We return this week with Part 2 of my review of the ‘Full Tilt Strategy Guide, Tournament Edition’, edited by Michael Craig. Part 1 of my review can be found here, and in this column we’ll look at the part of the book on non-NLHE…
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Today's final table at the 2007 World Poker Open features one of the more experienced lineups in a while. Combined, they have 11 prior appearances on the World Poker Tour, and 11 World Series of Poker bracelets. Two of these players already have WPT titles on their resume, and they're…
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Soon, poker players who want to play poker in casinos will not have to actually head to the poker room to take a seat. Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has approved a commercial version of Progressive Gaming International's (PGI) World Series of Poker Peer to Peer Texas Hold'em…
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PokerStars.net is giving its players a chance to win a $20,000 seat into the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. All but four seats into this tournament are invitation-only, and PokerStars is giving all its new and existing PokerStars.net players two chances to win their way in. It…
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The Borgata Winter Poker Open continues with strong turnouts and swollen prize pools. Event No. 7 was the first non-no-limit hold'em tournament and still attracted 323 players. The $300 buy-in limit hold'em event had a prize pool of $96,000. John Dashtara won just over $28,000 for first….
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Phil Ivey had gotten lucky on Barry Greenstein two hands in a row to bust him out. Now Ivey was fighting for his tournament life against massive chip leader Allen Cunningham.
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Very rarely do we think of poker when it comes to the topic of protection, especially when we are dealing with hole cards that are a pair of Aces or Kings. These are generally perceived as the type of cards that can take care of themselves. The truth is that a flop can take the […]

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A long time ago Howard Stern declared himself the King of All Media. Now with all due respect to Mr. Stern, he could declare himself Grand Poobah of the Eloi or Emperor of the Mason Dixon line and it still wouldn’t be true. If all it takes to be the King of All Media is […]

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The first leg of the 2008 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is over and done, and the winner is one Julian Thew. Thew is a second time winner, having picked up the title of event eight in 2007. This makes him the first two time winner of a GUKPT event, with a first prize of £86,800 […]

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The idea was a new one: poker tables with no dealers. There were no chips or cards either - at least not the physical kind. Players sat down and swiped their credit card to play, each with their very own touch screen to use in playing the most popular poker game around, Texas Holdem…
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