Poker babe Annette Obrestad is not the only youngster tearing up the poker world and the new kid on the block, Mike McDonald has a warning to would-be future champions.
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We have mentioned Steve Bellis on this site before. He was the guy who managed to get more more than he actually asked for when pitching his Poker Quiz League on the TV show Dragons Den.
The Welshman is putting the money to good use and is now expanding into poker tourism.
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Germany finally decided to make online poker illegal from the January 1 2008 but how will it really affect the millions of German gamblers who regularly crowd the poker rooms around Europe?
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Wikipedia (my bible these days) describes a prop bet is a bet made on an outcome or a proposition. These can be anything from statistics and happenstance in a regular game to personal, one-of-a-kind bets.
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He may appear a little eccentric but Harold Lee is currently my poker hero as he looks set to take the right to play poker to the US courts.
The 60-year-old former judge has been holding poker tournaments at various premises since 2001 in disregard of state law and now he may face his day in court.
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With the exception of the Grand Final, last year’s German Open proved to be the EPT’s most valuable event. Almost 500 players competed for a prize pool of 2.3 million euros only for Norwegian Andreas Hoivold to emerge victorious, pocketing 672,000 euros in the process. The latest EPT leg kicks off in Dortmund next Monday and while it is too late to qualify for the German extravaganza, there’s still plenty of time to make the Scandinavian Open which starts in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen on 19th February.
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Cricketer Shane Warne is no stranger to text messaging. Many will recall the ‘explicit’ message sent by the father-of-three to a 22 year-old New Zealand woman a few years back, while his playful activities with a pair of young fillies in a London flat were recorded for posterity on a phone camera. For Shane, his mobile is clearly an essential piece of kit.
However, perhaps someone should have told him that it’s bad form to use it while playing poker in a high-profile, televised event.
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I never really trust surveys. I’m always a bit suspicious about the motives behind them i.e. who paid for it and what type of market spin are they trying to push with the results.
So what do we make of the latest survey by Mintel that puts Wales at the top of the poker playing league in Great Britain? A whopping 31 per cent of Welsh people claim to have played a hand of poker in the last year. This compares with 27 per cent of the Scots and just 22 per cent of the English.
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Annette Obrestad is not the only teenager making waves in the poker world; with news this month that another 19-year-old has taken down a major tournament.
While Annette has been playing the game since the age of 15, the latest winner Daniel Booth only took up the game seriously five months ago.
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In a week when the final series of the Sopranos was released on dvd, fans of the show regularly referred to as ‘the greatest television drama of all time’ may have suspected that perhaps New Jersey was a nice, quiet place after all. That was until a major police bust at the poker room of Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino and Hotel, believed to be the site of an illegal bookmaking ring. Unlike Nevada, sports betting is illegal in New Jersey.
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