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As if not before time PokerStars have finally been confirmed as the name behind a new TV poker show “The Big Game”, to be aired on Fox TV later in the year. “The Big Game” will be a series of televised cash poker games with player’s putting up $10,000 to play in $200/$400 no limit [...]
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One week after Joe Cada won the 2009 WSOP comes the news that Patrik Antonius has made a record online win for playing internet poker. The biggest win in online poker history came during an all-Scandinavian match between the Finn and the mystery Swedish online poker player ‘Isildur1′, who had himself previously taken apart top [...]
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Two quite separate news articles caught my eye this week; that are strangely connected regarding professional poker players. Both of the articles concern the professional poker players on the numerous world poker tours that seem to provide a year round living for them.
Too many poker tours?
The first article to catch my eye related that there [...]
A report recently filed highlights what is surely an anomaly and indeed an anathema (completely against the grain) for all poker players. Apparently some Californian casinos are offering prize money in the thousands of dollars – even if you lose at a game of poker; surely meaning that the lunatics have finally taken over the [...]
Who says there’s no room for charity in the game of poker? Well being charitable to your opponents in a game of poker would be very odd indeed; however, playing poker to raise money for charity – is surely a most noble thing to do. Poker players are often portrayed as being rather self-indulgent and [...]