The Real deal: Know when to fold them
The idea that we can fall in love with something against our better judgement may be a common theme of Hugh Grant movies, but poker players do it all the time.Actually, average poker players do it all the time, often to their cost.One of the core skills which differentiates the professional player from the amateur is the ability to fold what appears to be a strong hand when facing adverse circumstances.Conversely, the majority of novice players have a habit of falling in love with big cards at ...
Students make big money Internet gambling
Nearly every visitor to Las Vegas shares the dream of one day returning to the Strip with enough cash to sit down at the high-stakes tables with movie stars, Saudi royalty and international financiers. Few realize that that dream is reality for several Stanford undergraduates who play for big money online sometimes losing or winning tens of thousands of dollars in a single day.Texas Hold em exploded as a national sensation in 2003, the year that ESPN first broadcast the World Series of Poker...
Make a stand or lose it all
STATELINE, Nev. (AP) - A "perfect storm" of favorable conditions has put poker on a path to be a mainstream event on the level of NBA games and NASCAR races, experts told a gambling conference Thursday.Televised poker shows, which let viewers see players' cards, and Internet gambling have given top poker players rock-star status and created a huge crowd of new players and fans, two-time World Series of Poker champion Howard Lederer and others said.Even a move in Congress to crack down on Internenet...
House Panel Approves Internet Gambling Ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters)The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday aimed at banning Internet gambling, an estimated $12 billion industry.The measure would update and expand existing law to cover all forms of interstate gambling in the United States and would bar a gambling business from accepting payment in the form of credit cards, checks, wire and Internet transfers.It would also prohibit gambling on an estimated 2,300 Internet gambling sites, many run by offshore ...
Winning by bullying a poker bully
It can be really frustrating to have an extremely aggressive player at your table who just won't seem to leave you alone. No matter what you do, the bully keeps coming after you, especially if you aren't getting any good cards of your own.Hopefully, after reading this column, you'll have all the tools you need to fight the good fight and start pounding back. If you know anything about a bully, you know that if you stand up to him, he'll usually run away and hide.Let him run, but get his chips ...
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