THINGS TO DO
Leaf Chronicle - 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. University Poker Tour Free Texas Hold ‘Em at The Pinnacle, 430 Warfield Blvd. 647-2695. 4 p.m. Free Texas Hold ‘Em at Cherries Bar and Grill, 808 S Riverside Drive. 802-2751. 8 p.m. “Chicago” at the Roxy Regional

Understanding Pot Odds in Online Texas Hold Em
Gambling 911 - If you’re not playing with an awareness of pot odds, then you will certainly become a very popular player in your poker room of choice! A knowledge of pot odds in online Texas Hold Em alone won’t make you a World Series caliber payer, but if you’re

Motor racing-McLaren knew Ferrari secrets in March, says Todt
Reuters UK - The Frenchman told the Ferrari Web site (www.ferrariworld.com) that the situation was like “playing a hand of poker with a rival who already knows what cards you are holding.” Speaking “in the cold light of day” after championship leaders McLaren went

City opens inquiry into video gambling
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Luck could be running out for businesses illegally operating video gambling machines in Arlington. The city has begun investigating 50 businesses that are believed to have video poker machines and the casino-style slot machines known as eight- liners

Humans beat the machines at poker
ITnews - Humans take on computer in poker tournament Humans created 161 exabytes of data in 2006 IPod vending machines land at airports, hotels Robot poker player ups the ante Hackers beat the pirates Human poker players have won by a narrow margin in the

Humans Win Man-Vs.-Computer Poker Test
PC Magazine - While computers have the edge over humans in chess, the first man-vs.-machine poker championship is over, with a pair of humans taking the crown. Sponsored by the University of Alberta in Canada, the test pitted two top poker players, Phil Laak and

‘Provincial first’
Regina Leader-Post - The bar checks occurred on the same weekend as a poker run involving Hells Angels members, police said. According to the Saskatchewan Motorcycle Association Web site, the Red and White Poker Run was scheduled to leave and return to Regina locations on

62nd place in world poker tourney not too shabby
Batavia Sun - Jeff Tunkel likes to play poker, and after last week, his interest paid off with big dividends. The 25-year-old Naperville resident placed 62nd out of 6,358 players in the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. His four-and-a-half day run

Shannon Elizabeth deals herself in for poker match
News.com.au - VISITING American Pie actor-turned professional poker player Shannon Elizabeth arrived in Melbourne yesterday from Los Angeles, wasting no time seeing the sights of Melbourne. Elizabeth is here to plat in the Victorian Poker Championship, which

Laak-Eslami Team Defeats Polaris in Man-Machine Poker Championship
Poker News - Poker professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami have defeated a poker-playing computer program dubbed Polaris in the “First Man-Machine Poker Championship.” The two-day, four-session match took place at the annual meeting of the Association for the

No trial in the Hurricane Katrina mercy killings.
Slate - 500 billion possible positions shows it can’t be beaten. Hype : 1) Checkers has lost all suspense, just like tic-tac-toe. 2) Humans will never beat computers at it. 3) We’ll stop playing altogether. 4) Next, computers will conquer chess and poker.

Humans win tense poker match against computer
CBC News - In what scientists are dubbing the first man-versus-machine poker championship, two professional poker players beat a University of Alberta poker-playing software program called Polaris in Vancouver. The tournament began on Monday and ended late

Washington’s Hidden Taxes
Forbes - You might want to brush up on tax rules as well as your poker skills. Even if you have a net loss at the table, you’re still taxed on your winnings. Yes, you can list your losses as a miscellaneous itemized deduction–but you can’t deduct more than

Police: Kids Left In Car While Dad Plays Poker
News Channel 2000 - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville father said he’s very remorseful about leaving his two young children in a car while he played a few hands of poker inside the St. Johns Greyhound Park. Police arrested Terrence Davis on Wednesday on charges of

