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1: The Nightly Turbo: Total Poker Player, a Merger, and More | PokerNews
It's the start of the week and we're back at it again. We're searching the web so you don't have to. Here are the top poker stories of the day. Read, impress your friends with your new-found knowledge about Sky Poker's Total Player, an interesting Merger between Bwin and PartyGaming and more, and then tell them where you found it.
2: Hilton's Joy Over Festive Gems
PARIS HILTON will ring in the New Year in style - her boyfriend DOUG REINHARDT has showered her with custom-made diamond jewellery. The socialite spent the festive season surrounded by family and friends in Los Angeles after ditching her traditional plans for a Christmas vacation. And she was stunned when Reinhardt joined her at home with a horde of lavish gifts - including sparkling gems from exclusive boutique The 14 Karats in Berkeley, California.
3: Poker Affiliate Programs: Profitable Promotion Techniques For ...
For Website owners new to the concept of affiliate schemes, it's a straightforward transaction. In exchange for advertising on your web site leading to sales or new customers, corporations are willing to pay you for the privilege. Simply a small advertisement on a website can cause a substantial amount of cash in your bank account.
4: Gambling Dens Posing As 'Internet Cafes'
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23(Bernama) -- The signboard says it is an Internet cafe, but the premises is actually a guise for a gambling den. Ten such premises that are actually gambling dens posing as cybercafes have been operating at a public spot in the city for the past one year. A Bernama journalist, posing as a patron, who managed to gain access into four of the gambling dens in the past five months, found that the gambling dens have been operating freely and show disregard to the law.
5: PCA: Praz Bansi Runs Away with the Chip Lead
Day Two of the PCA was a day for moving and shaking. Of the 1,529 players who took part in this year's event, only 884 returned for the second day of tournament play. The dust has yet to settle on the day, but it appears as though less than 300 remain in the field. The majority of those players will be walking away with their own small piece of the more than $15 million prize pool.
6: gambler blows $127 million
There are winners and there are losers, but the old axiom is that they don't build those huge skyscrapers in places like Las Vegas, Reno and other major gambling markets because they consistently pay out more than they take in. With that as a preface, today we'll talk about a story of one of the biggest losers in gambling history.
7: Greg Cagle, the owner of ChipTalk and co-designer of ...
The poker chip experts at ChipTalk, have come up with a unique marketing strategy for the latest release of their Pharaoh's Club clay poker chips range. They are releasing a free poker chip pack to help potential buyers compare different chips by feeling and hearing a variety of poker chips before buying.
8: Couple's party raises $8700 for Community Christmas
HOLIDAY SHORES - Children who love presents and people who love to socialize can both agree on one thing: Kevin and Karla Suttles know how to throw a party. A total of 110 people piled into the Holiday Shores Clubhouse last Saturday for the fifth annual Community Christmas Toy Drive and Holiday Gathering.
9: casino poker for dummies
K, I know you are not a dummy but if you know very little about poker and are itching to get started, this is the blog post for you. Most strategists and professional gamblers prefer to play poker. It's an intelligent game for those of you who like a challenge. The reason the game is so challenging and different is because you are really playing against the other poker players, and not the casino.
10: the grade school stuff..
I cleaned my closet today. Why? Let's just say it's the time of the moment thing that I've decided to clean and discard things and some memoirs from the good old days... Time to move on! Ha-ha.. Good old days, yeah, really! As I opened my buried stationary chest (a big shoebox), I found letters and other memorabilia from when I was still in grade school.
11: Sunday newspaper round-up: Cadbury, Barclays, Bonuses
Chairman Roger Carr and chief executive Todd Stitzer are expected to say that trading is so upbeat that Kraft's offer undervalues the company and that its own valuation is much higher than the current bid, says the Independent on Sunday. The Sunday Telegraph adds that Cadbury and Hershey have held private discussions about plans for the American confectionary giant to launch a non-hostile bid that would be recommended by the management and board.
