Poker group goes all in with $1-M tourney in RP

MANILA, Philippines—If morality were a poker game, then organizers of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) have just gone “all in” with their chips, whipping up a cash-rich tournament with a total pot of $1 million.
The tournament, which kicks off Tuesday at the Dusit Hotel in Makati City, offers a top prize of $280,000 with a buy-in of $2,500. And while organizers do admit that the tournament is still a form of gambling, they are scrambling to position poker into a particular niche in the sporting world.

“Obviously, poker is made up of 70 percent chance, 30 percent skill,” said Christopher Parker, the director of the Asian Poker Tour (APT).

“But as far as the APT is concerned, we’d like to channel it through sports [and that means] focusing on the 30-percent skill rather than on the gambling aspect, the roll of the dice.”

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Bodog Announce Miniature World Series of Poker

Bodog have announced a cheaper option for those not jetting off to Vegas next month for the World Series of Poker – a series of online tournaments replicating the 25 Hold‘em events of the festival for a fraction of the price.

At the culmination of the series’ 25 tournaments, a final tournament will be hosted on July 10 awarding three seats to the 2009 WSOP Main Event. This makes Bodog the first site to offer seats to next year’s tournament.

The event will run from May 30, starting off on the same day as the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold‘em event with a $100+$9 PLHE tournament.

‘We’re happy to offer those not able to attend in person an affordable and exciting online alternative,’ says Alwyn Morris, Morris Mohawk Gaming Group CEO.

Buy-ins ranging from $10 to $100 means that the festival – dubbed the ‘Mini-SOP’ – is excellent value for all players. It would cost nearly $100,000 to enter all the Hold‘em events of the WSOP but for only $821 a player could enter all of Bodog’s events.

The site will run a Tournament Leader Board which will determine who is awarded the seats to the 2009 Main Event.

Poker Book Review: Barry Tanenbaum’s ‘Advanced Limit Hold ‘em Strategy’

Professional cash game player Barry Tanenbaum’s Advanced Limit Hold ‘em Strategy: Techniques for Beating Tough Games marks an important contribution not just to that category of texts devoted to limit hold ‘em, but to the greater overall knowledge of poker strategy and theory. While of particular benefit to middle- and high-stakes LHE players, the book has a lot to offer to players of other games, too. With its many helpful lessons and careful, clear presentation of difficult concepts, Advanced Limit Hold ‘em Strategy deserves a place alongside other must-have books for the serious poker player.

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David Singer Wins Richest Online Heads-Up Poker Tournament

The online poker world was buzzing after Full Tilt Poker, a leading industry giant, announced their inaugural $25,000 buy-in heads-up championship – the most expensive online poker tournament ever.

The field consisted of pros and high-stakes players; sixty-four highly skilled players including 22 Full Tilt-sponsored professionals and Team Full Tilt members. David Singer, environmental lawyer turned pro poker player, took down the top prize by beating several players in successive heads-up matches.

Other notable finishers included CardRunners.com instructor Brian ‘Stinger’ Hastings who came 3rd and American poker professional Andy Bloch who came 4th. Both won $168,000 for their high finishes.

In addition, Full Tilt offered sweat tournaments whereby ordinary players could enter a rather more modest $5.50 heads-up tournament running in tandem with the $25k event. These acted as places to wager on the outcome of the main event – the winner scooping a share of a $5,000 added jackpot.

Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy Signs On To Become an Ultimatebet Pro

Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy has inked a deal with Ultimatebet.com to become an “UltimateBet Pro”, joining the likes of Shawn Rice, Scott Ian, Gary “Debo34″ DeBernardi and Mark “P0ker H0″ Kroon.

“JohnnyBax” is an online poker legend, making the transition from being a stockbroker to dominating the virtual felt in mid-2004. He is a highly respected member of the online poker community - for Ultimatebet, the signing is a no-brainer. Everyone these days seems to be signing with Full Tilt Poker, so for Ultimatebet to land “JohnnyBax” is a major coup. They are obviously hoping that his presence will help to win back some of the online poker community, who turned their backs on the company after the Absolute Poker scandal (Ultimatebet and Absolute Poker are owned by the same company, Tokwiro Enterprises). There are many in the community who will certainly be surprised (and angered, I’m sure) that Josephy has signed a deal with Ultimatebet.

