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PokerTek Installs First Fully Automated Poker Room in Indiana at French Lick Resort Casino

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:46:05 +0000

“PokerPro is a great fit for our casino,” said Dale Nachreiner, Director of Table Games at French Lick Resort Casino. “Our goal was to create an environment that attracts poker enthusiasts of all skill levels as an addition to being a full-service destination resort. These tables are fun and interactive, allowing us to offer live poker in our newly expanded non-smoking venue with a reduced rake. PokerPro has also created opportunities for employees that have previously dealt only poker on a full time basis, to work in an expanded live table area without displacement of any positions.”

French Lick Resort Casino offers a destination resort with over 42,000 square feet of gaming floor space. A newly expanded non-smoking gaming area of over 9,500 square feet, 1335 slot machines, 38 table games and 3 PokerPro tables. With live entertainment, multiple dining options, two golf courses and two historic hotels, it is the premier destination resort in southern Indiana.

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Dublin Named Europe’s #1 Destination for Poker!

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:42:49 +0000

LONDON, Sep 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Dublin has been awarded the title of European Poker Capital 2008 by Bluff Europe Magazine. The Irish capital pipped last year’s winner, London, to the post — with Vienna, Amsterdam and Barcelona named third, fourth and fifth places respectively. Bluff Europe praised Dublin’s lively and friendly poker scene, as well as the wealth of poker clubs and tournaments available to the poker playing public.
Dublin has a fine selection of card rooms and, poker is also growing steadily on a grassroots level in the city through poker societies and pub poker leagues. Each year exciting new tournaments spring up with buy-ins to suit all pockets. Dublin is also home to the Irish Open, the oldest and most revered tournament in Europe.

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Spanish Poker Champion Takes 5th Place at APT Macau Representing Titan Poker

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:35:46 +0000

Titan Poker fielded 17 talented poker players from around the world at the Asian Poker Tour Macau; three of them finished in the money.

(PRWEB) September 2, 2008 — Playing on behalf of popular online poker room Titan Poker, Spanish poker champion Julio Diaz finished in fifth place at the Asian Poker Tour (APT) tournament, which took place this week in Macau.

Diaz went home with a cash prize of $514,600 Hong Kong Dollars after he outlasted professional poker players such as Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Kenny Tran and Liz Lieu to reach the final table.

Diaz, who is well known throughout Spain and is a regular and frequent winner of poker tournaments on the Spanish circuit, was happy with his fifth place finish, and hopes to return to Macau for next year’s tournament as well.

Diaz’s Titan Poker teammates, Alexander Jung from Germany and Masaki Ichikawa from Japan, also finished in the money and won their share of the $1,500,000 in guaranteed prizes at what was without a doubt the most lucrative poker tournament ever to be staged in Asia.

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Internet Poker Fans Are Playing Politics at Party Conventions

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:33:45 +0000

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — U.S. poker players have anted up for another high-stakes game — lobbying.

Trying to overturn a 2006 U.S. ban on online poker, gamblers have started a lobbying group, established a political action committee, and promoted their effort to politicians by holding poker tournaments at the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions.

“Up until this point, the minority of the public that is anti-gambling has yelled louder,” professional poker player Andy Bloch said. “We’re trying to change that.”

The Poker Players Alliance, which claims 1 million members, has invited lawmakers and celebrities to a charity tournament Sept. 3 in Minneapolis, across the Mississippi River from St. Paul, where Republicans are meeting to formally nominate John McCain for president.

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New gambling laws could raise the stakes for poker

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:58 +0000

Ask Karel Kruška to describe what it takes to be a good poker player, and he’ll tell you it has as much to do with personal temperament as it does with raw talent.

“Czech poker players are usually ambitious young guys,” said Kruška, chairman of Hot Springs Poker Club Teplice and a member of the executive council of the Czech Association of Poker Clubs. “Many of them have a gambling gene. Undoubtedly they are intelligent and playful [but] a certain degree of narcissism and extroversion is also common.”

With poker having surged in local popularity over the past two years — association officials estimate that 60,000 Czechs play poker, with roughly 1,000 organized into 19 official clubs across the country — many aficionados hope that steely confidence comes in handy when facing their latest challenge, one that’s considerably bigger than the game itself.

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Women’s Poker Spotlight- High Heels Poker Tour: Upcoming Events

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:54:52 +0000

Women’s poker is growing rapidly across the United States. Poker rooms are seeing more women entering tournaments and playing in the cash games. With that growth comes more opportunities for women to gain skill and confidence. Lauren Failla is offering a chance for women to gain both through experience via the High Heels Poker Tour.

High Heels Poker Tour launched in its home state of Florida in June of 2007 with a clear vision to give women not just women’s only tournaments but the tools and exposure they need to work their way up the ladder to be the best poker players they can be.

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New Online Poker Website Proves Significance of Women to the Sport

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:33:57 +0000

925 Media Group is announcing the release of their new online poker web magazine, which features photo-shoots with the ‘Ladies of Poker’, Player Forums, reviews, and breaking gaming news reported on a daily basis. http://www.onlinepokerwebsite.net/

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) August 28, 2008 — The Online Poker Website, owned and operated by 925 Media Group, has announced the launch of their new web style magazine that promises to be an important player in the poker community.

The site will feature newly discovered amateur female poker players in photo-shoots taken at popular casinos around the United States. Those female poker players will collectively be known as the ‘Ladies of Poker’ and that section of the site will be updated several times throughout each week.

“It is our intention to prove to the world that poker is played by more than just the average college age, or middle age male, but that it is also game played by intelligent, beautiful, and sophisticated ladies of all ages,” said Aaron Hampton, Online Poker Website’s spokesman.

Hampton explains that the site will be shattering the stereotypes of poker as a male only sport.

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Online Poker: NFrost_10 Wins Sunday Million

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:52:49 +0000

The PokerStars Sunday Million had 7,557 entrants last night, making for a total prize pool of $1,511,400, just $11,400 more than the guarantee. Those numbers were down slightly from last week, when numbers had already been the lowest that the Sunday Million had seen since July 6. The winner of the event could expect to pocket at most $186,000 should no deal be made at the final table.

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Aces Royal raises stakes in online poker

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:44:58 +0000

When it comes to gambling away your cash online, Aces Royal is the only place to go. It’s one of the few proper play-for-money poker providers for mobile, and now it’s making the jump to PC and Mac too.

Aces Royal Online is the first poker game to let you play on your computer, then transfer the game to your mobile. Even better, there’s no need to download annoying software before you can play, just load up your account with cash, and start winning!

There are limits to suit players of all abilities, beginning at just 20p.

Not enough excitement? Then the brand new Aces Royal Turbo Tables should get your heart racing. They cut the waiting time in online poker by giving players just 10 seconds to react. That’s a third of the time normally allowed.

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Poker and Politics: The PPA and the Republican Platform

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:36:27 +0000

With the Republican National Convention just a week away, supporters of online gambling have turned their attention to two troubling sentences of the Republican Party’s platform: “Millions of Americans suffer from problem or pathological gambling that can destroy families. We support legislation prohibiting gambling over the Internet or in student athletics by student athletes who are participating in competitive sports.” On the Republican Party Platform Committee forum, at gopplatform2008.com, the public is urged to submit comments about the proposed platform.

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