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A charity tournament has been schedule to take place on April 23rd to benefit the Children's Tumor Foundation. Full Tilt poker will host the tournament at 8pm EST, and several notable professional poker players have committed to play. read more in pokerworks.com

No Limit poker is a different animal than the Limit game. In other words if you are used to riding a nice, predictable horse playing No Limit would be like jumping on the back of a North American Bison, digging your spurs into its sides, and hoping for the best. So if you are used to the nice, predictable betting structure of Limit poker, the culture shock of the No Limit game can be fatal. So when raising before the flop in No Limit poker, how much should you raise?

You have to have thick skin to play poker. Because the game is all about making the correct decisions, and other players know that if they can emotionally disturb someone that person will not make good decisions, whenever bad decisions are made players usually get a healthy amount of teasing.

When the final table of the WPT Foxwoods poker Classic began on Wednesday, April 9th, the two names that stood out were the seasoned pros - Erik Seidel and Ted Forrest. It was even more exciting that they were the two chip leaders at the table, even though the other four players had just as much motivation to win as the better known pros. read more in pokerworks.com

Part of the beauty of online poker is the anonymity of it. There are those of us who would feel self-conscious going to the casino in our flannel pajamas and bunny slippers, but playing poker online just allows us to look any way we want. There are those of us who are simply hard to look at before some time with a razor, a comb, and perhaps one of those sandblasting tools. Instead of taking a few hours to make oneself presentable, we can just log into our favorite room and play, regardless of how we are dressed, look, or smell. There is a bad trend that may ruin the beautiful anonymity that allows people to play poker while comfortably looking their worst.

An announcement from the Casino Barcelona has made it known that they will be hosting a World poker Tour event for the second year in a row. Casino Barcelona is owned by the largest operator of casinos in Spain, Grup Peralada, and WPT Founder Steve Lipscomb said that holding a WPT event there last year was a big success. The event will be held in May and will have an anticipated field of 400 players...

If anyone knows how to make it far in the World Series of poker it would be players like Annie Duke, Paul Wasicka, Andy Bloch, and Howard Lederer. These are the instructors of the new class from the World Series of poker Academy - advanced No Limit Texas Holdem theory and strategy. This camp will be held April 18 and 19 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, a comprehensive two-day poker camp covering such topics as heads-up strategy, advanced mathematics of poker, advanced tournament stage strategy, and winning cash game strategy...

The reigning World Series of poker champion, Jerry Yang, has not been in the press very much since his win, but he is putting his name on a poker tournament to be held about a week before the start of the next WSOP, where Jerry will have to defend his title. The event, called Jerry Yang No Limit Holdem tournament series, will last for five days at the Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino. Jerry picked that spot because of the history he has with the card room...

Reports on the poker stabbing on Saturday at the trump Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City that left one player dead continue to offer varying and sometimes inconsistent reports on the incident. What is known is that an argument between...

First Quarter Wins Continue To Illustrate Why Team Full Tilt Is A Major Threat On The Tournament Circuit. (PRWeb Apr 10, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb847684.htm