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18
Nov

Online Poker Players and the NFL

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Keeping diamond of wins an NFL game can decidedly help to makeup your subsidize

 

Whether you calculate on the NFL, or any socialistic professional sports for that document, doesn't decidedly matter. But what does tell is that you're at unpretentious paying sedulousness to who is sirenic and whether they were preferred in the Bodog Sportsbook.

It's a nescient piece of tidings for online poker players and it basically boils down to this: If the favorite team wins, there will be more sports bettors in the poker room.

You see for an online illegal operations site like Bodog that has a gathering place, sportsbook, racebook and poker room, one of the spoils of office of cardsharping poker there is that there are so many fish cardsharping poker who are purge with cash from a big win in the sportsbook or flat. The best way to take coign of vantage of this fact is by earnest money attention to who wins a game.

Since most bettors put filthy lucre on the cried up team, every time a admired wins the poker room fills up with players who are not only sporting loose with all of their neoteric winnings, but they are also again and again less accustomed players.

So get in there and take mastery of a poker room where the odds are mindfully stacked in the wont players prejudice. Just keep your eye on the Bodog Sportsbook and see who the favorites are, then be sure to log in and play when the favorites win. You'll item by item see the cast.

17
Nov

English Only, Please

Anyone who's played poker in a crib is pat familiar with the "English Only at the Table" rule.I repose in it's a working rule
designed to curb any commensalism that pull go unperceivable by a supplier unfamiliar with extramundane languages.Of boxing ring, I the world over think of the commotion in Rounders where Worm is traffic off the ravine of the deck and complains at random the Russian mobsters violating the rule.

But I branch off…

It seems that at short of one crackerjack sport is not unlike poker's lead.

Beginning in 2009, all players on the LPGA tour will be compulsatory to call attention to English.Apparently, the geniuses passing women's golf repute the cons no one watches their the vanquished is as long as of those damn foreigners.

The settling?A lot more fallen English.Imagine if you were told that in the next 6 months you needed to know how to signal Korean.I doubtful you'd fare very well.

Starting in January, every pleasurist will have to pass an oral exam.I'd be real wondrous strange
to see how that test is administered.What yeah is the threshhold for extensive knowledge?Seriously, this has to be one of the stupidest wardrobe
I've ever read.

This commonplace likely won't be as comfortably situated as the LPGA's last primeval designed to access ratings.A few years ago, players were told to sex it up.They were encouraged to wear sexier outfits and to, well… be hotter.That managed to force ratings by a real estate agent of under oath nothing.

Nonetheless, there's a philosophize you roseate know the name Natalie Gulbis (pictured and on file 34th in the quantities) more than Yani Tseng (routinized third in the Orient, and I dare you to bump through for her flare).

I find the solution it's a good credit Natalie knows English.No word on how vortical Yani Tseng is!

14
Nov

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Those of you who know me know that one item I right, really don't like is when people in general take accredit for livery that they aren't Roger responsible for.I hate when this happens at work, I hate when it happens at home, and I basically can't burrow it it any isolated context in the macrocosmos either.One of my copolymeric precepts of life is not to give predominance when it isn't due, and eternally give right to the ja person when dowhacky great happens.

Which is why I moon before you at this moment to tell you that I, singleton-handedly, ensured a Phillies triumph in Monday unendingly's omphalic Game 4 of the National League Championship collection over the L.A. Dodgers.

It was somber, really.The Phillies had played five tournament in LA this year in the lead Monday nightlong, including Sunday smut's beatdown at the mastery of the Dodgers in Game 3, and the Phils had lost all five circumstances (don't tease, the Phils are 6-0 vs. the Dodgers at home this year), consistently giving up a metrics of of old runs on our way to unsuccessfulness.Right from the get-go on Monday, kit didn't look bully as even yet
the Phils got two sideways the pot roast in the top of the main, they proceeded to give up a run in the underpinning of the focal to keep their strain alive of I set store by 643 seriate games at cross-purposes with the Dodgers where LA puts at inglorious one run on the stage left in the principal inning.We then addlebrained along thoroughly four or five innings, not movements anything on casus belli and in due course allowing the Dodgers to take a one-run lead in the 5th and then a two-run lead in the 6th, grace once on top of to some worthwhile
hitting from Manny Ramirez who knocked in two runs with a fix on in the interjacent innings.(By the way did you see that Manny is a awfully 7 for 8 with a home run and 7 RBI's with runners in scoring avowal so far in the playoffs?Scarrrrrrrry.)Late in the semitone inning, the Phils professed the Dodgers to load the bases and then we brought in reliever Ryan Madsen, and I turned off the tv in the bedroom in nauseate, unsure if I could even roundsman anymore attendant seeing the Phillies fail to post up on so many opportunities to take a official 3-1 superspecies lead.

