2008 European Ladies Champion Liv Boeree guides us through her experience playing the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic. Day 1 – first break:End of level 1, I am down to 12,050, we started with 15,000. I won one hand and lost 2 big ones. The first hand I had 6-6 on the button. Guy in the cut off makes it 300 and I flat call. The flop comes 5-3-2 so I have a gut shot as well as over-pair.
I’ve only been playing poker for five years but there’ve been times over the past couple of years when I get tired of poker and don’t look forward to sitting down to play the game I was so passionate about just a few short years ago. When you have to rely on poker as your primary source of income, it can take all the fun out of it.
The return of the PokerNews Cup to Melbourne, Australia was a much-anticipated one, as evidenced by the impressive turnout for the tournaments. With the Crown Casino as the home to the events and poker players coming in from around the world to participate, it was looking like another PokerNews Cup success from the start.
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It's Not All About The Cards It is difficult for a poker player to grasp how to react to a player raising. The main reason is that usually when a person raises, the price of getting involved is substantial and as a result your entire stack could be at risk. The cautious nature of most poker players...of preserving their chip stack...leads to uncertainty as to what to do.
It’s almost that time again – time for the biggest online poker event of the year, the ECOOP!Now is the time to get ready and claim your seat for The European Championship of Online Poker III (ECOOP) this November. Why? Because this promises to be the biggest ECOOP ever with a prize pool estimated to be over $4 Million Dollars!
The second season of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), sponsored by PokerStars.net has gotten off to an amazing start. After a 538-player turnout for its launch in Macau and a successful stop in Seoul, both in September, the third of five tour stops just wrapped in the beautiful city of Auckland, New Zealand.
It should be clear by now that Everest Poker is the one and only online poker site that gives away seats to all of the major live poker tournaments in Europe, as well as around the world. The site is dedicated to giving its players the opportunity to play live whenever and wherever possible.
Saw this on a forum this week:"I turn 21 next year, and will get to play poker live at the local casino. I start in May 2009 with a bankroll of $1000. What can I do to improve my results?Here are my suggestions for the intrepid youngster:1. Don't quit your day job/school. Your bankroll is too small for sustained live play. Casinos do not lay limits that fit your bankroll.
The PokerNews Cup is back where it all started in October of 2007. Only one year ago at the luxurious Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, a series of six events took place with over 1,500 players from 22 different countries around the world.
Wouldn’t it be great if a poker room held big tournaments every single day of the week? This way people wouldn’t have to go from place to place signing up for different poker rooms just so they are able to play in large tourneys on the weekdays.
A successful charity poker tournament held on October 9th to benefit the Road 2 Recovery Foundation culminated in a win by Tiffany Michelle, who was awarded a seat into the 2009 World Series of Poker main event for the victory. The evening of events to benefit the charity was held at the MGM Grand poker room in Las Vegas.
Love him or hate him, for one magical week in Las Vegas, he was the best poker player in the world, winning a record of 12 million dollars. His antics during the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event continue to be discussed today – from his showing a hole card to an apparent friend to often times telling exactly what cards he held in the middle of the hand.