Josephy is one of a handful of players in the world who can claim to have over one million dollars in online tournament cashes and one million dollars in live tournament cashes. “JohnnyBax” has over $1.3 million dollars in total “live” cashes, with his biggest score coming at the 2006 Ultimatebet Aruba Poker Classic, where he collected over $440k for his second place finish. He is also a WSOP bracelet holder, having taken down the $1500 Seven Card Stud event in 2005 for $192k.

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MANSIONPOKER.com Extends WSOP Mania!

MANSIONPOKER has announced the addition of WSOP Mania poker tournaments which provide members with further chances to win a coveted seat into the MANSION WSOP Mania Super Satellite tournament - worth $320 each.

The latest scheduled tournaments at MANSIONPOKER.com to award guaranteed tickets into the MANSION WSOP Mania Super Satellite include the $1 + $0.10 Turbo Feeder tournaments held daily at 18:30 and 21:30 BST, and the $10 + $1 Mansion WSOP Mania Daily Final; both of which award 3 Super Satellite tickets guaranteed. The daily Midnight Madness event also
provides another opportunity to win a seat into the Super Satellite of the year.

The MANSION WSOP Mania Super Satellite is one of the most exciting online poker tournaments of the year which takes place on Sunday June 15 2008 at 19:00 BST, with a buy in of $300 + $20 and a guaranteed prize pool of 20 Packages - each worth an astounding $16,000.

Every package awards winning players at MANSIONPOKER.com to take a seat at the world’s greatest Poker event: the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, winners will be lucky enough to pit their poker wits against other enthusiasts and top professionals such as last year’s winner Jerry Yang and MANSIONPOKER.com’s very own Marc Goodwin.

Unlike other online poker rooms, MANSIONPOKER.com has ensured that their seats are guaranteed. The company looks forward to sending some of their quality players to join in the prestigious event and have a shot at the prize money as well as the kudos.

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French Couple Travels the World on Titan Poker’s Tab

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, funded skilled poker duo Bruno Peyrou and Marise Massabo, from Marseille, France, to fly to Madrid for the Eurocity Poker Open Madrid this May. This is the third time that the couple has flown to a major live tournament thanks to their shared passion for Titan Poker’s online tournaments.

The French couple’s world poker tour began last May when Marise won a seat worth $14,000 to Pokerface 2007 in Las Vegas — and brought her husband along for moral support. A few months later, it was his turn to win them a vacation, with an $8,000 seat to the World Poker Showdown (WPS) Costa Rica in January 2008. This month, Bruno won them yet another exciting poker trip, with a $3,000 ticket to Titan Poker’s sponsored ECPT Madrid Open 2008.

The couple flew to Madrid for this elite tournament, which was staged from the 9th to the 12th of May at the Casino Gran Madrid.

Following their shared poker victories, Bruno said: “I’m very happy to find myself in this tournament in Madrid. Thanks to Titan Poker and a wink to everyone in customer service for all their help. I intend to enjoy myself to the max at this tournament, and… why not go with the wallet a little bit thicker so I can enjoy a few more of Titan Poker’s tournaments here and there.”

Titan Poker regularly rewards its players with seats to the world’s most well-known poker tournaments, such as the European Poker Tour and the Aussie Millions. Later this year, Titan Poker will be sending players to the World Series of Poker 2008 in Las Vegas, and the Asian Poker Tour in Manila. The popular poker room also frequently awards its online players with huge cash prizes. At the end of this month, the poker room will give away $3,600,000 in its second European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP II).

A change to the World Series of Poker main event

The World Series of Poker, poker’s most prestigious event, will kick off in a few short weeks. The WSOP features world championships in various forms of the game, all leading up to the granddaddy of them all, the $10,000 buy-in Main Event.

This year, however, the Main Event will be just a little bit different.

Harrah’s, the operator of the WSOP, with input from the Players Advisory Council, decided to postpone the final table of the Main Event until November 9, 2008 – a delay of more than three months. That’s right; more than 7,000 players will start play on July 3 and battle down to the final nine on July 14 at which time play will come to a stop.

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World Series Of Poker Merchandise to be Broadly Distributed by XP Events

The World Series of Poker just announced it has reached a multi-year alliance with XP Events to broadly distribute WSOP-branded merchandise across multiple retail touch points, including a new WSOP-branded brick and mortar store in Las Vegas, an online shop, and retail kiosks.