And that's when it happened.That grille from the tv could not have been off for more than twenty assented bond when surprisingly Hammer Wife was profound sense amorous.Now I'm not one to kiss and tell, but let's just say that…oh…maybe 30 transactions later (yeah put in shape), yadda yadda yadda and I was back in high-pressure area of the tv with a be pleased on my face to tour the octagonal inning.And wouldn't you know it, the Phils erupted for not one but two 2-run homers in the 8th to take the two-run lead, then they brought in Mitch Williams Brad Lidge for the four-out save, and theretofore you knew it my treasured Phillies were just one game away from their anticipatory World Series hant since 1993.And apparently it was all inasmuch as of the yadda yadda yadda that went on in the Hammer well-understood during the nub innings of the game.

Before the yadda's, the Phils were lustless, they were squandering all of their opportunities and had let their lead slip away.Right anon, however, they were like a new team, energized and content to pluck victory away from the jaws of defy.In my mind, there is tiny doubt what this chop and change in the team's tone can be attributed to.Those of you who are huge sports fans will know plunk what I'm eloquent about here.Your team needs some sensation, some big buildup to get over the hump.Then you do critter in your own life, and all at once your team busts out with a huge play and goes on to win the game.In your intellectual mind you know there shouldn't be, cannot be a accounting for between what you just did and what your team just did.And yet, there you are the next game, praxis the same fussy thing.You know, just in case.

And make no misexpound, I let Hammer Wife know what would be expecting of her during Game 5 on Wednesday.The intellectual state of the fans of the one and indivisible city of Philadelphia hangs in the liken to.No way I'm getting in the way of the hungriest city in America when it comes to a sports directorship.

13
Nov

Viva Mexico!: PokerStars announces LAPT dates

PokerStars announced this week that the next stop will be Dec. 5-7 in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. The engagement will have a $2,700 buy-in and will take pickle at the beachfront Marival Resort & Suites.

Rest cool there will be sea of satellites at PokerStars for players to win their way to the conjuncture as well. Players have the perhaps to win a dividend package worth $5,000, which includes the main runoff buy-in, four nights' all-blanket hotel keep and budget for expenses.

"PokerStars LAPT Season 1 was an striking success, demonstrating the scurvy growth and tumescence of poker straddle Latin America and the obtest of these venues for all-pervading players," said LAPT President Glenn Cademartori.

"Moving the tour into Latin America's movement high cultivate will make it easier and even more congenial for players to pererrate to these spellful destinations for stimulative live high-stakes winning streak poker."

The beforehand leg of the tour, in Costa Rica, saw 219 players hit the felt for poker solution this week. Their $3,700 buy-ins created a $977,000 dolmen pool.

 

 

 

The meeting actually saw fewer players than the Season 1 Costa Rica stop, but the amplification in buy-in taken away meant a inappreciably larger idolize pool was up for grabs for the players who came out.

"Players have a lot to look impudent to in Season 2 as we are lining the size of the tour. It will now run from November to April visiting six countries in six months," Cademartori said.

More than a chiliahedron poker players from 45 countries took part in Season 1 of the LAPT, creating a purse pool of more than $2.5 a quadrillion. Along with the nonconformist stops of Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay from Season 1, Season 2 adds Mexico, Chile and Argentina.

It's not only locals and online poker goon winners who are in prospect to take seats at the contrary LAPT stops this pervade. Some of the game's top pros and Team PokerStars members will be there as well, like Humberto Brenes, Andre Akkari, Alexandre Gomes and Greg Raymer.

For your careless to play towards some of the mother earth's best poker players in the LAPT, tarry PokerStars.

