Monthly Archives: December 2013

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Online gaming has been legal in France since 2010 thanks to the French Gambling Act, allowing regulated and licensed poker sites to run and offer their services, but there is a catch. As the law stands currently, it –> Read More

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On Monday, the poker giant Amaya Inc. announced that the CEO David Baaznov has plans on purchasing the company and taking full ownership. The company owns PokerStars and Full Tilt, among other entities that have made a global –> Read More

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As the 2nd Annual GPI American Poker Awards approach, the nominee list has just been announced. The nominations were don’t through balloting from over 80 members that are part of the industry, including players and executives. The ceremony –> Read More

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The 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, a widely popular poker tournament, started it had 928 players, creating a prize pool of $4,500,800. That number dwindled down to 19 players by Day 5 of the tournament, and by the end –> Read More

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During the entire year of 2015, the big powers, legislators and poker giants, could not come to an agreement about regulation and legalization regarding the card game being played on the internet. It was pretty uneventful, without much –> Read More

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In November, Partypoker changed its poker tournament schedule when it launched the Power Series, which happened at the same time that they announced that four-time world champion boxer Carl Froch would be their new ambassador. These events are –> Read More

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The world’s biggest real-money online poker room, PokerStars, has just released its Christmas Festival schedule, where it will have at least $10 million in awards for its players. They will have a wide variety of different tournaments, with –> Read More

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The first two days of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event final table have taken place, where the nine final poker players that remained back in July have met up once again to finish what they –> Read More

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Amidst the high number of summer and fall poker tournaments, there will always be some controversy. This time, it surrounds pro player Dwyte Pilgrim, who is being accused of hustling other players. It has come to light, thanks –> Read More

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The winner has been crowned at the 2015 World Series of Poker Circuit Hammond $1,675 Main Event, as Krzysztof Stybaniewicz walks away with the victory, a gold ring, and a total prize of $356,043; the biggest cash prize –> Read More

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Europe is quickly becoming the continent to play poker in, seeing as how the WSOPE is currently taking place there, and next month the PokerNews Cup Main Event will be hosted at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech –> Read More

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With just a few days into the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe, one of the most popular events during the tournament came to an end. The € 550 Oktoberfest No-Limit Hold’em, which was the second event, ended –> Read More

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Right after the excitement of Oktoberfest, the country of Germany looks forward to hosting the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe for the very first time. The tournament will last from October 8 until the Main Event ends –> Read More

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The 2015 Card Player Poker Tour just had its eight stop during its third season at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California on September 21. The series will continue until the final on October 14, featuring a –> Read More

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The huge online room, PartyPoker, has decided to make a few changes to their overall software that is supposed to help make the games fairer and the competition more even between the players. The problem that many have –> Read More

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The long wait is almost over, as Poker Central, the world’s only 24/7 Poker TV network will be launching on October 1. In anticipation of the launch, they have announced what their programming lineup will be, including fan –> Read More

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The Latin American Poker Tour, being hosted this year in Punta Del Este, gave way to a great moment for pro player Mario Lopez, as he was able to win his second LAPT title. From among 267 entries, –> Read More

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Online poker tournaments are becoming very popular, and with the latest feat, Ben “Ben86” Tollerene just became the winner of the largest buy-in tournament in internet history. It all occurred during the 2015 PokerStars World Championship of Online –> Read More

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The 2015 Unibet Open Cannes poker tournament series began today, and with it the promise of great events throughout. It will be hosted during the week of Sept. 14 through the 20, at the Casino Barrière Le Croisette. –> Read More

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Trying to piggy-back off of the recent success of the MPN Poker Tour Dublin Main Event, where Daniel Tighe won €53,845, even organizers were hoping that the (MPS) Main Event would have the same or even bigger turnout than the –> Read More

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The final 10 candidates have been selected as time approaches to pick the one, or possibly two, players that will get inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame (PHOF). The Hall of Fame was established in 1979, and –> Read More

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It is great news for poker players from around the world as the 888Live tournament series now moves on to Tallin, Estonia. This will be the third stop as the live tournament series makes its way around Europe. –> Read More

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PokerStars announced earlier this week about a huge change that they will be conducting with their VIP program, and this has every poker player annoyed. The current VIP program being used is simple; you earn a certain amount –> Read More

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The WinStar River Poker $2.5 Million GTD Main Event will be taking place from September 4th through the 8th, at the WinStar World Casino and Resort in Thackerville, Oklahoma. As the name suggests, the prize pool will total –> Read More

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It isn’t only the poker pro’s that we hear about getting these insane hands, making the biggest and wildest bluffs, or simply getting the luckiest river card. It seems that professional soccer player for the Brazil national team, –> Read More

