2008 September 09 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2
September 9 - Well known professional poker player, Brian Townsend has admitted to holding multi accounts at Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars.
Regular readers of this column know that I am a proponent of small-ball poker, which is characterized by low pre-flop raises and restrained betting on the flop. In small-ball poker, the investment before the flop is minimal compared with the size of the average chip stack.
When big storms threaten online poker rooms look for a boost in their attendance numbers, and the Hurricane named Ike may serve this purpose this week as it leaves Cuba and heads for the Untied States. Southern Florida will be buffeted by windy and stormy conditions for a few days, and the online poker rooms will be paying attention to traffic at the same time as poker players are driven indoors. As long as the power holds on, the traffic is likely to go up; a severe power outage will have the opposite effect.
The city of Cannes is best known for their film festival, but poker festivals draw crowds, too. Such was the case when one player walked away from the â¬8,500 buy in Partouche Poker Tour No Limit Holdem main event with a prize of nearly one and a half million dollars. Long poker days gave way to a heads up match that only lasted three hands…
In 2003, the biggest name in poker was Chris Moneymaker, a new online poker pro who managed to win a seat into that year’s World Series of Poker and win it. His success rate has been on again, off again, but recently he final tabled in the World Championship of Online Poker. Playing under his famous PokerStars screen name of Money800, Moneymaker landed at the final table of Event #5, finishing in 6th place for $179k…
RACINE After hearing numerous complaints about video poker machines around the city, Alderman Jim Spangenberg wants to do something about them.
A Sons of the American Legion post combined recently with local motorcyclists and businesses to raise $1,000 to help cancer patients with expenses. Ja …
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