If you get the opportunity, take a look at the short KMPH News Channel clip currently doing the rounds on YouTube. It features a segment called Inside the Force, extracts from the previous night’s beat spent with the Fresno Police Department.
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Further evidence, if any were needed, that playing online is considerably safer than visiting a casino, especially after you’ve enjoyed a decent run and ended the night a few quid ahead of the game, arrived from the Mediterranean earlier this week.
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More than one player saw fit to complain about apparent last-minute amendments made to the tournament rules during the recent WSOP* in Las Vegas; indeed, several observers felt they were executed solely to accommodate higher-profile players. Conscious of this, professional poker players Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau have established the rather grand-sounding Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA), together with the International Poker Rules (IP Rules).
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For more than a year, an increasing number of Americans have advocated an end to the ban on internet gambling and this week came news that their ranks had been swollen by two rather influential individuals – associate professors Kathryn LaTour, from the University of Nevada and June Cotte, from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
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What is the definition of a ‘good poker book’? It’s a question we often ponder over here at Littlewoods Poker Towers for there are two distinct schools of thought. One says it must be informative and help players expand their knowledge of the game; the other says, provided it’s well written, it can simply tell a good poker tale.
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The great thing about Sam Farha is that he looks like a caricature poker player: the slicked back hair, the bling, the slightly mean appearance, the sharp suit, but man can this guy play Omaha. It’s one of his many redeeming features (he is, apparently, an especially nice guy) and he’s decided to reveal many (but not all) of the techniques that have made him such a feared opponent in print. Be thankful that he has for you won’t get much of this guy at the table.
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Following diva-like histrionics from several high-profile players at this year‘s WSOP*, calls for a standardised set of tournament rules continue to grow louder after the veracity of at least two was called into question.
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Littlewoods Poker pro Michael Greco joined a surprisingly small band of British and Irish players who returned home from Vegas clutching WSOP* cheques. Michael cashed early in the series but was unable to repeat this success, although he was not alone. There were two sizeable cashes for home players, but only one bracelet, proving just how difficult it is to win on American soil.
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In one of her many post-tournament interviews, former poker reporter Tiffany ‘Hot Chips’ Michelle (such a fantastic name), who won 4k for finishing 17th in the WSOP* main event, said it would be “neat to be viewed in a different way”, by which we think she meant as a poker player too. Tiffany is not exactly from the Germaine Greer school of right-on feminism, but her progress has inspired many more women to believe that they too can compete at poker.
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