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The number one player on the GPI Rankings, Jason Mercier, continues to impress everyone with his latest victory during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Florida. He was able to beat fellow pro player Ian O’Hara, ranked –> Read More

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Poker, although becoming more popular by the day, there are still many states in the US that have deemed it as illegal unless played in sanctioned casinos. In the state of Wisconsin, there was a group of players –> Read More

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It was a busy day for a casino in New Jersey, as they caught Christian Lusardi from North Carolina who brought millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in a tournament. The worst, or best, part –> Read More

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Poker fans and players will have until Saturday, August 15 to place their votes on which professional players should get inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. Out of all the nominees, only 10 finalists will be –> Read More

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We have arrived to the 2015 World Poker Tour Choctaw final table, where the final six players will go heads up to win the much desired WPT title, and the $682,975 in cash for the first place winner. –> Read More

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The Global Poker Index (GPI) releases weekly updates on which are the top tournament players from around the world. The way they do this is by using a formula that takes into account the player’s results from six –> Read More

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The Nevada poker rooms have seen a small increase in revenue during the first six months of 2015, compared to 2014. According to the state gaming regulators, July got a total revenue of $15,840,000, which is an increase –> Read More

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The Super High Roller Bowl, as well as the Celebrity Shootout poker tournaments took place recently at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, and even though we can see the end results online, it is much –> Read More

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The smartest place on earth, where students are able to learn all different kinds of trades and careers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to expand their base of knowledge to poker. That is right, the card –> Read More

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The 2015 World Series of Poker has finally given us the November Nine, the last nine players remaining in the tournament and Main Event. Sadly, for all of you fans, we will have to wait three months until –> Read More

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It is Day 6 of the World Series of Poker of 2015, during the No-Limit Hold’Em Main Event, the biggest and most popular event of the tournament series. With the $10,000 buy-in, there were 6,420 total entries, but –> Read More

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As the fifth day in competition is drawing to an end during the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event, Day 2C now has only 1,796 players left. There was a total of 6,420 entries this year for –> Read More

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The World Series Of Poker never ceases to be the center of attention, especially during the #68B Main Event. During the first day of playing, there was heavy rain, which was able to leak through the roof at –> Read More

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At the beginning of the year, the popular brand 888Poker decided to switch strategies in terms of how they handled live poker tournaments and games. It has been six months since they implemented their new strategy and they –> Read More

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The 2015 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Reading Main Event has ended and with big surprise Raul Martinez has come out on top as the new champion. He was able to remain chip leader throughout the event, ever since –> Read More

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It is a big day for players around the world, especially those in China, or at least, those that use OurGame International Holdings services. It seems that the World Poker Tour Enterprises has been sold to the China –> Read More

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Summer is the best time for players to enjoy some great action with the many different poker tournaments that have started or are about to start. With the ever so popular 2015 Super High Roller Series, taking place –> Read More

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This year’s World Series of Poker has been a great venue for all of the amateurs and unknown players to make a name for themselves. The latest big winners come from Event #28: Monster Stack $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, –> Read More

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A 27-Year-Old Electrical Engineer has just won the World Series of Poker Millionaire Maker event. Adrian Buckley walked away not only with the gold bracelet, but also with a huge $1,277,193 cas prize. Buckley could not believe that –> Read More

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The World Series of Poker Colossus tournament has ended, but it brought in a lot of media, as well as an enormous crowd of players; pro’s, as well as amateurs. The Colossus tournament took place from May 28 –> Read More

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One of the best football players in the world is also a huge poker player, so much so that he has decided to join the PokerStars.com team, becoming yet another famous face giving them publicity. The player in –> Read More

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With everything that has been happening over the course of several years, and California still has not been able to make up its mind on the regulation of online poker.

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If there is ever a rise of the machines, and the only way to beat them is by playing poker, we may be in trouble. At Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino, during the last two weeks, human minds were put –> Read More

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Asher Conniff, a player from Brooklyn, made a simple mistake when he was signing up for some poker tournaments that gave him the chance to walk away with first place, and $973,000 in cash. He actually “misclicked” when –> Read More

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It seems PokerStars.net has been busy building an interactive site, where poker players can go and test to see what kind of natural born skills they have. They use different scenarios, or games, in order to determine how –> Read More

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We all should know that poker may be in danger if a certain proposal passes, as it would ban certain forms of online gambling. There is a slim chance that this proposal will pass in Congress, but it –> Read More

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The Word Cup of Poker has come to an end, after a long weekend of some great match-ups between the best each qualifying country had to offer. This year, for the first time since it began, Team Italy –> Read More

