November 8th, 2007
The main discussion on day 1 at the 2007 world poker finals was about a hand involving J.C. Tran and another player who wished to remain nameless.
Both players were involved in the pot, the flop comes 995 J.C. Tran and player 2 go all in, Tran reveals a 9 for trips, player 2 instantly mucks [...]
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November 7th, 2007
Rumous have been spreading that poker giants 888 may merge with BlueSQ late next year, this could mean pacific poker could become one of the largest online poker rooms.
However nothing is set in stone as yet, this is merely forum gossip but has been spreading like wildfire.
Stay tuned for updates
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November 7th, 2007
Just finished watching this episode, was good to see Doyle Brunson play (although folding a hand to a lower flush)
Other highlights include watching Laliberte winning hand after hand (half of his winning he is donating to charity) this also introduced my favourite phrase of the series “Lesson number one for the potentially best bluffer [...]
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November 6th, 2007
ThePokerFilm is a newly released mini documentary which follows the life of 4 college students who make a killing player poker (both online and offline) view the series here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPwKQGrSz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS29g1o0×3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380do2DhRrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KqmcUKWcjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOP4OJgqC5s
It certainly goes a bit ofcourse as it’s intentions were to show how these players live. Also having 3 episodes about a drinking competition certainly shows the [...]
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November 6th, 2007
As most of you online players have heard Absolute Poker has come under a lot of scrutiny for having a ’super user’ account, this basiclly allowed a player (username potripper) to view all of the other players hole cards, obvsiouly giving him an advantage which he greedily used to steal pot after pot. Some believe [...]
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November 5th, 2007
Remember the episode of ‘High Stakes Poker’ is on tonight, this show is the first of the series with a $500,000 buyin!
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November 2nd, 2007
Just finished watching this episode (not the most exciting episode) but this symbalises the LAST of the $100,000 buyin tournaments, as of next week the buyin jumps to $500,000! And features the following players.
oyle Brunson: Regarded as arguably the greatest player of
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November 1st, 2007
Facebook and pokerheaven have teamed up to launch a great IQ test. Checkout the plugin by going to the applications section of the site.
I’m currently ‘average’
The game asks wether you should call raise check or fold certain hands, this could even improve your game!
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