Poker Is Proving An Excellent Re-Launching Pad For Hollywood Types
Poker Is Proving An Excellent Re-Launching Pad For Hollywood-Types TO SAY THAT THERES NEVER BEEN a better time to be a poker player is to understate the facts with extreme vengeance. Games have popped up everywhere, loose money abounds, and the men and women who make a living at the game, a once shadowy fraternity of semi-anonymous diehards, have in many cases become full-fledged celebrities.Playing Poker Against A Pro
Being a celebrity isnt quite like people might assume it is. Just because theyre famous, that doesnt mean us poker pros are awestruck at the table. Its usually the other way around, in fact. Its a weird situation, but the celebrities are generally more in awe of us than we are of them. I definitely dont find myself thinking about who they are or how important they are or how many movies theyve bee...Poker Tips and Secrets from Professional Poker Players
Option One: Its the seventh game of the NBA Finals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar matches a rebound and darts an outlet pass to Magic Johnson, who finds James Worthy for a flying one-handed dunk at the buzzer. Final score: Lakers 103, Celtics 102.Option Two: Having powered his way to a chip lead at the final table, Buss slow-plays a spade flush, suckering Phil Hellmuth into going all-in. Buss ca...
The History and the Future of Televisioned Poker Games
Televised poker could not get any more popular, NBC and the Golden Nugget paired up to take it to the next level by introducing viewers to the heads-up forŽmat on Saturday and Sunday afternoons throughout May. Judging by the televiŽsion ratings, the intensity of clashing personalities and playing styles, and player reactions, the heads-up format is likely to become the new craze in poker. I loved ...Great British Poker Tour
Great British Poker TourThe first leg of the Great British Poker Tour took place at the Gala Maybury in Edinburgh in mid February. The £500 NLH main event was sold out at 130 entrants the week before. Gala added £5,000 to the prize-pool bringing it to £70,000.
A host of celebrities joined Gala to celebrate the launch of the tour. Liberty X star ...
Poker Polish Open Tournament
Polish OpenPeter Willers Jepsen, a former soldier in the Danish army who left the service after suffering a serious injury in Iraq, won the European Poker Tour (EPT) Polish Open in Warsaw on March 17th. The main event, a €4,000 NLH, saw 284 players vying for the prize-pool which exceeded €1 m. The four day tournament was held by Casinos Poland in the Hyatt Regency ...
Basic Poker Strategies and Tips of Online Poker Games
TIPS FOR PLUNGING INTO THE POKER POOLJust a few years ago, I sat in a Las Vegas poker room and listened to a floorman brush people into the room with a barkers call. Come in and try poker, folks, hed yell from the raiL Its just like youve seen on TV. Since then, as poker has exploded into one of the hottest phenomenons on television, millions of people have been lured by the sirens...
