There are lots of different factors to ensure that you are a winning online player.
Always choose poker sites with high player traffic. Such sites typically offer more games and have something to suit all players. It is also easier to find soft competition at a site with high traffic numbers, ensuring a win at most times.
Good poker sites offer a variety of games, such as Omaha and Seven-Card Stud besides Texas Holdem. Good game variety also includes available games in many different stake levels, for both poker tournaments and ring games. You can play what suits you and your skill levels.
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Ladbrokes Poker has a new perspective in awarding WSOP packages for 2009 because they are going the extra mile to offer an opportunity to “live the poker dream” to as many poker players as possible! Ladbrokes Poker wants to send YOU to Las Vegas to be a part of the World’s largest and most exciting poker event, the 2009 WSOP! To achieve their goal, Ladbrokes poker is offering $5,000 Vegas Dream Packages for players to compete in, for at least THREE Main Event satellites!
The lucky players will get to experience the excitement of the Vegas nightlife and play to win big in a prestigious WSOP event! An Read full
Ask any online poker player and they will tell you the three things in life that are certain are death, taxes and the PokerStars Sunday Million.
The biggest weekly online poker tournament once again easily eclipsed its guarantee with 8,500 players combining to create a prize pool of exactly $1.7 million. That’s more than any WSOP Main Event prize pool prior to the 1980s.
In the end it would be Canadian player jnic00 who would take the lion’s share of the prize money, despite a deal that was made three-handed. jnic00 beat i_lv_beer in heads-up play to take down $178,788.
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At Ladbrokes Poker, the very exclusive VIP Club has been carefully created, just for the most elite loyal Ladbrokes Poker players! This special group of very active regular players makes requests and Ladbrokes Poker listens! And because they pay attention to what their players are saying, now Ladbrokes Poker VIPS have the unique opportunity to win the most fabulous and unmatched prizes found anywhere online! Only Ladbrokes Poker VIPS can expect more for their commitment with rewards that just keep getting better!
Take, for example, the Ladbrokes $1,000,0000 January Rake Race where VIP’s were guaranteed to earn an even bigger reward for cash game play than ever earned under the Ladbrokes Cash Back promotion! Read full
Still got some gamble.Two-time WSOP World Champion Doyle Brunson is well-known as one of the biggest gamblers in the world but he’s literally putting his life on the line in his latest bet.
It all began when Mack Rawden wrote CinemaBlend’s “100 Most Likely People to Die in 2009″ and listed Brunson in 16th place with a 10% chance to die from obesity (Brunson was 130 pounds heavier five years ago).
Brunson wrote about it in his blog calling Rawden a “Clown” and then writing “… he said it was a 10% chance I would die.
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Juan Carlos Alvarado first appeared on our radar back at the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. Jovial, talkative, and perpetually decked out in colorful soccer jerseys, Alvarado ground his way through one of the thickest fields on the World Poker Tour to emerge with a 15th-place finish, all the while supported by an enthusiastic crowd of railbirds. Alvarado had notched a $108,000 score in a preliminary no-limit hold’em event the week before and, armed with a growing bankroll, decided to take a shot at his first WPT event. Though the then-21-year-old Alvarado was pretty new to the live scene, he’d been succeeding at the online game for years already, after a rocky start where he lost nearly his entire bankroll and had to take on an unlikely backer — his mother. Read full
One of the biggest questions for a poker play is: How do I become a winning player? You may be relieved to know that it has nothing to do with how good of a player you are. It has everything to do with how good of a player your opponent is. Ted is one of the top 10 poker players in the country, and he only plays against the top 10 players.
Bob is one of the top 100 players in his state, and he plays against the top 200 players in the state. Bob is going to be a winning player over Ted. This is because Bob is playing against players that are not as skilled as he is, making it easier for him to make money from his opponents.
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The Texas Hold’em poker variant has just been ruled a game of skill by Pennsylvaina judge a few days ago, which means it will not be considered gambling from now on. Also, the 5 month-long Kentucky case has also been closed, but only for a short while, as there is now an appeal going on to try and change the fresh new decision.
There have been many issues regarding the concept of poker in the United States, with two of the most important headlines being the Kentucky case and the UIGEA. However, things are starting to turn for the better, from the poker player’s perspective anyway.
A three-judge Kentucky Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed a lower-court decision that allowed the Commonwealth of Kentucky to attempt to seize 141 internet domain names connected to online gambling. The 2-1 decision by the appellate court strikes down the attempt by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to seize the domains in an attempt to protect the state’s signature industry, horseracing, in a case that had drawn widespread interest not only in online-gambling circles but with internet freedom, commerce, and civil-rights concerns as well.
The 141 domain names, whose seizure is likely to be voided pending a possible appeal by Kentucky officials, include many prominent poker sites such as PokerStars, Full Tilt and others. Read full
The Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour started off its 2009 in Brighton this last weekend, with Bernard Litman becoming the first champion of the year for the tour.
Litman, a 53-year-old entrepreneur from Benfleet in Essex, topped a field of 235 players at the Grosvenor Casino to earn a £70,520 prize.
He earned his prize after battling his way up to and through a final table that included PokerStars.com EPT event winner Andreas Hoivold as well as James Sudworth, Nick Holbrook, Keir Ratcliff, Ramsey Ajram, Nathan Lee, Matt Perrins and Richard Lewidon.
Hoivold was the dominant player during the early stages of the final table.
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