Archive for February, 2008

Let The Dreams Begin At The WSOP!

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Bob Acton asked:


This Friday, over 7,000 men and women from all walks of life will sit down at THE Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and bet $10,000 that they can bluff with the best poker players in the World.

Last year’s World Series of Poker shattered all participation and prize money records for a live poker tournament. The 45 events generated 32,341 player entries and more than $106 million in gross prize money. Joseph Hachem of Australia won the World Series of Poker Championship and an unprecedented $7.5 million.

These players will beg, borrow and steal to get their entry fee and along the way unknowns will emerge and become household names across America. The events surrounding the tournament have become a huge part of this extravaganza and it now has the feel of a Super Bowl week in Vegas.

A trade show featuring exhibitors from around the globe, the World Series of Poker Lifestyle Show will showcase a broad array of new poker products, websites, books and clothing. Last year more than 50,000 people, including celebrities and athletes, visited the show.

ESPN is also offering pay-per-view telecasts of the final table on August 10th and it will be interesting to see what kind of numbers this exploding event can garner. Betting action is available on your favorite character and there’s certainly no shortage of colorful nicknames.

Howard (The Professor Lederer), Chris (Jesus) Ferguson, Dave (Devilfish) Ulliott, John (World) Hennigan, Men (The Master) Nguyen, Ram (Crazy Horse) Vaswani and Gary (The Choirboy) Jones are just a few of the players who stand a reasonable chance of ending up at the final table on the 10th of August.

It will be a wild and wacky week in Vegas and www.sportsbook.com has all kinds of wagering opportunities available now!

Bob Acton

Online Sports Betting



Bobby

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i have won a wpte i have played in 45 wsop events with 17 cashes. that’s 5 final tables but no braclets?

Monday, February 11th, 2008
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Tyler c asked:


i have a degree in computer science. i have been an actor(had a new movie out this year), author. radio show co-host, poker tv show co-host, board of director member for cancer research and prevention. who am i?
its not me

Lucille

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Poker: Online Poker Games in Pacific Poker

Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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Nicholas Tan asked:


Players who play Internet poker games are no strangers to Pacific Poker, an online poker room supported by Casino On Net, the biggest online casino.

Some of Pacific Poker’s features include 24-hour customer support for its clients. Players can choose the poker room that can fit their skills and their budgets. Aside from this, Pacific Poker clients all over the world are assured that they are playing against real people.

Pacific Poker offers download or no-download poker game software to its clients such that a player has a free option on this. This software is guaranteed to make navigation easy and includes a feature that saves the “seats” of players disconnected from their dial up connection while playing the game.

Aside from all of these, Pacific Poker offers online poker tournaments each day where players can participate. Players can also choose low or high limit games in their monthly free roll tournaments. Promotions such as free rolls and money added are also some of what Pacific Poker offers to their clients.

Should a player wins in any of Pacific Poker’s games, Pacific Poker allows the winner (from any country) to choose the form of payment he wants this to be received.

Some of the popular poker games that can be found in the Pacific Poker website are Texas Holdem, Omaha High Low, Seven Card Stud, Texas Hold Em and 7-Card Stud.

The most popular game in the Pacific Poker room and in the world of online poker is the Texas Holdem game. A maximum of 10 players can play this game of the standard 52-deck card. Each player is given an equal chance of handing cards with the use of a dealer button. In Texas Holdem Poker Games, the player who assembles the best five-card hand, out of the seven possible wins the pot.

Another game that can be found in Pacific Poker is the Omaha High Low game. This game is a form of Texas Holdem. It is a bit different from the latter with the move prior to the flop. The initial starting hand is composed of four hole cards dealt face down. Aside from this, 5 board cards are dealt face up in the center of the table and are considered as community cards. Most of the time, players who are used with Texas Holdem get confused with some of the rules in Omaha High Low which are reverse to some of the rules in the former. But once they get past this stage, they can already enjoy playing. Pacific Poker’s Omaha High Low is usually described as an exciting game and has bigger pot money for players to win.

The third game that can be found in Pacific Poker is the Seven Card Stud Poker Game. There are five betting rounds for each game of this and a maximum of 8 players can play this game. The game starts with the dealer dealing 2 cards face down, four cards face up and the last card - the final one - face down for each online player starting with the one seated on the left of the dealer.

The winner in Seven Card Stud Poker Game in Pacific Poker is the one who gets the best five of the seven cards dealt. He has the best hand and gets to win the pot.

The fourth online poker game in Pacific Poker is Texas Hold Em. It is played with the standard 52-deck card and 2 up to a maximum of 11 players can play it. It is one of the most popular poker games in the world and is usually portrayed in television shows and movies. World Poker Tour and World Series Poker are some of the tournaments devoted for it.

Texas Hold Em is played in Pacific Poker starts with the players dealing their two hole cards faced down. This is done by each player starting with the one seated on the left of the button. The player, who can make the best-ranked five cards using the community cards with his hole cards, wins the game.

