2006 December 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings
A major factor attributing to poker’s worldwide appeal is the common belief that it is more a game about people than it is about anything else. With most decisions being situational in nature…
WWE.com have another edition of their ‘Superstar 2 Superstar’ feature. This time, John Cena interviews Snoop Dogg. They mostly talk about Snoop’s new CD, hip hop music, put each other over and Snoop also jokes about tag-teaming with Cena, and Cena saying he just “might call in that favor”.
It is hard not to classify Casino Royale as a poker flick when so much of the outcome of the movie is hinged on a pivotal Texas Holdem tournament, and it seems like the decision to make this movie was a good bet by the Bond franchise as the movie becomes the highest-grossing James Bond film ever. World wide cinemas report in that the movie has now taken $454 million, overstepping Die Another Day which took $431 million world wide. Great news, considering many panned the decision to cast a blond actor (Daniel Craig) as the latest Bond incarnation.
A new real money poker site has hit the Internet in the spirit of poker, a 3-D poker site that has the look and feel of a tried and true video game. The new site is being launched by French video game company Mekensleep and is named pok3d.com. An impressive 3-D environment awaits game players, who can customize avatars and simulate real life poker tournaments, according to the company’s statements…
Online poker leader stuggles after loss of U.S. market.
It is thanks to online casino software developments that gambling was brought from the brick and mortar casino to the Internet in the first place. In the decade plus that has passed since, software advancements have carried online casinos games to new media, such as wireless and hand held machines.
One staple in a poker room these days seems to be the iPod, with the tell-tale white cords winding from the music playing device up to the player’s ears, drowning out table chatter and other distractions while the listener decides to fold, bet, or raise. It turns out those MP3 playing devices could help in online poker, too, thanks to Live Poker and their new free series of original Live Poker Podcasts. Available on Live Poker.com, the podcasts are designed to help online poker players with their game, and will be available at a rate of one per month for free.
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