Poker As a Game of Skill: Interview With Congressman Robert Wexler
Poker News - In part one of our interview with Congressman Robert Wexler yesterday, we discussed the piece of legislation that he recently introduced into Congress. In part two of the interview, Wexler talks about the process that must be undertaken to get bills

Upstart Yang captures World Series of Poker
Baltimore Sun - LAS VEGAS - Jerry Yang pounced when he sensed weakness. When he needed outside help, his prayers were answered. Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist from Temecula, Calif., began playing poker only two years ago, but he quickly jumped from eighth in chips

NBA had eye on ref
New York Daily News - Anstey told the investigator - who said she worked for a local firm hired by the NBA - that Donaghy bet on golf games, neighborhood poker games and at an Atlantic City casino. The prober never asked Anstey whether Donaghy bet on pro basketball games.

Poker-playing computer takes on human aces
Guardian Unlimited - A showdown pitting human brains against artificial intelligence is to go ahead this evening when two professional poker players take on a computer in the world’s first such man-machine challenge. Phil Laak and Ali Eslami will play Polaris, the most

Chips were down for poker champion
Sydney Morning Herald - A 31-YEAR-OLD player with just $250 to his name is $300,000 richer after winning one of the world’s largest poker tournaments last night. Rodney Davidson’s financial situation was so dire his car was on the verge of being repossessed when he won the

Concerned father spreads word about water safety
Miami Herald - He hopes to get a boost from a charity poker tournament this Friday at the Carolina Country Club in Margate. Professional poker star Kathy Liebert, is flying in from Las Vegas as a celebrity guest, Miller said. Once produced, the brochure and the

CNBC Report on The 2007 World Series of Poker Now Up
Gambling 911 - A media piece that aired Tuesday night on CNBC’s “On The Money” featured - for a brief moment anyway - Gambling911.com Publisher, Christopher Costigan. The report focused on the 2007 World Series of Poker, how it has become such a mega event, but was

Internet producing a new breed of poker star
MSNBC - The future of poker isn t hunkered down in a smoky card room in the back of roadside tavern. It s not wearing a weathered face, chewing on a cigar and glaring lightning bolts from beneath a 10 gallon hat. The future of poker is fresh-faced and

ON POKER
Houston Chronicle - Q-9 and J-8 aren’t exactly monster hands. In fact, these two hands should come with a warning label because they could cost you all of your chips. I’m referring to situations where you end up with a straight but lose to a higher straight. Let’s say

World Series Poker player finishes in top 3 percent
Villages Daily Sun - THE VILLAGES Doing something for 16 hours straight would be quite exhausting except for sleeping. Piedmont resident Jerry Kane recently spent four straight days, averaging 12 consecutive hours a day, doing what he loves most. Two days

macon.com MIDDAY UPDATE: California psychologistwins World Series of
Macon Telegraph - Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional training in his card-playing arsenal, won the $8.25 million top prize this morning at the World Series of Poker. Yang vaulted quickly from eighth to the chip lead soon after play began

July 16: Female poker star on the rise
MSNBC - Maria Ho has just had the time of her life, picking up a spectacular $237,865 prize money for her 38th place finish amongst the field of 6,358 starters in this year s World Series of Poker main event. But what garnered her the most attention was

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Hays Daily News - Eds: RETRANSMITS to FIX slug. With BC-World Series of Poker-Finishers, BC-World Series of Poker-Main Event Glance, BC-World Series of Poker. By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In no-limit Texas Hold ‘em, the game played at the main event of

Gold was sued by his friend Crispin Leyser
MSNBC - Defending champion Jamie Gold was unable to advance past the first day of the World Series of Poker main event. His ouster, along with that of several other high-profile players during each of the four opening days, illustrates just how difficult it

Sole survivor: Yang takes World Series of Poker, $8.25M
CBS Sportsline - LAS VEGAS — Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist from Temecula, Calif., won the main event of the World Series of Poker and its $8.25 million top prize. Yang, who said he uses his professional training and reads of players as a weapon, vaulted

