2006 February 16 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2
Look around any poker room today, especially in the higher limit section, and you’ll definitely find a game of Omaha Hi-Lo. The game is vastly different from Seven-Card Stud or Texas Hold’em as far as strategy is concerned, since it caters to a more conservative, mathematical approach, which allows less room for bluffing.The rules are as follows:The game is dealt just like Hold’em: a button, a small blind and a big blind to initiate action. In Omaha Hi-Lo, however, each player is dealt four card
Only in the world’s richest poker game would a one-day net win of $1.2 million be considered child’s play.But that was the case this week at the Wynn Las Vegas poker room, where Texas businessman Andy Beal is facing off against a consortium of poker pros, most from Las Vegas, in a series of head-to-head matches for stakes that rival the largest in the history of gambling.Beal and the professionals group - informally known as “the Corporation” - also played at the Wynn for about a week leading up
In some parts of the poker news it was announced that a couple who met while playing online poker are soon to be married, but if the results of a recent survey completed in the United Kingdom are any indicator, then online poker may be hampering traditional social life, specifically social activities such as going to the pub. Long a mainstay of popular British culture, going to the pub would have ranked top of the list of things the average Brit would want to do, but the survey suggests that things are now otherwise.
For 25 years now, Kenny Rogers’ "The Gambler" has advised poker players that they have to know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em, their cards that is. Rogers is now campaigning for poker fans to own ‘em, referring to the DVD box sets of his legendary poker film. In a series of promotional events, among them an online poker tournament, Rogers hopes to entice loyal country music followers as well as poker players to purchase the special 25th anniversary edition of "The Gambler."
Old Erie Riders’ 1st Annual Poker Run will be held on February 25. Register at Donselaar’s Sports Bar & Grill (Clyde Bowling Center ) or pre-register at B.T.S Electrical and Construction Inc., Route 31 West, Clyde, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.
LONDON (AFX) - CryptoLogic Inc, which develops software for the internet gaming market, has turned in substantially better fourth quarter results, with growth led by an almost doubling of poker-related fees.
After almost a month of poker, the professionals are beginning to step to the felt at the L. A. Poker Classic, just in time for the World Poker Tour $10,000 Championship Event…
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