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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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
all-time. Brunson has won 10 World Series of Poker
bracelets.
Sammy Farha: One of the most popular and successful cash game
players, Farha has played in all four seasons of
HSP.
David Benyamine: Originally from France, Benyamine is a cash game
specialist who regularly plays in the "Big Game" in
Las Vegas.
Barry Greenstein: Excels at both cash games and tournaments.
Greenstein authored the popular poker book, Ace on
the River.
Antonio Esfandiari: "The Magician" has appeared on all four seasons of
HSP and excels at both tournaments and cash games.
Jamie Gold: Gold was the winner of the 2006 World Series of
Poker with the largest grand prize ever of over $12
million.
Daniel Negreanu: One of the biggest stars in poker, Negreanu has won
multiple tournaments and been involved in some of
the largest hands ever on HSP.
Patrik Antonius: Antonius is one of the top cash game players from
Finland and his buy-in this season was $1 million.
Guy Laliberte: A newcomer to HSP, Laliberte is a successful
businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Cirque
du Soleil. Laliberte is donating a portion of his
winnings to his charity, the One Drop foundation.
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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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After reading on various ‘High Stakes’ poker forums it seems that Ladbrokes are out doing in the bigger rooms in terms of having more actively playing High Rollers, Many have said that $25/$50 - $100/$200 rooms were constantly full, despite Ladbrokes having a smaller player based than PokerStars and PartyPoker.
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After watching ‘High stakes poker’ you may have noticed Negreanu reading players hands incredibly accurately. Checkout this video of a few hands where it looks like he can even see the other players cards! Click here
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Checkout this article looks like PartyPoker may be returning to the US, rumours of poker Giant PartyPoker.com have been circulating for a while so fingers crosses that it happens. The fact Doyles Room returned to US players the other week can only increase this chance.
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Thought this might be of interested to you ‘Jman’ has posted a thread about his experiences of playing High stakes poker with some BIG names (think Hellmuth and Negreanu) I’ts a long post but a very interesting read. Check it out on the 2plus2 forums here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10387771&an=0&page=0#Post10387771
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The ever increasingly popular US poker series ‘High stakes poker’ have no increase the Ante. Buyin’s have increase from $100k to $500k. This should sort the boys from the men, Stay tuned to the series for some great poker action featuring Hellmuth, Brunson, Negreanu and more. Speak of Negreanu does any one know of a big name poker player that can read players so well? some of his calls have been pretty amazing not just during the ‘high stakes poker’ series but pretty much all of his TV appearances.
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Good news for fans of poker and facebook. Arsenal Interactive have launched a new poker system for users of facebook to play online hold’em with each other. You may have played existing poker games on facebook but this new app includes webcam interaction!
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Good news for those of you who live in Sweden, Party Poker has released a site specific to swedish players. Visit the partypoker.com homepage and you should be redirected to the swedish specific site.!
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