Aug
21
U.S. Poker Players Ask GOP to Revamp Platform on Online Gambling
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Poker Players along with the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) recently inundated the Republican Platform Committee’s official message board asking them to protect individuals’ rights to play poker online, and to revise their statement regarding online gambling in their upcoming party platform.
The 2000 and 2004 Republican platforms opposed Internet gambling, and included the following verbiage: “Millions of Americans suffer from problem or pathological gambling that can destroy families. We support legislation prohibiting gambling over the Internet or in student athletics by student athletes who are participating in competitive sports.”
John Pappas, executive director of PPA, which has over 1 million members, noted, “This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should be a personal-freedom issue.”
Greg Raymer, 2004 World Series of Poker champion wrote,”My point is simple. Is the Republican Party no longer the party of personal freedom and individual responsibility?” He added, “Why has this party, that used to protect my rights, now become the party that wants to create a nanny-state?”
Aug
20
Chan Poker To Close 21 August 2008
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We received an email from Chan Poker Support on 20 August announcing that they will be closing on 21 August 2008. Their email follows, as well as instructions how to withdraw funds and close player accounts:
“We are sad to inform you that Chan Poker will be ceasing operation effective this Thursday, August 21, 2008. Effective immediately we will no longer be accepting deposits. On August 21 our poker clients will be disabled.
If you have a cash balance with us rest assured that all withdrawal requests will be honored and promptly processed. To facilitate timely withdrawals, limits for certain withdrawal methods have been increased. We will make every effort to accept withdrawal requests through our website for as long as necessary, however we strongly advise submitting your request as soon as possible. To initiate a withdrawal now, please follow this link to go to your account: https://www.chanpoker.com/account. Please note that once final withdrawals are processed your account will be automatically closed, no further action is necessary.
Aug
20
The Canadian Poker Tour To Televise the River Cree Resort and Casino’s Labor Day Open Poker Tournament
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CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 19, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — The Canadian Poker Tour, the poker brand of HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (the “Company”) (PINK SHEETS: HDUP) is pleased to announce that it will be televising the Main Event of the Labor Day Open Poker Tournament from the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta. Two one hour television shows will feature play from the Main Event, a $2700 buy in event with an estimated prize pool of over $500,000. The programs will air later this fall on The Score Television Network, the exclusive network of The Canadian Poker Tour.
Aug
19
Several names in the poker world have been etched as legendary: Brunson, Chan, Hellmuth, Ungar, Moss and Baldwin. They are the men who shaped poker as we know it today; without them, poker would not exist in its current form worldwide. This week, the PocketFives.com Podcast, the premier online poker podcast, welcomes Mike Caro. Known as “The Mad Genius of Poker,” Caro has shaped the minds of nearly every poker player on the tournament circuit today. Read more
Aug
19
The summer of 2006 was a turning point for poker players and tournament organizers alike. Unimpressed with prior efforts to organize players or a player-management advisory board, I arrived at the World Series of Poker with no thoughts of getting involved with either the WSOPs nascent Players Advisory Council (PAC) or the newborn World Poker Association (WPA).
Two years later, I serve on the WSOP’s constructive PAC and am Immediate Past Chair of the World Poker Association, having resigned my post as Chair and member of the board this past June. History is instructive in what can work and what is destined to fizzle, as poker players, tournament organizers and card room executives continue to plow the course of player-management relations.
Aug
19
Got to spend a few minutes with Michael Phelps today after he did some promotional stuff for Visa. He was absolutely exhausted and could barely keep his eyes open, having done too many interviews on too little sleep.
“I am so tired right now,” he said, and you could see it in his face.
I asked him a lot of Baltimore questions for an article that will run later in the week, mostly about what it’s going to be like to come back to Charm City. He’s really looking forward to the Ravens season and says he’s not counting out Joe Flacco as the starter at quarterback just yet. (We’ll give you the rest of his Ravens-related thoughts over the next few days.)
During his big news conference at Prince Jun Palace in Chaoyang Park, he talked about how much he wants to meet Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, something I suspect you’ll see published in just about every newspaper in the country tomorrow, but later behind closed doors I asked him if there is anything he’d like to do now that he has plenty of time, money, and fame to achieve it.
Aug
18
Souths bid to ban pokies gets voted down
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SOUTH Sydney Leagues club has delivered a humiliating defeat to Peter Homes a Court and Russell Crowe’s proposal to ban poker machines - just three members supported it among more than 100 who voted yesterday.
“This was a vision that a lot of people embraced,” said Souths Leagues Club president Bill Alexiou-Hucker yesterday, after the vote.
“No one - not one charity, no corporations, no community that flooded the football club with congratulations over a no-poker machine venue - ever contacted me to see how they could help us.
Aug
18
Poker Room Launches Two-Time Deposit Bonus
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PokerTime, a member of the Fortune Lounge gaming group, is offering a fantastic 125% two-part offer to new players. Firstly, any deposit recieves a guaranteed 25% return in cash immediately - for example, a $10,000 deposit would net you $2,500 absolutely free. In addition, PokerTime will then match your deposit 100%.
PokerTime, as a member of the Fortune Lounge group, is a trusted and well-respected online poker room. Fortune Lounge won the ‘Top Casino Group for 2005′ category from the Gambling Online Magazine Readers’ Poll awards.
Aug
18
I think you work for the casinos. I have been playing video poker for the past 5-yrs, much of my play being in Las Vegas. I use Bob Dancer’s theory of play and have been using his software for the all of the 5-yrs. I know how to select full pay machines and understand the odds. My feedback is that there have been less and less paybacks on the full pay machines without the pay scale changing. All of my competitive advantage players are talking about it and we all can’t be wrong. Don’t say it’s just an unlucky day because sometimes moving to a different casino that day works. It appears that they are either paying that day for almost everybody or they are cold to everybody. It never used to be that way so something is up. The bankroll to play is going up and up on quarters and the payback is going down and down. The casinos are screwing with us and we all know it!
Aug
15
UltimateBet Guarantees Another 50 Aruba Poker Classic Seats this Saturday
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Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 15, 2008 — For the second time in less than a month, UltimateBet is going all out to share the all-in excitement of the world’s most exciting island poker tournament with as many Texas Hold’em fans as possible. This Saturday, UltimateBet will award at least 50 online poker players with Aruba Poker Classic prize packages valued at $8,500 apiece through its Aruba 50-seat Guarantee.
The $500+30 online Texas Hold’em event begins on Saturday, August 16th at 5:30pm ET at UltimateBet.com. Each package includes a $5,000+500 buy-in to the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic and an additional $3,000 for travel and accommodations.
With several satellites running daily, Texas Hold’em players can still win their way to Saturday’s 50-Seat Aruba Satellite for as little as $10.
The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic takes place from September 27th through October 4th at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. This year’s island tournament has already attracted some of the biggest celebrities from the film, music and poker worlds including Don Cheadle, Scott Ian and Phil Hellmuth.
