 Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: James Bastowe  |
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| Article Title :: 3 Tips to Put Your Texas Holdem Poker Playing in Overdrive |
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| Let’s face it; the game of poker is very difficult to master. Online poker is even harder to master because of the sheer number of online poker players in the world. Inexperienced poker players often lose a lot of money to the more experienced pokier players. However, there are many simple tips that you can follow in order to shift your online poker game into overdrive. Following these tips should help you do better against more players.1. Know when to ‘hold em’ or ‘fold em.’ This is one of the most essential elements of poker. There are many different situations in which it would be better to either stay in the hand, or to lay the hand down. It is important to know what (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: John Porter |
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| Article Title :: Politicians Want to Protect us From the Evils of On-Line Gambling Part 1 |
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| This is part 1 of a multipart series of articles regarding proposed anti-gambling legislation. In this article I discuss the proposed legislation, what the politicians say it does, some facts about the current state of online gambling, and what the bills really propose.The legislators are trying to protect us from something, or are they? The whole thing seems a little confusing to say the least.The House, and the Senate, are once again considering the issue of “Online Gambling”. Bills have been submitted by Congressmen Goodlatte and Leach, and also by Senator Kyl.The bill being put forward by Rep. Goodlatte has the stated intention of updating the Wire Act to outl (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Stuey The Kid Ungar: Poker's Card Savant |
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| He won $30 million dollars at cards and lost that much and more. He is the only three-time winner of the World Series of Poker. He died broke and alone in a sleazy porn motel between The Strip and Downtown Las Vegas.Stuey “The Kid” Ungar was proud of the fact that Mafia bosses came to his Bar Mitzah. The son of a New York bookmaker who died in the arms of one of his many mistresses, he blew his inheritance within a couple of weeks on the ponies.Stu Ungar may have been the best card player of all time. He would learn a game and master it in record time. At 16 he was the world’s best gin rummy player. He dropped out of high school to play full-time.Not content to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Great Poker Quotes |
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| “Read ‘em and weep” ranks right up there with the best of ‘em. It is what may have been said to you in your home game as your four kings just lost to four aces (also known as a “bad beat).” Read ‘em and Weep is also the title of a great book of great poker stories with many great poker quotes, edited by John Stravinsky (2004).My favorite quote of all time is by the British biographer of the Royals, Anthony Holden. "Poker may be only a game, but it is not a matter of life and death. It's a lot more serious than that." This appears in his account of his year as a poker pro, Big Deal (1990).A close second comes from another Brit, Al Alvarez: "Poker is generally re (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Amarillo Slim Preston: The World's Greatest Gambler |
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| Never one to be modest when he could brag about himself, Amarillo Slim Preston has declared himself, “The World’s Greatest Gambler.” And then in his autobiography, Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, he goes on to prove it. Sonovagun!He took $300,000 from Willie Nelson at backgammon in a televised event. He beat Minnesota Fats at pool using a broom. He beat Evil Knievel at golf using a carpenter’s hammer. He beat tennis hustler Bobby Riggs at his game using a frying pan and in 1972 he won the World Series of Poker. If you ever want to hear Slim talk about himself, - his very favorite pastime - pull up a chair, take off your watch, cancel all your appointments, and (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Poker Playin' Movie Stars |
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| Spiderman plays. So does The Aviator. So does Angelina Jolie’s beau, Brad you-know-who. But you gotta shell out big bucks if you fancy yourself being invited to a home game in Hollywood where the stars hold ‘em and fold ‘em.For example, should you crash Tobey Maguire’s home game in the Hollywood Hills, be prepared to brush aside a few cobwebs and face Ben Affleck, Mimi Rogers (she was Tom’s before Nicole and Katie came along), tough guy James Woods (catch a rerun of “Casino”), Gabe Kaplan from “Welcome Back, Kotter,” (more reruns with a young John Travolta) and an occasional pro like former World Poker Champ Phil Hellmuth.What will it cost you to play? Tobe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Poet Laureates of Poker: Part One, Al Alvarez |
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| In 1983 Al Alvarez published The Biggest Game in Town. One critic called it "the origin of contemporary poker literature." The London Evening Standard calls it "probably the best book on poker ever written." McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street calls it "the seminal book on the literature of poker. Gorgeously written. Very cool."Alvarez covered the World Series of Poker in 1981 on assignment from the New Yorker. The Biggest Game in Town was originally published in the magazine as a series of long articles. "Here was the World Series of Poker," Alvarez says, "and hardly anyone was writing about it." With a few changes, the articles became the book.Prior to The Biggest G (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Poet Laureates of Poker: Part Two, Anthony Holden |
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| 21-year old Holden, then editor of the Oxford student magazine, Isis, first met Al Alvarez (see Part One of the Poet Laureates of Poker), the editor of The New Poetry in 1968. He found him to be a “warm, wise-cracking enthusiast . . . short and worried about his weight.”He has since joined Al at over a thousand poker tables. That is, when he has time away from his day jobs: once a speechwriter for Prince Charles, music and opera critic for the London Observor, and biographer of the Royals. He is a thorn in the side of Charles, with whom he has since fallen out, writing biographies to coincide with the Prince’s 30th, 40th, and 50th birthdays.Of the Prince, Holden says, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Poker Laureates of Poker: Part Three, James MCManus |
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| No other way to say it. This guy is all over the map. Like AL Alvarez (Part One) and Anthony Holden (Part Two), this is another way of saying that he writes about a lot of different things.James McManus is a Chicago-based poet and novelist who wrote the
classic, Positively Fifth Street, about making it to the final table of the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.Like Alvarez, his life is an open book. He even characterizes himself as sometimes being “Good Jim” and sometimes being “Bad Jim.”In Physical: An American Checkup (2006), he talks about the hidden places (his hidden places) where doctors wearing latex gloves put their fingers to a lap dance (here (read full article) |
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| Category :: Casino Gambling Articles |
Author :: Murphy James |
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| Article Title :: Travelin' Texas Hold 'em: Poker Jazzes up Dull Meetings |
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| As a money manager and banker, Stephen Kelly went to a lot of corporate meetings and was usually bored out of his skull. After long business days, there was the reception, then dinner, then a long evening in a hotel with nothing out there of interest to him. Same old, same old.In 2003, he attended a charity Texas Hold ‘em event at Stone Mountain, Georgia, near his home base of Atlanta, and had a great time. He was so jazzed by the experience that at 3 o’clock in the morning he was awake, working on a business plan for US Poker Series, a company that adds poker tournaments to corporate seminars, workshops, and conferences, and sometimes charity events as well.Kelly’s (read full article) |
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