Kevin Adams has a Bachelor of Science in Computers and Applied Mathematics and owns and operates several websites and forums. He has been a freelance writer for three years and has written reviews for a number of online casinos. Kevin has always found the entertainment value at most casinos exceeds that of conventional vacation spots.

Are you breaking the law when you play online poker for money? A high-stakes showdown over the next few months might finally provide an answer. The debate about online poker continues ' Andrew Feldman and Bluff's Lance Bradley introduce this year's November Nine and analyze the play with players Phil Ivey, Kevin Schaffel and Steven Begleiter.

TAMPA - For those who aren't sure whether Pai Gow is a Chinese carry-out dish or think Texas Hold'em might be some country song, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has a deal. Today, casino dealers started leading people through various games, playing mock hands with fake chips. Ray Carey of Sun City Center got a quick education in let it ride, a version of poker that matches the player's three cards with two community cards all players can use to create a typical five-card poker hand.

I don't know how many of these recaps I've started off with "wow," but here's one more. Wow. With the huge field sizes and improvement among players around the world, never did I expect to see a triple-bracelet winner in the near future of the WSOP. Predictably, I was wrong, as Jeff Lisandro won Event 44, the $2,500 razz event, to win his third bracelet of 2009 and the fourth of his career.

PLAYA VISTA - So the Clippers didn't screw it up after all. Not that Mike Dunleavy & Co. was around back when Michael Olowokandi looked like a good idea back in 1998. But with more than a month to think about things since winning the lottery and the chance to pick burly Oklahoma power forward Blake Griffin - also known as the only sure thing in this wacky NBA draft - any fan who has suffered through some of the team's misfortunes over the years was sweating it all the way up until NBA commissioner David Stern made it official about five minutes after the draft began Thursday evening.

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WSOP) as a five-time bracelet winner. Now, he's up to seven, tied with Billy Baxter for the sixth most in WSOP history. Ivey barreled through one of the most talented final tables assembled during the 2009 WSOP in the $2,500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud High-Low Split Eight or Better event (#25).

Sam Simon, who developed "The Simpsons" with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, has had a fair amount of time and even more money on his hands since setting the little cartoon out on the road to becoming one of the most popular TV shows of all time. In the decades since Bart's bow, Simon has busied himself as something of a canine-centric philanthropist and as host of one of what must be the most hilarious home games of poker in Hollywood, filling the seats around his card table with some of comedy's biggest names.

The term bandit evokes images of the old west and a masked man on horseback, six-shooter in hand, riding away from the bank he just robbed. In poker a bandit is defined a little differently but takes your money just the same. A bandit is a starting hand containing a 7, 8, or 9 and will usually result in the loss of money.

The one table game that has the most side bets associated with it is blackjack. It seems as if inventors and gaming companies are always coming up with new, gimmicky ideas about how to relieve players of their money. The reason for this is simple. Blackjack just happens to be the most popular of all table games, and it also has the lowest house edge among all games when you play correctly using basic strategy.

An amateur player, who blocked distractions out with sunglasses and headphones, beat a Vegas star to capture the 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary. Benjamin LaBlond, 22, of Hull, Que. - whose only real experience is playing poker online - took home $100,000 in tax-free cash after winning the tournament at the Stampede Casino on Sunday.

Ticket sales, sponsorships and other donations went a long way to help shape the annual benefit. But it was obvious guests were not about to pass up the opportunity to support the charity by participating in its si Silent auction chairwomen Arla Chandler, Hobbie Dees and Barbara Duke had arranged for individuals and businesses to donate more than 300 gift items to prompt bidding during the early segments of the night.

There is a game in the live action section of most casinos that affords you a chance to collect on your bet even though your hand may be inferior to that of the dealer. You can actually look down at your cards, happy with the fact that you have drawn, oh say a pair of sevens, and not be disheartened when you find out the dealer has a pair of aces.

Woody Harrelson, for one very simple reason: He can kick Harrelson's butt at cards. "He's more of my victim. I love to take as much money off of him as possible," the actor told us at a SoHo Rep gala. Norton, who learned how to be a card shark for "Rounders," is slated to play in a charity tournament in Cannes this month, and he's hoping another card-playing actor, Tobey Maguire, won't be there.

sales@minipeabody.comTalk about a dealership that knows how to have a good time. On Sunday, May 17th, MINI of Peabody raises the stakes at their 4th annual Poker Rally. The loyal customer fan base at MINI of Peabody has been waiting all year long for this popular event. This year, the event moved from its usual first Sunday in May to the 3rd weekend as the dealership just celebrated the launch of the 2009 MINI Cooper convertible.

LOS ANGELES, California -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- When players at the latest World Series of Poker Circuit championship event finally reached the prize money, the poker world started buzzing with several questions: 1. Would this prove to be Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi's long-anticipated WSOP breakthrough victory?

Over the past seven years I spent some of my time in casinos playing video poker (the rest, playing blackjack). Why video poker? Because I can have the edge in video poker and make money as I have done playing blackjack. Here's how I did it. There are three important steps to become a skilled video poker player.

Group gets together to try out new and lesser known card, board and dice games By MICHAEL FORTUNA, DAILY SUN THE VILLAGES - Two games that are worlds apart - poker and bingo - have joined forces to create a new game called Po-Ke-No. During a session Monday afternoon at Chatham Recreation Center, the Crazy Fun and Games group played Po-Ke-No, a combination of poker and Keno (a bingo-like game) that uses card faces instead of numbers on the board.

To someone who does not play Texas Hold'em, those who do play may as well be speaking Greek. With terms such as "little blind," "the flop," "burn one" and "the river," the poker game has its own language. Then check out the Junior Board of the Cancer Support Center's fifth annual Texas Hold'em tournament Saturday at the new Balagio Ristorante, 17501 Dixie Highway, Homewood.

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The final play day of the PokerStars EPT in Dortmund featured 34 players returning to the battlefield.

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The days when its fields started rivaling those of the World Series of Poker would mark the heyday of Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker, a time that, in retrospect, was all too brief.

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This circumstance wasn't a small poker game amongst good friends as it has been ridiculously mischaracterized by the defense," Grossman said.

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Fans can expect about 15 hour-long episodes to be produced out of the footage with the first episode slated for March 1 on GSN.