entertainment - "poker"

It is already known that Bodog poker is the place to win WSOP prize packages, having already announced that the site will qualify at least 120 players to play in the 2008 WSOP main event as part of Team Bodog. Now, PokerWorks has joined forces with Bodog to offer two freeroll tournaments in which two of those $12,000 WSOP prize packages will be up for grabs. read more in pokerworks.com

Alex Kahaner is a business owner from Van Nuys, California. Any business owner has to be a risk taker, to one degree or another, and Alex decided to take that risk taking element of his personality to the extreme to compete in the WPT. Alex had never played in a major poker tournament before, but then before he started his construction company, he had never started a construction company before, either.

Recently, two studies were conducted out of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland that explored the game of poker. Specifically, the question at hand focused on whether performance in poker was due to skill or luck. The subject has been one of debate from the privacy of households to the public hearings in Congress. And the results of the studies showed, once again, that poker is a game of skill. read more in pokerworks.com

Does Jerry Yang stink as a poker player? Anyone who would seriously ask a question like that probably also thinks that Jurassic Park is a documentary. Jerry Yang is the 2007 WSOP Main Event champion. Questioning whether or not he is good at the game of poker would be like questioning the outcome of a fight between Godzilla and 'Mr. Humphries' from the old British comedy 'Are You Being Served?' Of course Yang is an excellent poker player: there are thousands of WSOP also-rans who would attest to this fact. This didn't stop someone from questioning Jerry's skill at the game during a recent tournament.

When you are playing a poker tournament and there can only be one winner it requires a different approach than a game where there are multiple levels of payouts.

It's a little after nine on a Saturday morning in the Olympus Ballroom on the second floor of the Caesars Indiana Hotel & Casino, and the WSOP Academy is in town. 60 or so poker aspirants have gathered here, in a quietly overstated, upscale...

The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City was the scene of a crime that left a man dead. Sixty one year old Arthur Prince, of Toms River, had a disagreement with fifty seven year old Vincente Pereze, from Macon, Ga. The disagreement started at a poker table in the casino's poker room and then continued outside...

Online poker rooms often provide ways for their players to communicate with each other, with the most popular version being chat. Players can send text messages that can be read by the table, but the system is not the best for picking up tells. Online poker room MonBluff may change all that now that they have released a live webcam compatible with poker tournaments...

Brad Garrett, the Hollywood actor known for his size, his voice, his love of poker and his stint on the popular sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, will be hosting a charity poker event to benefit a family crisis center. The event, which will take place on April 20, will be to raise money for the 1736 Family Crisis Center. The buy in is $350, and if players bust out they can buy back in for $100...

The exclusive monthly freeroll series for PokerListings.com players at PokerStars - already one of the highest value online - expands even further in May with another $50,000 in private freerolls. Included: daily $500 cash freerolls and three more $11.500 prize packages for the 2008 World Series of Poker* Main Event. (PRWeb Apr 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb839414.htm