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Testing the Pre-Flop Raiser

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

What happens before the flop and what happens after it can be as different as night and day. Somebody behaving like a lion before the first three cards hit the board may be reduced to impotent hamster after the flop. Of course this transformation is only valuable if you know they have been neutered and [...]

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Rules, Rules, Rules

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

Depending upon where you are standing in the world, a game with the same name can have very different rules. Poker pros Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau established the Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA) and the International Poker Rules (IP Rules) so that somebody who is used to playing poker in Las Vegas will [...]

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Variety Is the Spice of Life

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

We live in a very big world with lots of stuff in it. Hostess fruit pies come in a number of different flavors, not just cherry, while we can order our hamburgers with literally dozens of different kinds of cheese on them. Even when it comes to something as anonymously indispensable as toilet tissue our [...]

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Good Guessing Won Player a WSOPE Seat

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

The World Series of Poker Europe is set to begin this September, and poker player are scrambling to find qualifiers and super satellites to get in. One player found a unique contest, where Betfair Poker players were asked to guess how many poker chips filled up a Mini Cooper. When the Swedish poker pro, Marcus [...]

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New Poker Room Rehashes Old

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

CEREUS poker will be the newest poker platform on the net soon, but they are not starting from scratch. That poker room will get their customer base from two other leading poker rooms, UltimateBet and Absolute Poker, to create the third largest online poker network. CEREUS will not only incorporate the player base from AP [...]

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High Stakes Poker to Return

Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 Internet

While the World Poker Tour will not return for their Seventh Season to GSN, it appears that the network’s other poker show will be back to run their Fifth Season. High Stakes Poker, the cash game where poker pros buy in for $100k of their own money, has been renewed for another season by the [...]

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Strip Poker: WPT Bellagio Cup IV Main Event Starts Friday

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

The World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup IV main event begins on Friday, and with three starting days, there is still plenty of time to qualify for the $15,000 buy-in tournament through supersatellites and single-table sit-and-gos. All supersatellites have a buy-in of $1,590 and pay out one seat per 10… Read more…

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WSOP: Main Event Q and A — Mark Vos

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

Mark Vos first became a recognizable face at the 2006 Aussie Millions championship when he made the final table, finishing in eighth place. Not too long after that, he started making American millions, locking up his first World Series bracelet and more than $800,000 later that same year. This… Read more…

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SpadeClub Poker Winner: Gary '22Frosty' Frost

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Find out more. SpadeClub winner Gary "22Frosty" Frost is SpadeClub's June 29 $5,000 weekly event winner. Frost enjoys playing on SpadeClub because he likes… Read more…

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WSOP: Main Event Day 2A

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

The first of two second-day flights in the World Series of Poker main event started at noon today in Las Vegas, and 1,252 players started the day. The players in the super-sized other half of the field in the $10,000 no-limit hold'em world championship will take their seats tomorrow - all… Read more…

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WSOP: History — 1998 Recap

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

Doyle Brunson made three final tables at the 1998 World Series of Poker out of the 20 preliminary events that took place. He won the $1,500 razz event and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $2,500 pot-limit Omaha event (T.J. Cloutier was the winner), and a third-place finish in the… Read more…

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SpadeClub Update: World Series $40K Giveaway Champions

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

SpadeClub.com, the innovative online poker community, offers a risk-free way to win at poker with no deposits and no buy-ins. Find out more. SpadeClub's World Series $40K Giveaway champions flew in from around the country over the Fourth of July weekend to represent for the SpadeClub… Read more…

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Full Tilt Announces August FTOPS IX Schedule

Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Internet

Full Tilt recently announced the schedule for the next installment of its quarterly Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOP). Taking place Aug. 6-17, the 25-event series will award more than $15 million in combined prize pools. As always, a Full Tilt Pro will host each event, but those names have yet… Read more…

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Boring

Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2008 Internet

Boredom is a horrible thing and can force even the best of us into doing things that common sense tells us is a bad idea. While most of us are decent enough people not to go in search of under aged nookie, we may very well let it affect our poker game. At the poker [...]

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