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New Bill May Legalise Online Poker In The USA

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New Bill May Legalise Online poker In The USA

Senator Menendez introduces the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act which if passed into law will legitimise and regulate online

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Matt Graham won 40th Event of the WSOP

Matt Graham is making a habit out of winning WSOP bracelets. The respected play Poker Online Phenomenon Wins Second Bracelet at This Year’s World Series of Poker in Pot-Limit Omaha Event #40.read more

Most legendary Poker Gamblers placed their own personal bet

Doyle Brunson is once again proving how much of a living legend he truly is. Play poker pro is making his mark in an invitation-only championship tournament at this year’s WSOP, heading into the final day with an impressive chip stack. read more

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Relatively Unknown Player Wins WSOP Circuit in Oklahoma

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Relatively Unknown Player Wins WSOP Circuit in Oklahoma
The Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, has seen some top poker players in action during the 2011-2012 World Series of Poker Circuit. Recently, however, when the last card was dealt, the winner was not one of the well known poker players, but rather an out of work poker player. Abraham Araya, the 44-year-old who became a new poker champion, is currently unemployed, after having been laid off from his job as an airline flight mechanic. His company filed bankruptcy when the economy took a dive, and he was laid off, as were others. He used to work on aircrafts that carried the NBA teams. In the same venue, at Choctaw, Araya had won the T.J. Cloutier Poker Challenge. He took home $83,659 in October 2011 when he won this title. He kept going with poker and won $270,380 in his recent victory at the WSOP Circuit Main Event. Araya noted how this amount of money is equivalent to what he could have earned as an aircraft mechanic over about 4 or 5 years. When asked about his victory soon after he won the final poker hand of the game, he said: Right now I cant believe it. It didnt sink in yet. I cant tell you how amazing this feeling is. Araya has been living in the United States for 21 years. He was born in East Africa, and left there to escape war. He has a wife and three children living with him in America. He plans to take his children on a trip to see their grandparents, who are still living in East Africa. He also has a romantic notion, wanting to take his wife for a second honeymoon for their 10th wedding anniversary. Araya had the following to say: Last night I kind of felt I was going to win because I had the chip lead, but when I eliminated (Derek Browning in sixth) I knew I was going to win. Related Posts PokerStars and John Duthie Part Ways Online Poker On the Up and Up in 2012 World Poker Tour in Ireland New VIP Awards Method at PokerStars Win Place to Irish Open with William Hill Poker Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…

UK Poker Players Play Exclusive Freerolls

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:18:06 +0000

UK Poker Players Play Exclusive Freerolls
Posted by Steven, January 23, 2012 Titan Pokers exclusive freerolls for players from the United Kingdom are growing in popularity from week to week. Last night, Simexim outlasted 65 other starters to win the UK $250 Fever Freeroll tourney. Second place went to TheoPipkin. For his first place finish, Simexim received $75, while second place was worth $50 to TheoPipkin. On the final hand of the tournament, Simexim was already enjoying a massive lead in chips when both players found one ace in their pocket cards. TheoPipkin was holding A 3, which wasnt enough to beat the A 7 held by Simexim. The UK $250 Fever Freeroll is staged every Sunday evening at 19:30 GMT. Entries are available only to players from the United Kingdom at a cost of 10 Points. Players start with 1,500 chips and unlimited re-buys of 2,000 chips are available for 10 Points whenever a player has 1,500 chips or less until the first break, when an add-on of 2,000 chips is available to all players. Titan Poker stages regional tournaments and freerolls for players from countries all over the world, including events for poker players from Canada, tournaments for players from Eastern Europe, and events staged exclusively for players from Latin American countries. Titan Poker’s special tournaments for players from the United Kingdom are easily found in the software under: SPECIAL OFFERS – Regional Events. The final table at last nights tournament and the prizes awarded: Place Player Total win 1 Simexim $75.00 2 TheoPipkin $50.00 3 GIZZA02 $37.50 4 EATMYHAT $25.00 5 mistertomtit13 $18.75 6 JoeChink $13.75 7 fastdale $11.25 8 deany21 $10.00 9 jonnytom $8.75