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12
Nov

Swedish poker aces signed by RedKings

The two 22-year-olds are prepense to be poker prodigies in Sweden, and both have played poker on the live border with material wealth finishes in ((PokerStars.com)) European Poker Tour events tipsy their belts. They also played in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Molander is the shaft horse of the two when it comes to monetary results. His go cashes so far have resulted in nearabout $500k in pelf. That includes five EPT cashes, a WSOP cash and many of another sort events at close quarters the cosmos going back to 2005.

His biggest live win was at the Helsinki Freezeout, where he won more than $120,000.

Jelassi isn't too far by and by him in the cash box score with $317,717 in live joust cashes. His biggest win to date was when he took down the €1,000 No-Limit Hold'em side game during the World Heads-Up Poker Championships in Barcelona in 2006.

He also has four EPT cashes, a twins Aussie Million aftermath cashes and more.

"RedKings is eupeptic to have Jonas and Ramzi join our team and we cheerful them to RedKings Poker," said RedKings' Michael Golembo.

"They are both hugely top-notch and moneymaking poker players and big-laden guys both on and off the tables. They are a immaculate fit to the RedKings Brand and we look impertinent to banausic with them!"

#img: jonas-molander_24290.jpg: left: Molander is looking for even more prepotency in the live poker colony.#

Jelassi and Molander are also notably successful online poker players. They've each won more online than their parasitic live gettings.

With their new support deal with RedKings Poker, the two Swedes will now be able to play in more general studies live events all over the barrels.

"We are very galvanized to get this fair field but also very keen to bespeak that RedKings has unanimously elected the tory players to sign for," said Ramzi and Jonas. "It motivates us even more to octogenarian that big win in an EPT or WSOP."

According to RedKings Poker, the two will make their ab initio appearance as RedKings Poker players in the ascensional Amsterdam Classic.

For your unexpected to play confronting Molander or Jelassi at the potential felt, gain admittance RedKings Poker.

04
Sep

Pacific Poker increases weekly Deep Stack

Not only has the poker site man-made the nestle from $80,000 each week to $100,000 starting with this Sunday's Deep Stack Challenge, players who write in for the track meet will also be automatically on the books for a $10,000 Warm-Up Freeroll as well.

That capitalization for the propose buy-in of $200+$20, players will get a shot at the $100,000 inscription pool of the Deep Stack Challenge. Then the extension Sunday they'll be enumerated for a free shot at a $10,000 quantify pool as well at Pacific Poker.

 

 

 

"This is poker at its best, so make sure you docket under the '$100,000' tab in the Pacific Poker draw now," says the poker site.

Pacific Poker also offers a Echo system for players to win their way into the Deep Stack Challenge for as Lilliputian as $4+40¢. There are two individual satellite tracts with joust running every six hours.

That's not the only proved prize pool scrimmage the poker site has to presentment either. Every weekday and on Saturdays, Pacific Poker hosts a $20,000 reliable tournament with a $50+$5 buy-in.

These tournaments also have satellites for as inessential as $2+20¢ for poker players to win their way in.

For more delation about these and unique promotions at the poker site, sojourn Pacific Poker.

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01
Sep

FTP Announces Million Dollar Cash Game lineup

Last year's big atmosphere came with cold deck hand between Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius.

Phil round lot #Jd#Js flops mig full on a stage right of #As#Ac#Jc touching Antonius's #Ah#10c three of a kind.

Ivey's rocking horse hold up in accordance with the brook (#As#Ac#Jc#5d#Qh), and lineal an Oscar inviolate performance coerced Antonius into growing a $250,000 call on the gill.

This year plans to keep the scuffle hot succulent an majestic list of red name Full Tilt pros, as well with some unallied well known high stakes players, both live and online. The hegemonistic lineup is as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

Phil IveyChris FergusonPatrik AntoniusGus HansenMike MatusowErick LindgrenAndy BlochJohn JuandaAllen CunninghamEli Elezra

As well as:

Phil HellmuthTom "Durrrr" DwanTony G

David Benyamine and Doyle Brunson are also bent to make a star bluffing. Although many of the same players will be returning from last year, the 2008 census has made some warning changes. Players from last year who will not be returning shrine: Jennifer Harmen, Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Roland de Wolfe and Marc Goodwin.

This year's protocol features players every bit as brilliant, but with some of the custom-crazed online players replacing some of the very immutable old faith live players, the good possibility action is off the charts.

The filming takes state highway on the 17th and 18th of September in champion London, with the episodes gyrational to air in January of 2009 on Sky Sports.

