SearchArchives for: November 2007Sextons Corner, Vol. 20: Stu Ungar Inspired Poker Masterpieces26th November 2007 Poker Masterpieces was a company I started thanks to the inspirational performance of pokers legendary Stu Ungar in winning his third WSOP title in 1997. Before I elaborate on what I did with this idea, Id like to go back in time...This article is court… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Foxwoods: A Terrific Tournament with a Superior Structure26th November 2007 Professional Poker Player, TJ Cloutier, on the Foxwoods World Poker Tour Event...Read more....This article is courtesy of PokerPages.com Poker NewsWorld Poker Tour - North American Poker Championship - Day 2 | Duane Mills Wins WSOP-C Event #1 at Rincon |… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em PokerStars.net APPT Macau, Day 3: Dinh Le Grabs Title26th November 2007 With a final table featuring a former World Champion, one of the most recognizable female poker players in the world, and a pair of former roommates who moved to Korea to become professional video gamers, the conclusion of the PokerStars.net...This arti… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Poker Room Review: Harrahs St. Louis, Maryland Heights, MO25th November 2007 There are other poker rooms in the St. Louis area. Theres the Ameristar in St. Charles and theres the President on the river downtown. Each has its special charms (Ameristar more than the President, to be sure)...This article is courtesy of Poker News… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em PokerStars.net APPT Macau, Day 2: Dinh Le Leads; Hachem, Lieu, ElkY Make Final25th November 2007 Two former World Champions and 74 other poker stars returned to the tables at the Grand Waldo Hotel & Casino for Day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau championship event, all vying for a seat at the final table...This article is court… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Stud Poker Strategy: Dont Believe Everything You Read24th November 2007 I just read an article in a leading poker publication by an excellent poker writer that contained some seriously flawed thinking. At least I think it did. Let me paraphrase and then quote what was written and then explain why I think...This article is… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Inside the Tour #77: The Rise of Anna Wroblewski24th November 2007 The internet has brought us many things, among them the emergence of a new generation of female poker players. The most successful of those is, of course, Annette Obrestad. Others exist, though, and we will hear about them from time to time...This articl… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em PokerStars.net APPT Macau, Day 1: Tobias Schulze Storms to Front24th November 2007 352 players from around the world joined a history-making Day 1 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau championship event, including some of pokers biggest names and three former WSOP Main Event champions...This article is courtesy of Poker… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Card Room Roundup: Caesars Palace23rd November 2007 Caesars Palace opened for business in 1966 and instantly established the benchmark for Las Vegas luxury resorts. Jay Sarno, an original Vegas entrepreneur borrowed $10 million from the Teamsters pension fund and set about constructing his vision of a res… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Phil Hellmuth to Host Charity Poker Tournament at The Palms23rd November 2007 Top player and eleven time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth is set to hold a charity tournament at the Palms casino next Saturday, December 1st. The Poker Brat and some of his friends...This article is courtesy of Poker News | pokernews.comPoker Room… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Trial Date Set for U.S. Playing Card Co. in Infringement Case23rd November 2007 A January 14, 2008 trial date has now been set for a copyright infringement case pitting Florida inventor Michael Faessler against U.S. Playing Card Company, one of the largest makers of playing cards...This article is courtesy of Poker News | pokernews.… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Womens Poker Spotlight: The Ladies Poker Association22nd November 2007 The Ladies Poker Association, which can be found online at ladiespokerassociation.com, isnt a new take on womens poker but instead is a fresh approach to the womens market. Co-founders Crystal Osgood-Gray and Sherry Godfrey...This article is courtesy of… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em The ICM, Part 421st November 2007 Fred knows my habits well. He waited for me in the parking lot so I had to address his issues. He demanded that I tell him the secrets of the Independent Chip Model so he could win tournaments. He had searched the Internet and read a few articles abou… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em The ICM, Part 121st November 2007 On a thunder-stormy Thursday in July, I signed up for a low-limit holdem game and looked around our local poker room. Fred beckoned me to his table, took a break, and asked me about the Independent Chip Model. He hoped the ICM would validate his decisi… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em The ICM, Part 221st November 2007 I signed up for a few games at our local poker room and then waited for a spot to open. Fred saw me, asked to be dealt out, and hustled over to my chair. He had found an on-line ICM calculator on a website and used it for Sit & Go tournaments, he told… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em The ICM, Part 321st November 2007 Fred had used an on-line, Independent Chip Model calculator to track players equities in tournaments he played on the Internet. Doing that hadnt helped him win any tournaments, so he asked why he should bother with an ICM calculator at all. The ICM hel… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em