he is going to do to yours”. This is not the sort of person you are going to scare off with a bluff.

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A lot of things that are being done at the office are probably not in anything that resembles a proper job description. Not only do we have people spending huge chunks of their day surfing the net and playing World of Warcraft, but assistants and interns are often treated like the personal harems of frisky, oversexed managers. Not only does this violate all sorts of unwritten laws of professional conduct, but most reasonable labor departments probably have rules against some of the office shenanigans that have become commonplace.

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Chris Ferguson is a master at hiding his tells. He wears dark cloths, has a beard and long hair, dons black sunglasses, and measures his movements in a way designed to mask what he is thinking.

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It is not the first time actress Cheryl Hines sat down at a poker tournament, and it won’t be the last. The actress from the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm left the set of a movie to come and play in a Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa tournament in Atlantic City. Hines was a favorite on the show “Celebrity Poker Showdown”, hosted first by Phil Gordon and then by Phil Hellmuth, both poker pros…

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This week a list was released from the NBC National Heads-Up Championship detailing how future invites will be handed out. The popular poker show brings pros and celebrities together to play No Limit Texas Holdem poker one on one. The first show was won by Phil Hellmuth, followed by Ted Forrest, Paul Wasicka and Chris Ferguson…

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Harry Bowman was assaulted on May 3rd, the day before opening Day Four of an international poker tournament in Lviv. Bowman opened the door to an unknown person who had brought him a package of champagne and sweets, and had Bowman sign a receipt. The delivery man then shoved Bowman to the floor and produce a pistol…

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The late position is the Avalon of poker table positions. Generally a player sitting in this position will go into a hand, acting aggressive in order to take full advantage of their place at the table. This also means that they may enter the hand with lower quality cards, knowing just how much power the late position gives them. This advantage can be blunted when you are sitting in the big blind. You can test whether they are working with truly legit cards or just playing the position game.

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By now most people are aware that the World Series of Poker has moved the Final Table of the Main Event to November. While many of us question the wisdom of this move, you just have to shrug your shoulders and assume that these folks know what they are doing. Because of the controversial nature of the topic, most of the pros that we have spoken to about this have asked that their comments not go on record, but it would seem there is a divide between the players over whether or not this is a good thing. After some brief discussions, it is the younger, less experienced players who love the move, and the seasoned veterans of poker who seem opposed to it.

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You have a huge chip lead at the table during a tournament, you’re sitting in the middle to late position, and you have just been dealt a mediocre pair of 4s. You also have a small stack showing some aggression and raising from an early position. What do you do? Well, you could play the table bully and force your short stacked opponents to make a decision about whether or not they want to go all in, but the problem is that you simply don’t have the cards to justify that sort of gambit.

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with playing poker for free online. Depending upon where you are standing on the planet, this may be the only way you can experience the joys of internet poker. It is important to realize that this is a good way to get introduced to the nuts and bolts of the game, but is a very poor way to prepare for a life of real money games. In a game where no real money is on the line, people will not behave the same as if their hard earned cash is sitting on the table.

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We like Courtney Friel. Not did she score the requisite 10 on the attractiveness meter that lands someone a position like Hostess of the World Poker Tour, but she was also bright, funny, and approachable during her time on the show. Of course we are biased. Courtney has always been gracious enough to suffer our questions with good humor and is still an enthusiastic source of information. In short, we will always think that it was a mistake for the WPT to let her escape. Their loss is Fox News’s gain. With that said, Kimberly Lansing and Layla Kayleigh have just finished their first stint with the World Poker Tour. Should they stay or should they go?

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Poker players are persistent in breaking the law in New York as yet another underground illegal poker game is shut down by the police this past weekend. In Long Island, NY, police officials arrested the poker game organizer, a 29 year old who was picked up at the William Paca Lodge. Some 10,000 in cash was seized as well as a surveillance system and poker chips and poker tables…

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Online poker room PKR got in the mix to throw an after party as part of the Professional Footballer’s Awards celebrations. The players involved in the awards got a chance to hit Albannach restaurant in Trafalgar Square, London, and there were players form the Fulham first team, as well as Carlton Cole, Micah Richards and Jermain Defoe. Poker games were the theme of the night, in addition to other casino games such as blackjack and roulette…

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The River Rock Casino Resort is the location of the Coast to Coast Poker Championship, which kicks off today. The first of seven events will be a $500 No Limit Holdem event. The main event will be a $3,000 buy in freezeout, and it will be filmed for broadcast by the WPT (World Poker Tour) Canada…

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With Hoyt gone and Doyle down to the short stack, and the blinds up to $600 and $1,200, the last cowboy at the table was going to have to make a last stand sooner or later. He chose this hand to do it with.

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When you are playing short handed No Limit Texas Holdem poker, you can often win big pots with top pair. If you are unlucky, or not paying attention, you can lose even more.

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The blinds had just gone up to $800 and $1,600 during Cowboy Week on season three of Poker After Dark, and only four players remained.

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The Kentucky Derby Poker Championship will kick off tonight at 8:30 PM at Caesars Indiana, and this will be a charity Texas Holdem tournament with the purpose of raising awareness of climate change and its impact. The event will have a $2,500 buy in to pull in the funds that will be donated to a number of charities, including the Robby Albarado Foundation, the international Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Health and Climate Foundation. The winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby Poker Championship will get a 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package.Related Articles:Biggest poker event in Florida historyGA poker run fundraiser…

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Once again an artificial intelligence program will be put to the test in a poker battle versus professional poker player to see who is best at the popular card game of Texas Holdem: man or machine. The first Man vs Machine Poker Challenge was played by Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Ali Eslami, who narrowly defeated the Polaris poker program. This time the second Man vs Machine Poker Challenge will be held at the Gaming Life Expo in the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in July, and will have a human representative in Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien.Related Articles:Liar liar circuits on fireWSOPE champ bounty in online freeroll…

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A cruise ship set sail from Venice yesterday packed with poker players, all of whom are hoping to end the cruise a millionaire. The ship is hosting the PartyPoker Million VI, an institution in the poker tournament world. The Million was the first major poker cruise to hit the open ocean and has been going strong ever since…

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