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Full Tilt Poker is ending their 50% reload bonus promotion on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st. Monday, January 31st is the last day to take advantage of this offer! ... More
Many fans who watch the WORLD POKER TOUR (WPT) Wednesday nights at 9pm on the Travel Channel are looking for ways to enhance their poker skills. Now, they’ll be able to pick up tips directly from the WORLD POKER TOUR on both radio and the Internet. WPT Poker Corner, a 60-second audio feature with tips and trivia about the nation’s favorite card game will include everything from betting strategy to the lates ... More
A deluge of snow Saturday could not keep almost 90 men and women from putting on their best poker faces for the Kards for Kids Poker Tournament at the Ramada Inn and Conference Center. ... More
Continuing its support for professional poker players, Poker Plex is sponsoring 29-year-old Norwegian player Henning Bolstad, a young player who has started making a name in tournament poker. ... More
Poker has long been a metaphor for business, but for Howard Lederer, it is business. Lederer is one of the most recognizable faces in TV poker, not only as a champion in the game but as lead commentator on poker tournaments for Fox. ... More
Nothing says "I love you" like a a cool $250,000 Guaranteed Tournament. Don't miss your opportunity to spread a little extra love with those extra greenbacks you could take home on February 12th at 3pm EST. ... More
A paperwork delay in Washington, D.C. is being blamed for a holdup in the start of poker and blackjack card games at an Oklahoma Indian casino, but tribal officials say the games should begin in the next few days. ... More
Two years ago, few people could pick poker champion Annie Duke out of a crowd. Today, the ruby-haired mother can't go through an airport without getting stopped. At a recent promotional poker event in Chicago, two young women showed up in homemade T-shirts that read "W.W.A.D.D?," or "What Would Annie Duke Do?" ... More
David Bischoff thinks he got a raw deal last year when state gambling regulators raided his bowling alley, shut down his weekly Texas Hold 'em poker tournament and confiscated his cards and chips. ... More
David Bischoff thinks he got a raw deal last year when state gambling regulators raided his bowling alley, shut down his weekly Texas Hold 'em poker tournament and confiscated his cards and chips. ... More
Residents of Q Hall bet dares instead of dollars for late-night poker games.The commons room in Q Hall of Deseret Towers is usually a scene for casual studying, fodder over the day’s events, and twice-a-week flirting when the girls come up for visiting hours. However, on the occasional late night, the chemistry books and papers are pushed aside in favor of playing cards and chips. That’s right. The boys of ... More
The Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track, trying to accommodate the growing popularity of poker, has remodeled its clubhouse, allocating more space for card games and simulcast wagering. ... More
Playing in a Texas hold 'em tournament may soon be a lot less risky in Minnesota, the latest state to struggle with questions about the legality of the popular game. ... More
It's time again to pull on those boots, jauntily tip that Stetson and ride off in your four-wheel drive steel horse to the Holiday Inn Saturday for the 17th annual Wild West Casino night, which benefits Genesis Rehabilitation services. ... More
What makes people believe that poker is a sport? Just because ESPN shows it 24/7 does not automatically make it a sport. ... More
The Small Town Poker Tour Show will travel all 50 states in search of Americas number one poker player. ... More
What are the chances that a poker player down 87-to-1 in the chip count would come back and win? Add the obstacle that the player holding the chip lead happened to be one of England’s top poker pros, having finished high in several big tournaments recently, including the 2004 World Series of Poker. ... More
Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames, today announced the upcoming release of their first game for the Nintendo DSÔ - World Championship Poker: Deluxe SeriesÔ, with an MSRP of $29.99. WCP is currently available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and Game Boy® Advance. ... More
Harrah’s is reaping early benefits from its role as host of the World Series of Poker with the newly expanded poker room at the Rio. ... More
CELEBRITIES are happy to have a go at almost anything on the box these days and lucrative poker games are no exception. ... More
The Eastern Band of Cherokees wants to bring poker to its Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel but first must overcome strict federal rules and strong opposition to gaming in North Carolina. ... More
"Tilt," the new ESPN drama offering a behind-the-scenes look at the world of poker, debuted higher than the sports cable network's average in the time slot but rated lower than the 2003 debut of its football series "Playmakers." ... More
WORLD POKER TOUR® commentators Mike Sexton and Vincent Van Patten, as well as the smash hit television show's associate producer, Alex "The Insider" Outhred, have been named as the first three instructors for the WPT BOOT CAMP(TM) designed to provide enrollees a "Fast Track to the Final Table(TM)." ... More
Patrick Hocking didn’t earn his nickname playing poker. But it fits. ... More
At age 90, Florence Pugliese is not your average poker player. Pugliese, the C.E.O. of Passport International Productions of CA, Inc., gambled on her son's idea to produce a poker show that everyone could enjoy. The result was "Ultimate Poker Challenge," the first syndicated poker program, which reaches more U.S. households than any other poker show. ... More
God does not play dice with the universe, but Universal Studios is playing God with the dice. ... More
