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WPT Foxwoods: Online Phenom Becomes Youngest WPT Winner
November 19, 2005 The World Poker Tour final
table at Foxwoods' World Poker Finals featured a strong mix of players, including
Lyle Berman (the "Godfather of Poker" who is in the Poker Hall of
Fame), Allen Cunningham (2005 World Series of Poker Player of the Year who
earned over $1 million in preliminary events)... 
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Poker as a spectator sport?
November 19, 2005 Money has ruined team sports
in my view. Apparently dollars fertilize egos, and, oh, how they've grown.
On-field posturing and ridiculous simple-minded arrogance fills courts and
fields to the bursting point, leaving very little room for games...
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Hispanic Poker Market Tapped
November 19, 2005 Spanish poker players have
being increasing in number recently, and there has not been a single site
to focus specifically on the untapped Hispanic market. This is according to
the site that hopes to do just that, pokerloco.com.....
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Multiple Ways Of Winning And Losing Poker
November 12, 2005 - What is the advantage/disadvantage
of playing the multiple handed video poker machines? As more hands are played
off one original hand, are the paybacks more or less in the favor of the player?
Take the popular Video
Poker; multiply it by 100, and what do you get? Multi-Hand Video
Poker. The math is easy so far, right? ...
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PartyGaming to take over two poker partners
November 11, 2005 - LONDON (Reuters) - Online
poker operation PartyGaming said on Friday it was taking over two of its four
partners and ending its relationship with a third. Analysts said that was
further bad news for Empire Online, the fourth partner, which PartyGaming
is also in talks to buy. PartyGaming said it had agreed to pay $14.5 million
(8.3 million pounds) for Multipoker and was buying most of IntertopsPoker....
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When you need to stop playing the poker
freerolls
Poker freerolls are extremely popular on the online poker sites with thousands
upon thousands of people playing each and every day. In fact on my website
www.Love-Texas-Holdem.com freeroll information is the one thing above all
else that people are looking for.....
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10 Tips for a Successful Poker All-in Strategy
All-in is a betting strategy used in today's most popular poker game, No limit
Texas
Holdem. When you declare that you're going "All-in",
you are putting all your chips into the pot on that hand. This could be a
do or die move by you, depending on whether you have more or less chips than
an opponent who...
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How to Win at Online Poker Tournaments
Online poker tournaments success
can be yours if you follow this simple plan. There is a secret to winning
in the online poker rooms and it can be summed up in one word…patience.
If you want to win online at Texas Holdem or any other poker game for that
matter, you need to be...
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Half a million dollar$ win for poker champ
(November 4 2005)
A BUILDER from Croydon who started playing poker just two years ago
has won $500,000 in a massive competition. Ian Frazer only got into the game
after messing around on the internet and picking up a few tips. And when he
took on his mates in friendly tournaments he lost every time...
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Not Yet a Full House, But Poker Catching On
(November 1, 2005) Kirill Gerasimov alternately
wiped his sunglasses and checked his watch as midnight approached, fidgety
behavior for a guy who makes his living by staying cool. Finally, Gerasimov,
who bears an uncanny resemblance to U.S. actor Matt Damon, pushed the remainder
of his dwindling chips to the center of the table, sliding them past his pair
of 10s resting face up on the red felt. Onlookers began muttering "all
in," a reference to Gerasimov's do-or-die bet, prompting players from
neighboring tables to abandon....
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World Poker Tour Featured on UK Channel
(October 31, 2005) WPT Enterprises, Inc.
(Nasdaq: WPTE) announced today that it has inked an agreement for its WORLD
POKER TOUR(R) television series to be featured programming when the UK's much-anticipated
ITV4 network kicks off on November 1. ITV4 is the latest addition to the powerful
ITV family of networks broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The new network
is an "entertainment channel providing quality programming to a discerning,
up-market audience with a male bias." ...
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Backgammon Growth Hits New Highs
(OPENPRESS) October 22, 2005 -- Reflecting the
phenomenal growth that has been seen in the online backgammon industry in
the past six months, backgammon server Play65
has announced a new player record with a staggering 450,000 players now registered
to the provider’s online game. Already the world’s largest online
backgammon community, these new figures indicate that the server is the chosen
play site for over an estimated 80 per cent of the market share. At the same
time, Play65,
www.p65.com
also has a further record setting 5,600 users playing online at peak hours...
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Casinos come late to online gaming party
(October 20, 2005) Casinos have missed
out on a boom in online gaming over the past several years, but deals with
sports-betting firms still offer a belated route into the new multi-billion-dollar
industry. Online
casinos and poker
rooms are currently raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars
every hour of the day in a market valued at up to $12 billion (7 billion pounds)
a year globally...
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Poker's Biggest Names Gather at the Golden Nugget for Two Televised Events
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Television's hottest game returns to the
Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for two made-for-television poker
games featuring some of the biggest names in poker. The two televised events
-- HIGH STAKES POKER, produced for GSN, and POKER SUPERSTARS III, produced
for Fox Sports Net (FSN) -- mark the return of televised gaming to the legendary
downtown resort. Earlier this year, the Golden Nugget was home to the WORLD
SERIES OF BLACKJACK, which aired on GSN, Speed Channel's Mobil High Endurance
Charity Poker Challenge and NBC's NATIONAL HEADS-UP POKER CHAMPIONSHIP, which
garnered solid ratings....
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Review
The World Series of Poker vs. the World Poker Tour:
Video Game Review
Poker has been a universal game that has been played for a very long time;
however, it’s popularity was reduced to men playing it in their basements
and playing it in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. That is until recently when
poker’s popularity skyrocketed with two great shows, the World Poker
Tour and of course the big one, the World Series of Poker. With two hit shows
comes the video games of these shows.....
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Pokerstars 2005 World Championship Of Online Poker --
Explosive growth in just 4 years
Pill after pill, Mark Guttormsen topped off the bottles; 50 and sometimes
60 hours a week, the pharmacist filled prescriptions. Then, he’d go home
and look at his new wife’s old car in the driveway. His front lawn was
barely alive and in need of some serious landscaping. It looked like —
in Guttormsen’s estimation — the Mojave Desert. A little money could
go a long way toward making the place look a little nicer. It had been less
than a year since Guttormsen had picked up the game of poker. He played limit
hold’em at first, then switched over to no-limit hold’em after a
few months...
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New Mac Texas Holdem Poker Room
(October 2, 2005) Pacific
Poker now has an online casino game for Macintosh at www.PacificPoker-mac.com
for the online Macintosh casino, and www.Mac-PacificPoker.com
for the poker online casino game for Macintosh. These online casino game for
Macintosh players use a no download or a download version for Macintosh compatibility.
Macintosh players say without these new Macintosh online casinos, in order
to play an online casino game for a Macintosh you would need to buy expensive
Virtual PC software to make their Macintosh computer compatible with Windows...
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Partypoker move hits Empire stock
Partygaming will no longer let players of websites owned by rivals like Empire
Online and Coral Eurobet gamble at the same tables as its Partypoker clients.
The online firm has launched a new platform just for its nine million customers,
adding features including blackjack and gambling on card colours...
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Can backgammon rival the fame of Poker?
As the A list of the social elite expands to absorb the wealth of rising
gaming stars that events
such as WSOP have produced, the playing field is opening to a new circle of
celebrity gamers.
The announcement therefore that UK digital channel, Pokerzone has commissioned
TV production
company, 8mm Productions to produce a 4 hour series capturing the action at
this year's World
Backgammon Championships in Monte Carlo has started an exciting chain of events
to catapult
backgammon into the limelight....
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