Lovers of the craic and those ridiculously tall green felt hats so prominent around Dublin at this time of the year will want to celebrate St Patrick’s Day next Monday by taking part in our ,000 freeroll tournament – tall hats are not compulsory, but a dollop of Irish luck might not go amiss.
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We reckon poker players enjoy a steady flow of challenges which is why you should tune in to our latest poker-cast where you can discover just which member of the Littlewoods Poker team has agreed to play with a £200 bounty on their head. The staff member, who claims to be a ‘fish’, will be playing in another exclusive podcast tournament. To have a chance of claiming your £200 bounty by knocking this self-confessed novice out of the tourney, you will first require this month’s password which, as you might expect, can be heard in the poker-cast.
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The Devilfish and John Kalmar were among a mammoth field of 424 players who lined up for the GUKPT London Victoria event, the fourth of the season, which ended on Monday with 23-year-old online pro Ketul Nathwani winning a tasty £119,780 first prize.
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The UK’s status as Europe’s ‘Poker Central’ was confirmed earlier this week when a new report revealed there are a growing number of British players who are making serious money from the game. Last year, no fewer than 7 UK-based players each won more than
million in ranking events.
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Likeable Irish poker ace Andy Black has finally shedded his ‘choker’ tag and won one of the big tournaments - the 2008 PartyPoker.com Premier League.
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Book review - The Poker Mindset
By Ian Taylor & Matthew Hilger
It’s unusual for a book which focuses on how poker should be played not to make any reference to individual hands, specific cards or chip counts, although it’s for this very reason that The Poker Mindset is such an interesting read. There are innumerable publications dealing with how hand A or B should be played or how precarious situation C or D may be avoided, but Taylor and Hilger concentrate instead upon the attitudes that make a successful poker player.
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Hello,
Recently, I took a really bad beat during an online tournament. I was just a couple of spots away from winning a package worth almost ,000 and just can’t get over it. It has been bugging me for a few weeks now and I find myself thinking about what I did wrong all the time. Is this a normal reaction after getting so close to a major prize?
SM
London
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Loading ...So Manchester’s plans for a “super casino”, set to create 3,000 jobs and rival the best of the genre to be found in the USA and Asia have finally been jettisoned in favour of a proposal to construct 16 smaller casinos across the country.
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The latest EPT event starts in Poland next Tuesday when yet another bumper field is expected to compete for a first prize in excess of EUR 700,000; in the eight events to date, winners have trousered an average of EUR 880,000.
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The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has announced plans to reclassify gaming-related channels, currently deemed to be editorially-related platforms, and place them in the same category as teleshopping and advertising. That’s right – Ofcom’s proposals would consider poker to be more closely related to shopping channels where the discerning viewer can buy anything from a must-have ‘gold’ necklace for under a tenner to say, one of the sports channels where bog snorkelling represents a prime-time offering.
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