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This weekend, the World Cup of Poker will take place, thanks to their sponsors PokerStars. This prestigious event started in 2004, marking this year to be the 11th year it has run. For those that do not know –> Read More

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If there was ever any evidence that poker is becoming even more popular than before it has to be the 2015 Horseshoe Council Bluffs $675 Main Event. The event had 426 entries, which created a prize pool of –> Read More

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The state of Michigan and the charity poker rooms are battling out their differences, as the emergency rules are about to expire in July. These emergency rules were put in place as to govern, regulate, and license any –> Read More

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There has been a big debate for the past 6 years in California, and it is that time of the year again where a decision must be made on the legislation regarding the authorization and regulation of online –> Read More

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Jonathan “Apestyles” Van Fleet is quickly becoming a popular name amongst online poker players. Van Fleet has recently won The Sunday Major on Full Tilt, where he took $33,866. He also took $102,959 from the PokerStars Double Vision –> Read More

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The UK may be welcoming in a new era of Poker, thanks to TonyBet and the Point of Consumption Tax. This will help bring in the highly popular poker sites, which will also come with sports betting. Owner –> Read More

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There are tons of old and new online poker sites that all offer different benefits, but in the end, we are looking for great quality combined with all those extra perks that make playing at that certain website –> Read More

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Poker still is a world famous card game that was mainly played face to face in certain locations, like casinos and event centers for the big tournaments. These large tournaments are still around to this day, and are –> Read More

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There is no doubt that playing free poker online has many benefits, which the main one is due to it being absolutely free. However, there are benefits that go beyond simply saving a few dollars. Some of the –> Read More

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Welcome to FreePoker.com, your #1 fun source for playing free poker games online. We are here to provide the best possible services when it comes to practice poker games, including offering a variety of different live poker games –> Read More

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When learning to play poker, the most fundamental aspect that you must know and understand are the poker hands. These poker hands are used in most of the poker variants, including Texas Hold’em, Omaha, 5-card Stud, and many –> Read More

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Loose play in Texas Holdem Poker is sometimes like yawning: Contagious to observers. A definition of loose or tight play in Texas Holdem is like two men trying to tell what they think a beautiful lady looks like. –> Read More

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Online poker players like to make fun of live poker players. Live poker players like to make fun of online poker players. So which one is right? The online players of course! Live poker is, without a doubt, –> Read More

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The flush – five cards of the same suit is an extraordinarily good hand in Texas Hold’em. Only quads (four of a kind), a full house (a set of one card plus a pair of another) or a –> Read More

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Best Starting Hands, or No-foldem Holdem In our discussion, we use the term No-foldem as a way to describe an imaginary game of Texas Holdem. No-foldem means exactly what you would expect. It refers to a game in –> Read More

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Have you been wondering what the best starting hands are in Texas Holdem? If you are like most people who are just beginning to play Holdem Poker you will probably start by looking for advice on how to –> Read More

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In Holdem poker, ‘Outs’ refers to the number of cards remaining in the deck that could improve your hand in various ways. Whenever we calculate the number of outs we do so by looking only at the cards –> Read More

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FPN Here is the latest Poker News.  The articles come from over 50 popular poker news sources, so check back often for updates. The News Categories are “Poker” and “Texas Holdem”. [google-news name=”Poker”] [google-news name=”Texas Holdem”] [google-news name=”Poker –> Read More

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Don’t miss out on the chance to place a bet on the Super Bowl at Bodog Sportsbook. This years contest features the New England Patriots, who are gunning for absolute perfection against the underdog New York Giants a team that barely scraped into the playoffs. In our introduction to Bodog betting we give you a complete, easy to follow tutorial on signing up for Bodog, making a deposit to your account and placing a bet on the Super Bowl. You can have a Bodog account set up and funded, and place your Super Bowl wager in a matter of minutes!

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Patience is the key for players who are just beginning to play Texas Holdem. Smart players will usually fold a lot of hands. Learn why you should play only a limited number of hole cards when first starting out at holdem poker.

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Pot odds are an important concept in holdem poker betting. Learn what pot odds are, how to calculate them, how to compare them to hand odds and how to use them to make smart betting decisions.

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Among Texas Holdem hands, small pocket pairs are not the best hole cards, but they offer big opportunities. Learn how to bet these hands before the flop and how to decide whether to continue on to the turn and river cards.

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Doyle Brunson is supposed to have said that suited connectors are his favorite Texas Holdem hole cards to bet on. Find out why these cards offer unique chances to flop a quality draw and take down big pots.