entertainment - "poker"

Scour the Internet long enough and you'll find lots of poker bloggers out there who are willing take their own free time to deliver helpful and entertaining content for little to no pay at all. Bodog poker recognizes the sacrifice that these people make and wants to reward one lucky blogger with a free seat at the 2008 WSOP. read more in pokerworks.com

The downtown Las Vegas landmark Binion's, long the home of the World Series of poker (when it was known as Binion's Horseshoe), will join a crowded poker summer scene in Vegas with the announced return of the Binion's poker Classic...

Many people have always dreamed of making the trip to Las Vegas for the world's most celebrated poker event - the WSOP - even if it's only to play in one of the smaller tournaments. Unfortunately, not everybody has the money to book a flight to Sin City, pay for a hotel room, and put up the buy-in ranging from $1,500 to $10,000 to get into a WSOP tourney. read more in pokerworks.com

In this particular hand, during Battle of the Bracelets week on the hit NBC poker show poker After Dark, the man with the most cashes at the WSOP (at the time) knew he wasn't supposed to make a call, but he did.

There are a ton of clichés in this world. A lot of them sound something like this: 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes', 'Keep your powder dry', and 'Patience is a virtue'. All of these speak to the benefit of holding your fire until the right time to act. In the case of poker this lesson can be applied to the act of betting and the practice of trying not to be the first person to bet. This sort of advice is meant for the basic player who is just starting out and not for the more advanced competitors who have learned this lesson by trial and error.

The number of online poker players in debt and seeking help from Helsinki's Debt Counseling Office has doubled in the last year, and the organization is on target to assist around 150 people in debt thanks to internet poker. The increase is fairly dramatic considering that the Debt Counseling Office typically helped only a handful of indebted poker players a year in the past; some of the players helped by the organization owe tens or even hundreds of thousands of euros in poker debt. Online poker in Finland is a popular pastime, with the number of poker players reaching around 200,000.Related Articles:Online poker now legal in South AfricaDutch crackdown on online poker...

Sometimes the communication in poker can be extremely subtle and more than a little confusing. Mixed signals abound. Yes can mean no, no can mean maybe, and maybe can mean go soak your head. So what is a player making the minimum raise in a hand of No Limit Holdem trying to say? If you don't know the player and are unfamiliar with his style and experience this sort of small raise means one of two things. It means either the player is inexperienced and has no idea what they are doing, or that the player is trying to generate some action at the table in order to get some big money for their hand.

At the start of the World Series of poker it was a gathering of highly skilled players getting together for the purpose of figuring out who was the best of the best. Of course this was back in the days when a microchip was the tiny broken pieces of Pringles at the bottom of the can. Today the internet kids who are not old enough to walk into a casino are actively playing poker online. By the time they come of age they have played hundreds of thousands of hands and have the sort of skill that was previously unheard of in kids so young.

Television in the poker world has been the driving force behind poker's popularity. Today there are so many TV shows featuring poker, that if you record them all on your DVRs each week, you'll run out of room! The expansion...

In the desert bikers recently rode a route designed to put poker cards in their hands as they worked to raise money to help guide dogs for the blind. The first poker run to benefit the Guide Dogs of the Desert was a huge success, bringing in $10,000. An early breakfast got the bikers started on the run, where they picked up poker card's at various stops, with the best poker hand at the end being declared a winner...