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James Van Alstyne added to his Card Player Player of the Year (POY) points yesterday when he won the 2007 Orleans Open $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship poker tournament.
The event attracted a total field of 219 players, which generated a prize pool of more than $210,000. Van Alstyne took home just under $58,000 and increased his spot in the POY standings from eighth to fourth place. Play route 66 poker
Another player who made the final table was Eric Narciso. He recently won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $500 buy-in employees’ event. Play $500 match poker bonus
Here are the final table payouts:
* James Van Alstyne: $57,815 * Randell Froscheroser: $36,790 * Dan Lemieux: $24,390 * Tony Makasovski: $16,820 * Eric Narciso: $12,615 Play strip poker * Vgur Marangoz: $9,460 * Sonny Lee: $7,360 * Randall Witt: $5,465 * Sonny Mayes: $3,570
“We were very pleased with the results, considering we ran the poker tournament series just after the World Series of Poker ended,” said Marlin Berland, a tournament director of the Orleans Open for the past nine years. Play women poker Joe Hachem
Poker News: Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters -- The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com. Time is running out to qualify as there are now only two semi-final packages left up for grabs worth $11,000, which includes buy-in, hotel and travel expenses. Play online poker
The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 through 17. The two winners of the semi-finals will take on 12 of Scandinavia's top players in 'The Game,' an exclusive high stakes cash game. Patrik Antonius, Martin De Knijff and Mats Rahm will take on the qualifiers along with the likes of Jan Sørensen, Kristian Kjøndal, Per Hildebrand, Rene Mouritsen and Tore Lagerborg. Read poker blogs
The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game. Play route 66 poker PartyPoker.com will pay the buy-in of $50,000 for the two qualifiers. The ten semi-finalists that miss out on the final will play for a share of $20,000 in a runner-up tournament. The high stakes cash game will be televised this autumn. Since this is a cash game there is no given prizepool, but every player has to buy in for an initial $50,000. 'The Game' will continue as long as there is money left or until the time runs out. Play full tilt poker
There are a number of ways to seize this prestigious opportunity. Qualification is available through daily freerolls, daily qualifiers for weekly satellite seats and direct buy-in to weekly satellites to play for guaranteed seats. Play Strip poker
A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game." Play women poker Joe Hachem
Poker News: Human poker players have won by a narrow margin in the first official competition between humans and computers. Play online poker
The game, organised by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pitched two of the world's best players against a program called Polaris developed by the University of Alberta. Read poker blogs
The game was played in four rounds, with the human players and computer software exchanging hands on alternate rounds. Play route 66 poker
One round was drawn, one was won by the human player, and the third was won by the software. But Ali Eslami pipped the computer to the post by just 570 points in the final round. Play $500 match poker bonus
"I really am happy it's over," Eslami told the Middle East Times. "I am surprised we won because Polaris is already so good and it will be tough to beat in future." Play full tilt poker
Eslami, a former computer consultant, said that he was surprised at how exhausting it was playing against a machine. Play strip poker Joe Hachem
Poker News: Today in the neverending battle between man and machine, machine wins again. Programmers at the University of Alberta have shown that Chinook, a computer program they created, can beat any opponent in checkers — or at least score a draw. Play online poker
We're a little surprised that this is news, as any electronic checkers game set to "advanced" has beaten us soundly for years. But it turns out that an earlier incarnation of Chinook actually lost to a real opponent, Dr. Marion Tinsley, in 1992. The new, improved Chinook, has been proved unbeatable mathematically, though unfortunately Dr. Tinsley is no longer around to compete with it. Read poker blogs
Next, the programmers hope to tackle poker. As for chess, according to , the paper's lead author, "Checkers has roughly the square root of the number of positions in chess." He estimates that the game won't be "solved" anytime soon. Read full tilt poker Joe Hachem
Poker News: Finance Minister Michael Cullen was accused today of playing a high stakes game of monetary policy poker with foreign currency speculators. Play online poker
Dr Cullen told journalists and Parliament that he had been deliberately trying to raise awareness of his never-used power to suspend his agreement with the Reserve Bank to target inflation. Read poker blogs
Monetary policy has always traditionally just attacked inflation, but under the minister's powers it would be possible, for instance, to tell the Reserve Bank that the dollar was so overvalued that it should cut interest rates. Play $500 match poker bonus
That could hurt many international currency speculators who have been buying the dollar confident that interest rates will remain high or go even higher.Play full tilt poker
Such a move would be unprecedented in New Zealand since the Reserve Bank was given authority, as an independent body, to combat inflation. Play route 66 poker
Yesterday, Dr Cullen said he was just pointing out that the power existed and while not actively considering its use, would not rule it out. Play $500 match poker bonus Joe Hachem
Poker news: Get your affairs in order, people. If you believe in a supreme being, make your peace with him/her. Play online poker
The apocalypse is nigh because today, the final table of this year's World Series of Poker -- as much a sport as hot dog eating and spelling bees -- will be available on ... you'd better sit down for this ... ESPN pay-per-view! Read poker blogs
Which means the ESPN folks expect a substantial number of get-a-lifers to pay money beyond the cost of their cable or satellite bills to watch a bunch of agoraphobics playing cards. Play route 66 poker
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Poker news: On the fourth and final day of the opening round of the World Series of Poker's main event, everybody was talking about the players who weren't there.If the U.S. government hadn't seen fit to crack down on online gambling, poker insiders were saying, at least 4,000 more players would have signed up for the "Big One," the $10,000 no-limit Texas hold 'em world championship poker tournament, sending the size of the field into record five-figure territory. Play online poker
As it was, the main event drew 6,358 entrants, down about 27 percent from last year's record turnout of 8,773. The culprit for the drop-off was the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which made it more cumbersome for Americans to move money to and from online poker sites and prompted some online poker rooms to pull out of the U.S. market. Read poker blogs
It also changed the dynamics of how players who won a World Series of Poker entry online - an estimated 55 percent of last year's field was generated by Internet qualifiers - actually registered for the poker tournament.In each of the past couple of years, representatives from the major online poker rooms were on hand at the Rio to shepherd the registration of their "satellite" winners. Play $500 match poker bonus Joe Hachem