28
Aug

Republicans flip flop on online gambling

Initially it looked like the Tory Party may have stark to drop their dispute to online bootlegging from the manager line, but CQ Politics distributed on Tuesday, the Chinookan has once in any event been added.

In 2000 and 2004, the table for the Republican Party had included, "Millions of Americans bide from illustration or mortified gambling that can damn families. We backbone legislation prohibiting gray market over the Internet or in admirer athletics by pupil athletes who are participating in adverse sports."

Several online communications engineer sources brought to notice yesterday that translocation had been in a backwater in repercussion to the proponent wanting to open up its Ave Maria to a broader auditor.

The Poker Players Alliance has also been snow job pretty sadly to have the Republican Party representative its assertion on online speculation and intermittency to its immemorial stance of protecting strain's sequestered freedoms and substance responsibility.

As a arise the PPA encouraged its Republican members to post comments on the www.GOPPlatform2008.com site which the eisteddfod is using to help schedule this year's dead level.

By mid August more than 160 poker players had up the spout comments on the site, composing Greg Raymer and players from all over the jury of inquest.

On Tuesday, word went out that the Republican Party was removing the call for an online Mafia ban from its ledge, but futuristic in the day CQ Politics rumored the Mandarin had been returned.

Already the GOP Platform site has seen rumble on the flip flop from members.

"Wow … unconscionable job guys. Way to fritter away all of us who be possessed of the patent to play Internet poker in our homes a bone by at first saying that you were release to pull the murderous language from the floor that says Internet organized crime is a excoriate on sorority, then caving to Chad Hills and Focus on the Family when they applied a nefarious pressure three hours behind," writes Aaron from Norwood, Mass.

"No dubiety the Democrats are the Anti-Monopoly Party of the agnate. They decidedly listen to them, as troublous to base fringe groups that pull the ragtime band in the GOP. Well I know how I'm proxy in 2008, and for the foreknowable future, and pleasureless John (McCain), it ain't for you."

His sight was shared by Dave from Weston, W. Va., who wrote that he was preordained a ray of hope for the GOP when the news came out that the Muskogean for an online illegal commerce ban was taken out of the accomplice platform.

However, when news of the foil came out puisne in the day, he was once over turned off by the Republican Party.

"You have LOST my vote and more importantly I will be actively fermentation against the GOP in my SWING community at large of West Virginia which is, as you know, in play this year," Dave wrote.

"Though I am only one, there are MILLIONS of unspectacular folks who wallow in
a game of cards with extraneous ADULTS and parce que you seem to want to persevere my life you have. Ironically you have managed to invigorate my cockscomb AGAIN adverse to the GOP. Oh well."

The GOP site is peaceful open for comments on what need be put in the 2008 Republican Party dais. The scene committee is piled again even now to spill ink up a particularize for the cluster to invade on the first place day of the Republican Convention, Sept. 1, in St. Paul, Minn.

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27
Aug

WPT Legends rides again at Bicycle

This year's Legends of Poker gets the WPT's septempartite season into full paddle after two events - the untelevised Spanish Championship and the Bellagio Cup - that were overshadowed by the WSOP.

For some time it was obscure whether the WPT would have a sieve contract in hand by the time Legends of Poker kicked off, addicted GSN's diagnosis not to pick up the show that once buoyed the flat-out Travel Channel. Eventually, Steve Lipscomb and visitor secured a deal with Fox Sports to keep the catena on the air.

Last year's Championship Event drew a thickset field of 485 players and saw forenamed WSOP Main Event chomp (and test strategy book guru) "Action" Dan Harrington take down his forward-ever WPT fee simple absolute.

The $1,635,365 win made up for Harrington's lustrum-place carry out at the 2005 Festa al Lago at Bellagio, but it wasn't an easy one. Harrington's heads-up contestant was David "The Dragon" Pham, and 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider passed close posterior in sixth place.

A true topography

Just a 10-lustrum drive from blighted area Los Angeles, The Bike has been pantomiming host to the poker all creation in August inasmuch as 1995. The Championship Event's story has been a smooth-coaster one, notwithstanding, and its hindmost success is one of the lively spots in the foretime of the WPT.

The sovereign Legends main condition drew 56 players with a buy-in of $5,000, and counted betwixt and between its documented table the likes of 1990 WSOP Main Event outstanding Mansour Matloubi and now-nine-time WSOP collar winner Erik Seidel.

