entertainment - "poker"

This won't be an ordinary college seminar. The guest speaker is Taylor Caby, the 24-year old online poker pro and co-founder of CardRunners, and he is headlining a panel at new york University's Leonard B. Stern Business School on Tuesday, April 1st at 7:30pm. read more in pokerworks.com

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It is not likely that a large number of poker professionals can claim that they have the ability to do what Pascal Perrault says he can. He truly believes in his own ability to exert an influence on chance. Call it deep intuition or call it crazy - but Perrault insists that his extrasensory perception - or ESP - is the absolute key to his ability to determine the outcome of the game in many instances.

Three of a kind is one of the strongest hands available in Five-Card Draw. There are a number of reasons for this and a number of benefits that arise from this. At core, though, three of a kind provides you with a strong hand that also has room to move and play the draw/re-draw game. In draw poker, most of your information and the other players' information comes from observing the combination of draws and bets other players take and make. Three of a kind allows you to make draws and re-draws while still holding on to a relatively powerful hand.

While Shawn was prone to making mistakes and letting his temper get the better of him, there was no question that he could play poker. In this particular hand he showed how to win with position.

Playing poker at a short handed table is somewhat of an art form. Some players do well and others don't. Either way there is always room to improve your play when the table is short. Here's Curtis Mayfield III's take on playing at a short handed table.

There is a stereotyped vision of a poker player. They are a hard drinking, womanizing pack of greedy drifters who move from city to city in search of games and profit. For a moment, let's suspend the fact that this also describes the sort of politicians who run some states and cities - it is also an image that has attached itself to male poker players like a bad rash. Some players do their best to live up to the rambunctious stereotype, but there are those people who are doing their best to ruin the reputation of card sharks by being really good people.

The 2008 Norwegian poker Championships are coming this month, but they won't be held in Norway. The Dusk Till Dawn poker Club will be the location for this event, in Nottingham, England. The UK is playing host to their fellow European country men because the Norwegian Government has a ban on the game of poker, leaving the 7th annual Norwegian poker Championships without a place to play...

The second ever Asian poker Tour will be played this year, and the new schedule for the events has been released. The first of four currently scheduled events will take place in the Philippines in May, followed by events in Macau, South Korea and Singapore. The first event will run from May 27 through June 1, coinciding with the start of the 2008 World Series of poker...

There has been talk recently that the Canadian Government is going to level some UIGEA style legislation that could stop online poker play in the country, but some poker outfits are saying they are not concerned. The Asian based gambling outfit GigaMedia Limited, for example, issued a statement in late March saying they were not concerned. GigaMedia develops software for the poker industry and licenses it to third party poker rooms...