Years ago, I wrote that in the future, the majority of successful poker players would be young, online-educated players who had accumulated significantly more hand experience than players from previous generations, who had spent their days at the slow-moving live tables.
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Online poker is going through some interesting changes of late with the most significant of changes being the introduction of the recreational poker model. This new way of attracting players to the various networks has the online poker world buzzing with new products.
The Bodog poker network has been pulling out all the stops and has proven that the model makes dollars and sense. A number of other big name operators have gone with the trend with beta versions that are stepping into the actual online offerings very rapidly.
Poker Stars took the blinders off the‘fast-moving ring game product’ Zoom Poker moving it slowly from public, beta version free play to beta microstakes very recently. The ultra low 1 cent 2 cent stakes hasn’t deterred the curious who flushed the pool of 1500 to the max. The comparison to the Full Tilt Rush poker option is palpable with some expert opinions on the side of ‘there is no comparison they are virtually the same product’ side of the fence.
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Hawaii, one of only two states in the country without legalized gambling of any kind, has had its latest efforts to create such an industry drift away in the legislature.
In late January, lawmakers in the Pacific introduced a handful of bills aimed at establishing not only brick-and-mortar gaming and lotteries, but real-money online play as well.
The office of Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey, one of Hawaii’s Internet gaming backers, told Card Player that all the measures are currently dead.
However, Hawaii is still weighing its options.
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With the chances of online poker legislation at the federal level apparently not happening anytime soon, and Nevada on schedule to be up and running sometime in the fall of this year, an eventual interstate online poker format depends heavily on California joining the coterie with legalized internet poker.
Prior to Black Friday, an estimated 60% of online poker players in the United States, roughly 2 million players, were based in California, making it the largest market in America. It is this pool of players that is crucial to regulated internet poker via state compacts to become successful–at least in the early going.
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With the 30 seat guaranteed Irish Open satellite now behind us paddypowerpoker-com is offering players a seat at its famous Last Chance Saloon – 45 of them to be exact.
Starting March 25 and running to April 4 the online poker site will give away 45 seats guaranteed in a series of Last Chance Saloon online satellites.
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The first half of the Black Diamond Poker Open has wrapped up and let’s get right to the important stuff: who emerged victorious and how much they won! Contender Event #23, the $1,500 Guaranteed No Limit Hold 'Em Tournament was won by Brett B, who earned $717.60 for their victory. He was soon joined by Joshua D, who won Contender Event #24, a $4,000 Guaranteed Knock-Out Turbo Tournament that earned him $860. Congratulations to these two winners, who rounded out the regular Contender Series play for the Black Diamond Poker Open.
Now, who won the Contender Series Main Event, the $25,000 guaranteed tournament that doubled its prizepool and offered over $53,000 to players lucky enough to get through the bubble? Kyle T took that top spot and got $9,650.80 for his trouble! Joseph M won the Contender Series Second Chance event that featured a $10,000 guarantee and added $2,150 to his bankroll.
What's next for players at Bovada? The Black Diamond Poker Open's Championship Series! Guarantees have gone up and the action gets even hotter! The cheap seat satellite still start at just $1, but there's over $600,000 in guarantees up for grabs, culminating in the $250,000 Guaranteed Main Event on Sunday, April 1st. Not only will the winner get $50,000 guaranteed, they'll also get an engraved Championship watch.
The Championship Series kicks off tonight at 8PM with a $50,000 guaranteed tournament and continues with events every evening! Visit Bovada's Black Diamond Poker Open page to get more details and download their software so you can get started right away and claim your share! In addition to events like the BDPO, new online poker players at Bovada can also get a bonus of up to $1,000 with their first deposit while enjoying the best player support in the business!
Daniel Tzvetkoff, the one-time high-flying Queensland internet whiz who brought down America's multi-billion-dollar online poker industry, will come out of hiding next month.
The 29-year-old faced a sentence of 75 years in a US federal prison but in 2010, while languishing in a New York jail, he struck a secret deal with prosecutors and has become a star informant for the US government in its bid to prosecute the kingpins of three of the world's largest online gambling companies: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker.
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Negreanu and Hellmuth in an interesting tourney, PokerStars Zoom upgrades, and “All In: The Poker Movie” reviews. It’s all in Tuesday’s edition of the PTP Hit and Run.
All In movie review: Reviews are coming in for All In: The Poker Movie, which premieres in New York City soon. Check out what PokerListings-com had to say about the movie here. There are only three reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, but all three are good.
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This is continued from The Best Poker Books Part Three. Online Ace: A World Series of Poker Champion's Guide to Mastering INTERNET POKER. The book ranked third on one of the reference websites listing the top five poker books. Written by Scott Fischman, this book gives readers an expert inside look into online poker. Any poker player interested in playing the game online should read about this WSOP multi-winner champion's moneymaking system.
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PokerStars’ SuperStar Showdown features infamous online poker player Viktor “Isuldur1” Blom in which players qualify to go heads up against Blom. The high-stakes session consists of 2,500 hands and is played at four NLH and PLO tables, no lower than $50/$100. After 2,500 hands, the player with a profit or the winner who took all is declared the SuperStar Showdown champion.
