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looks as if the 100k guaranteed is going to max out.10 min left to enter. almost at the 20k player mark.for a $10 & $1 you can fight for the $200k prizepool. Im gonna miss out today. Having a lazy one.Great tourney for a sunday:thumbsup:*EDIT - Max is 25k nowHighest field Ive ever seen at the tourney*

The first major poker tournament in Brazil has just wrapped up its Day One, as the PokerStars.com Latin American poker Tour (LAPT) has come to Rio. 314 players either paid the $2,500 buy-in, or won their way in on PokerStars...

Bodog poker runs a daily $44+4 double-stack tournament at 3:30pm EST. You receive 3000 starting chips and the blind levels increase every 10 minutes. Today's tournament had a $800 overlay. It was short 19 players. This is common with many of Bodog's guaranteed prize pool tournaments. read more in pokerworks.com

With Hoyt gone and Doyle down to the short stack, and the blinds up to $600 and $1,200, the last cowboy at the table was going to have to make a last stand sooner or later. He chose this hand to do it with.

When you are playing short handed No Limit Texas Holdem poker, you can often win big pots with top pair. If you are unlucky, or not paying attention, you can lose even more.

Generally the best way to tell if a politician is lying is to check and see if their mouth is moving. If their jaw is going up and down and words are coming out of it, chances are what you are hearing is a deception. Add to the ever present 'misstatements' the fact that politics is a blood sport where even your teammates might drive a knife between your shoulder blades and you have a pretty harsh environment. Political consultant Nancy Todd Tyner has called this caustic environment home sweet home for most of her career. So after navigating through the strange web of half truths, distraction techniques, and scapegoating that goes with her day job, sniffing out bluffs at the poker table would be almost second nature.

Andy Bloch has had a lot of success in the poker world and is considered a bit of a superstar himself. So when this former MIT blackjack guru says he is facing one of his toughest poker tables of all time, it is truly saying something about the competition.

When you are one of only two real cowboys during a themed game called 'Cowboy Week' you likely feel some responsibility to hold up, but it wasn't to be so for one of them during NBC's poker After Dark.

As an occasional spy Kevin Weisman's character on the TV show Alias had to have a good poker face, but can the actor pull off the same at the poker table? He and other celebrities will soon find it out when they play in the first Celebrity Dealing for Duchenne Charity poker Tournament & Auction. Sponsored by Prosum Technology Services, Inc and CureDuchenne, the tournament will have Josh Malina from the West Wing, Willie Garson from Sex and the City, and Anne Heche from TV and Film. The event will raise money to help find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.Related Articles:GA poker run fundraiserPoker players to raise money for army relief...

A cruise ship set sail from Venice yesterday packed with poker players, all of whom are hoping to end the cruise a millionaire. The ship is hosting the PartyPoker Million VI, an institution in the poker tournament world. The Million was the first major poker cruise to hit the open ocean and has been going strong ever since...