Your play: World Series of Poker or the lottery?
Newsday - Some say nothing. They’re just different kinds of gambling. But why then are there professional poker players, and no professional lottery players? Webster’s dictionary says gambling is “to play games of chance for money or some other stake.” Is

World Series of Poker 2007 Should Have Had Minimum 14,000 Playing
Gambling 911 - The numbers are staggering but they cannot be ignored. World Series of Poker organizers seem content that they have attracted 6358 players in the 2007 event. To anyone who hasn’t followed the WSOP numbers these past few years that’s a mighty

Hard Rock reins in high-stakes poker games
Miami Herald - For five days this week, wild, high-stakes games ruled the poker room at the Hard Rock Casino near Hollywood. Players sauntered into the casino toting bags of money, gamblers said. There were reports of pots topping $100,000. But the party’s over. In

Late jack turns table on Realtor
Middletown Journal - That was a far cry from where he sat just 72 hours earlier. Evans found himself in the eye of the poker storm seat No. 10, table No. 20 in the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. “It was an

World Series of Poker: Hanging with the boys
MSNBC - It s mid-day and I m writing a story in my room at the Rio when my cell phone rings. It s Ciaran O Leary. He s arrived in Las Vegas and wants to meet up, introduce me to the boys. I had interviewed Ciaran (pronounced KEER-AHN) before going

CORRECTING and REPLACING Pre-Registration Opens for World Series of
Forbes - Pre-registrations officially opened today for the World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair.com, and all-time WSOP bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth Jr. has made an official commitment to play. “I’ve played all over the world and particularly

Your World Series of Poker Update
AOL - Meandering around the tables in Vegas, there’s more than a few intriguing storylines emerging at the World Series Of Poker. Never say that the program doesn’t give viewers what it wants: the despicable Jamie Gold, last year’s champion and the alleged

July 7: An amateur chases his dream
MSNBC - World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack says his event isn t about the stars, but about the dream. And as far as what captures the attention of the public, he is right. The average sports fan can t just walk onto an NBA court and play

The final cut can hurt the most
MSNBC - Imagine being across the country from your family, all alone in a strange city, grinding away at the poker tables hour after hour after hour. Now imagine plodding your way through a 12-hour day in a cavernous room filled with unforgiving strangers

Bluff Europe and World Poker Tour’s (R) ‘Poker in The Park’ take
MSN MoneyCentral - If you ever doubted the popularity of poker in London for a moment, think again — Poker is alive and thriving in London. Hundreds of poker enthusiasts descended upon Leicester Square yesterday as Bluff Europe Magazine held their ‘Poker in the Park

Video poker ban will curb, not eliminate, problem
Asheville Citizen-Times - The video poker industry is dead in North Carolina. But it s likely to be a death similar to that of the spirits industry during prohibition. While it was no longer legal to make alcoholic beverages during that era, alcohol didn t exactly go away

NORM: A little poker before court date
Las Vegas Review Journal - Former hockey star Rick Tocchet and Wayne Gretzky ’s wife, Janet Jones , are making gambling headlines again. Tocchet and Jones, who were named in a gambling scandal that put Gretzky in an unwanted spotlight, are trying their luck in the World Series

Blow 10 grand at the World Series of Poker
MSNBC - You’ve spent the last seven weeks ping-ponging from a noisy, over-crowded conference hall on the Vegas Strip to a luxury mansion near a championship golf course. You’ve paid handsomely for the privilege in both cases. If you’re good (world-class good

Penguins’ Maxime Talbot Ices Poker Also
Caspar Star-Tribune - PITTSBURGH - Maxime Talbot loves playing hockey and, perhaps even more, talking about it. The enjoyment he gets from playing the sport is difficult to disguise. Starting Friday, Talbot will enter a new arena in which the passion and personality he

Seminoles shut down high-stakes poker games
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - The Seminole Tribe of Florida sent the state’s poker community into a frenzy this week by briefly offering high-stakes games akin to Las Vegas. But just as suddenly as the games started up at six of the Seminoles’ casinos, the tribe shut them down