Today, British actor, comedian and writer David Mitchell announced his engagement to top UK poker pro Victoria Coren with a simple advertisement placed in The Times which read:
“The engagement is announced between David, son of Mr and Mrs Ian Mitchell, of Oxford, and Victoria, daughter of Dr Anne Coren and the late Mr Alan Coren, of London.”
Victoria Coren, 38, graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree and has since carved out a successful career for herself across a range of occupations which include writing, presenting and, of course, playing poker.
The talented Ms Coren is a member of Team PokerStars, and with $1,476,666 in live tournament winnings to her name is currently ranked 12th on the Women’s All Time Money List. Vicky’s biggest score came in 2006 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London which she won for £500,000 ($941,513), and more recently she placed 2nd at the 2011 IFP World Championship for $100,000.
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There has been plenty of drama in the online poker industry in the past year, but unfortunately most of it occurred away from the tables. One of the biggest controversies, however, was actually poker-related, as Bodog (also known as Bovada.lv) made the interesting decision to make its tables anonymous, replacing players’ screen names with poker room-assigned numbers that change every time a player sits down.
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Every week, Bovada hosts thousands of online poker tournaments, ranging from single table events to their massive $100,000 guaranteed events, and that's on top of events like the Black Diamond Poker Open! There's really no way we can cover all of them, but we do want to make sure you keep up with who won the biggest of the big games so you know how hot the action is there.
So, who took the top spot in this past Sunday's $100,000 guaranteed online poker tournament? Eric B came in first this week, earning $20,000 for his victory. He was followed by Randall L ($13,500) and Ryan H, who rounded out the top trifecta while pocketing $10,000. Here's how the rest of the final table fared: Emilio S($7,500); Eric P ($5,260); Dmitriy G ($4,000); Len M ($3,000); Mike M ($2,000) and Kaben S ($1,350).
In addition to show-stopping Sunday events, Bovada hosts a series of regularly-scheduled big-money online poker tournaments for players, and here are the winners for last week!
• March 12 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Benjamin R
• March 13 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Edward Y
• March 14 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Charlie W
• March 15 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Benjamin M H
• March 16 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Nekoda F
• March 17 — $10k Guaranteed Turbo Double-Stack: Thomas J
• March 18 — $15k Guaranteed Turbo Double-Stack: Thomas C
• March 18 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Steve K
• March 18 — $10k Guaranteed Double-Stack: Richard D
Bovada's guaranteed tournaments mean that there's always a big cash pool and with more players getting in on the action every week, that means there's more to be won! Play poker online at Bovada and get your share today!
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Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Australian businessman who processed more than $1 billion in illegal online poker transactions in the U.S., is set to appear as a witness in the trial of Black Friday defendants John Campos and Chad Elie on April 9 in New York.
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The poker world is getting set to enjoy another new revolutionary concept next month with the launching of iSeriesLIVE, an interactive poker tournament featuring top name pros that will expose all the players’ hole cards all the time and allow fans watching via a live Internet stream to place wagers on the action.
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The Black Diamond Poker Open’s best tournaments so far have started with the Championship Series! The guarantees get bigger, the action gets hotter and players get to experience what makes Bovada the best place to play US online poker!
Let’s look at the winners so far in the Championship Series. BDPO Championship Series Event #1 was a $50,000 guaranteed no limit hold 'em tournament held this past Monday. Samantha G took the top spot in this event, earning $10750.00. Soon after, Kyle F was named the winner of the $2,000 guaranteed heads-up turbo tournament that was Championship Series event #2. He added $2,700 to his bankroll.
Championship Series Event $3 was a $20,000 guaranteed six-max no limit hold 'em tournament and Michael H took first, getting $6188.00 for beating the field. Last night's BDPO Championship Series Event #4 was a $20,000 guaranteed turbo tournament, won by Daniel E. He took away $4,933.51 for his win.
Coming up tonight is the Championship Series Event #5, a $5,000 guaranteed Pot Limit Omaha tournament starting at 8pm(ET), and if you want to play a bit later, Championship Series Event #6, a $10,000 guaranteed turbo rebuy tournament is waiting for you starting at 10pm (ET). There are two more Championship Series events tomorrow night: #7 is a $10,000 guaranteed pot limit hold 'em tournament starting at 8pm (ET) and #8 features a $5,000 guaranteed 3X shootout, six max turbo event that guarantees some excitement at 10pm(ET).
With a variety of events aimed at every online poker player and satellites that start at just $1, it's easy to see why so many think the Black Diamond Poker Open is the best bet for players no matter how big their bankroll!
Visit Bovada's Black Diamond Poker Open page to get more details and download their software so you can get started right away and claim your share of the $250,000 in guaranteed prizes! In addition to events like the BDPO, new online poker players at Bovada can also get a bonus of up to $1,000 with their first deposit while enjoying the best player support in the business!
The UK government yesterday announced it was to introduce a new tax on gaming operators including those based in overseas jurisdictions which serve UK players.
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Bodog has become the latest casualty of Spain’s imminent online regulated gaming market, and has been ordered to withdraw its business from the country. Consequently, Bodog has now sent an e-mail to its affected players, explaining:
“We would like to inform you that due to recent regulatory changes, we are no longer able to offer our betting or wagering services to residents of Spain or Spanish territories. Your account will be disabled on the 31st of March 2012 and as of today; you are no longer able to make any further deposits to your account.”
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