entertainment - "international poker"

Anyone here having any luck in these? I have played several and never seem to do well. I was 2nd in 3 card poker once and closing in then I got disconnected.

Poker After Dark is a great show to watch to catch the pros in action. Typically they play a short handed winner take all No Limit Holdem tournament, but this particular week the theme was The Cash Game, where players paid $100k of their own cash to play.

Depending upon where you are standing in the world, a game with the same name can have very different rules. poker pros Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau established the Federation Internationale de poker Association (FIDPA) and the international poker Rules (IP Rules) so that somebody who is used to playing poker in Las Vegas will be playing with the exact same rules if he travels to London, Moscow, or Prague.

The World Series of poker Europe is set to begin this September, and poker player are scrambling to find qualifiers and super satellites to get in. One player found a unique contest, where Betfair poker players were asked to guess how many poker chips filled up a Mini Cooper. When the Swedish poker pro, Marcus Gustafson, sent in his guess, he was only three chips off of the accurate count: 127,644 chips...

CEREUS poker will be the newest poker platform on the net soon, but they are not starting from scratch. That poker room will get their customer base from two other leading poker rooms, UltimateBet and Absolute poker, to create the third largest online poker network. CEREUS will not only incorporate the player base from AP and UB, but also many of the features...

While the World poker Tour will not return for their Seventh season to GSN, it appears that the network's other poker show will be back to run their Fifth season. High Stakes poker, the cash game where poker pros buy in for $100k of their own money, has been renewed for another season by the Game Show Network. While the WPT was not renewed, that show did find a new home at the Fox Sports Network, or FSN...

If there's an image out there of today's young poker professionals - brash, cocky, aggressive to a fault - Michael DeMichele turns that notion on its ear. Clad in sweater-vests and neatly pressed button-down shirts, the...

International News: Revenues grew 23% in six-month period -- Korea's biggest multiplex chain CJ CGV reported an 'earnings surprise.'

International News: Co. receives movie rights from Tartan Group -- Media Asia, the Hong Kong production and distribution outfit, has retrieved rights to movies including the 'Infernal Affairs' trilogy, from the collapsed distributor Tartan Group.

International News: 'X-Files' receives cool reception -- Domestic box office sensation 'The Dark Knight' swoops into Europe this weekend looking likely to repeat its whammo U.S. bow.