2006 February 11 Poker News, Events and Happenings

In addition to poker chips, cards, and sunglasses, some of the most ubiquitous items seen on televised poker events these days are iPods. Many poker pros, like Annie Duke and Joe Hachem, find that listening to their favorite tunes on their iPods gives them a calming feeling while engaged in high-stakes poker games. Now, they, along with any iPod owner, can fill their spare time between tournaments with Online Poker Podcasts.

Texas has said no to charity poker. But El Paso charities have an ace up their sleeve: Juárez.Members of the Vista Hills Rotary Club, who had been trying to spice up their fund-raising with poker for years but couldn’t find a legal way to do it in El Paso, came up with the idea of having a poker tournament in Juárez.Today, they are expecting 300 El Paso poker enthusiasts to pay $125 to be bused from the El Paso convention center to the posh Maria Bonita Hotel in Juárez. There, they will play for

The name says it all with the Internet poker site OnlinePokerPodcast.com. The site is launching this week its first poker podcast in a subscription based weekly format. The podcast will contain information on all areas of online poker and can be downloaded from their site every week, according to the company’s recent press release.

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The Swedish Betsson has a free game for interested poker players, opening up an online poker game complexly free of charge in Finland.
Opening in February of this year, the site is financed by advertising income and will be the first in Finland that has players facing each other on the Internet and not a machine. The site is for play money only; despite this, the Betsson company is anticipating many enthusiastic players, as many as tens of thousands.

While many poker sites offer free play many are just mirror images of pay sites and hope to draw in pay players from the play sites. Betsson may be the first play for free play money site to be supported completely on advertising income….

One reason many people are hesitant to start using online casinos and poker rooms is a matter of security. If they don’t have a personal reference or enough confidence in the brand name of the online poker room or casino, they may be worried about their deposits. Online Gambling Insider has a program that has been popular with the online casino crowd, which guarantees the return of your deposit, up to $1,000, in the event of a dispute with the online casino and when the casino is found to be in the wrong…

In a bid to better appeal to the legions of poker fans in Europe and South America, Titan Poker has announced that its online poker room now supports the Spanish, German, and Italian languages. The three new languages complement the existing English and French language platforms on Titan Poker. Titan Poker’s having four language options other than English truly opens the world of online poker to hundreds of millions of potential players around the world.

It’s true; I essentially don’t play poker anymore. It’s a fact I take with a grain of salt for the moment, as I am so proud of the website that my colleagues and I have been able to build and grow…