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- The US Attack on Iran
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Tue, Aug 14th, 1:42PM
- Matt Yglesias points to the continuing trumped-up case for another war. We're losing two at the Bush poker table and Cheney needs a straight. Meanwhile, the place where the 9-11 terrorists came from and the place where their leaders live today, remain FOD
- Tuff Fish Antes with California Online Poker Petition
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Wed, Aug 1st, 1:42AM
- It's seldom that you see Anthony Sandstrom, a.k.a. Tuff Fish, win anything. Over the years, Sandstrom has become the poster child for brutal poker suckouts which are prominently featured in his self-deprecatingly funny YouTube...
- Sexton's Corner - Vol. 4: When Mike Met Puggy, Part One
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Mon, Aug 6th, 1:44PM
- I doubt if we will see the likes of Puggy Pearson again in our lifetimes. We've all heard stories about his behavior at the poker tables from the past, but there was another side to Puggy that most people never saw. He had...
- Poker Tournament Tracking Software--By jurollo on Aug 10--Max Bid: $400
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Sat, Aug 11th, 1:42AM
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- Bluff Europe Magazine Now Available at Borders Book Stores
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.prweb.com | Sat, Jul 28th, 1:37PM
- Europe's #1 poker magazine hits the newsstands. (PRWeb Jul 28, 2007)
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- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Thu, Aug 2nd, 1:42PM
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- Strategy for duplicate poker speed tournaments
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Wed, Aug 8th, 1:43PM
- So, the duplicate poker format is a little weird for "speed tournaments", which go the most often. Suppose there are 16 entrants. They form 4 tables of 4-player PLH, and play 8 hands. They then eliminate the 1 player in each seat with the worst net perfor
- Wheeling Island's Poker Room Could Open In November
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Tue, Aug 14th, 1:42AM
- Wheeling Island Racetrack & Gaming Center officials say construction on the poker room is moving along as planned, but the Lottery Commission has moved back the original open date.
- Software unable to beat poker players (The Columbus Dispatch)
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Tue, Jul 31st, 1:50PM
- VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- In a match of wits between man and machine last week, a software program running on an ordinary laptop computer fought a close match but lost to two well-known professional poker players.
- WSOP Poker this Week on ESPN TV
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Mon, Aug 6th, 1:40AM
- Complete 2007 WSOP stats at the Poker Prof's World Series of Poker 2007 Information Page. Complete WSOP poker from Dr Pauly of Tao of Poker. photo by flipchip/lasvegasvegas.com 2007 WSOP Beth Shak "There's the rest of the world, and there's me" -- Phil He
- Best Games Holdings Launches Bingo Product
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.prweb.com | Fri, Aug 10th, 1:37PM
- March 2007 saw Best Games Holdings Ltd (BestGames) add to its online poker product, BestPoker.com, by launching a new online bingo site in partnership with White Label Gaming operator, St.Minver Ltd. (PRWeb Aug 10, 2007)
- Tripoley Criss Cross Poker Game
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- Computer Poker Programs
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Thu, Aug 2nd, 1:42PM
- Geekpress linked to an interesting article on computer poker programs that are now becoming competitive with human poker champions. They're talking as if this is a level beyond Deep Blue for chess, and there's something to that. What's involved in beating
- PokerListings.com and Gnuf Poker Offer $25K, Limited-Field Freeroll for Groundbreaking Event
- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.prweb.com | Wed, Aug 8th, 1:37PM
- PokerListings.com and GNUF.com are ensuring one of their players gets in with the best of it for the historic WSOP Europe, offering a high-value, small-field freeroll for a massive Main Event prize package. On the table: $33,000
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- Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney: www.plazoo.com | Mon, Aug 13th, 1:45PM
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Texas Hold'em Poker Tourney » Introduction to Casino Poker
Poker, not baseball, is the national pastime. Think about it. How many people actually play baseball? Every week millions of people across America gather in kitchens and dining rooms to play the game that enthralled Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill and countless other historic personalities. Most people's poke knowledge begins with communal experience. It's further influenced by a ubiquitous scene from films and television. Four or five people are sitting at a round table. A single bright light shines from above. The year is 1880 or maybe 1920. Each person is holding five cards. The bad guy throws some cash into the pot and says, "I'll see your $800 (dramatic apuse) and raise you $3,000." Then he tosses another stack of bills onto the pile.
Casino poker is nothing like that. Even the basic ga,e is different. You'll be hard-pressed to find five-card draw or any contest with wild cards. The two most popular poker versions for professionals and semi-professionals (whom you will surely encounter in a casino) are seven-card stud and Texas hold 'em. Other common poker versions include Omaha and lowball. The list goes on, but we're going to concentrate on the two leaders.