New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis is just getting started on the most convoluted holdout in NFL history. He wants more money than the $1 million for 2010 written into his contract, and the Jets want to pay him more money, but then it gets complicated. How complicated? Well, it's like this: If Revis' holdout were a math equation, it would require that dude Pythagoras to figure it out.

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DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) - Leftist rebels attacked a banana company in southern Philippines yesterday, burning five of the company's hauling trucks. The attack on Dole-Stanfilco this morning was the second that was carried out by the New People's Army against the banana exporter this year, according to Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang, spokesperson of the military's Eastern Mindanao Command.

WSOP) Main Event, making it the second largest tournament in the history of the 41 year old institution. To put this year's tournament in perspective, only the 2006 WSOP Main Event and its 8,773 player field - held prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in the United States later that year - eclipsed the number of players accommodated by the Rio this year.

LIMA, Peru For all of his garrulous charm, Joran van der Sloot didn't do himself any favors in his online interactions, where his generation tends to reveal a lot about itself. "If I would have to describe myself as an animal it would be a snake," he wrote on his YouTube page. Perhaps wistfully wishing the past undone, he continued: "however, I want to be a lion and one day I will be a lion." At age 22, Van der Sloot is now a caged animal.

En route to winning his first bracelet, he eliminated his brother, Robert, in fifth place, while removing himself from "The Best Player Without a Bracelet" List. 2. Phil Hellmuth created a huge buzz as he made Day 3 in Event #8 ($1,500 No Limit Hold'em), vying for his 12th WSOP bracelet. Alas, his bid came up short, as he finished in 15th place.

First, to impart the obvious: A poker tournament in Las Vegas alone is not going to cure the ills of those suffering in Darfur, Sudan or anywhere else in Africa. Don Cheadle knows this. But the Oscar-nominated actor also knows that his "Ante Up for Africa" poker partnership with famous card shark Annie Duke can serve as an important educational campaign to inform scores of celebrity gawkers and poker fans of the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region.

I woke at 4.15am, and lay thinking about the next few days, then got up at 5.00am and went outside to sit on the veranda, being careful not to startle Belinda the dog, who I had heard could be a handful with people she did not know. She lay in her basket near the front door and as I stepped out of the house, she wagged her tail, indicating she didn't mind me wandering around unsupervised!!

Valley View Villa in Fort Morgan has one final activity scheduled for National Nursing Home Week on Friday, May 14: Hawaiian Day ham and pineapple, Don Ho music with hula hoops contest for all. Legion Poppy Sale American Legion Auxiliary Unit 19 volunteers will be accepting donations for poppies on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 15.

In Culpeper's high stakes game of water and sewer poker, the town called the county's bluff and now holds all the chips. Tuesday's meeting between the two governing bodies went a long way in determining the future of water and sewer in this community. Specifically, we now know that the full-scale regional authority approach is dead on arrival.

With the 2010 World Series of Poker just three short weeks away, not only are the players all busy making preparations for the event, but so are the many who will be there at the Rio all summer reporting on the action. I thought it would be interesting to ask questions of poker bloggers who have covered the Series over the past few years -- a kind of "WSOP Roundtable" to which I'd invite some of my favorite poker scribes.

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Denver Broncos offensive scheme. If you have not yet looked at part one of those statistics I suggest you do that first before reading this article. Secondly, I wish you all the best of luck on your NCAA March Madness Brackets! Alright, let's get down to business. The Starting PointSo here is the starting point in understanding the role of the Broncos' screen game, especially within the context of Josh McDaniels' offensive scheme.

High up in the snow covered mountains of Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Austria, 546 poker players spent a week skiing, snowboarding, having snowball fights, and most importantly, playing poker. It was the first time the PokerStars European Poker Tour visited a place like the Alpine Palace, but it probably won't be the last, with players from 48 countries making the journey to be part of what become known as Snowfest .

The run of Aussie champions at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia has now been increased to a second year. Tyron Krost (pictured left), a resident of Sydney, topped a field of 746 players today at the final table of the $10,000 AUD no-limit hold'em main event to take home the impressive top prize worth $2 million.

