Bodog.com has announced that Amanda Musumeci has become the site’s newest female poker pro.
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Bodog names new female poker pro
May 7th, 2010Pokerstars.com launches qualifying tournaments
May 7th, 2010Pokerstars.com recently launched a myriad of qualifying tournaments for the upcoming 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event, which takes place in Las Vegas. If you’re looking to qualify for the big game, Pokerstars offers a way to get in for as little as $1.10 or 100 FPPs. Players can win a $12,000 package that covers the entry fee ($10K) into the tournament. The lucky winner also will receive an eight-night stay at a luxury resort and a cool $1K in cash.
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Will 6th street flop?
May 7th, 2010Apparently, there’s a new poker reality show that starts airing this fall, and it’s called 6th Street. Reading the description of the show (and watching a video preview), it not only sounds like a rip-off cross between Entourage and Jersey Shore (and probably a half-dozen other no-name, failed reality shows), but I question whether it will help or hurt the outside world’s image of the game of poker.
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Poker terms: G-K
May 7th, 2010Hopefully, all you readers are enjoying these poker terms articles as much as I’m enjoying writing them. It’s nostalgic to go back through the definitions and revisit them. Pressing on through the alphabet, here’s G-K.
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Your complaint is falling on deaf ears
April 30th, 2010Online poker is a tricky world. It’s predictible to a fault, and in a way that the true player can’t really do anything about. There are rampant accusations of fraud on the side of the sites themselves, but are impossible to prove and even harder to fight. This brings me to a recent post I saw on a site from a player complaining about customer service from a big-name gambling site (I won’t mention it by name). And yes, it got me thinking…
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Poker terms: E and F
April 30th, 2010Moving down the alphabet in our look at poker terms, this week we’re on E’s and F’s. Let’s break them down.
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10th Annual Omar Sharif Poker & Backgammon Tournament to be sponsored by Full Tilt
April 26th, 2010Full Tilt Poker recently announced they are going to be sponsoring the 10th Annual Omar Sharif Poker & Backgammon Tournament. the event is set to take place on May 16th in London at Sketch beginning at 5pm. The event will be aiding the One to One children’s charity.
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Skill vs. chance
April 23rd, 2010I read an article at a poker news site recently about the discussion over whether you identify table poker as a game of skill or a game of chance. Regulars know poker is almost entirely a game of skill, so what does it really matter what it’s “labeled” by the outside world? See, I thought the same thing, until I considered some states will either allow it or deny it from being played commercially based on whether it’s a game of skill or chance.
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Poker terms: the D’s
April 23rd, 2010Pressing on with our poker terminology (admit it, you used case in poker dialogue this week, didn’t you?), we’re onto the short but potent list of D’s.
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Vanessa Selbst Wins NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event
April 19th, 2010Twenty five year old Vanessa Selbst outlasted a field of 715 players in the main event of the North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun Main Event. Selbst earned her biggest win ever after she claimed the $750,000 first place prize.
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