Poker Items

This category is all about the stuff you can buy in the world of poker. Whether its book reviews, or news on the latest poker related product, you'll find everything for sale in the world of poker in this category.

• Poker News Bytes, September 30th, 2008

  September 30, 2008,

  While the small-stakes games offered in Colorado casinos have served as a training ground for many players – Kathy Liebert, among others, honed her skills there – economic pressure has grown on the state to offer pricier games. Amendment...

   

• Poker Book Review: Mike Caro's 'Caro's Secrets of Winning Poker'

  September 30, 2008,

  The self-styled "Mad Genius of Poker," Mike Caro, has established for himself a well-earned place among the pantheon of poker authors, primarily thanks to his classic 'Caro's Book of Poker Tells', oft-cited as one...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Jacquelyne Leslie-Zand -- The Journey

  September 25, 2008,

  My favorite part of the poker world is how it has created its own 'society' very separate but nonetheless reflective of the 'greater society'. The world of poker has risen from the basements and backrooms to become a unique...

   

• Danish Player Jepsen Targeted in Sophisticated Fraud Attempt

  September 18, 2008,

  While stories of chat-account hackings and stolen poker-site passwords are frequent tales in the poker world, it's far rarer that a 'name' player is targeted for full-blown fraud. Yet that's what happened to Danish poker pro Peter...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Checking in at Women's Poker Yak

  September 18, 2008,

  One of the biggest complaints that I hear from men playing poker with women is that we like to yak. Well, gentlemen, thanks to Yaktivate.com and former Satellite Director of the World Series of Poker, Dianna Donofrio, our yak just got...

   

• Poker Book Review: Daniel Negreanu's 'Power Hold'em Strategy'

  September 16, 2008,

  There aren't many professional poker players who have received as much notice and acclaim in recent years as Daniel Negreanu. His four WSOP bracelets, two WPT titles, and numerous final tables and cashes have proven such attention...

   

• Brian Townsend Discusses Multi-accounting, CardRunners Merger

  September 12, 2008,

  One of the terms sure to start an energetic discussion among online poker players is 'multi-accounting'. Though the extent to which multi-accounting occurs never has been determined to an exact degree, the practice certainly exists...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Stopping Abuse at the Tables

  September 04, 2008,

  Life on the felt can be tough, especially on women. The growth of women's poker has encouraged an atmosphere of competition between the sexes, but it has also, on occasions, can produce disrespectful and occasionally abusive behavior...

   

• Poker News Bytes, September 3, 2008

  September 03, 2008,

  According to published reports, the European Union plans to resume trade talks with the U.S. Trade Representative's office over the US Department of Justice's pursuit of online-gambling firms and officials, the UIGEA and other matters...

   

• Book Review: Joseph Walsh's 'Gambler on the Loose'

  September 02, 2008,

  Joseph Walsh's 'Gambler on the Loose' is a highly enjoyable, incisive look into the complicated world of the full-time gambler. Probably best known to the poker world as the scriptwriter and co-producer of the 1974 film 'California Split'...

   

• Brian Townsend Admits to Multiaccounting

  August 28, 2008,

  Brian 'sbrugby' Townsend, one of the principals of poker video instruction site CardRunners.com, has admitted in a recent blog post to using two accounts on both of the largest online poker sites, Full Tilt and PokerStars. Full Tilt...

   

• Poker News Bytes, August 17, 2008

  August 17, 2008,

  PartyPoker's recurring bad beat jackpot paid off in a big way on Thursday evening when the prize find climbed to $1,013,381.63, a new record for an online poker jackpot, before being hit. German player 'Judith75' had the losing...

   

• Poker Book Review: Arnold Snyder's 'The Poker Tournament Formula 2'

  August 16, 2008,

  In his new book, 'The Poker Tournament Formula 2', Arnold Snyder shifts focus from his previous discussion of strategies for no-limit hold'em tournaments with fast structures, here examining more specifically tournaments with slower...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: The Past, Present and the Future

  August 14, 2008,

  In the grand scheme of things twenty years is not a very long time, but over the past two decades women have been finding their way and exploring new territory both in society as well as in the poker world...

   

• FIDPA Introduces Worldwide Uniform Rules for Poker

  July 24, 2008,

  In an effort to strengthen and unite the poker industry worldwide, professional poker players Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau have established the Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA) and the International Poker Rules...

   

• Book Review: Warwick Dunnett's 'Poker Wizards'

  July 24, 2008,

  Warwick Dunnett's 'Poker Wizards: Wisdom from the World's Top No-Limit Hold'em Players' collects contributions from several of the circuit's most accomplished players in a single volume. The book's primary focus is no-limit hold'em...

   

• The Venetian Announces Poker-Themed Stage Show

  July 22, 2008,

  The Venetian is bringing poker and entertainment together as never before with the launch of the first ever live, interactive poker-themed stage show, 'The Real Deal!' Opening this fall, the show will bring to the Venetian...

   

• Off Again, On Again for West Virginia Poker Tourney

  July 20, 2008,

  The saga of a West Virginia tournament offering a trip to the 2009 World Series of Poker to its winner again illustrates the confusing and often conflicting nature of state and federal gambling laws. When all was done, the tournament...

   

• Poker News Bytes: July 18, 2008

  July 18, 2008,

  Officials closed down a central Indiana business where patrons are alleged to have played poker for money, contrary to that state's law. Authorities targeted the Hold 'Em House, in Tipton, 30 miles north of Indianapolis, stating that...

   

• Polaris 2.0 Defeats Stoxpoker Team in Man-Machine Poker Championship Rematch

  July 10, 2008,

  Following last summer's narrow loss to the humans in the First Man-Machine Poker Championship held in Vancouver, Canada, the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) had a year to improve on their collection...

   

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