The fifth and last game found in Pacific Poker is the 7-Card Stud game. It is a game where players have one or more face up cards. It is described as the most played poker in public card rooms. This has three versions that can be played in Pacific Poker. These are High, Low and High-Low Split games. In 7 Card Stud Low, the player who obtains the lowest hand wins the pot while one with the highest hand wins in the 7 Card Stud High. In 7-Card Stud High-Low Split, if no one among the players qualifies for the low, the entire pot is given to the high hand.



Kristen

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Charity Poker Tournament

Friday, February 8th, 2008
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Fawzia Awwad asked:


The card game of poker, often associated with Old West saloons and gunslingers, has recently seen an explosive upsurge in popularity in the United States. The televised big-money tournament World Series of Poker and World Poker Open games have created poker celebrities and millions of poker fans. Naturally, the next step in the evolution of a sport is charity games. Though the idea is a new one, some organizations are embracing the idea of charity poker tournaments as a new and exciting way to raise money for good causes.

There are many venues jumping on to the charity poker bandwagon, and the events are attracting fans, celebrities, and millions in funds for non-profit organizations. In October of 2005, Pulver Enterprises hosted the “Best Bet for the Cure: Charity Poker No-Limit Texas Hold’Em Tournament” at their Voice on Net conference in Boston. The tournament raised thousands for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation and The Barton Center for Diabetes Education, and attracted celebrity participants such as John Ratzenberger and poker star Phil Hellmuth. Since Boston does not allow gambling, the fund-raising took place in the form of a raffle. Ofer Gneezy, President and CEO of iBasis won the top raffle prize – a $10,000 buy-in seat to the World Series of Poker Tournament. Winners of the poker games received the coveted bronze Pulver cup.

Another recent charity poker tournament was held in Las Vegas. The Cory Lidle Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament boasted 103 entrants, several of them celebrities, and raised over $20,000 that was donated to the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the tsunami relief effort. Celebrity participants included baseball players Cory Lidle, Adam Dunn, Mike Lieberthal, Ron McKinnon, and Eric Chavez, actor William August, MLB free agents Tom Wilson and Scott Erickson, and rising poker star Thomas Keller. The winner of the event, Kelly Flynn, took home $30,000.

In addition to live charity poker tournaments, many Internet casinos hold charity poker tournaments with the proceeds being donated to various causes. If you love to play poker and like to make a difference in the world through charity, you might consider signing on to play in a charity poker tournament. You will get to interact with other players, do something good, and who knows – maybe you’ll meet a poker celebrity or two! Visit your favorite Internet casino or type in “charity poker tournament” in a search engine to find one starting up near you today.



Hazel

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Poker Chips

Friday, February 8th, 2008
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Lewis Jon Travis asked:


In the game of poker, particularly Texas Hold’em, poker chips are your weapons. Looking around the table you’ll see giant castles of chips in front of some players and others will have one solitary tower of chips, but all that really matters is what you do with these chips at the table. During a tournament poker chips will be distributed to all players based on the buy-in, or entry fee, of the tournament. Even though poker chips are typically given monetary value; they don’t equate to cash. For example, during high stakes tournaments, pots will get up to the millions, but that is just the nature of tournament play. The more people you eliminate, the more pots you win the more chips you will have.

A common saying in the game of poker, especially during tournament play is “all you need is a chip and a chair”. This statement never rang more true than in the 1982 World Series of Poker when Jack “Treetop” Strauss came from behind with a $500 chip to win the entire tournament. With one chip, Strauss effectively played the next few hands, doubling his stack steadily over the next few days until he had all the chips. Strauss took the WSOP championship that year and a legend was born.

That story illustrates the true importance of just one poker chip. A common mistake that you and most beginner poker players will make is to play erratically when you have just a few chips remaining, ripping the band-aid with one quick pull if you will. But, if Treetop can wait it out and pounce on his opponent at the right time to win the highest honor in the game of poker, as a beginner you can give that last $100 chip a fair chance to multiply.

The sound of poker chips clanging together can be the most soothing sound in the world for any poker player especially during a tournament. Watch any televised tournament and you’ll recognize the sound of an army of chips being stacked and re-stacked, or twirled between knuckles; this sound can be just the distraction you need to block out unnecessary table talk or just to focus on the table. Learning to do this won’t make you a better player, but it just might fool the other newbies into thinking you’re a pro and backing off from a big hand in which you’re involved. After all, a major part of poker is appearances.

The most important lesson of all is to always respect the poker chip. Accumulating chips is the main goal of tournament play, and the sooner you realize that every chip counts the more likely you are to perfect your game from a short stacked position. As a short stacked player, your remaining chips are your last hope to see the final table and making them work for you all depends on you.



Louise

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How old is the youngest person to win at the WSOP?

Friday, February 1st, 2008
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Brent F asked:


World Series Of Poker

Gary

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