Archive for March, 2009

Table Talk in Live Poker

In some card rooms table talk is virtually prohibited (the Bellagio in Las Vegas springs to mind) and you may not say anything to induce or discourage action from another player . … Is a mastery of table talk important if you want to succeed at poker ? No. Just ask Phil Ivey or Allen Cunningham – though don’t expect much in the way of an answer. But though it isn’t crucial to have the gift of the gab, it is important to understand and interpret what other people might be …

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Table Talk in Live Poker

Garrett advanced to the second round by defeating Annie Duke, while Don Cheadle reached day two of the tournament with a win over David Pham . The single elimination format of NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship produces a top …

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Huck Seed wins NBC Heads-Up Championship | Poker Player Newspaper

PokerStars has recently announced the signing of World Series of Poker champion and runner-up Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov to its team of pros. Both players.

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In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the World Series of Poker this year, I’m taking a moment to give my take on the Top 10 Most Significant WSOP Final Tables: 10. 1995: Winner: Dan Harrington Number of Players : 273 … The WSOP main event featured was this one, specifically, Chan trapping Erik Seidel for all his chips on the final hand. Chan and Seidel both went on to achieve great poker success, and became the first poker celebrities since Amarillo Slim. …

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Craig's Happy Place: The Ten Most Significant World Series of …

Poker Strategy. Published on March 26, 2009 at 17:53. Written By Thierry Fargetton. Playing a Medium Stack in Early Position – Allen Cunningham . March 23rd, 2009. For obvious reasons, we’d all rather have a medium stack than a short stack. … If I make a standard raise to 1500, and a player in late position re-raises to 4500, I’m just going to go ahead and shove all of my money in and hope for the best. I really can’t afford to be throwing those hands away with that …

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Poker Strategy. Published on March 26, 2009 at 17:53. Written By Thierry Fargetton. Playing a Medium Stack in Early Position – Allen Cunningham . March 23rd, 2009. For obvious reasons, we’d all rather have a medium stack than a short stack. … If I make a standard raise to 1500, and a player in late position re-raises to 4500, I’m just going to go ahead and shove all of my money in and hope for the best. I really can’t afford to be throwing those hands away with that …

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Vanessa Rousso is a knockout Poker Player . Don’t let this girls looks fool you, Vanessa was the valedictorian of her high school class, breezed through Duke in 2.5 years, and currently is in Law School. Brains combined with this much …

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John Juanda had to stare down Daniel Negreanu for much of the final table at the World series of Poker Europe Main Event. That is not an enviable task for any poker player . What was not well known before this final table is that Juanda …

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John Juanda Wins World Series of Poker Europe Main Event

The 2008 Asian Poker Tour Macau attracted some of the most famous pros in the professional poker circuit including Doyle Brunson, Jack Binion, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Huck Seed, Liz Lieu , Todd Brunson, Kenny Tran and Poker Pack members Nam Le, Quinn Do, JC Tran, Steve Sung, … The last Asian Poker Tour event was held in the Philippines in January 2009 and was won by Manila rounder Neil Arce, who got the $185000 first prize after overcoming a field of 262 players . …

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Matt Broughton: I was asked to do a voice-over for the EatMyStack podcast, and among the stuff I was asked to do they included “give your thoughts on the Lucy Rokach interview” that was part of that particular cast. …

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Matt Broughton – Interview with Sky Poker Presenter Matt Broughton …

… the third LAPT final table finish for Alex Brenes, brother of Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes . PokerStars had invited all remaining LAPT Mexico main event players to compete in an online freeroll tournament at PokerStars.net. …

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PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour results

psimalive got to choose right after GoMukYaSelf and selected Team PokerStars Pro’s most colorful character as his opponent – Humberto Brenes . Costa Rica’s Godfather of Poker has been quite a handful in his appearances in the Weekly TLB …

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PokerStars All Star Week 03-21-09 update – PokerStars Poker Blog

Maria Ho (Maria on Twitter): While her stats will not dazzle you she went deep in the 2007 World Series of Poker , she is also a noted live player and apparently holds her own quite well. Liz Lieu (Liz on Twitter): She has almost a …

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Poker players on twitter at World Series of Poker

The two are set to square off in Full Tilt’s Friday Night Fights Players and Pros combine forces in Full Tilt Poker’s newest tournament series: Friday Night Fights .

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