Mike Eikenberry
It was Sunday at noon at the Gilpin Poker Room in Blackhawk Colorado. I signed up for the $70 no-limit hold’em tournament that was just starting with 47 players at four tables. Everybody started with $7,000 in tournament chips. The payout would be to the final five players I was sitting in the No. […]
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Poker Player Newspaper Vol 1 Issue 3 Cover
A great concern the poker world had a quarter of a century ago was not falling prey to poker cheats, people were afraid that even casino employees and management were putting one over on them. Doyle Brunson even discusses how cheap poker chips can be a costly mistake […]
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George Epstein
At the California Poker Players Conference held Oct. 20-21 at Hollywood Park Casino, a young man called Tom engaged me in conversation. He was familiar with my hold’em algorithm that I had discussed during the Conference. “Based on your algorithm,” he asked, “how often should a good player in an early position stay to […]
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Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Schedule
The first year of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is drawing to a close. So far there have been ten ?1,000 ($2,000) events in ten different Grosvenor casinos throughout the UK. Every leg has been recorded for television and over ?3 million ($6 million) in prize money has been won.
The […]
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“Joe, I’ve been invited to a high stakes game at Harrah’s Rincon, down in San Diego County. Want to come along for the ride?”
“Well, I surely don’t want to go for the game. If you say its high stakes it’s way out of my league, but I’d like to see the casino. Count me in. […]
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Debbie Burkhead
You Play They Win. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Holiday Toy Drive will be held at Casino Arizona on Saturday, December 15 at 9:00 a.m. Bring a new unwrapped ($10 value) toy plus $25 for an entry into a $12,500 guaranteed payout no-limit tournament. Players will receive $1,000 in tournament chips. The event […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
Let’s continue this series in which I get to both ask and answer the questions. This gives me a chance to teach what I want to teach or say what I want to say without being distracted by questions that seem off-topic to me.
Although I sometimes brag that […]
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Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones figures he took a big step forward on behalf of poker players everywhere two years ago when the World Poker Association was incorporated.
He had arrived, it seemed, at the right moment with a good idea. The retired real estate investor and cancer survivor who calls Las Vegas home, figures the best is […]
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I. Nelson Rose
On October 19, 2007, the Internal Revenue Service issued a press release stating that casinos, card clubs, and anyone else that sponsors a poker tournament would have to withhold 25 percent of the prize money from anyone who wins more than $5,000. Except they won’t actually have to withhold anything.
The penalties for failing […]
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John Caldwell
ANNIE DUKE WOWS ‘EM ON CAPITOL HILL
As part of the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on online gambling, Annie Duke recently testified on behalf of poker players everywhere. Always a tough crowd when it comes to issues with any controversy surrounding them, the members of the committee listened closely as Duke read a statement that […]
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