Archive for April, 2009

Your poker stimulus

04/15/09

Many of the online poker players don’t play online for a living.  They have jobs, pay taxes, and hate uncle Sam taking their hard earned money.  Although, this is the time of the year to bolster your bankroll, and take the next step into making your wage playing poker.

The refund especially helps the lower stakes players that need a little support in their games.  Typically, they are nailing and [...]

Trincher Takes Down 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic

04/9/09

The 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic final began with five players and took over eight hours to get down to heads-up play. The crowd favorite Amnon Filippi had eliminated all three players from the tournament and found himself with a slight lead (4.1 million to 3.7 million) over his opponent, Vadim Trincher.

But 10 hours after this poker game began, Fillipi found himself all-in with the best of it. His [Jc 4d] [...]

Final Five Set For Foxwoods

04/8/09

The televised final table of the 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic will not feature the World Poker Tour’s traditional final table of six players. In what turned out to be a double-bustout bubble hand, Vadim Trincher’s bullets in the hole [Ad As] held up against William Botchis’s wired pair of Nines [9c 9d] and Joe Raposa’s pocket Jacks [Jc Js]. Botchis took home $68,235 for his seventh place finish, while Raposa earned [...]

FTOPS XII gets new and exciting schedule

04/7/09

Full Tilt poker recently have announced the new FTOPS schedule.  The tournament will include different games for the poker specialist in you.  Once again will there be 25 events but this time the prize pool of all the tournaments is a whopping $18,000,000.  The event will be concluded with the $2.5 million No-Limit Hold’em event.  This event usually features all types of top pros.

The biggest change players will recognize in this FTOPS [...]

The new Porsche of poker.

04/7/09

Pot Limit Omaha Hi – Where the real cash is at.

Ever since Chris Moneymaker decided to beat top pros at the 2003 WSOP main event, the NL Hold’em games have become flooded.  Before, online Hold’em was a lucrative game and a very rewarding game for players to make a living at.  But once the boom happened, all the big name pros have moved on to bigger and better [...]

Team PokerStars Welcomes Eastgate and Demidov

04/3/09

After failing to sign the much sought after World Series of Poker Main Event Champion for the past two years, PokerStars was able to acquire not only the 2008 winner, but the main even runner-up as well. Peter Eastgate, 2008 WSOP Main Event winner, and Ivan Demidov, 2nd place finisher in the event, were announced on Thursday as official members of Team PokerStars. They seems to be a perfect fit to [...]

Bluffing: Do it correctly.

The funnest part of the game that should be incorporated into your game the least.  Bluffing.  Everyone loves to bluff. The massive pots you take off your friends, family, and other players don’t compare to just winning with aces. Yet, bluffs need to perfectly timed, correctly read, and properly bet.  So often do you see amateurs throw in final bets on the river because that is the only way they can win the pot. Although this is true, their intuition [...]

EU Commission Investigation

04/1/09

Over the past 12-months, the European Union Commission held an investigation against the United States regarding their attempts to block all European online gambling sites. The EU found that in doing this, American customers are being denied the right to interact with European companies, which violates the World Trade Organization rules for international trade. The Commission stated that they would address the issue by formal complaint with the [...]