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STEALTH
ONLINE POKER TOOL: Another artificial online poker advantage |
Whatever happened to the idea
of playing poker as a personal skill? With increasing talk
of the threat of online 'bots and automated collusion one
could be forgiven for thinking that some of the character
is being bled from a great game by advancing technology. |
November 30, 2005 |
WWE
No Limit Texas Hold 'Em Poker |
Capitalizing on the popular Texas
Hold 'Em poker craze sweeping through the country comes
the WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2006 PSP exclusive No Limit Texas
Hold 'Em Poker mini-game. The last of the PSP Arcade Mode
mini-games, WWE No Limit Texas Hold 'Em Poker features a
roster of more than 50 selectable WWE Superstars and Divas.
Each Superstar is equipped with a unique strategy, ranging
from nervous, cautious or calculated to clueless or aggressive. |
November 27, 2005 |
Caribbean
test for poker player |
A dream holiday was not on the
cards for Tony Chessa when he flew out to the Caribbean
island of St Kitts on Friday. Instead the 32-year-old from
Greenock has been facing an intense work schedule, taking
on some of the world's best poker players.
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November 27, 2005 |
The
best way to cheat at poker |
THE POPULARITY of poker has flourished
in the past couple of years. Viewers are mesmerized by their
omniscient seat during tournaments on cable. The fuzzy spy
cam showing all the blinds makes them feel like God.
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November 26, 2005 |
World
Poker Tour operator may be sold |
WPT created the World Poker Tour,
a televised tournament on cable's Travel Channel that's
credited with sparking the current Texas Hold 'Em poker
boom. Both WPT and Lakes are controlled by Minnetonka businessman
Lyle Berman, who is CEO of Lakes and chairman of both companies.
Berman is also Lakes' largest shareholder.
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November 24, 2005 |
Poker
Parties - Part 2 |
This week Indiana lawmakers and
researchers from Purdue will meet to talk about families
and gambling. One sure topic will be poker and its tremendous
popularity among young Hoosiers.
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November 21, 2005 |
Poker
Parties - Part 1 |
It's estimated that 50 million
americans play poker. So if there's not a game in your basement
tonight, odds are there's one somewhere down the block.
And because of the current poker boom, there's often a teenager
or 2, or 10, at the table.
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November 21, 2005 |
Poker
as a spectator sport? - imagine that |
Money has ruined team sports in
my view. Apparently dollars fertilize egos, and, oh, how
they've grown. On-field posturing and ridiculous simple-minded
arrogance fills courts and fields to the bursting point,
leaving very little room for games. I have no interest what-so-ever
in them nowadays.
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November 20, 2005 |
Inside
the World Poker Finals |
Now, as serious as the action
is here at the final table, the tension is shared with the
fans who fill the seats. Some of the biggest diehard poker
players, come here not just for the entertainment, but to
study the players' every move.
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November 19, 2005 |
World
Poker Players Conference - Wrap Up |
It seems that Mike Caro has been
playing poker since before the dinosaurs stopped roaming
the earth - or around the time Doyle Brunson won his first
WSOP bracelet. Yet every day, every poker session, every
hand brings a new lesson and improvement to his game.
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November 16, 2005 |
New
MVP vows to avoid poker parlors |
As the song says, you gotta know
when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em - and it's come
time for Alex Rodriguez to stop playing the Gambler.
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November 15, 2005 |
Poker
as a legitimate sport |
Poker has recently had a meteoric
rise in popularity. For all practical purposes, people treat
it like a real sport. This Tuesday night during primetime,
ESPN will broadcast the ending of the 2005 World Series
of Poker Main Event. In case you're not familiar with the
World Series, this year 5,619 individuals paid $10,000 each
to play in a gigantic game of no-limit
Texas Hold'em where the winner walked away with $7.5
million.
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November 14, 2005 |
500
To Vie For Spot In ESPN Poker Tournament |
An expected 500 people will gather
at La Villa Real Special Events Center at 7 p.m. today to
play Texas Hold ’em for charity, the winner earning
a $10,000 spot on the World Series of Poker.
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November 13, 2005 |
Poker
at Gunpoint |
Gun is about a single-minded ass
kicker that likes gambling, whoring, shooting, scalping
and riding. He's a poker playing madman on a quest to obtain
truth, vengeance and other cool American things like booze.
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November 9, 2005 |
MILLION
A MONTH AT TITAN ONLINE POKER ROOM |
The owners of Playtech-powered
Titan Poker, a recently launched online poker room must
have deep pockets judging by the guaranteed $1 million or
more a month they are currently promising in tournament
prizes.
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November 8, 2005 |
PLAYSTATION
POKER |
World Poker Tour and 2K Sports
have launched a fascinating new poker-related entertainment
using the very popular Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Microsoft
Xbox as the medium.
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November 8, 2005 |
Turn
the poker table on big raisers |
One of the toughest opponents
you'll face is a maniac -- a player who seems to raise almost
every hand from almost every position.
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November 6, 2005 |
Decline
and fall of a poker Empire |
When it comes to management style,
Richard Segal appears to have learned his trade from listening
to Kenny Rogers' The Gambler. The chief executive of PartyGaming
has played the threat of Empire Online by using some expert
holding and folding.
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November 4, 2005 |
World
Poker Tour - The First Poker Show to Air on Prime Time TV
in UK |
The cult US TV series, World Poker
Tour (WPT), is the first poker show to be broadcast on prime
time television in the UK. ITV4 has licensed series I and
II of the World Poker Tour for prime time Friday night viewing,
first airing on Friday 4 November 2005 at 10:00pm.
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November 3, 2005 |
The
Tournament Poker Shift To No-Limit Hold 'Em |
If you look back at the history
of the game of poker, there has been several subtle movements
in the most popular forms of the game. Originally the game,
played on the riverboats of the Mississippi and in the gaming
houses of New Orleans, surprisingly had no draws at all!...
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November 2, 2005 |
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