Black Friday Saves One Player’s Money & Relationship

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:18:33 +0000

Black Friday Saves One Players Money & Relationship
published on 04/23/11 at 8:54 am One person who will be saving money after Black Friday, is Steve Street3 Carse. Known to have wasted thousands of dollars on online poker sites, the recent federal take over of Full Tilt Poker will have a positive effect on Mr. Carses financial statements. Angel Valdez, of the Online Poker Team, fires some questions at Oklahomas number one degenerate. How much money have you saved since Online poker got shut down?I transferred my last $80 on FTP to Angel to bet on black at the casino. He informed me that I lost. So, I would have naturally deposited another $50 and in turn, ran that up to around $55, then lost it all. Then I would have reloaded again. I would guess since Friday, I have saved around $450. But, since I dont have online poker anymore, i am extremely bored and have since spent over $1500 on various illegal endeavors. Those intruders in their homes have names? Some call them Kids, and others call them Mom/Dad/HoneyHonestly I am scared to death about what this question means and wonder how much meth the interviewer has inhaled to come up with such a psycho question. I live with my girlfriend Kelly and I have not seen any intruders in my home. When they stepped outside did the sun melt off their skin? Did they get the vampire effect?Again, another scary question that makes about as much sense as a gaggle of coked up geese selling cookies to gimps. Is their ability to make money playing online poker myopia equal to lets say Charlie Sheen thinking hes normal?I dont know what myopia means and Im too fucking lazy to google it. Charlie Sheen has Goddesses, cocaine, no teeth and millions of dollars. I have Kelly, teeth and tens of dollars. You tell me. Why is chicke nmeth so addictive, especially among online poker players?A bit of history, Chicken meth was introduced in Arkansas by Jeremy Allen. Its a combination of meth, chicken shit and feathers. It gives one the ability to 5bet shove 73o into AA and see a 773 flop. Or at least thats what chicken meth benders will trick your mind into seeing. On the evolutionary poker scale, where would you place IBGPN?I would place him at the bottom of the scale. Somewhere between a single celled organism and tadpole. While he can swim with the sharks, hes often overlooked as his bank roll rarely goes above the $1 mark. His most frequent sightings have the word (OBSERVER) after his name. I just had a cup of tea and a grilled cheese sandwich. Comments?You must be gay or British. Related posts: Best Kept Poker Tip: Rakeback Saving You A Lot Of Money Rakeback Saves the Day GI Joe Assaults Online Poker, Refrigerated Beer, Noobs

It’s MAD MONTH at 888Poker

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It’s MAD MONTH at 888Poker
Weekends just got wilder! Every new player at 888Poker gets free entrance to5 x $888 tourneys & an exclusive $8,888 MAD Freeroll every weekend! All you have todo is deposit as little as $10 to be eligible. And that’s not all…the $8 freebie isalso back for players that are located in the following countries: Kuwait, Lebanon, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Japan, , Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, In addition, look out for the 888 Genie on the new PokerCam tables! Yes, throughout this MAD MONTH the 888 Genie will be popping up on the webcam poker tables, offering players amazing surprises & free prizes. You never know when the madness will strike. Login & play the PokerCam tables under All games Holdem tab. For more information please visit 888 Poker Promotion Date: 17 September 2011

Pius Heinz wins 2011 WSOP

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:36:37 +0000

Pius Heinz wins 2011 WSOP
The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event title has finally been claimed. Pius Heinz, a 22-year-old professional poker player from Cologne, Germany, took the title holding Ace-King against Martin Staszko’s Ten-Seven. Neither hand improved and Heinz took home $8.7 million with ace-high. Not only was Heinz the first German to win the Main, he was the first to sit at the final table. Over 6800 players from 85 different nations started the event over 13 days, with a prize pool of $64,540,858. The top 693 cashed and the tournament broke, as usual, over a period of five months between the body of the event and the final table, the “November Nine.” Notably, third-place finisher Ben Lamb was looking to culminate a sick, sick run at the WSOP. He place in five consecutive tournaments, making the final table of four of them, and winning one of them. This unheard-of streak locked him up solidly for the WSOP Player of the Year title. For the first time, the Main Event was broadcast (almost) live. There was a delay of several minutes to limit the ability of players to exploit the private pocket card cameras. Although this could potentially allow players to learn about very recent hands during breaks, creating a unique angle on the most important final table of the year. The continuing high turnout of the WSOP is taken as proof that the allure of poker continues throughout the world despite a federal crackdown against online poker. # Player Earnings Country 1 Pius Heinz $8,715,638 Germany 2 Martin Staszko $5,433,086 Czech Republic 3 Ben Lamb $4,021,138 United States 4 Matt Giannetti $3,012,700 United States 5 Phil Collins $2,269,599 United States 6 Eoghan O’Dea $1,720,831 Ireland 7 Bob Bounahra $1,314,097 Belize 8 Anton Makiieveskyi $1,010,015 Ukraine 9 Sam Holden $782,115 United Kingdom Copyright 2012 Ace Nine, LLC Legal | Contact Us | Site Map

