Posts Tagged ‘Poker Talk’

Christian Slater to Star in Poker Movie Called “Guns, Girls and Gambling”

Christian Slater, the heartthrob actor best known for his performance in movies like Broken Arrow, Untamed Heart, Bed of Roses and Interview with the Vampire, will now be taking on a poker movie, much to the delight of poker enthusiasts and Slater fans everywhere.
This poker movie scheduled to be released next year, will be called [...]

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Do Robots Play Online Poker?

The news online has been abuzz with claims that poker rooms are sometimes frequented by robots. Let’s set the record straight. First of all, they’re called bots, not robots. To be a robot, it would have to be more than just a computer program. It would have to be an actual computerized piece of equipment [...]

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Tony G Heads Back to England – For Now

The WSOP is in full-swing, and Tony G isn’t seeing the kind of results he’d been hoping for. The Lithuanian born poker player known for telling his opponents to “get on the bike” talked big and expected to get some serious action at the tables at the WSOP. He even hinted that this was going [...]

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Study Finds Many Poker Players Use Performance Enhancers

If you’re popping a dose of your little brother’s Ritalin when you head online to play poker, you’re probably not the only one. In fact, in a recent survey performed by a team of researchers from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, fully eighty percent of those poker players surveyed admitted to using some type of [...]

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Doyle Brunson’s Ready for a Fight

It seems that as the NEW UIGEA deadline approaches (Yeah, June 1st isn’t that far away folks); forcing American banking into compliance with the law and giving power to prosecute any firms that process financial poker transactions. But Online Poker Rooms are starting to fight back, protecting their profits and standing up for the [...]

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Doyle Brunson’s Ready for a Fight

It seems that as the NEW UIGEA deadline approaches (Yeah, June 1st isn’t that far away folks); forcing American banking into compliance with the law and giving power to prosecute any firms that process financial poker transactions. But Online Poker Rooms are starting to fight back, protecting their profits and standing up for the [...]

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UIGEA Back in the News

With the casino business of Atlantic City taking a beating over the tough economic times the New Jersey Government has become the first state to seriously explore online gambling (poker) revenue. Senator Raymond Lesniak introduced the S3167 Senate Bill that would permit Atlantic CIty Casinos to provide online versions of their games. Permitted games [...]

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Do you have a Plan?

I have done many articles lately about powerful hands, and mistakes poker players make.  And after thinking long and hard about this, it comes down to one thing really: Do you have a plan?  Now, i could go very general, and talk about a plan for the tourney you’re entering, or the major MTT, or [...]

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Common Mistakes Poker Players Make – Part 3

Detecting a huge bluff and calling is a feeling like no other. People at the table look at you with wonder, and you’re opponent often tells you all the reasons you shouldn’t have called (“you didn’t have pot odds” “how the hell can you call that big a bet with second pair and a shitty [...]

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UIGEA Back in the News

With the casino business of Atlantic City taking a beating over the tough economic times the New Jersey Government has become the first state to seriously explore online gambling (poker) revenue. Senator Raymond Lesniak introduced the S3167 Senate Bill that would permit Atlantic CIty Casinos to provide online versions of their games. Permitted games [...]

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