Through this agreement, XP Events, a leading retail merchandise management and fulfillment house based in Denver Colorado, becomes the official branded-merchandise provider for the globally recognized World Series of Poker brand.

XP Events will manage the officially-licensed WSOP online store, officially-licensed retail outlets throughout Las Vegas during the May 30-July 14, 2008 tournament, and manage a new Official World Series of Poker retail store, coming soon.

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Strip Poker: IFC to Host Celeb Charity Tourney at Orleans

International Fighting Championship is Putting on the Event to Benefit the Caring Place

When most people hear about the International Fighting Championships, they might think of mixed-martial arts and fighters duking it out. But on May 25 at the Orleans, the gloves are coming off, and the only fight going on will be the fight against cancer.

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World Poker Association Hosts Conference

The World Poker Association is launching their first educational event for their members. It will be held at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, on May 28 -May 29, 2008, prior to the launch of the World Series of Poker tournament that takes place in Las Vegas in July. The conference will be moderated by Mike ‘The Mad Genius of Poker’ Caro, and is titled ‘63 Money Making Tips To Win A Bundle At The WSOP’.

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RECORD REVENUES FOR EVEREST POKER PARENT

With more real money players and soaring revenues, the Taiwan firm Gigamedia, which owns the Everest online poker company, delivered good news to investors this week in releasing its Q1 2008 results.

Gigamedia’s chief executive Arthur Wang re-emphasised the importance of the company’s deal with Harrah’s for high profile World Series of Poker sponsorship by the Everest brand, pointing out that the poker spectacular is beamed into 350 million homes through television coverage.

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PKR to Produce Advanced Poker Magazine for its Players

PKR announced it has signed a year-long deal with Dennis Publishing to produce a quarterly magazine aimed at advanced PKR poker players, with an inaugural issue coming June 2008.

It will be distributed free of charge to an international selection of PKR customers.

The name of the magazine has not been revealed yet. Dennis Publishing already publishes a range of gambling titles, including Inside Poker and Poker Player.

Tim Farthing, commercial director at Dennis, said: “Dennis Publishing has already established themselves as the world’s leading gambling publisher. This perfectly places (us) to bring PKR into the print spectrum as we have a long and successful working relationship with them.”

Simon Prodger, marketing director at PKR, added: “PKR has been a great success in the digital world, and we are pleased to offer our online players more content with this new print magazine. This partnership is a good opportunity to enhance the relationship our brand has already formed with our loyal players and to build on the huge success of our online output.”

Full Tilt Poker Awards Bounties for Busting its Team of Pros

Win Your Buy-in Back Up to $200 for Each Pro You Send to the Rail

Full Tilt Poker started offering its Knockout bounty tournaments recently, but the site has had prices on the heads of its red-named sponsored pros for quite some time. Players have a chance to win their buy-ins back in virtually any scheduled multitable tournament on Full Tilt through this ongoing promotion — which goes along quite nicely with the bragging rights.

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Danish Supreme Court Ruling Encourages Poker Players

After five months of worrying about the future of Danish poker, the game’s enthusiasts finally have received some good news. The Supreme Court in Denmark has decided to bring up the case where the question is: Should tournament poker in private clubs be legal in Denmark or not? The second highest legal body in Denmark, its Landsretten, decided to vote against legalisation, and after an appeal put together by Frederik Hostrup and the Danish Poker Federation, the Supreme Court is ready to handle the case.

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Poker’s Top Asian Pros Eye Top Plum at APT Manila

Manila, Philippines - The top professional poker players with Asian heritage are aiming for nothing less than the top prize at the upcoming Asian Poker Tour Philippine leg this coming May 27 to June 1.

Korean-born Steve Sung, Vietnam-native Quinn Do and Vietnamese-American Nam Le are all hoping to be the last man standing at the finals table of the 2008 Asian Poker Tour’s first leg to be held at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel. The three poker pros of Asian-descent will duke it out with over 400 other pros for a chance to win the first prize chunk of the guaranteed prize pool of US$ 1 million.

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Titan Poker’s Nine-Man Delegation Spices up the Salzburg Cup

Popular online poker room Titan Poker sent a delegation of its top players to compete in the historical city’s newly renovated casino.

Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, sent a delegation of nine players to compete in the Salzburg Poker Cup 2008 in Salzburg, Austria. The internationally renowned online poker site was represented at the tournament, which took place in April, by players from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

The players received all-inclusive prize packages, including accommodations, flights, buy-in to the tournament’s Main Event and a side event.

Nelson Rodrigues, from Madeira, Portugal, was excited to have the chance to celebrate his 27th birthday with fellow Titan Poker players at the tournament welcome party. He has been playing poker for three years and this was his biggest live tournament to date.

Fellow player Frederic Arhanchet, from France, was the Titan Poker star of Salzburg, finishing in 19th place with a win of 930 Euros. Chris Royston, from the U.K, who is a rookie at poker with only six months experience, said that it was “my first time in a casino this week!”

All players were able to experience the joys of Salzburg as they explored the city’s numerous historical sites. The city is not only famous as the birth place of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but also for its scenic beauty. Titan Poker’s players were also treated to a private beer tour and an exclusive lunch.

A blog listing the experiences of Titan Poker’s players was posted on its website.

Titan Poker is sponsoring the Eurocity Poker Tour Madrid Open this May and has sent players to the Aussie Millions and various European Poker Tour events. In addition to awarding players seats to the World Poker Showdown in the Dominican Republic in May, Titan Poker will host the European Championship of Online Poker II (ECOOP) where skilled poker players will compete for a share of $3,600,000 dollars.

Ontario man wins $1 million at poker tournament in Barcelona

An Ontario man who captured the million-dollar first prize at a poker tournament in Barcelona on the weekend says his only goal was to win enough cash to put his granddaughter through university.

Jack Hinchey of Oshawa says his 10-year-old granddaughter Victoria was on his mind throughout the competition, where he faced off against some of the best poker players in the world.

After winning the World Poker Crown, Hinchey came home Sunday night and was greeted by friends and family.

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Gold and Kardashian Host Celebrity Poker Fundraiser May 17 at Playboy Mansion

2006 World Series of Poker main event winner Jamie Gold and Khloe Kardashian from E!’s show ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ will host the third-annual Celebrity Poker Tournament and Casino Night fundraiser for the Urban Health Institute, at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills California on 6pm Saturday, May 17. Over $50,000 worth of prizes will be awarded to top finishers in the tournament.

The Urban Health Institute (UHI) provides direct care, medicine and medical equipment in response to natural and man-made disasters

The buy-in for the tournament is $1,500, which includes general admission; general admission alone costs $500. Other casino-style events will also be available, as well as a silent auction which includes items such as a private poker lesson from Gold.

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Historic ’03 hand changed poker forever

Can you believe it’s been five years since Chris Moneymaker, an accountant from Tennessee playing in his first live tournament, arrived in Las Vegas as an unknown and left as a poker icon?

Qualifying online at Pokerstars for only $39, Moneymaker participated in the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, outlasted 838 other players and inspired generations of poker enthusiasts. This aptly named young gentleman fulfilled the dream of every aspiring poker player to become WSOP world champion.

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Online Poker: FTOPS VII Heads-Up Event Goes to “GoToChurch”

Shortly before the seventh installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series began Full Tilt Poker’s management announced the addition of the shootout tournament format to their site’s offering. The new format also allowed the site to begin offering large field heads-up tournaments and that’s exactly what Event #8 of FTOPS was.

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ESPN to Televise Enhanced Two-Day World Series of Poker Final Table Format on November 11

May 1, 2008 — ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the 2008 World Series of Poker® Presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light will feature a new enhanced format for the Final Table. The final nine players of the Main Event (the $10,000 World Championship of No-Limit Texas Hold’em) will compete on November 9-10 instead of the originally scheduled date of July 16. ESPN will televise coverage of the Final Table in a two-hour program on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 9 p.m. ET.

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Full Tilt Poker to Offer $25K Heads-Up Tournament

Players looking for ways to spend their Full Tilt Online Poker Series winnings, or those just looking to sit down for one-on-one matches with the pros, now have the option of entering the Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up World Championship.

The event will take place on Saturday, May 24th and Sunday, May 25th, just a week after the FTOPS VIII concludes, and will go down as the most expensive online buy-in tournament in history.