Winter Edition Promo from Titan Poker

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:36:19 +0000

Winter Edition Promo from Titan Poker
Titan Poker is hosting a great online poker promotion that will last for two months. The online poker promotion is known as the Winter Edition promotion, and Titan Poker players will stand the chance to win a share of over $50,000 in prizes over the promotional period that coincides with the holiday season. The promotion covers a wide range of games, and is therefore likely to be an attractive promotion for different kinds of online poker players. There are cash games and sit n go tournaments to join in with, along with some special Happy Hour promos too. There will be $24,000 of prizes offerd for those who wish to join in with the action of cash games. This section of the Winter Edition promo will take place weekly, and can be found in the Titan Time Cash Games races. In the Titan Time Cash Games, players are ranked according to the activity that has taken place at the Cash Games tables. Many online poker players look forward to the sit n go tournaments. These tournaments are played at a fast pace, and players will try to climb the leaderboard to try and win their share of another $24,000. Each of these tournaments will take place over a six day period, starting on each Monday in December 2011 and in January 2012, as part of the Winter Edition promotion. When players play during Titan Pokers Happy Hour, which takes place after 8pm (GMT) on weekend nights, they receive 50% extra points for gaming done at cash tables. The points can be converted to entries into other tournaments or into cash bonuses. 2012 will be ushered in in style with a $10,000 Freeroll online poker tournament. In order to join in with this freeroll, players need to earn a seat by accumulating at least 250 points in December. Related Posts Win Place to Irish Open with William Hill Poker WSOP Has a $1 Million Buy-In Tournament Mobile Poker from PokerStars Available in Italy Marrakech is Next Stop of WPT PKR Adds Jake Cody to Their Team Share on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace…

Reflections on the Full Tilt Poker Smear Campaign

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Reflections on the Full Tilt Poker Smear Campaign
published on 09/21/11 at 4:18 pm With all the news coming out about Full Tilt Poker and a so-called Ponzi scheme, I felt the need to say something. First, let me start by saying that Full Tilt Poker is a class organization that has treated this organization and overseas bank accounts fairly throughout the years. Howard Lederer and Jesus Ferguson are honest, trust worthy individuals. Not to mention, Rafe Furst, although he did move to Mexico, I can only say his work with charities and the Bad Beat on Cancer have garnered the utmost respect from me. Second, it is a shame to see the U.S. government stick their noses into something that was good for the poker industry, the nations economy, and an individuals self esteem. The majority of players online are terrible and just give money to the lucky few. But these players kept depositing funds into their accounts, helping my lifestyle with a variety of extravagant needs. So what a player did not know about the inner processes of Full Tilt, did not hurt them. They would never have withdrawn funds in the first place. Third, all these dopes posting about a 400 million dollar hole in Full Tilt Pokers finances, do not know one thing about international finance. 99% of their money is in overseas accounts. To get their money into U.S. accredited bank accounts takes several months, due to the Patriot Act. I believe Mr. Lederer and Mr. Ferguson are just waiting for the funds to go through the proper channels and everyone will be promptly paid. So let us stop slinging the proverbial mud at Full Tilt Poker. We need to let this show trial run its course and in the end, you shall all see that they are innocent of all charges. About PokerPlasm, Inc.PokerPlasm, Inc., is privately held so no financial statements are made public. Forward-looking statements in no way relate to, among other things, expectations of the business environment in which the Company operates, projections of future performance, potential future performance, perceived opportunities in the market, and statements regarding the Companys mission and vision. The Companys actual results, performance, and achievements differ materially from the results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to a wide range of factors. Mr. Sonny Partrude is Acting CEO until the board elects one to a full-term. Related posts: PokerPlasm Executives Discuss Options for Increasing Profits Cracking the Full Tilt Poker Code Full Tilt Magazine Press Release Are Online Players Cheating at Full Tilt Poker? Full Tilt Poker Pro, Cuzzinlaw, Spends Quality Time With Street3

