World Poker Tour Enterprises Inc. signed an agreement on Monday with the China Leisure Sports Administrative Center to promote "the sport of poker, by helping to create, expand and commercialize China's first ever national poker competition." Read poker blogs
A statement from WPT said the partnership agreement would run for five years, with an option to extend. Additional details weren't given and it wasn't clear what stakes participants would play for. Play route 66 poker
Interest in poker has exploded in the United States in the past few years with the advent of televised poker tournaments such as the WPT and the World Series of Poker. Los Angeles, California-based WPT Enterprises Inc. signed a licensing deal earlier this year with Game Show Network LLC for the sixth season of its World Poker Tour television series.
The game, called Traktor Poker in the U.S. and Tua La Ji in China, was declared a sport in China in 2002. Play route 66 poker Erik Seidel
Poker News: In-house poker games are gaining popularity, with thieves as well as card sharks. Incidents of poker game robberies are on the rise around the country and today Loudoun experienced its first such robbery in Ashburn. Play online poker
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office investigators say the poker game was the apparent target of three suspects, who burst through the door brandishing firearms at a group of unsuspecting card players. Read poker blogs
The incident occurred at 12:15 a.m. Sheriff's deputies responded to Wild Meadow Court for a report of a burglary in progress. Upon arrival, deputies learned that the masked suspects had entered a residence through a basement door. Once inside, two of the men brandished firearms. One grabbed a 30-year-old victim and ordered the other two victims to get on the ground. The suspects then stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the poker table and fled the scene in what may have been a small light-colored SUV. Play route 66 poker
This is the first poker game robbery reported in Loudoun County, although the sheriff's office is familiar with home invasion-style robberies, said sheriff's office spokesman Kraig Troxell. Play full tilt poker Erik Seidel
Read poker blogs. In a match of wits between man and machine last week, a software program running on an ordinary laptop computer played a close game but lost to two well-known human poker professionals.
The contest, which was billed as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship" and which offered prize money totalling $US50,000 ($57,000), pitted Phil Laak and Ali Eslami against a program written by a team of artificial intelligence researchers from the University of Alberta. They gave it a name probably no gambler would ever choose: Polaris. Play route 66 poker
Poker is thought to be a more difficult challenge for software designers than, say, chess. Computer scientists have to develop different strategies and algorithms to deal with the uncertainties introduced by the hidden cards held by each player, as well as difficult-to-quantify risk-taking behaviour such as bluffing. Play full tilt poker
Jonathan Schaeffer of the Canadian university's computer science department launched the poker-playing research effort 16 years ago. He said the advances being made in the development of poker-playing software are likely to be more applicable in the real world than chess research. Play Strip poker Erik Seidel
Poker News: While one Fernley man recuperates from a double-organ transplant, friends and family are sponsoring a poker run to help with the expenses of the operation, medications and peripheral costs. Play online poker
This year's benefit will assist Eric Bryant, who recently had a kidney and pancreas transplant due to the effects of diabetes. Read poker blogs
"At first, we put out donation jars," said co-organizer Melissa Gassner, "but there were so few places to put them we were trying to come up with something else that might help raise funds to defray some of the expenses. Play $500 match poker bonus
"I've been to other poker runs, and they seem to draw a good crowd and make a lot of money to benefit families," said Gassner, who along with her husband are co-workers of Eric Bryant at Johns Manville. Play full tilt poker
Gassner and Bryant's wife, Tina, put together an Organ Transplant Benefit Poker Run for Saturday to benefit Eric this year and other organ transplant recipients in coming years. Play strip poker Erik Seidel
Poker News: What has longer odds? That a U.S. Forces Korea employee could place in the World Series of Poker or that he would come back to work after winning $285,000? Play online poker
Vegas oddsmakers haven’t figured it out yet, but USFK civilian contractor Ronald Kluber did both. Read poker blogs
Kluber returned to work at the USFK intelligence office Monday after spending six days in Las Vegas, where he placed 29th in the World Series of Poker’s Main Event. Play route 66 poker
“I did not expect to get that far into the money,” he said during a phone interview Monday. Play $500 match poker bonus
After winning the money, he sent an e-mail back to his boss at Yongsan Garrison to say he would be back in time for a big training exercise. Play full tilt poker
Kluber beat more than 6,000 other Texas Hold ’em players for the right to call himself one of the best. Among his opponents were some of professional poker’s star players. Play poker tournaments Erik Seidel
Poker News: In the second part of his interview over the weekend with the online poker information portal Poker News, Florida Congressman Robert Wexler stressed the importance in the US political system of voters' views on issues that concerned them.
Commenting that there are thousands of poker players in every Congressional district in America, the Congressman said: "If people who are interested and enjoy playing poker, if one one-hundredth of those people take a small amount of time to contact in one way or another their member of Congress and say, "Hey, Mr. or Mrs. Member of Congress, why in God's name would you vote to prohibit me, a adult, to choose to play whatever game I want to play on the Internet?" Play online poker
He said that the more people that engage in the political process in that fashion, the more compelling it will be, and Congress will react. Play route 66 poker
"What I think most Americans don't appreciate, letters DO matter to members of Congress," Wexler said. "Emails DO matter, form letters, personal letters DO matter, telephone calls DO matter. There has been an article or two about this issue. Play $500 match poker bonus
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal, there have been articles on others, and it is just anecdotal. Play poker tournaments. But I got a bigger response from just being in one line in an article about a poker issue than I have in just about any other issue I've been involved in, in my twelve years in Congress." Play full tilt poker Erik Seidel
Poker News: Four players remained at the final table of the World Series of Poker's main event after British player Jon Kalmar lost a head-to-head bet against South African Raymond Rahme on Tuesday. Play online poker
Mr. Kalmar, 34, said he was thrilled to have made nearly $1.26 million with his fifth-place finish, and said he intended to use his winnings to pay bills and perhaps buy a car back home in Chorly, England. Read poker blogs
His failed gambit to double his dwindling cache of chips boosted Mr. Rahme, a 62-year-old former bed and breakfast inn owner from Johannesburg, to a distant second behind Jerry Yang. Play route 66 poker
Only minutes earlier, Hevad Khan, 22, from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., became the fourth poker player eliminated when his ace and queen of spades couldn't top a pair of jacks belonging to a surging Mr. Yang.
Mr. Khan didn't seem disappointed with sixth place and his $956,243 payday as he celebrated with friends in the audience. Play $500 match poker bonus Erik Seidel
