 | //28-08-2010 Get All of Your Tournament Poker News on Fifth Street Each Workweek |
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| //28-08-2010 The World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker final table started with six players and the man with the most chips when play commenced was Andrew Frankenberger, and at the end of the day it was he who collected this coveted trophy and an equally coveted $750,000. The game was no Limit Hold’em and the buy in had been $5,000 and the location was the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles California. |
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| //27-08-2010 The slate of recent changes to the World Poker Tour® (WPT) continues to have a positive impact as 462 players bought in for Legends of Poker at The Bicycle Casino, a 66% percent increase over the previous year’s tournament.
This was the second consecutive WPT event that has seen significant growth, as July’s Bellagio Cup saw a field of 353, a 32% rise in attendance.
“We are excited to be back at The Bicycle Casino for Legends of Poker. As a charter member of WPT, visiting The Bike really is returning home,” said WPT President Adam Pliska. “The team here has worked tirelessly to deliver the top-notch tournament action WPT players have come to expect.”
“As a longtime partner, we were thrilled with all of the additions WPT made for this year’s Legends of Poker event,” said Kelley O’Hara, Director of Marketing for The Bicycle Casino. “The players responded, attendance was up and there was a tremendous buzz around the tournament from Day 1.”
The players have definitely noticed WPT’s changes. |
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 | //09-02-2010 The Borgata Winter Poker Open, a $3,500 buy-in tournament that was formerly a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), began back on January 31st with 766 players. In the end, poker pro Jeff Madsen walked away with the title and $625,000 top prize on Friday.
The annual tournament in Atlantic City boasted a colossal $2 million guaranteed prize pool and, when the smoke cleared, Madsen outlasted Sirous Jamshidi heads-up. In the final hand, Jamshidi picked an inopportune time to commit his chips with Q-2, as Madsen held K-10. Madsen hit a king on the turn to stay in front for good in the hand and take down the 2010 running of the Borgata poker tournament. Madsen led the majority of the heads-up confrontation, according to CardPlayer, which explained how the youngster was able to clos |
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 | //08-02-2010 Playing poker and sports betting have long gone hand in hand. In virtually every casino, the poker room is adjacent to the sports book, allowing players to sweat their bets and their cards at the same time. With that in mind, Poker News Daily thought it was fitting to seek out players’ opinions on who is going to win Super Bowl XLIV. Tomorrow’s bout pits the 14-2 Indianapolis Colts against the 13-3 New Orleans Saints. Like the rest of the world, the poker community is a sucker for a Cinderella story and is rooting for the Saints, but when pressed to name who will win, most everyone is betting on the Colts. |
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 | //01-02-2010 Most of the players knew each other from the Cleveland poker festival or meetup.com, a Web site aimed at helping people with like interests find each other. They took the game seriously and came ready to win -- or lose -- big, carrying at least $11,000 cash among them.
But from the start, Jonathan Powell, 32, of Akron, seemed distracted, several players said. He spent most of the night on a cell phone and left the game -- and the locked apartment -- several times to smoke until, finally, two men with assault rifles followed him back into the apartment. |
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 | //01-02-2010 The new Choctaw Casino Resort is a beehive of activity as final preparations are made for the Feb. 9 grand opening.
A combination of construction workers, restaurant staff, electricians and casino staff were all working hard inside the new resort this week. Director of Marketing Edye (pronounced ee- dee) Tomasello gave a tour of the facility.
Opening ceremonies will begin at 6 p.m.
”We’re going to have everyone gather outside the building for the opening ceremony,” Tomasello said. “Chief Pyle will speak, we’ll have the ribbon cutting, then do the fireworks and light up the building.” |
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 | //31-01-2010 At least that’s what the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, thinks. And poker players will likely have a hard time disagreeing after the casino kicks off a special celebrity tournament to help celebrate the casino’s $300 million expansion grand opening.
