2006 February 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Live poker is the only casino game in which you play against the other players rather than against the house. Poker also involves more skill than any other casino game. These two conditions make live poker a “beatable” game if you know what you’re doing.
The Advanced Financial Network (ADVN), a website providing extensive coverage of world stock markets, has launched a new online poker site at www.advfnpoker.com. ADVN’s typical audience is made up of businesspeople and financial investors, many of whom, the company believes, are also poker aficionados. Betting that these Wall Street types will bite at the opportunity to take other kinds of risks with their money, ADVN ventured into online poker.
PokerStars.com has unveiled its new and improved VIP club for avid online poker players. The club sports a new five-tiered structure whereby players qualify for higher reward levels based on the amount of VIP Player Points they accumulate while playing poker online. Poker Stars is taking an innovative approach to the VIP club, offering not only cashback bonuses, but also a whole array of unique and expensive gifts that online poker players can purchase with their points.
When you watch poker on TV, you hear the term “pot odds” thrown around all the time.What in the world does it really mean? Well, hopefully, after you read this column, you’ll not only know what pot odds are, but you’ll also understand how to quickly calculate pot odds and apply them to your game.A simple generic definition of the term pot odds would be the odds the pot is laying you in comparison to the bet you are facing.In other words, if there is $500 in the pot and your opponent has bet $100
Greenock card shark Craig McFarlane will take his seat for the World Series of Poker despite never having played on a real table before.The 28-year-old is hooked on the online poker craze and after beating 800 others he is heading for the world’s gambling capital Las Vegas.Hydraulics engineer Craig, of Brisbane Street, said: “I have only been playing the game for five months and I have never played in a casino before. So Ill need to get to the casino and get practising my poker face.”He will
The World Series of Poker, owned and operated by the largest casino operator in the world, Harrahs Entertainment, has named Robert Daily as the Tournament Director for the 2006 WSOP. Daily has been the poker room manager at the Rio All- Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and will now be moving up to one of the most prestigious jobs in the poker industry.
A part of the Stanley Leisure chain of casinos is about to offer a new schedule of poker to those players in the North Hampshire, South Oxon and Berkshire regions. Local poker fans will no longer have to travel far, but can stop by the Reading Sporting Club in Reading, Berkshire, for poker tournaments running weeknights except on Tuesdays.
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