12: Games Designers Love To Play
No, really: They have to dissect games to unlock the secret nugget of fun that's hidden in each one, effectively killing the experience. They don't always get to just be gamers and simply enjoy playing something. But there are some titles that every designer goes back to on a regular basis. Sometimes it's an easily replayable game like Age of Empires , or sometimes it's a guilty pleasure, like game designer Ian Schreiber explains in Issue 232 of The Escapist : I admit to being a shameless Square Enix fanboy.
13: Poker Tournament Trail Part I -- Arnaud Mattern
It then made sense to hear that he had signed with the tour's sponsor, PokerStars.com. Just after the EPT London, Mattern spoke to Card Player about his sponsorship, and also about playing against some of the circuit's greats. Rebecca McAdam: How is your deal with PokerStars going for you? Arnaud Mattern: I'm really really happy to join PokerStars Team Pro.
14: Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em . This will be the seventh ...
If you're looking for your next good gambling read this season, then you're in luck, because several new titles are set to hit the book stands in the next month. Whether you prefer casino games or poker, are interested in history or strategy, there's sure to be a new gambling novel that fits the bill.
15: Take a gamble on 'Hangover'
With a baby named Carlos in tow and a tiger in the bathroom, good-timing "The Hangover" is one of those Vegas best-bet films, though not for an Oscar, just for an amusing couple of hours. "The Hangover" is the classic bachelor movie done right, complete with baby Carloses, stolen tigers, Mike Tyson, naked and angry Chinese men, and stripper marrying (a Vegas film wouldn't be complete without stripper marrying).
16: Showboat's Poker Room has relocated from the second ...
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17: Storms dumped 23.9 inches of snow in Grand Forks, N.D., and ...
The region looked like a winter wonderland Sunday, but many people were wondering when they were going to be able to dig themselves out after a Christmas blizzard dumped up to two feet of snow across the plains. Traffic was starting to move around in the Yankton area Sunday as roadways were slowly opened up by snowplows.
18: Safe sex not gamble at Condom Casino
You and your friends are playing blackjack. You discover that you have the superior hand and win. The prize isn't chips or money, but a variety of colored condoms. Condom Casino night was held in the Campus Room at Capstone Monday night. SHARE and the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha co-sponsored the event.
19: Top Ten Poker Events of the Decade: Part 2
Now, let's take a look at the top five events that have shaped the game as we know it during the past ten years. 5. Taking America's Game to the WorldAs the middle of the decade approached, poker, and more particularly tournament poker, was still primarily an American pastime.
20: Oil giant fails to block blast report
Oil and gas giant Apache yesterday lost its bid to block Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore from getting a copy of a potentially damaging report into the Varanus Island explosion, which crippled WA's gas supplies. The West Punch-up sets scene for Kennedy's Sandfire exitSandfire Resources, whose stunning WA exploration success has propelled the tiddler into a $400 million stock in just eight months, has parted company with veteran chairman Miles Kennedy only weeks after a restaurant punch-up involving him and managing director Karl Simich.
21: Good deeds, good karma
This column usually tells travelers how to save money. But this week, in the spirit of the season, I'm offering tips on how travelers can give away their cash and time to charities. Giving can be as painless as donating a few frequent-flier miles, joining a short charity walk on a cruise ship or sanding a picnic table for a couple of hours at a national park.
22: Table Ninja and TableNinjaFT Introduce November Updates
As poker software evolves, some programs go by the wayside and become useless. Approximately one year ago, AHK scripts were all the rage in the poker software industry, as players would load up three, four, or even more scripts simultaneously to handle simple automated tasks at the poker table.
23: Vegas Rolls Dice on City Center
When it comes to celebrating the holidays, images of Las Vegas don't exactly come to mind. But this season, Sin City is hoping to boost its fortunes with the opening of the new City Center -- an $8.5 billion dollar gamble. City Center officially opens Wednesday, unwrapping its luxury spas, casino and new Elvis Presley tribute.
24: omaha/8 poker bot upgrade
Improved Play in PL Games - if a wheel is possible it now gives up all hands with a high value lower than straight, plus on non-threatening boards it now plays two-way hands against one opponent very aggressively (where the opponent would need to use all four cards to beat you in both directions).
