At Lucky Ace Poker, you can make your money and share with your friends too! With the Lucky Ace Poker Tell a Friend Promotion, your friends can receive a welcome gift for choosing to create and account and play at Lucky Ace Poker and you will get paid for referring your friend to play!
Not only will you and your friend receive a welcome gift of cash, but you will also both have the opportunity to join the exciting action at the tables and share your playing experiences while playing at the same tables or in the same tournaments! And playing with your friends is even more fun than playing with strangers!
When you refer a friend to play at Lucky Ace poker, you will receive a thank you gift of $50.00 and your friend, or friends will receive a $25 Welcome Bonus! Read full
He knows what it takes to make and sustain a successful television program. The Montel Williams Show was broadcasting new episodes from its debut in 1991 until its eventual end in 2008, and an 18-year run in television is something not many have done. Now, Williams has decided to merge his love of TV with his passion for poker in a new show said to be broadcast in the late months of 2009.
International Team Poker League (ITPL) is the given name of the show, and it promises to bring an entirely new format to poker programming. Williams is behind the idea, serving as Commissioner and CEO of the ITPL, and intends for the one-hour shows to air for an entire season. Read full
It’s no secret that one of the big games that people like to put money down on is the NFL’s Super Bowl.
While most people are probably risking a few bucks, maybe a couple hundred, there are a rare few willing to stake some eye-popping amounts of money.
One of those people, it turns out, is Phil Ivey. During his weekly chat with Barry Greenstein on PokerRoadRadio, Ivey said he was calling from the floor of the Bellagio while he was waiting to find out if they would take his $1 million bet on the Super Bowl.
Ivey wasn’t willing to divulge what side that money was going down on though.
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Coming up in February Mansion Poker is giving you the opportunity to earn your share of more than $400,000 during the Mansion Poker Febonanza Cash Tables Points Race! Beginning on February 1st and running through February 28th, you will have the chance to stash some serious cash in this amazing promotion!
All you have to do is play on any of the multitudes of Mansion Poker raked cash tables to accumulate your points for your opportunity to earn the top money prize of $20,000! Read full
Texas native David Benefield has achieved a lot in his 22 years. While in the past he may have been overshadowed by the achievements of his housemate Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, this year he has established himself as a real online poker icon. Although this is mostly due to his presence in the high- stakes cash games, it can also, in part, be attributed to his role as an instructor on CardRunners where he keeps a brutally honest blog.
Benefield’s online poker story is a familiar one. A bright student who loved online gaming, he started playing poker aged 16 after watching Rounders. He
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Swedish player Michael Tureniec has officially signed onboard Full Tilt as one of the site’s Red Pros.
Tureniec has put together a remarkable string of cashes over the last few months, with a win in one of the side events of the Amsterdam Classics of Poker, 19th place in the Aussie Millions and runner-up in EPT London, for a total of $961,902. His lifetime live winnings are over $1.3 million.
Surprisingly, Tureniec is the first Swedish player to be signed by industry giant Full Tilt, and will now play alongside a legendary team that includes Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.
Tureniec mentioned it was one of his dreams to be part of a sponsored team on Full Tilt.
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Titan Poker players have the chance to cash in big with at least $16 million per month being awarded through online tournaments! And with the ever-growing number of players that are drawn to all the great promotions, the vast variety of tournaments and the excellent customer service, these guarantees will only continue to grow!
Titan Poker is constantly seeking new ways to offer players more chances to play and even bigger prizes to win! With a totally around-the-clock tournament schedule, players are sure to find a guaranteed tournament at any hour of the day. Daily guaranteed tournaments start for as low as a $2+$0.20 buy-in for a $500 guaranteed prize pool or a $1+$0.10buy-in for a guaranteed $1,000 prize pool! Read full
The details of the 2009 World Series of Poker are out now, and Ladbrokes Poker has already stepped up to the plate to offer players a way to get to the events through online poker.
Rather than the usual WSOP Main Event packages, Ladbrokes Poker has something a little different to entice players with. Qualifiers have opened up for online poker players to win $5,000 Ladbrokes Vegas Dream packages.
The packages consist of:
- Seven nights’ accommodation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
- $2,000 for expenses
- Bankroll to play three Main Event satellites in Vegas for a shot at 20 Main Event seats.
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The accepted card-room wisdon is that because flushes are rare, suited cards require good implied odds, and so the deeper stacked you are, the better you should like them. As with much card-room wisdom, while this is true at a ver y general level, in any specific pot it is so frequently wrong as to be close to useless. In this article, I’ ll dig a little deeper into the sources of value that suited cards give when both short-stacked and deep-stacked.
SHORT STACKED AND SUITED
There are two properties of suited cards that are of crucial importance to the short-stacked player. The first is that suitedness goes up in value the further behind you are.
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In a game that thrives on fresh-thinking newcomers and ever-evolving technology, TJ Cloutier is an old-school survivor. The 69-year-old Texan is a self-proclaimed ‘dinosaur’, and explains how he got into the game when he was just a kid, playing poker in the caddy shack of a Northern California golf course.
Over the years, cards emerged as the single constant in Cloutier’s life. Along the way he managed a stint as a Canadian football pro, wrecked his first marriage and tried to make it in the business world. Trailed by less-than-stellar outcomes, Cloutier eventually landed a job that had him labouring in the Texas oil fields. Be
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