The event kicks off at 3 p.m. EST on the 24th and will be hosted by 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Champion Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. Team Full Tilt stars Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Jennifer Harman will also be in attendance, while the biggest names in live and online poker are expected to flock to the record setting tournament.

The maximum field size will be 64 players, with ‘no byes’ rules, so players are encouraged to buy-in early to avoid being refunded. If the field doesn’t sell out, the max will drop to 32 or 16 entries, if necessary. If the $25K buy-in is a little steep, Full Tilt is offering a couple of $500+$35 qualifiers at 3 p.m. EST on the 22nd and 23rd.

PKR Confirm Return Of Poker Festival

PKR, successful online poker room and ‘the future of online gambling’, announced that their Super Series of tournaments will be starting this year on June 14.

As well as the usual array of tournament games one would expect at a poker festival, PKR have devised some new hotly-anticipated structures such as the Terminator; the Deep and Steep and various Bounty tournaments.

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Poker Strategy: When NOT to Raise

As a beginner to poker, one of the fundamentals of the game you learn is this : if you have a big hand and feel you probably have the best of it, raise. It is a crucial principle to play by, but as you develop as a player, you will realise there are a number of spots in which it best to go against this advice. Our example by which we will illustrate this principle will be of interest; if you agree with the reasoning, you will see that even the highest rollers can make a costly mistake.

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World Poker Tour Loses $2.8 Million

America’s World Poker Tour (WPT) Enterprises Incorporated has reported a ten percent overall increase in quarterly revenues compared to the same period last year but a $2.8 million net loss for the quarter.

The Nasdaq-listed firm stated that online gaming revenues decreased from $600,000 over the first quarter of last year to $200,000 for the most recent period, reflecting the lower levels of player activity on the Cryptologic network versus the site operated by WagerWorks in 2007.

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Qualify Cheaply for Three Absolute Poker Main Events

Absolute Poker is giving its players a chance to get into its three flagship tournaments much more cheaply with its Triple Header promotion. Players can win $1,796 worth of tournament entries for as little as $6.60.

The $200+16 Triple Header tournament runs every Monday at 20:30 ET. Seats in the Saturday $150,000 guarantee ($500+$30), the Wednesday $100,000 guaranteed pro bounty ($1,000+$50), and the Sunday $75,000 guarantee ($200+$16) are awarded as a three-pack for every $1,742 in the prize pool. (A bit more than one out of every nine entrants will snag the three-seat package.)

Players can qualify for the Triple Header for $6.60 in a satellite wherein one seat is guaranteed.

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Poker Pro Justin Bonomo Joins Team Bodog; Josh Arieh Out

Bodog Poker will announce Monday the signing of Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo to their roster of Team Bodog pros that represent the online poker company at poker tournaments and in marketing campaigns.

Bonomo joins David Williams, Evelyn Ng and Jean-Robert Bellande on Team Bodog. Meanwhile two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Josh Arieh is no longer a member of Team Bodog having been informed last week that the company wished to go in a different direction. That direction appears to be younger.

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Everest Poker ‘Hugely Supportive’ of New WSOP Final Table Scheduling

Everest Poker, who recently signed a multi year deal to brand all table felts and the inner rung of the final table at the World Series of Poker, is delighted with the new November 2008 schedule for the final table.

“This move is a masterstroke for the WSOP’s global profile and will undoutedly make the build up to the final table the most dramatic yet,” said Jennifer Joyce, Chief Marketing Officer, Everest Poker. “From both a commercial and personal point of view I am hugely supportive of the scheduling and from a European perspective it gives everybody a much better chance to see the biggest event in world poker.”

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Canada’s Coast to Coast Poker Championship Starts Today

The Coast to Coast Poker Championship kicks off today at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia, pitting East versus West and featuring 7 events over 9 days, with an estimated 2,650 players and $2.4 million prize pool. The main event offers a top prize of $377,300 based on a sell-out.

The Coast to Coast Poker Championships will be the first stop for WPT Canada and the tournament will be filmed to produce four one-hour episodes, which will air nationally in Canada. The style of broadcast will reflect the WPT.

“We are proud to host the first-ever Coast to Coast Poker Championships, which brings some of the best poker players in Canada while adding an East versus West rivalry to the classic game,” said Darryl Schiewe, BCLC’s vice president of casino gaming. “We have such good poker in Canada and with great poker rooms, tournaments and players there is no reason to leave Canada to play.”