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.

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.

For 2,000 Frequent Players Points (FPPs) players could take their seats against the slew of Team PokerStars Pros sitting with various bounties on their heads. Various because depending on when the player signed up for the tournament is how much they would get for knocking out the pro. Read below's explanation on the payouts from the PokerStars promotion page: Exactly how much goes into the prize pool depends on you.

This year's World Series of Poker events brought out some of the biggest poker stars around, and it was no shock to see the names of those players participating in the November Nine. While the entire series of tournaments leading up to the World Series of Poker is entertaining, it is only setting the stage for what thousands of poker players aim to place in year after year, the final event of the World Series of Poker.

"When a man comes ashore after an ocean voyage he is like a child, sometimes seeking a women's shoulder on which to rest his head, and at other times ordering one glass of wine after another in some tavern until he finds happiness, provided that happiness has been poured in that bottle beforehand." Jose Saramago It is raining as usual over dark Portland.

WE'RE GOING TO depart from Vegas for a bit to congratulate and send our best to 80-year-old Honolulu resident Rebecca Berry, who traveled all the way to Minnesota to hit a big one. Saying she had a feeling about the machine: "I would play, walk away, play, walk away, and I kept coming back to the same machine for two days." While visiting her daughters, she won $1,373,825.63 on the Mystic Lake Casino's Wild Cherry progressive slot and said, "I was planning on retiring early next year, but I'm going to call him and say I quit." A couple of days later her boss, U.S.

Marie-Lizette lives, works and plays in the greater Los Angeles area. After years of playing the cash tables, Marie-Lizette has turned her attention towards the poker tournament circuit. Marie-Lizette is a professional poker tournament player, blogger, writer, and photographer at events in the greater Los Angeles area.

Being able to fold small full houses is one of the hall marks of great Omaha players. When you play hold'em, you should basically never even be considering folding full houses unless the board is very tricky (say you have a three on an AcAs3h3cJd board), or you have an incredibly specific read on an opponent.

If you play big bet poker, you need to get all of the information you can before making a decision for your stack. Every bit of information you can get is power and it's not just a few big blinds lost if you make a mistake; it's your entire stack. With that in mind, we focus on information gathering when recommending software for No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em cash game players.

A Mouse,' Robert Burns This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand hands in the future. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental. The French card game Poque arrived in New Orleans in the early 1800's and soon spread up and down the length of the Mississippi River.

Small-ball is the style of poker employed by the majority of successful tournament players, as it enables you to steadily increase your stack without taking significant risks. When you watch a player who's employing a small-ball strategy at the table, you'll notice how well they appear to control the action, yet at the same time appearing to play with reckless abandon, giving little thought to the strength of their starting hand.

Greg "Fossilman" Raymer was born on July 25th, 1964 in Minot, North Dakota. When Raymer was only a couple of months old, him and his family moved to Lasing, Michigan. At the age of 11, Greg and his family packed their bags once more and moved to St. Louis, where he ended up graduating from high school.

Did you see Emily Maitlis interview BBC Director-general, Mark Thompson on Newsnight tonight. It must be enormous fun to be given licence to rip into your boss like that. I thought she was great and exposed the BBC's boss as a rather indecisive figure. Really made him squirm. On several occasions he refused to answer her question about whether he thought Jonathon Ross was worth his He had to say yes - but just wouldn't do it.

'My night playing poker with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Daniel Craig...' Natalie Pinkham reveals all By Natalie Pinkham Last updated at 11:38 AM on 13th April 2009 TV presenter reveals the astonishing story of how she ended up sharing an intimate, late-night card game with Hollywood's sexiest leading men...

When Harrah's Entertainment acquired the world series of pokerfrom Binion's Horseshoe in 2004, it also took over the business of managing the Poker Hall of Fame, first created by Benny Binion in 1979. The Poker Hall of Fame remains an exclusive club, with only 37 members having been enshrined to date.