Poker legalization hearing in Greenville, SC The Poker Players Alliance has just sent out notice of a poker legalization hearing in Charleston and Greenville, SC this month. From the e-mail: Playing poker in the privacy of your own home is a crime in South Carolina thanks to a ridiculous outdated state law [...]
Since We’re Talking About Frolf… I have a scabbed over gash that runs from the top of my left triceps down past the elbow. The left hand has a few nasty scratches that make it look like I lost a catnip fight with a panther. My special “frolf shoes”, actually Teva trail shoes, [...]
Grading the South Carolina poker legalization hearing I showed up early for Monday’s South Carolina Senate subcommittee hearing. Up for debate and public input were two bills that would effectively make legal home poker games and charitable raffles. South Carolina is one of two states in the country that bars raffles (thanks to [...]
Absolute Poker Leads the field in Bad Beat Poker Jackpots with new $300k+ Jackpot When it comes to attracting Texas Hold’em poker players to the online poker tables, Absolute Poker definitely has the chip lead. As of Wednesday afternoon ET, the jackpot of Absolute Poker’s popular Bad Beat Jackpot game had reached at an impressive [...]
CelebPoker Returns to Live Poker Circuit Leading online poker room CelebPoker.com has bowed to popular demand and will shortly relaunch its acclaimed series of live off-the-wall poker tournaments across the UK and Europe.
Jeff Lisandro Looking To Become King Of Main Event At WSOP Jeff Lisandro [...]
Phil Ivey Closes In On World Series Of Poker Main Event Leader Phil Ivey is one of the most recognizable names in professional poker, and he is now closing in on the leader at the World Series of Poker Main Event with only twenty-nine players remaining. [...]
Party Like It’s 1994 When I met the woman who would later become my wife, I was just 19 years old. I had a long, long ponytail. I delivered pizza. In 1994 I was thin, carefree, and spent more time planning my next road trip than with silly “conventional” distractions [...]
Perks of Playing on UK Based Poker Sites By: CardKings.co.uk Ever since the passing of the UIGEA the online poker market has changed tremendously. US Poker players have had fewer options for sites to play on, and traffic levels have plummeted on sites that pulled out of the US market. Though this… a Perks [...]
How to gauge your aggression at the table What makes successful poker professionals different from the rest of us low limit grinders? Well, there are probably tons of things, but the most obvious one is the level of aggressiveness at the table. That’s right, good poker players are much more aggressive than the average bunch. [...]
From the Poker Vaults: The Aladdin and the Big Game When Syd Wyman started putting high-stakes poker players on display just inside the entrance to the Dunes Hotel in 1969, his publicity stunt…
