July 31, 2007 # 6 Comments
KaiBuxxe is a poker pro often playing high stakes poker at Full Tilt. He is Wiener Niki Jedlicka, an Austrian pro. He is a very advanced Pot Limit Omaha player. Some people think he is also playing on PokerStars as RealAndyBeal, however, this information has never been confirmed. He is a very young poker […]
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July 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
And here we go again, Gus Hansen - The Great Dane is playing at the Full Tilt Poker. Staying somewhere in the Australia he is playing his favorite Pot Limit Omaha game. Not like before, playing aggressive game with raises and re-raises this time Gus played quite nice, mostly checking. But he managed to […]
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July 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
WPA (the World Poker Association) has released the Ethics Code for poker tournaments. Code includes five sections:
• General Provisions
• Relationships Among Players
• Relationships Between Players and Dealers
• Player-Management Relationships
• External Relationships
Wendeen Eolis, the WPA Vice Chair and Chair of the Ethics Commitee says: “The Ethics Code is the cornerstone on which the WPA has established […]
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July 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Online payment processor NETeller announced that they will begin the process for distribution of US residents funds on Monday, July 30th. Company will be returning $94 million to several hundreds of thousands US residents. It will take some time for all payments to be processed, also people should be careful of phishing. Every US member […]
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July 27, 2007 # One Comment
Four men were arrested in New Jersey. Attorney General’s office released details on the arrest of these men involved in the high stakes poker cheating scam at the Borgata Casino. Hotel room, where high stakes poker was played was fitted with hidden cameras. Cameras were placed in a manner such that player’s cards were […]
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July 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Linden Labs has decided to ban gambling on Second Life. It all started in April, when authorities were investigating the fact that people are gambling on virtual world. And yes, that is true. In such games as Second Life people are using in-game currency. And these can be traded to real dollars or any other […]
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July 26, 2007 # One Comment
After the first match technical draw was announced. Human team was at -70$ after 500 hands. However, the second mach turned out to be a total loss for the Polaris (poker bot). After a night when Laak and Eslami discussed the strategies playing with the machine, Tuesday was an awful day to Polaris.
Third session was […]
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July 24, 2007 # One Comment
Everyone is waiting for the World Series of Poker Europe, registration has already started. Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel and lots of other poker pros are already registered.
It’s said that there are over 60 WSOP bracelets between the pre-registrants so far.
Phil Hellmuth, having the record number of WSOP bracelets, says, […]
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July 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
His name is Raymond Rahme and he is 62 now. He is the first African to make the final WSOP table. This year he finished 3rd and took away over 3,000,000 USD. He qualified for this World best known poker event in largest in Africa All Africa Poker Tournament, where he finished 9th.
He’s been playing […]
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July 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
World Poker Tour 2004 winner Phil Laak will try to beat computer by playing 2,000 hands. Computers are getting better and better and they are already beating amateur players on the Internet. Considered to be one of the best games research group Canadian University will now try to find out whether computer can be a […]
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