2006 December 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Can a tournament director play in the very tournament he is supposed to be directing? Apparently he can, if he is Thomas Kremser and the tourney is the Caribbean Poker Classic, going on now. Kremser is taking place in the $500+50 No Limit Holdem with one optional rebuy event, dressed not in suit and tie as one might expect, but in fashionable jeans, sunglasses and even iPod. Also going on is the $400+40 Pot Limit Omaha freeze-out with a field of less than 75 players, similar to the Holdem event…
Has Santas workshop moved to Las Vegas? Get ready for what has become an annual marketing onslaught of gambling-related toys, books and paraphernalia as we approach the holiday shopping season.Save
In his book Beating the Street, Peter Lynch draws comparisons to playing the markets on Wall Street with playing poker - not the first to do so. If you bet without looking at your cards you can’t expect to do well, and the same is true if you buy stocks for a company that you know nothing about. Poker players attempt to get every edge possible, stacking the odds in their favor, and good investors should do the same…
When the word went up that poker games would be permitted in pubs in the United Kingdom, pub owners and pokies alike were glad to hear it, but some of them may have been too hasty in any post-news celebrating. For those who look for their poker fun from coin operated games like video poker, they will have to keep looking, as those machines are not included in the new UK pub law. To clarify once and for all, the new law speaks to live poker games only, and not to video poker games.
This is a review of the current and temporary poker room at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This is also a review of the future poker room at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas….
Thanksgiving is about food, family, football and for our 7-year-old niece Diana flushes.Save
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