A game of skill, strategy and luck, poker is a card game that has gained immense mainstream popularity in recent years. The best poker players showcase similar traits: intelligence, patience, personality, sense of humor, and the ability to bluff. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com speaks with poker expert Simon Gravel, author of Les Maîtres du Poker – a book about today’s poker masters – to learn more about the personality of a great poker player, as well as the game’s place in pop culture and how a politician like President Barack Obama might use the game to advance his political career. continue reading...
Good news for Poker fans! From USAToday.com:
Poker’s biggest tournament and ESPN have cut a new deal. continue reading...
News from PokerNewsDaily.com:
In breaking news from Capitol Hill, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) will introduce legislation to license and regulate online poker in the United States on Thursday, according to Dow Jones Newswires. continue reading...
From OnlineCasinoAdvisory.com:
While the government keeps the online poker bank account seizures details under a tight lock and key, attempting to prevent residents from learning the illegal methods used against their money, some facts are drifting out. Account Services, one of the payment processors using the frozen accounts to pay Internet poker winners, has filed to force release of the stolen funds. continue reading...
From PokerNewsDaily.com:
With only scant days remaining until the start of the $10,000 Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the race for the remaining bracelets is heating up in the Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. continue reading...
From PokerListings.com:
The 33-year-old professional poker player topped a field of 125 to take the $300,000 first prize in the three-day, $10,000 buy-in event at the Paiute Golf Resort. continue reading...
From OnlinePokerWebsite.net:
This week Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank introduced a set of bills designed to freeze the UIGEA and allow US residents freedom to play poker on the Internet. Frank’s bill establishes the Department of the Treasury as the licensing and regulating authority, and provides for the consumer protections the gambling ban does not offer, including age and identification verification, responsible gaming systems, and measures against money laundering and cheating. continue reading...
Read more from Pokernewsdaily.com:
Steve Schirripa, an actor on the popular “Sopranos” television series on HBO, will host “Face the Ace” on NBC. The grand prize on the poker meets reality television program is $1 million and airing begins on August 1st. The show represents NBC’s first venture into prime time poker programming. continue reading...
From NewScientist.com:
IS POKER a game of skill or luck? For regular players that’s a no-brainer, but showing that skill wins out has proven surprisingly difficult for mathematicians. Now two studies that tapped the vast amounts of data available from online casinos have provided some of the best evidence yet that poker is skill-based. Many hope that the results will help to roll back laws and court decisions that consider poker gambling, and therefore illegal in certain contexts. continue reading...
Tips from one of the best. This is part 1 of 3: continue reading...