25: France Not Ready for Online Casinos Yet
"Online gambling: is a controlled opening of the market still possible?" This question was discussed recently at length at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris. "The House of Chemistry" is an international conference center located near the National Assembly. The conference tackled other topics that related to internet gambling at casinos and in poker rooms in France.
26: Emails in on Tiger, realignment & coaches' lack of honor
The new emails are in, and what a good week. Lots of interesting stuff on Tiger Woods, conference realignment, coaches jumping contracts and the 1981 Sun Bowl. Let's go. Al: "Good piece today on stealing coaches. You mention the colleges are subject to anti-trust laws and the NFL is not. Why has one of the have-not colleges not filed anti-trust violations against the NCAA and BCS ?
27: Glitzy Parx Casino Opens in Bensalem
Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack opened the doors on Friday to its new, permanent gambling venue in Bensalem, Pa. "I know Christmas is next week, but really for these people, it's today." Hundreds waited in the cold for the doors of the new the Parx Casino to open at 6am. Leroy James was right there with them -- getting his first look at the imported chandeliers, marble floors, and huge video screens in the $250-million facility on Street Road: "This is my nightclub now.
28: An Inconvenient Truth of the Poker Industry
Two words seemingly so far removed it's hard to imagine them even used in the same sentence.With the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week, the topic of the environment has never been hotter. The common assumption is poker players know how to protect a stack of chips and think of little else, let alone the environment.
29: Breaking Bad and Poker
So here's my story, I am a huge fan of Breaking Bad, so much so that a friend and I had some shirts custom made, this is due to the fact that we can't buy any (Get with the program AMC, there's money to be made in merch). We both wore our shirts to a Poker tournament last Wednesday and I ended up winning 1st place.
30: Contest Giving Away Free WoW Game Time Card | WoWphiles: The WoW ...
As part of the WoWphiles launch party we are going to be running contests to help give back to our community. These will continue to pop up and we will be offering some really cool prizes as we continue to grow. Tell all your friends about the chance to win game time and please feel free to Tweet and Re-tweet.
You will win money in poker - it's as simple as that!
Once you've mastered the basic elements of a winning poker formula, psychology becomes the key ingredient in separating break-even players from players who win consistently. The most profitable kind of poker psychology is the ability to read your opponents. Imagine the edge having this ability would give you and then imagine how much money you could win with it, after practising with free poker! Bring this knowledge to the poker table and you will win money - it's as simple as that!
Any mannerism which helps you determine the secrets of an opponent's hand is called a tell. Look closely and you'll see opponents giving away the strength of their hands just by their mannerisms. Until a few years ago, nobody understood tells thoroughly. Experienced players would try to uncover trends in their opponents' behavior. Maybe they discovered that one opponent would always loosen his tie five minutes before attempting a major bluff.
If you wanted to catalog all the possible tells an opponent might exhibit, the list might go on forever. You could sit for a few days and jot down several thousand things that opponents might do under stress.
Unfortunately, after all that work, your list would be pitifully incomplete. There are millions of tells you could write down if you could only think of them all.
There is a simple way to read your opponents. You must learn the motives behind their actions. Then, even when you encounter a tell you've never seen before, you'll have a good idea of what it means. You'll often know exactly what they hold and, better still, you'll know why they're acting as they are. You'll get deep inside their minds. And sometimes you'll be positive what cards an opponent holds - just as if he'd turned his hand face up on the table!
When you can do that, your profits will soar. In my opinion, a conscientious winner will at least triple his profits once he masters the science of tells.
It's important that you comprehend the reason why many tells happen. Most tells occur because players are trying to conceal the true strength of their hands. The most likely way they attempt to do this is to act in a manner that will convey the opposite of what they're holding. If a hand is weak, they'll try to convince you it's strong. If a hand is strong, they'll try to convince you it's weak. In this sense, your opponents are actors.
Mike Caro