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Day 2 Latin American Poker Tour Ends- Final Table Now Set

The first stop of the Latin American Poker Tour began May 3rd with 314 players, then 113 players started Day 2, and after a long grueling day of play the final nine players have emerged (listed below). They will return Monday May 5 at 2pm to determine who goes home with the LAPT Champion title and the $222,940 top prize money.

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Highlights for All Africa Poker Channel: May 5 -May 11

The All Africa Poker Tournament

Watch legendary poker moments as formidable poker pro’s and celebrities from across the globe, throw down the gauntlet, to be crowned the next poker king or queen, at the leading poker tournament in Africa- the All Africa Poker Tournament.

This phenomenal tournament has not only made more than a dozen millionaires, but has been the platform from which many local poker players have been elevated into international poker stardom. Experience all the poker thrills first hand.

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Duplicate Poker launches World’s Biggest Online Poker Glossary

Ever since poker’s best kept secret was revealed in September 2007, it is now well known in the gaming world of poker that Duplicate Poker Online is the only site to visit for unlimited fun and a variety of chances to win real cash.

But for those who are yet to know, Duplicate Poker is the innovative game that works with more of a player’s skills than it’s got to do with luck.

Duplicate Poker now pokes more fun to its teeming members and online visitors by giving them access to its large glossary of poker terminologies which also doubles as the world’s biggest online poker database.

“This is where poker players all over the world would turn to, as the one-stop resource for them to have a good idea of what a poker word means,” says Pinhas Romik, the CEO of Duplicate Poker.

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Online Poker: billytk01 Wins Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed

The Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed had an overlay this week of $40,800 with a field of 3,546. Coming out on top this week was billytk01 who earned a cool $132,787.50 for coming in first place. When final table play began he was the only player to have above 2 million in chips and was one of only three players above 1 million. Here is how the final table played out:

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Poker and money go hand in hand at casinos only

Editor’s Note: The Evening Guide presents the second of a two-part series on the growing popularity of Texas Hold ‘Em poker and the legalities involved.

The only place any poker game involving money is legally allowed is in a casino, says a spokesperson for the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

The commission does not license any charitable organization in licensed establishments to hold poker games particularly if “it’s going to be for money,” Ab Campion said in an recent interview.

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Poker Table Materials Launches E-Commerce Website

Poker Table Materials provides products for the poker table building industry at both the wholesale and retail levels.

Poker Table Materials is a new full service, consumer friendly e-commerce website with a shopping cart and resource pages containing industry information. The company is built around the fundamentals of great customer service, high quality products and competitive pricing. The product line includes fabrics, vinyl, foam padding and accessories for gaming tables. These products are sold at both the wholesale and retail levels. All of the products are available for purchase directly from the website and will normally ship out to the customer on the same day the order is placed.

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DonkeyGear.net Re-Brands and Introduces a New Poker Mascot

The uprising of the hottest poker fashion and apparel website, DonkeyGear.net, seems to have surprised even its founders. Launched only a few months ago, DonkeyGear.net caters to a variety of poker needs, although it’s their poker t-shirts and apparel specialties that have separated them from their competition and have gotten people in casino poker rooms to take notice.

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Titan Poker Plan To Fill Annual Lull

Each yeah, there is a lull of activity in the online poker world; occurring in the immediate run-up to the World Series of Poker.

As well as running several promotions throughout the next month, they will be hosting the second annual European Championship of Online Poker.

Titan will also host two super-satellites for the Asian Poker Tour Manila, with a chance to win a $2,500 seat at the event for just $258. The events will take place on May 5 and May 12.

These satellites will pay out prize packages of $6,000 in total value, covering all accommodation and travel costs. Four of these prizes can be won.

The ECOOPII tournament will feature ten days of poker action and prize pools of $3.6m. Satellites to the events are running now.

Poker Players Opt For Jury Trial

In America, five defendants in a case brought against players participating in home poker games have requested a trial by jury after growing angry with laws that ban any form of entertainment using cards or dice.

The defendants in South Carolina were charged under a state law passed in 1802 following raids early last month. The affair was the culmination of a ten-month investigation by police where four houses were watched. Officials stated that high-stakes games were taking place and arrested 27 people and seized $62,000.

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