In a radical move, the World Series of Poker* has confirmed that the final table of the 2008 Main Event will take place some four months after the rest of the tournament, which kicks off on July 3 in Las Vegas.
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No-one could have thought that Gus Hansen was not going to win his fourth World Poker Tour title at the Five-Star World Poker Classic at Bellagio, Las Vegas, last weekend! But amazingly the ‘Great Dane’ was somehow unable to convert a five to one chip lead heads up and had to settle for second place, with David Chiu completing an amazing comeback to scoop the .39 million first prize and claim his first WPT title.
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It’s another jam-packed Pokercast this month from Littlewoods Poker, with all the news and updates from the world of online poker downloaded direct to your PC. Peter Sharkey brings you up to speed with what’s happening on the poker circuit and launches a brand new Littlewoods Poker competition.
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Ever since they hanged a monkey on suspicion of being a French spy during the Napoleonic Wars, the people of Hartlepool have been on the receiving end of a lot of jokes. This is a little unfair for the town that gave us greats such Sir Edward Mellanby, the man who, in 1916, discovered that a deficiency in vitamin D was the main cause of rickets and proposed cod liver oil as a preventative cure. He was born in Hartlepool in 1884. Reg Smythe, creator of the internationally renowned cartoon character Andy Capp, lived in the town until his death in 1998.
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If a measure of a game’s popularity is the extent to which manufacturers of every conceivable product want to have their wares associated with it, or slap their branding on it, then poker has truly arrived. Towards the end of last year, we reported on the poker-related ‘tat’ (for want of a better word) then flooding the shelves and online stores at an unseemly rate in time for the annual Christmas splurge on rubbish. We contemplated having a ‘Tasteless poker item of the year’ award, but a) there were too many contenders and b) we were pushed for time.
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Even if visitors to bricks and mortar casinos find their chip stack decimated, they generally end up with a dollar or two’s worth of chips in their back pocket which, as many subsequently discover, is of little use when it comes to paying for a taxi fare. Nonetheless, frequent chip ‘collectors’ may be inclined to check whether they trousered anything by mistake when visiting the now defunct Showboat Casino, which operated in Las Vegas between 1954 and 2001.
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After a record-breaking run in Las Vegas, where she appeared five nights a week for five years, Celine Dion started her latest tour in Manchester earlier in the week. While the Canadian superstar might not be everyone’s cup of tea (apparently her audience consisted mostly of elderly couples, mothers and daughters and gay men), her phenomenal run in Vegas provides some idea of how Sin City place is performing in the face of a widespread economic slowdown.
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According to James McKenna’s third book dealing with the vagaries of poker, the game actually consists of two separate entities: fish and fishermen. As we know, the fish are generally newcomers whose knowledge of the game could hardly be described as extensive, or else they’re older hands who never bothered to learn the game’s techniques. By contrast, fishermen are players who watch the fish, learn how they swim before baiting hooks and casting their nets to catch them one by one.
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Hi guys.
I understand that calculating genuine pot odds can vary according to the type of player you are. Is this correct?
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Loading ...The World Poker Tour Enterprises Inc. (WPTE) have finally settled the lawsuit brought against it by a group of five top poker professionals - Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Andrew Bloch, Annie Duke and Phil Gordon.
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