entertainment - "poker"

The rumors are swirling throughout cyberspace. The 2008 World Series of poker main event may delay the final table for 90 days, then play it out live on ESPN. Some heard it from a 'reliable source' while others simply repeat what has been said. After much speculation, Harrah's has put it to rest with a quasi-firm 'no.' read more in pokerworks.com

As I sit here, writing this, I am in a H-O-R-S-E and NLH tournament on PokerStars. Not that this is unusual, many players, in fact, play way more than two tourneys at a time. What amazes me is that I am able to do this at all! read more in pokerworks.com

An argument between two players in the Atlantic City Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort poker room continued after the players left the game, escalating into violence in the nearby valet area outside the casino that left one...

It was announced on April 4th that the Latin American poker Tour (LAPT) will expand to include North American venues. Therefore, the name of the tour will now be the poker Tour of the Americas (PTA). read more in pokerworks.com

Ben Roberts was born in Iran but moved to London, England as a teenager. While the beaches in England are not known for super fun sun spots, they certainly were a staging area for a change in Ben' life - when a buddy produced a deck of cards and began teaching Ben how to play poker, the young Roberts was hooked 'from the first deal.'

One expects that professional poker players that are seen on the TV show poker After Dark would make fewer mistakes. In this particular hand one player made a spectacular mistake and had a hard time living in down.

For a very long time poker has been predominately a boys club. In this way they were sort of like the Boy Scouts except with a lot more alcohol and swearing. With recent influx of highly attractive women into the sport, a new distraction has been added to the game. Let's face it, in the old days, after 18 hours of play a guy with long hair could get more than a passing glance from the men at the table. Today with women like Jennifer Leigh and Erica Schoenberg entering the game, another distraction that has nothing to do with the game has been introduced into the mix.

Playing in poker tournaments you are going to be short-stacked more often than not. That doesn't mean you have no chance to win the poker tournament but it does mean you need to be very deliberate in how and when you do decide to play.

Nearly thirty poker players were arrested in South Carolina recently as part of a poker raid on a house in Hanahan, and among them was an assistant prosecutor for Orangeburg, Dorchester, and Calhoun Counties. Unlawful games and betting are the charges against Don Sorenson, who then tendered his resignation to his chief, David Pascoe. The chief prosecutor, however, decided instead to suspend him without pay, taking into consideration Sorenson's 13 year history with the office...

A lot of newer players are either uncomfy with the idea of putting up their hard earned money during ring games, and in a situation where their significant other would deliver a savage beating for playing for real money online, or if they live in a country where anything less moral than a game of jacks is deemed illegal by the bevy of elected morons whose hair care bills are much bigger than yearly salaries of the most of their constituents. So where do these people go to satisfy their poker urges?