Strategy with Kristy: Randal Flowers Discusses Bluffing Preflop

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Strategy with Kristy: Randal Flowers Discusses Bluffing Preflop
November 10 2011, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Amanda Musumeci Discusses WSOP Main Event Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Ben Wilinofsky Discusses Short-Stack Strategy Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Seidman Discusses His Book, Easy Game Share It Tags Poker Strategy, PokerNews Podcast, PokerNews Strategy, Randal Flowers, Tournament Strategy Print Randal Flowers, 23, has accumulated more than $2.7 million in tournament winnings, including two World Poker Tour titles. For this edition of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point, Flowers sits down with Kristy Arnett to discuss bluffing preflop. Here is a snippet from the interview: How do you balance the need to steal with the fact that these days many players know that you’re stealing? If I have a very aggressive player or two to my left and I’m in late position, and there’s an obvious weak [player in the] big blind, I don’t know how often I’m going to open very light. I’m anticipating getting flatted, and people messing with me after the flop because they know I don’t have that great of a range. A lot of times, the general strategy should change to fold. Play tighter if there are good aggressive players behind you. But, if no one is really messing with you, you can sneak in a raise with a pretty weak hand. With what kind of range are you willing to go for blind steals? Well, live is way different than online, and I haven’t played online in so long that I guess my strict math fundamentals aren’t as good as they should be. When you play live, people look at their hands before they’re supposed to, so I could be in the hijack and know the guy on the button is already holding his cards that he wants to fold. So then, I’m really in the cutoff. You should play way, way more hands in live poker, in my opinion. What raise size do you prefer? I vary my raise sizing more than most, but generally, I think 2.5 times the big blind is fine. What really matters is, if it’s really early in the tournament, and you’re very deep, I would recommend raising 3 times. Maybe midway through the tournament, when there still aren’t antes and the average stack is around 50 big blinds, I think under 2.5 times is probably better because you’re risking 250 to win 150 if the blinds are 50/100. With no antes, if you get three-bet, it puts you in a tough spot. You’re never really getting a good price so depending on stack sizes, I think you can risk less. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every Thursday for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Kristy Arnett on Twitter @KristyArnett Comments

Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Jared Bleznick

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Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Jared Bleznick
November 17 2011, Kristy Arnett Related Articles Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Lex Veldhuis Discusses Pot-Limit Omaha Strategy with Kristy: Randal Flowers Discusses Bluffing Preflop Strategy with Kristy: Andrew Seidman Discusses His Book, Easy Game Share It Tags Black Friday, Jared Bleznick, Omaha, PokerNews Podcast, Poker Strategy, South Point, PokerNews Strategy Print Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick was a prominent figure in online tournaments and cash games before Black Friday. He has since moved out of the country to play but recently said he will no longer be playing online. Instead, hes offered his services as a coach. For this edition of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point, Bleznick talks about what it takes to be poker professional, beginner pot-limit Omaha strategy, and advice he has for those considering making poker a career. Here is a snippet from the interview: As a no-limit holdem player, I understand when to three-bet preflop, but in pot-limit Omaha, it seems like players are getting in buy-ins so frequently. So I guess my question is, what are you considering when three-betting in pot-limit Omaha? To talk about what you first said about players getting it in by three-betting and four-betting preflop thats honestly because everyone literally just has a gambling problem. Im being serious. Everyone just gambles in Omaha because the edges are so small in any individual hand. If you take eight-nine-ten-jack double-suited and you put it up against ace-ace-two-six with a suit, youre basically a very small dog. When you take into account the blinds and the dead money, youre basically flipping. Lets say a guy is playing with $200,000 in his account and another guy is playing with $20,000. The guy thats three-betting with eight-nine-ten-jack [with $200,000 in his account] is eventually going to bust you because youre flipping and the guy has you covered with his bankroll. As for the three-betting, I think you should be three-betting a lot more when youre deeper. It allows for a lot more play. If you three-bet a guy that has 100 big blinds, and he four-bets you with aces, at the point, youre not even playing poker anymore. Youre just gambling. If you do it when youre really deep, you can actually play poker. These guys that do that and three-bet and four-bet and constantly get it in are literally putting their money in and closing their eyes. Its just stupid, honestly. When I say the games are tough, its because the edges are small. So even if a guy is doing that, hes never in that bad a shape. Its not like in holdem where youre getting it in in a 80/20 or 70/30 situation. Youre getting it in at like 55/45. A lot of people cant overcome that. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every Thursday for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Kristy Arnett on Twitter @KristyArnett Comments