Pokerstar's Sunday Football Tournament

I just played in one of the Pokerstar's Sunday Football Tournaments. Free entry with a reload deposit. It was A $11 buy-in and 5118 entrants and $51,180 prize pool. On top of that the winner receives 2 foot ball tickets to the biggest game on earth and $1000 for travel expenses. I picked up some huge hands early on and was 2nd place in chips for most of the tournament. I bullied a lot of the table with my big stack and by the time they called I could...

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I finally bought the book Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen. I wanted to read it for a long time (I haven't received it yet, it's still in the mail). I also bought The Picasso Flop, co-writtened by Vince Van Patten (Co-host alongside Mike Sexton on WPT Tour). http://www.bookcloseouts.com/default.asp?R=sku&rid=your_referral_idBonuses:- Free $100 Bankroll at Pokerstars- Free $150 Bankroll at Titan PokerBonuses:- Free $100 Bankroll at Full Tilt...

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Rush Poker At Full Tilt Poker

An interesting new style of poker is "Rush Poker". It seems to be quite popular Here is how it works:Unlike a standard ring game, when you play Rush Poker you’ll join a large player pool and face a different table of opponents every hand you play. When you fold your hand, you’ll immediately be moved to a new table for your next hand.“Rush Poker is the greatest innovation in online poker since poker started on the Internet,” said Team Full Tilt member...

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Cake Poker Buys T.J. Cloutier’s WSOP Bracelet On Ebay

One of the team members at Cake Poker bought T.J. Cloutier 2005 World Series of Poker $5K No Limit Bracelet for $4006 on ebay. There were 8 bids on the bracelet, starting at $2999 and finishing at $4006. The Cake Poker member put an auto-bid on the item so it looks like they were willing to pay a lot more than $4000 for it. There is a post on Cake Poker Blog about Cake Poker buying the bracelet: Cake Poker Discovers the Joys of eBay. They do not...

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Funniest Poker Quotes

Here are some of my favourite poker quotes from some of my favourite poker pros!Sam Grizzle:"You can spend your money the way you want to and ill spend somebody else's money the way I want to"Gus Hansen:Clonie: "I have an above average hand" Gus: "I have an above average something too"Gus: "Do you know that good old saying?"Daniel Negreanu: "Which one?"Gus: "F*** you"Mike Matusow:"Only a donkey would make that call""poker 101 - never bluff to an...

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Seventh Street Decisions in Seven-Stud - Keith Sexton

A few weeks ago, I offered some pointers for playing fourth steet in Limit Seven-Card Stud. For this tip, I'm going and show how you might improve your play on seventh street.My first suggestion for playing on seventh street is that you need to look at your pot odds when facing a final bet. When playing $5-$10 Stud, for example, you'll often need to call a $10 river bet while looking at a pot of $70. In this spot, where you're getting 7:1, if you...

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Major Flaw at Lucky Ace Poker/ Pacific Poker Network

A while I posted about how Lucky Ace Poker/ Pacific Poker Network takes money from inactive accounts, which they call "administration" fees. To make things worse, they also take your bonus dollars (Money which you have to wager before withdrawing) and they make you work off the pending bonus before you can withdraw even though they took the bonus dollars. For example:I had $25 bonus dollars in my Lucky Ace Poker account. $20 of it was taken for "administration"...

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