2010 February 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings
POLSON Poker players will have ae chance to win big and support the University of Montana Grizzlies at the same time during a charity Texas Hold ‘Em tournament on Saturday, Feb. 20. Cash prizes will be awarded and the top five winners can advance to the state tournament.
On Super Bowl eve, one of Hollywood’s funniest couples — Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy — will host Saturday Night Spectacular, a star-studded charity event that includes a poker tournament and live entertainment.
In tonight’s Nightly Turbo, we’ll tell you which credit card company is making it a little bit harder on you to deposit money in your favorite online poker site, the story on Cake Poker awarding a losing player the pot, and more.
SOMETIMES you get pot odds so monstrous that you can’t fold even 7-deuce.Just ask classy British pro Joe Beevers of poker’s well-known “Hendon Mob.” At the 2009 World Series of Poker $10,000-buy-in main event at Las Vegas’ Rio Casino, with blinds at $250-$500 plus a $50 ante, Beevers found 7-2 of hearts in the big blind, a hand usually mucked quickly.
The uproar over online poker site PartyPoker’s decision earlier this week to limit the maximum amount a person can have in their play money accounts continues to dominate discussion in the online poker community.
Online poker training sites are a very strong segment of the industry. These sites hire winning players who have shown tremendous results to create instructional videos, which are available through a subscription and watched either through a downloaded movie file or streamed in a browser. Players improve their game by watching these coaches in action or in a classroom format.
The threat of rain Saturday has prompted the Capistrano Animal Rescue Effort to postpone its fundraising car show and motorcycle poker run until Feb. 13. The seventh annual CARe Show will benefit CARE’s services for homeless and abandoned animals….
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