Poker: Game of chance or sport of skill?
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Poker. Stock car racing. Wrasslin’ (not to be confused with wrestling). Some people ask if these qualify as sports or if the people competing in them are athletes. I have an easy answer, but we’ll get to that in a minute. The difficult problem with

Card sharks for a cause
Boston Globe - Pro poker pixie Annie Duke and her Brookline-bred boyfriend Joe Reitman were just a few of the Hollywood types who took part in Ante Up for Africa, a celebrity poker tournament in Las Vegas. The event, held during this week’s World Series of Poker

Florida Poker Room Temporarily Shut Down Over Stakes Issue
Poker News - Ultra high-stakes poker at Florida casinos enjoyed a short-lived, five-day run before authorities stepped in and applied a stricter interpretation of that state’s new law allowing for an increase in legal poker stakes. The law allowing poker to be

WPT Enterprises Launches Real Money Gaming Website, WorldPokerTour.com
Forbes - Five years ago televised poker sparked the global poker boom and skyrocketed the online gaming business into a multi-billion dollar-per-year industry, yet gaming laws prompted WPTE to tailor its rules accordingly and not accept US bets. In April, WPT

Residents to gamble in chamber’s tournament
Desert Sun - The La Quinta Chamber of Commerce wants you to gamble and support it at the same time at its Texas Hold Em Poker Tournament Saturday. The tournament, scheduled from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Spotlight 29 Casino Poker Room in Coachella, is open to

Chuck Blount on poker: Light buy-ins can shackle overall table success
San Antonio Express News - The first decision a poker player must make before sitting down at the table or logging onto their favorite online poker site is a biggie: how much money to buy in for in a no-limit game? There are two very distinct schools of thought between buying

Polk bets on solving crimes
Orlando Sentinel - Men and women who are booked out of the county jail are now given a poker chip that has “Crime Stoppers” stamped on one side, and the organization’s toll-free telephone number printed on the other. Heartland Crime Stoppers is an organization that

Robert T. Barrett Sr., 67
Baltimore Sun - Other hobbies included fishing and playing poker. Mr. Barrett was an active member of the men’s auxiliary at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2462 in Pasadena. His wife of 35 years, the former Helene Darlene Kucharski, died 1998. Services will be held at

Terra Firma Says 3.6 Percent of EMI Shares Tendered (Update2)
Bloomberg - Warner vaguely suggested they were considering a bid, but it’s gone a bit quiet in the last two or three weeks,'’ DeGroote said. “It’s a very elaborate game of poker. It’s hard to call.'’ EMI, which ended talks with Permira Advisers LLP in

MTR gets OK for table games at casino
Boston Globe - Moutaineer will provide 37 poker tables during the third quarter, and 50 table games during the fourth quarter. There is no limit on bets or number of games. The company expects the additional tables will add roughly 700 jobs. Shares of MTR rose 40

High cocoa price bodes ill for chocoholics
Swiss Info - Laurent Pipitone, senior statistician at the ICCO, said that while the supply deficit was a clear factor in driving up prices, they were also being fuelled by a “poker game” over cocoa futures on the financial markets. He said it was impossible to

GAMBLING GOLD RUSH?
San Francisco Gate - Online poker is currently the most addictive form of gambling activity among American youth,” Kyl said. “Online poker players are more likely to exhibit problem gambling symptoms than other types of gamblers, and over half of young people who

Does the NFL need a minor league?
FOXSports.com - If developmental poker can be televised, broadcast options shouldn’t be a problem. There may be ratings issues when American Idol returns, but the key issue is development. The big-thinkers also propose that these minor-league franchises should be

Solis vs. Colliander in Hamburg
East Side Boxing - ner: Aldo wanted to play a round of purse poker. But he didn t know that I am a very experienced gambler. Nobody rips me off or fools me. Solis wants to take the next step on his way to a Championship bout by beating the strong Swede who