Poker News: The “Godfather of Poker” Doyle Brunson is coming to town! The legendary poker pro will be in London in September to launch his new-look poker room – DoylesRoom.com - across the UK and Europe. Play online poker
His visit will also coincide with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe, the first event of its kind, which is taking place in London and kicks off on September 6th. Read poker blogs
Brunson, nicknamed ‘Texas Dolly’, is the biggest name in the poker world. His list of achievements is endless: he was the first player to earn $1 million in tournaments and has picked up an amazing 10 WSOP bracelets throughout a glittering career. Play route 66 poker
Doyle Brunson wrote his name into the poker history books when he won consecutive WSOP Main Event bracelets in 1976 and 1977 and remains one of only four men to do so. Given his track record it is little wonder BLUFF magazine last year named him the ‘Most Influential Force in the World of Poker’. Play $500 match poker bonus
He has taught millions how to play the game with his book Super System, published in 1978, and an updated version, Super System 2, released in 2004. His latest book, My 50 Most Memorable Hands, reveals 50 of the greatest poker hands he’s ever played. Play full tilt poker
Doyle’s move into online was a natural progression and has proved a great success. The DoylesRoom.com website offers poker tournaments, great cash games, and sit ‘n’ gos as well as advice from Mike Caro, founder of the first permanent poker school. The site boasts the highest and lowest limit tables on the web and attracts celebrity players including his son Todd Brunson. Play strip poker Kathy Liebert
The United Kingdom responsible gambling organisation Gamcare has accredited Gibraltar-based online poker site Poker Stars.com, acknowledging that the company has "...achieved high standards in player protection and social responsibility and recognises the need to assist their customers to play responsibly." Read poker blogs
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In order to achieve GamCare certification, PokerStars.com had to make changes to its site in order to implement the GamCare Code of Practice for Remote Gambling in relation to its online poker service, the company revealed this week. Play $500 match poker bonus
To achieve certification, PokerStars.com implemented several practices, one of which was an age verification system to ensure that all U.K. players were of legal age to place bets on the site. The poker site also implemented a self-exclusion option for those players who feel they may have a problem and wish to suspend their play for as little as 24 hours or as long as 180 days or more. Play full tilt poker Kathy Liebert
Poker News: The police weren’t bluffing when they busted in on a high-stakes poker scam at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.
What they found was a room filled with high-tech surveillance equipment that allowed a cheating ring to rip off poker players who participated in private games, authorities said. Play online poker
One of four men arrested at Borgata on June 7 by New Jersey State Police was Steve Forte, a Las Vegas gaming consultant who is an internationally recognized expert on ways to thwart casino cheaters. Play full tilt poker
Forte, 51, is the author of Casino Game Protection, described on his Web site as a comprehensive guide covering the intricacies of casino scams and strategies. Perhaps the members of the State Police Organized Crime Bureau and Casino Unit read Forte’s book before making the Borgata raid. Play route 66 poker
Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, said Forte and his alleged co-conspirators set up private, big-money poker games at Borgata to cheat unsuspecting players. The private games were not connected to Borgata’s normal casino operations. Play $500 match poker bonus
The scam artists used strategically placed surveillance cameras to peek at the players’ hands. The information was secretly relayed to an accomplice who wore an undetectable radio receiver in his ear. Computer programs and marked playing cards also were used by the cheaters to enhance their chances of winning, according to Aseltine. Play Strip poker Kathy Liebert
Poker News: Pre-registration for the World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com has been open for only two weeks and already some of the biggest names in poker have paid the £10,000 entry fee to the Main Event. Play online poker
Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Roland de Wolfe, John Juanda, Allen Cunningham, Todd Brunson, Eli Elezra, Howard Lederer, Humberto Brenes and woman poker player, Jennifer Harman are the highlights in a long list of poker’s elite who have already secured their seats. Read poker blogs
“There are over 60 WSO Poker Tournament bracelets between the pre-registrants so far,” said World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. “The inaugural World Series Europe will have a world-class field.” Play full tilt poker
Phil Hellmuth recently won his record breaking eleventh WSOP bracelet. In a statement to the press he said: “I’m going to London to make history again by winning the first WSOP bracelet ever awarded outside of Las Vegas.” Play route 66 poker
Betfair has set aside 125 seats for online qualifiers. “We want to have a strong presence on the ground at this event,” said Head of Poker Ben Fried. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for our players to compete against some of the greatest in the world.” Play $500 match poker bonus Kathy Liebert
Poker News: Poker Academy, the premier source for quality poker software , today announced it will supply the technological platform for the first $50,000 Man Versus Machine Texas Holdem Poker Championship, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 23 and 24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, B.C. Play online poker
The $50,000 Man-Machine Texas Holdem Poker Championship will pit a poker-playing computer program developed at the University of Alberta against two top-level poker professionals in a controlled scientific experiment with real money on the line. Polaris, the reigning world champion computer poker program, will challenge Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami. Play $500 match poker bonus
The Man-Machine competition will consist of four 500-hand duplicate matches. In each duplicate match, the same series of cards will be dealt in two parallel Man-Machine matches, with teammates playing the opposite hands in each game. At the end of the match, the total number of chips won or lost by each team is added together to determine the winning team. This format is used to reduce the element of random luck to a minimum, and get a much better indication of the differences in skill. Play route 66 poker Kathy Liebert
Poker News: Bellingham's Garfinkle settles for 10th place and $476,926: Eastern Washington graduate Lee Watkinson is among nine players remaining in the World Series of Poker main event, a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament in Las Vegas that attracted 6,358 entrants. Play online poker
Starting today, the nine at the final table will compete for the top prize of $8.25 million. Read poker blogs
Steven Garfinkle, 37, an associate professor of history at Western Washington, settled for a 10th-place finish that was worth $476,926. Play route 66 poker
"I'd seen very few cards in the last hour and the time was coming where I needed to either pick up chips or go home," Bellingham resident Garfinkle said after busting out. Play full tilt poker
Philip Hilm, a 31-year-old Dane, is the poker chip-count leader with 22.07 million. Watkinson, 40, is sixth on the chip-count list at 9.925 million. Play $500 match poker bonus Kathy Liebert
Poker News: The way the second round of this years World Series of Poker main event is structured, there will be two days, 2A and 2B, on Tuesday and Wednesday, then the field will finally be combined on day 3, Thursday. Play online poker
Day 2B started the day with 1037 poker players that were combined survivors of days 1A and 1B. The day was set to go until 350 players remained, or if they were close at the end of round four, the tournament director reserved the right to help the players out, and shut it down for the night. Read poker blogs
If day 2A only plays four rounds, then on Wednesday, day 2B will only play four rounds, as the time played has to be the same going into Thursday's day 3.ESPN's feature table for day 2A included "Miami" John Cennuto, Scotty Nguyen, and women poker player Sabyl Cohen, who was the highest finishing woman at last years event. Download poker wallpapers
Many professionals and celebrities were eliminated on Tuesday including pros Daniel Harrington, Joe Hachem, Paul Wasicka, Cennuto, and 2007 WSOP player of the year, Tom Schneider. Play $500 match poker bonus
Among the celebrities that took an early exit were Brad Garrett and talk show host Montell Williams, who had a bit of problem early when he arrived and his poker chip count on his bag at his seat did not match the chips inside the bag. The poker tournament director was informed, and after reviewing the security tapes, determined that the chips in the bag were miscounted and Williams received the missing $5,000 in chips. they did him no good, however, as he was eliminated later in the day. play $500 match poker bonus Kathy Liebert