From Feb. 9-14, poker players will get the chance to play with a number of poker pros and celebrities who will be there to launch the new poker room. Six-time bracelet winner T.J. Cloutier, poker’s winningest female tourney player Kathy Liebert, and former world champ Tom McEvoy will all be on hand to celebrate the occasion. |
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 | //26-01-2010 One of the world’s largest poker rooms that is second largest has created a storm amongst its worldwide online poker community with their newest surprise that is to be named as Rush Poker. Full Tilt has adopted a strategy that is not like other games what it has done here is that the normal ring players when decide on playing Rush Poker they will be allowed to join a larger player pool and will come across a few different players for every hand that is played for the Full Tilt Poker. When the player folds in a hand he gets to move without any hesitations to the next table as well as keep a high level of action to keep himself interested as well as reduce the waiting time to the least possible time. |
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| //26-01-2010 Lawmakers in the state of Iowa are preparing to get in on the massive gambling expansion that is taking place across the US. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave some insight on Friday into the type of expansion that could be coming to Iowa. |
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| //25-01-2010 Ever wonder how you’d you stack up against the players you see on TV? Could you stare down 21-year-old Joe Cada, who won the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas to the tune of $8.5 million? Could you outplay such veterans of the professional poker world as Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein, Chris Moneymaker and the like? |
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 | //23-01-2010 The firs event of the World Poker Tour 2010 is going to start this weekend at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.
The event is going to be the $10,000 dollar No Limit Hold’em WPT Championship event starting at 12:00pm CST on Sunday, January 24th.
When the event first stopped in Biloxi it was called the Gulf Coast Poker Championship and this event will be the third for Biloxi, Mississippi. |
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 | //26-12-2009 Their are plenty of after Christmas sales online and at the top retail stores, now that the Christmas holiday is over and retailers need to sell out all of their remaining stock. More importantly, the online casinos are offering after Christmas sales as well. Many of the top online casinos are offering free gifts to their loyal players for Christmas, and a variety of unique bonuses and holiday promotions to get players back into the online casinos after being away for the Christmas holiday.
After Christmas sales are great if you need more stuff after the holidays, but the after Christmas casino & poker bonuses are even better because you’ll have a bigger bankroll to play your favorite casino and poker games and you’ll have a better chance of winning one of the huge progressive jackpots. If you want to gamble online, this is the perfect time of year to take advantage of the various casino & poker bonuses, after Christmas freerolls, and other holiday promotions. |
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 | //26-12-2009 PokerStars has what many experts believe to be the best VIP program in the online poker industry. That does not mean, however, that the site itself does not see room for improvement. That is why they are stepping up the program in 2010.
Currently, there are different tiers of the VIP program. Each month, players try to gain enough points to move up the tiers, which start with Bronze Star. It then goes to Silver, Gold, and Platinum Star levels. It is difficult to reach the top level each month, so PokerStars is adjusting. |
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 | //26-12-2009 On Sept. 11, 2001, Detective Sergeant Mike Kosowski rushed into the World Trade Center as one of the first responders to the largest terrorist attack on American soil. More than eight years later, he still chokes up thinking about the horror he witnessed, describing it on camera as “every kind of misery.” |
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| //28-11-2009 A number of letters sent to the US Department of the Treasury has triggered action to be taken about the impending enforcement of the UIGE A set to take hold on December 1st.
Nineteen congressmen, the Poker Players Alliance, the American Greyhound Track Operators Association and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association are behind the letters asking for the delay to be imposed. Only two letters have been sent that insist there be no delay in implementing the UIGEA ban. |
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| //28-11-2009 Less than a day after winning this year’s British Columbia Poker Championship and earning the first place prize of $364,364, 30 year-old Sophon Sek was arrested on charges of manslaughter and breaking and entering. As a result, his prize money is being held at the casino at the request of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and there is a chance it will be confiscated from Sek altogether. |
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| //28-11-2009 In what was arguably the greatest victory for the poker industry in the past three years, the Treasury and Federal Reserve announced on Friday morning that they would delay the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations for at least six months. |
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