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The World Poker Tour continues to conquer various parts of the globe with their TV show, now invading India. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited has announced the addition of the World Poker Tour to the Zee Sports line up. Zee Sports is India’s first private sports channel, the vanguard of Zee Network… |
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The US state of Pennsylvania says it is okay to have video poker if you are a state sponsored casino, but other groups are looking to install video poker machines to raise money to keep the lights on. Outfits like the Elks and the American Legion are seeking permission to be added to the list of places that could put up video poker machines legally, but are facing opposition from the Pennsylvania Family Institute as well as various anti-gambling groups. Related Articles: |
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Online poker players produce a lot of records playing games at various poker rooms, and that information is valuable to other poker players looking for an edge over their opponents. Knowing how a particular opponent plays can give insight into how to earn their chips, the ultimate goal in a game of poker. One source, Poker Sharks Radar, claims to have created a database using info on three million online poker players and their game stats and is offering the data for free on their site… |
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If online poker players are looking for an exotic vacation where they can play poker – and go for free – they should check out online poker room Full Tilt Poker’s satellites to the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament. Sun City is the biggest poker tournament in South Africa, and Full Tilt is sending players there with a prize package worth $10,500. This will cover the buy in, travel expenses, spending cash and a week of accommodations… |
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The biggest card game in the world is No Limit Texas Holdem, but some folks like to play good old fashioned five-card draw, and now they can do it right on their iPhone. The software, which works on the iTouch as well, is called 5 Card Touch and is published by Griffin Technology. The game gives a player a $1k bankroll and allows to bet up to $5 per round… |
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Online poker room Purple Lounge has announced they are running a race, with the winners cashing in. The race is a $200k; that’s the amount of money expected to be in the prize pool – minimum – of the series coming up on Purple Lounge. The five events, in honor of the looming Summer Olympics in China, are the Marathon, 100 Meters, High Jump, 50KM Walk and Relay, all of which offer thousands in top prizes for Bronze, Silver and Gold finishes… |
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Online poker room bwin poker is running a promo that can get players to a weekend trip on Poker Island, and the winners will get to mix and mingle with the girl band the Pussycat Dolls. Players who come to Poker Island will have to compete to stay, enjoying the vacation like atmosphere while playing poker for a chance to play in the Poker Island grand final event in October. Each week two players will be kicked off the island, and winners of the Grand Final event will get a year membership as part of bwin’s pro poker team. Related Articles: |
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The upcoming Macau leg of this year’s Asian Poker Tour (APT) will include a number of big name poker pros, including J.C. Tran and Nam Le. This is good news for the organizers of the event, who can count on the draw and attention the big name pros bring with them to help grow the brand of the APT… |
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The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has been issued a subpoena regarding the details of a poker tournament held in Akela by the tribe about a month ago. The July 15 subpoena is asking for a description of the event to include the names of those who played in the event and employees working at the event, as well as the total number of folks who were involved with the poker tournament. The letter comes from the National Indian Gaming Commission complete with a dire warning about what might happen if they ignored the subpoena… |
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If you have ever driven over 1,000 miles in two days, you know the exact same feeling you have experienced with jet lag. I’ve been sitting around the past few days just chilling out and enjoying the slow paced life here in Montana. Reflecting on the drive up here, it was pretty boring driving out of Vegas on Interstate 15 North. Mesquite was a nice break in the scenery but when I got to St George, Utah things really changed. The mountains and deep passes were breathtaking with their change of colors. I guess whatever ore was present gave a different hue to the land. There were blue, black, gold and red streaks running through the mountains and all of them were nice. I had a bittersweet memory as I drove through St George. There is a health spa a few miles outside of town, and my pal the late Chip Reese and I were determined to stay there a few weeks until we lost some weight. It was an expensive spa and we paid a month in advance, about 6,000 dollars each. It was baseball season and we were betting a lot of games so we put a 4,000 dollar satellite system in our rooms where we could sweat the games. We felt it was well worth it. The next day we went to all their exercise classes, even the swimming classes. We ate all our meals at the cafeteria where the diet food was reasonably good. The second night Chip asked me if I had noticed the Sizzler Restaurant where we turned off the highway. When I said yes, he suggested we go eat our last meal there before we really got into this diet. Naturally I said yes, let’s go, so we went there and knocked a hole in their salad bar along with 2 or 3 entrees each. When we finished Chip looked at me, and I looked at him. Without a word being said, we got in his new BMW and drove 120 miles an hour back to Las Vegas. We laughed about that many times afterward because we never attempted to recover any of our money from the spa. As we drove into the upper part of Utah, I was surprised to see the landscape change from mountains to plains and rolling hills. It looked like a scene from a Western movie with mesas on the hills and the ridges were almost crying for an Indian or a Cowboy riding across the skyline. When I was a kid I used to read all of Zane Grey’s books about the old west. I always wondered what he was talking about when he talked about the purple mountains. When I got into Idaho it was obvious because the mountains had a deep purplish color. They were gorgeous and the farms were everywhere and the crops, mostly Alfalfa, were in full bloom. Each farmhouse had trees planted on the north side of their houses to keep the cold winter winds from blowing directly on the house. We saw every kind of animal on our trip. We saw all kinds of cows and horses, lamas, buffalo, sheep, elk, deer and believe it or not, we saw a camel farm near Butte, Montana. I saw an old Texas Longhorn Steer as we came into Montana and I couldn’t help wondering if his ancestors came from Lonesome Dove with the old Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call. Don’t be surprised if Obama or McCain neither one win Montana in the upcoming presidential election. There are Ron Paul billboards and posters everywhere. All the locals are talking Paul up and encouraging everyone to write him in when they vote. I kinda wish some other states would do the same because he is pro gambling. Louise Brunson worked her way through the University Of Kentucky and pharmacy school at the University Of Georgia. She was the number 1 pharmacist at a chain of 150 drugstores. She gave birth to 4 great children and she has been a terrific wife and companion to me for 46 years. I say all this so you can see the good far, far outweighs the bad. But she had me captive in an automobile for two long days and she talked my ears off. My eardrums felt like Sitting Bull was having his tom-toms send out messages to all his tribes and I was the messenger. I’m sure some of you guys out there know what I’m talking about! |
