While you play the same game whether you are playing online or in a brick and mortar casino, there are significant differences in how the games run and how players must adjust their play depending on whether they are online or offline. Knowing how to deal with these differences is imperative, especially for a player just starting to play online after playing live poker or vice versa.
The first and most obvious difference between live and online play ...
Betfair Poker has made an offer to Michael Phelps, the Olympian who captivated the world as he swam for eight gold medals to set a new Olympic record. Betfair is offering to pay for Michael Phelps to participate in the ₤10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, giving him yet another opportunity to captivate an audience.
Ever since his historic Olympic run ended Phelps ...
Forcing other players to fold is probably the most efficient way to collect chips in poker. While winning a big pot against another opponent is always great, it cannot be counted on, as a big pot requires some combination of big hands, aggressive play, and intestinal fortitude. The big pot will be a sporadic occurrence, while forcing the fold will be one’s main method of collecting chips.
The continuation bet is one of the most useful tools in ...
The Poker Players Alliance has announced that they will be partnering with the American Gaming Association to host a charity poker tournament at the Republican National Convention that is due to take place next week at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The tournament will take place on September 3rd in St. Paul at 116 First Ave North. There will be a VIP reception at ...
In a busy few hours, the Republican Party had originally dropped language from its party platform that opposed online gambling due to pressure from a multitude of poker players commenting on the Republican platform. However, only a few short hours after dropping their opposition to online gambling the language was reinserted, due to pressure brought on by special interest groups who oppose online gambling and financially support ...
Thieves broke into the home of professional poker player Hoyt Corkins to steal two cars and a motorcycle, $10,000 in cash, and other valuables including electronics and Hoyt Corkins’s World Series of Poker bracelets and his World Poker Tour bracelet.
Hoyt Corkins’s home in Las Vegas is located in a gated community and the thieves broke in, cutting a hole in a wall of ...
The fifth season of the popular European Poker Tour will begin on September 10 with the EPT Barcelona event that will run from September 10-14, 2008. Season 5 will consist of 10 events including the grand final in Monte Carlo and the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure which is located at Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Here is a tentative schedule of events for Season 5 of the European Poker Tour:
Event
Casino
Location
Date
Buy-In
EPT Barcelona Open
Casino Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
September 10-14, 2008
€8000 + 250
EPT London
Victoria ...
Natalie Teltscher, who is the sister of professional poker player Mark Teltscher, has dropped her claim against Poker Stars that sought to regain the money she lost when her account, “TheV0id”, was disqualified shortly after it won the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event. TheV0id was disqualified due to the belief held by Poker Stars and several others that Teltscher was not the person playing on ...
Event #12 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX was a six-handed No-Limit Holdem event with a buy-in of $1,000 + $60. Ben Fineman, whose screenname is “bmf823” emerged victorious after beginning the final table in last place. This impressive performance netted Fineman the grand prize of $300,000.
At the start of the final table the chip counts stood thus:
GetPWN3D – 2,136,044
bigtonyk123 – ...
The Latin American Poker Tour continued this week with an event in Punta del Este, a popular tourist location in Uruguay. After three days of play there was only one man left standing, Jose Miguel Espinar. Espinar is new to poker, having only played for a year, but he showed none of his inexperience in capturing his first major poker tournament.
Final table play began with ...
