2008 September 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Photo courtesy of Chris Sparks Chris Sparks won $135,000 this summer playing poker. While many recent college graduates spent their summers interviewing and competing for jobs, one Ohio State alumnus decided to try his luck as a professional poker player, continuing a journey that started with $5 poker tournaments with roommates. This summer Chris Sparks, who graduated from OSU last …

– The two young men accused of trying to steal a pickup truck at a poker game and shooting one man to death were both convicted on a battery of charges Tuesday afternoon.

Aussie player uncovers $US10 million cheating scandal at two major poker websites.

The self-styled "Mad Genius of Poker," Mike Caro, has established for himself a well-earned place among the pantheon of poker authors, primarily thanks to his classic <i>Caro’s Book of Poker Tells</i>, oft-cited as one…

Many poker books make the claim that it’s never correct to raise the minimum amount in no limit Hold’em. I disagree. It’s a mistake to use the words never or always with regards to how to play a poker hand. At PokerVT.com, I teach my students that sometimes making a min-raise really is the best play available.

AcidAUS sends us the story of an online poker cheating ring that netted an estimated $10M for its perpetrators over almost 4 years. The article spotlights the role of an Australian player who first performed the statistical analyses that demonstrated that cheating had to be going on. “In two separate cases, Michael Josem, from Chatswood, analyzed detailed hand history data from Absolute Poker …

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