2006 January 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings
If you come across a poker game filled with major league baseball players, try to snag a seat.Or at least put your initials on the waiting list.It could pay off.So says Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Cory Lidle, who knows a little something about the poker-playing habits of his baseball brethren.”A table full of baseball players would be a very inviting table to sit at,” said Lidle, who will host a celebrity poker tournament this weekend at the Palms. “They like poker, they have a lot of mon
The L.A. Poker Classic Championship is the place to be for poker players on the West Coast in January and February, and it will all be hosted at the Commerce Casino, billed as the worlds largest poker room. To add some spice to an already exciting time the Commerce is guaranteeing the first place winner of the L.A…
Here is the chance for poker fans around the world to be heard; Bluff Magazine is hosting online voting for the first Bluff Magazine’s Annual Readers Choice Awards. Poker fans will have the chance to decide who wins the 2006 Readers Choice Awards in a variety of categories, and its not all about the poker pros. With categories like Most
Entertaining Player to Watch they will certainly be included, but so will other influential entities in the poker world.
Online poker rooms get a chance at an award with categories like Best All-Around Online Poker Room, Best Online Customer Service, and brick and mortars with Best Live Poker Tournaments and Best Poker Commentary rounds out the field by including the poker TV shows….
A Wells Fargo, North Dakota man nearly took first place in the World Poker Tour’s 2006 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tournament. Brook Lyter knows his stuff; he organizes poker leagues in two states, a fitting background for the second place finisher who earned his $681,500 prize. Of course, with poker a pedigree isnt required, as evidenced by the first place finisher Steve Paul-Ambrose of Waterloo, Ontario…
When you’re playing No Limit Texas Hold’em, there are certain cards dealt that are known as trouble hands. They earn this label because they’re difficult to play and often dominated by better hands.Here are the top 10 trouble hands to watch out for: J-8 The trouble with this hand comes when the flop is Q-10-9, giving you the second-best straight. If an opponent is playing K-J, a hand most players would, you’re simply doomed to lose everything you have. It would take a miracle, or a ridiculous
JOE Hachem is a marked man.Since the 39-year-old former chiropractor won the main event at the World Series of Poker last July, everyone wants to take him down. “It’s like having a bullseye on your back,” Hachem said when he arrived in his home town of Melbourne yesterday to play in Crown casino’s Aussie Millions No Limit Hold’em Championship, starting tomorrow.”Anonymity is gone and you’re recognised everywhere. Everybody wants to take you on. Everybody wants to say they beat the World Series c
Many land-based poker rooms offer players a bad beat jackpot, usually requiring aces full to get beaten by four of a kind or higher. Naturally, the chances of such situations occurring are rather slim, so card rooms pour thousands of dollars into bad beat jackpots to provide a lucrative bonus to tempt poker players to stay and play. Typically, when a bad beat jackpot is hit, the player with the winning hand receives 25%, the player with the losing (badly beaten) hand receives 50%, and the other players at that poker table split the remaining 25%.
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