He was the best TV cop of them all. I know, I know. He'd get quite a run from Andy Sipowicz of “NYPD Blue.” But while Sipowicz tests the bounds of hyperbole, Lennie Briscoe, the wisecracking backbone of “Law and Order,” was a regular guy. ... More
I must have missed the memo dictating that all new shows must be shot in Las Vegas. Just three days after the debut of "Caesar's 24/7" on A&E, a sports network offers us "Tilt" (8 p.m., ESPN), a drama set in the seamy world of professional poker. ... More
Industry comment Steve Cook from poker experts Tribeca Tables Software Development reviews the online poker industry and why the new igaming zone (ICEi) at the International Casino Exhibition in London’s Earls Court 2 between 25-27 January will be a hive of activity for poker companies. ... More
Sports bars that normally sit empty on weeknights in Raleigh are now teeming with hundreds of people who play poker. Though no money is exchanged, the stakes are still high. One's skills and street credibility ride on the next hand. ... More
80 at club seek title in Texas Hold 'Em. A lesson in when to hold and when to fold was center stage Monday here at a popular sports bar and restaurant. ... More
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has hired a sports television consulting firm to help the company negotiate a broadcast agreement with ESPN and develop new programming related to the World Series of Poker tournament. ... More
The Chez Paree poker tournament proceeded as scheduled Friday night but building owner Butch Levell wondered if threats of shutting the game down didn't keep some players away. ... More
One of the odder developments in television - and this is a medium that has found fame for volunteer castaways and the workplace stylings of Donald Trump, among other freakish things - is the popularity of poker shows. ... More
Do you want Kennedy or Tom Leykis on the front line of the battle of the sexes? That's the choice the GSN network is offering. The former MTV personality and the radio personality will be co-hosts of "Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes." ... More
High rollers once had to venture to the desert in Nevada or the beach in Atlantic City, N.J., to find legalized roulette, slot machines or blackjack. Now gamblers can try their luck in more than 440 high-stakes casinos that stretch from the bayous of Louisiana to the evergreens of the Pacific Northwest. ... More
World Class Championship Poker will see a lot of professional poker players at the Reno Peppermill’s Poker Room this February 26 – March 6, 2005. The anticipated Peppermill Reno Spring Poker Tournament is expected to host 1,500 players who will compete with each other nine days long. ... More
POKER ROYALE: BATTLE OF THE SEXES will break new ground when it premieres on GSN's new Friday Casino Night, January 21 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. Immediately following POKER ROYALE is WORLD SERIES OF BLACKJACK featuring the world's finest blackjack players vying for their chance to win the $250,000 grand prize. ... More
Annie Duke -- Ivy Leaguer, mom, moneymaker at cards -- is a prime-time player looking beyond the next hand. ... More
After sadly bowing to pressure from the NFL and scrapping its successful Playmakers series last year, ESPN is done licking its wounds. At 9 p.m. Thursday, it gets back into the business of the episodic series with Tilt, a drama based around the poker world (of course). ... More
The Small Town Poker Tour a new poker tour dedicated to raising money for charity will offer original episodes of the tour at NATPE Convention January 24 at the Mandaly Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. “NATPE seems to be the best place to showcase the Tour and show,” stated Mark Fracalossi Executive Producer. “We feel the exposure we get will be good and lead to the right placement of the show” Fracalossi said. The ... More
I was at a local sporting goods franchise store today looking for some workout equipment. What do I bump into but a display of Texas Hold'em kits, complete with chips, cards and a green felt cloth. Apparently, lots of fitness jocks are also turning into poker jocks. ... More
However, if you covet the existence of the upper echelon of professionals, your road is as easy as becoming president of MGM. Some of the transitional shocks can be surmounted with a good-sized bankroll, but the typical aspirant arrives undercapitalized with an inflated concept of his own skill. Let’s look at some common mistakes. ... More
The Girls are Back! Last December, legions of poker fans across the country tuned in to see if women had the skill and the finesse to play their own brand of cutthroat poker. In a broadcast that became the WORLD POKER TOUR’s most highly rated show of 2003, Ladies’ Night did not disappoint. ... More
The online casino phenomenon has no doubt given way to the recent rise in poker popularity. Poker is being played at online casinos, on web TV, and recently some televised poker games have been getting some pretty high ratings. The recent World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour competitions were also both huge successes. Bravo recently created a new TV show that features some of your favorite celebrities ... More
The preliminary rounds of the 2005 World Series of Poker and all but the last two days of the championship event will be played at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino. ... More
Las Vegas police have identified two suspects in the attempted robbery of World Series of Poker champion Greg "Fossilman" Raymer. ... More
Greg Raymer, the 2004 World Series of Poker champion, apparently knows how to wield more than a stack of chips when everything is riding on it. ... More
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In Texas Hold'em, if someone suddenly bets into you or raises, and you are considering folding, be sure to first look at the amount of chips that the player has in front of him. If he is out of chips it's likely that he is bluff raising/betting because he knows he will go all-in on that hand anyway.