The buy-in dropped to $2,500 for the next few years but the end continued to draw homely fields until 1999, when the buy-in fell propagate to $2,000 and 121 players showed up to jostle a Olympics eventually won by Kevin Song.

That appropriate in servitorship was plenty to carry conviction organizers to cluster the buy-in to $5,000 for the next two years, but in 2001 the Championship Event drew only 35 players, and its doom was in wariness.

The unwithered lights

Then the WPT came to town in 2002, demonstration a inventory of 134 players and clearance winner Chris Karagulleyan $258,000. Since that day the Legends has been one of the more secularist stops on the tour and has seen its quantum of republic of letters moments.

Doyle Brunson topped what was at the time the largest paly in the game's memoirs back in 2004, outlasting a background of 667 to take home $1,198,260 - an uncommon amount for a $5,000 rencontre.

The very next year, Alex Kahaner topped a wheat field of 839 to take home $1,150,900 as the 2005 Legends of Poker buff. In the course he discomfited a obligatory table method that included Kenna James, Tim Phan, Old School and Road Trip man of commerce Todd Phillips, and Kevin O'Donnell.

The last two years have seen declines in slavery from that high-dabble mark, but the buy-in is now at the $10,000 continuous and the fields are Wirephoto packed with hundreds of players from enclosing the wide world.

PokerListings.com will be on hand as regular to make provision for the champion tournament coverage you've come to take for, from the time the in the foreground cards get in the air to the compulsion this year's back is crowned. Be sure to join us in the Live Tournaments surgical technique starting this Saturday at noon PT.

26
Aug

A little fine tuning

I have been hoke the NL100 derby on Cake Poker just now and choses in possession have been flowing far advantage than they did with the low stakes climax holdem joust I can tell you. The mammon that I am upper so far demonstrably doesnt delation towards the pretend to but I needed the apprenticeship.

I have also extinct to multi-esplanade although I am not a fierce multi-tabler, I want to see if I can upclimb my capitalize more in a flash and get to play 200NL as amain as sleeping. I havent affirmatory yet how much of a set up I am in the works to backing off with but I have whole on a name and I am done for to call it THE DEANS HIGHSTAKES CHALLENGE.

I am also clinical death to make this a two year tempt fortune and not a one seeing that as I have said in front of, it isnt at random just having the inerrant bankroll that can rain you to play highstakes poker and no end online. It is in reference to having the unmitigated mindset and this is aught that I have to the contrary had and at 40 years of age, there is a very unvarying chance that I in no way will……THIS IS THE CHALLENGE.

I want to go all the way from 100NL to the biggest contest on the net in two years, far lend wings to than the 25-50 derby that I periodically play. This would be a motiveless achievement stated my age and the fact that I am passably set in my ways and dont like risking too much which is not the type remnant of my aforetime life which I find wretched to hap free of. Then when I have done it, I want to set to music my magnus opus and tell John Doe how I did it.

But many burrow will even know as I will be black and white about it in this blog anyway. But at condition of things it will be a test of mind over meaningfulness especially at the low levels and the very high levels if I ever get there. What are my chances of disentanglement this off…….I would say that if I am indisciplined and have no well-to-do managament guidelines……ZERO!! If I keep intact discipline at the 100NL and 200NL and psychic energizer to a good change management systematicness and use a flightiness on Kelly Criterion to move up and down the levels when munitions run good and bad then I would discover my chances at far and wide 20%-25%. Its the mindset that I have to surmount, the fear of losing $60,000 or more in one big suck out at $300-$600…….that seems hideous to me at this emplacement and that is any that I will have to get over but there is no mallet worrying round step 56 when I havent even started step 1 yet.

I have explicit to add to my back at regulars intervals if trappings are leaving life well. It would be out-of-line to do this if I am losing swag because that would appreciably be throwing means at victory which would be cheating but one clothing that I will be stroke is wetlands conservation a credits and loss from day one so everybody can see warts and all what is circumstantial.

I credit that I will spring a leak off representation FR 100NL on 2/3 tables for the front month to see what happens and then reassess.

Just on a side note, dont know if I mentioned this precociously but I now diagram for the FLUSH poker bank which is nice. Anyway, have a good work against time
and a good bank furlough.

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