Posts Tagged ‘poker’
by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
As the film version of Mamma Mia! continues to take even more money at the box office, thus proving that Abba’s music can sell anything, spare a thought for another musical which appears unlikely to be heading for the West End.
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by Simon Dexter Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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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by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Hi guys,
Do you know, I’ve had a guts-full of poker instruction manuals, online tutorials and the rest. No matter how much of this stuff I take in, whenever I’m playing I continually find myself thinking “this guy is bluffing” and then folding or else I think “my opponent is weak” but then fail to raise.
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by Simon Dexter Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Not long after the MC announced that players could take a 117-day break in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the question as to what would happen should one of the “November Nine” not make it back to Vegas arose. According to WSOP* commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, the answer is straight forward: their chips will be in play. “It’s the rule for every WSOP* event,” he said. “If you are late or you don’t show, your chips will be blinded off. That’s the rule.”
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