the Poker Poker Report 11/08/0709th November 2007 ‘the Poker Poker Report – Give us ten minutes and we promise to get you ten minutes closer to the end of your work day.’Read more....This article is courtesy of PokerPages.com Poker NewsPerks and Picks - Poker Promotions | PWI | Poker News Bytes, April 2… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Anti-Online Gambling Law Hidden in Massachusetts Casino Bill09th November 2007 When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proposed a bill to allow resort-style casinos into the state, some opposition was expected. But the initiative is now under heavy attack from an unlikely source: gamblers. The critical issue...This article is c… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em College Poker Life: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA08th November 2007 The end of the semester approaches for students at Georgia State University, and though it is illegal to play poker for money within the state, students still have plenty of poker options available to them in the form of student organizations...This arti… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Bracelet Winner McKinney Arrested in Gambling Raid08th November 2007 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors Event winner William Paul "Cigar" McKinney was arrested last week along with 15 others during a gambling raid in Kingsport, Tennessee. Police were informed about the alleged operation via a citizens...This artic… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em WPTE Third-Quarter Earnings: Lipscomb Disappointed08th November 2007 The third quarter was poised to be a turnaround quarter for World Poker Tour Enterprises, perhaps witnessing when the seeds of their beleaguered strategy for online gambling would finally start to flourish. But during WPTEs earnings...This article is co… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em FTOPS VI Kicks Off Today07th November 2007 The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) returns today, kicking off a 12-day run featuring 16 different events offering over $9 million in guaranteed prize money. The quarterly FTOPS series have established themselves as online pokersThis article is co… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em New Jersey Man Slain in NYC Poker Robbery06th November 2007 An armed robbery at an underground New York City poker club on Friday night resulted in the death of a well-liked Wayne, New Jersey man when one of the robbers weapons accidentally discharged. Meanwhile, an extensive investigation and manhunt...This art… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Deep Stacks All the Rage: Borgata Announces November Tournament06th November 2007 The Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City has announced the full details for their upcoming Borgata Deep Stack Poker Tournament. The tournament is designed to offer players a chance to get the feel for what it is like to playThis article is courtesy… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Online Poker Weekend: Steady Numbers at Online Majors06th November 2007 A busy live schedule in recent days made the weekends online tourneys a bit lighter than normal for big-name pros. Despite a relative lack of big names, however, the numbers were still there; the three biggest events again exceeded...This article is cou… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Will Sweden Shed Svenska Spel Gambling Monopoly?06th November 2007 Sweden came one step closer to opening up its gambling industry to foreign competitors when the ruling Moderate Party voted in support of a proposal to abolish the current government monopoly and to pursue a course to privatize Swedens...This article is… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Like Sheep to the Slaughter05th November 2007 Casinos continue to grow and thrive and we enable them to build bigger, better, more opulent palaces by playing games we cant beat. Most of you reading this are poker players, and I suggest you stay in the poker room rather than battling it out against t… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Todays Word is... Correction05th November 2007 Before we move along in the next issue with our questions and answers, let me correct a mistake two columns ago. The concept explained in the text was valid and important-but the figures given in the question and answer didnt compute.
Lots of readers po… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Book Review - Advanced Limit Holdem Strategy by Barry Tanenbaum05th November 2007 No-limit holdem may be all the rage right now, but in the United States there are still far more limit holdem games spread in public card rooms than anything else, probably more than all other games types combined.
A plethora of books are available for… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em PWI05th November 2007 I was cited for a "PWI" this past weekend in downtown Las Vegas, specifically at the legendary Golden Nugget Casino and Resort. PWI stands for Playing While Intoxicated, and is the most dangerous thing any poker player can possibly do. I drank a few beer… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Letter to a Poker Newbie Part 205th November 2007 Your poker philosophy should be built on two principles: aggressiveness, and honesty. Aggressiveness is a given. Anyone who plays the game for any length of time quickly learns that the person who takes command and control of the poker game has the best… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em Sextons Corner, Vol. 17: Learn From Disaster, Part 205th November 2007 How many of you have looked up and watched as a loud, rude, and obnoxious drunk enters the poker game youre sitting in? The previous world of tranquility, the state the game was in, is severely interrupted! You can...This article is courtesy of Poker N… more » Categories: Texas Hold'em |
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