2006 December 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings
A LAWYER has quit his job to make his living playing poker. Alasdair Smith, 28, turned his back on a career as a litigation lawyer after finding he could make more playing poker online.
It drives me batty when I watch poker on television and hear commentators say things like, “Well, this looks like a raise or fold situation. He certainly can’t call.”I disagree with their assessment a good eight out of 10 times. It’s not only TV commentators that get this wrong, but many poker book authors as well. I hate to name names (because I have to work with these people), but the truth is, there’s plenty of literature out there that incorrectly advises risky post-flop play.Frankly, that
In the first part of this article we looked at the players we are likely to face in free rolls, in the second we will examine the tournament stage by stage. EarlyWith the large fields free rolls often attract it can quite daunting to look over a vast sea of players and attempt to navigate your way to the other side. Beating 1,000 players appears far too difficult a task to achieve, so lets set ourselves something more achievable. lets try to make it to the last 100 with average chips and take
InterXgaming is getting in on the Christmas spirit on all three of their online gaming sites, putting up cash on the barrel head on interXcasino, interXpoker and interXbet. All three sites are offering special bonuses and promotions throughout the year, but with a special emphasis during the month of December. The online poker room, online casino and online sportsbook have promos like the College Football Bowl Rush, a special Xmas Poker Freeroll and more from December 21st until December 31st…
Ask any poker playing Swedes, Danes and Norwegians who the best online poker players in the world are, and it won’t be surprising if the overwhelming answer is “the Scandinavians” at least, according to online poker room Everest Poker. EP is offering a chance for Scandinavians to play against one another on the virtual felt and win prizes, as well as qualify for the Nordic Summit. At least ten Danish, ten Swedish and ten Norwegians will go on Everest Poker’s dime, traveling to Barcelona on 24th 25th of February 2007…
In case any regular players at William Hill Poker were concerned that the site quality would drop after Will Hill’s contract ran out with tech provider CryptoLogic, they needn’t worry - Will Hill is sticking with the leading software developer for another three years. The new contract is pretty much the same as the old, with similar financial arraignments, and shows solidarity along with the joint launching of Will Hill’s new Spanish language poker site, es.williamhillpoker.com. Will Hill has been with CryptoLogic for seven years prior to the contract resigning.
You’ve heard it said at the table dozens of times; whenever a player goes on tilt you think it - every poker book mentions it: "Leave your emotions at the door of the poker room." Great advice but completely impossible….
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