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Sport
or not a sport? Pot is split on poker |
The dictionary definitions
of the two words seem to render the case closed. They
don't belong in the same sentence. But Webster and colleagues
haven't taken into account the effect of television and
the blurring of our cultural boundaries everywhere.
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April
28, 2006 |
Playing
Poker For Charity |
Recently I traveled
to Annapolis, Md., to compete against 140 players in a
charity fundraising tournament. The first prize was a
seat in the $10,000 championship event at the World Series
of Poker in July. The tournament was designed to raise
money for Access Information, Inc., an organization that
provides online and published information about facilities
and services which are accessible to people with disabilities.
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April
24, 2006 |
Paris
Hilton loses Bentley playing poker |
She's eating those
words today, having reportedly lost her family's Bentley
to a casino during a "bad" poker game at her
parents Vegas casino. The Bentley was worth close to $200,000.
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April
23, 2006 |
No
easy hands in poker |
With an ace-high
straight, George Austin was sitting pretty, a poker rookie
with the best hand at a table full of veterans in a $1.3
million tournament.
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April
21, 2006 |
$15M
pot brings out poker faces |
Nearly 600 poker
players from more than 40 countries will play for a prize
pool of about $15 million starting today in the World
Poker Tour's World Championship at the Bellagio Hotel
and Casino in Las Vegas.
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April
19, 2006 |
Hollywood
Poker Asks, 'Insurance, Anyone?' |
Imagine this: You
are at the World Series of Poker. You put up the money
to play in the $10,000 No Limit Hold Em Main Event because
you just have to take your shot. You make it through countless
opponents, and you are playing amazing poker; your parents
would be proud.
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April
16, 2006 |
Full
Tilt Poker's Pros Own the Felt at Bellagio and Foxwoods |
Full Tilt Poker
pros Victor Ramdin and Erick Lindgren dominated the competition
in tournaments nearly 3,000 miles apart last weekend,
claiming victories at the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic and
the Bellagio Five-Start World Poker Classic.
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April
11, 2006 |
Absolute
Poker Branches Out to Blackjack |
There's something
new in the cards at Absolute Poker and the hands look
a whole lot different. With the addition of blackjack,
this online gaming company is looking to appeal to a whole
new set of players... |
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April
10, 2006 |
Lara
Croft's Poker Party |
It would seem that
when not resurrecting a once-faded franchise (check out
the Xbox 360 Tomb Raider Legends review here), Lara Croft
likes to let down her hair with a trip to the poker table. |
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April
8, 2006 |
Poker
tourneys: You hold’em, they’ll come |
Gamblers donned
their best poker faces and put their money on the line
last night at the Army, Navy and Air Force Club, which
hosted the province’s first licensed Texas Hold’em
tournament outside of a casino. |
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April
7, 2006 |
Poker
Fans Push Online Gambling |
Three professional
poker players raised the stakes in a debate over Internet
gambling Tuesday, calling on Congress to reject three
bills that attempt to stop U.S. residents from playing
online poker. |
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April
6, 2006 |
Poker
players fight online gambling ban |
America's 70 million
poker players say they aren't bluffing in their resistance
to the latest congressional efforts to ban online casino
gambling. |
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April
5, 2006 |
Inside
Poker |
One of the best
at maneuvering with garbage is John Juanda, the talented,
unflap- pable pro associated with Full
Tilt Poker, who in this hand displayed his abilities
to read his opponent and the texture of the board, along
with betting smartly after the flop. |
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April
3, 2006 |
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