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The word “Poker” makes everyone think about Reno, Nevada and of great Vegas Poker Rooms, poker games and challenging poker players. There are so many games at the big little city, Reno. Anyway, if you find yourself at Reno you’ll find real good card rooms and the different games that are spread in Reno card rooms. Reno Poker Club brings you the latest Caribbean cruises and Reno Hold’em tourneys information.
Check out this terrific prize for the winners of a Hold’em Poker game. The WPS Poker Cruise is offering a chance to win on their Caribbean Poker Cruise 2006, leading up to the Main Event Tournament with a prize-pool! The WPS Caribbean Poker Cruise will be taking off from Dec 11 through Dec 18 2005. That sounds really cool huh?!!
Here you can find information about Reno poker rooms and card rooms as well as Reno poker tournaments. Fresh news about Reno Poker players such as Daniel Negreanu, Michael Mizrachi, poker veteran Lee Watkinson among others.
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I’ve also included some limited information on the finer points of Poker in the pages of Reno Poker Club. Maybe it will help someone become a better Poker player, and it gives me an opportunity to show off my brilliance. Poker is like fishing and golf. We all like to brag.
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At Reno Poker Club it is best to Know when to Fold'em, even if it's your best hand
April 29, 2005
ON SATURDAY, April 8th, 2000, I did what I hadn't been able to do for 2 years: I won a poker tournament. While a year or two drought happens to the best players in the world, it's always nice when the dry spell ends.
On my path to victory, the following two hands came up at the final table of the $1,500 buy-in no-limit Hold'em event at the World Poker Open. Both pots were played against a very tough no-limit player named David "The Dragon" Pham, and, in combination, the two pots illustrate that you should sometimes fold the best hand in a no-limit tournament.
In pot No. 1, the antes were $100 a man and the blinds were $400 to $800. I raised the bet to $2,800 with Kd-10d in my hand, and David called in the big blind with Qc-9c.
The flop was 10h-Jc-Js, and I bet out $3,500 with my two pair. David hesitated for a while and called the bet with his open-ended straight draw (he needed a king or an eight to complete the straight). I figured his hand was weak by the way he acted during his call of my $3,500 bet.
The fourth card off the deck was the 4c, making the board 10h-Jc-Js-4c, and giving David a flush draw along with his open-ended straight draw. Feeling strongly that he had a draw, I now bet $10,000, trying to win the pot right then and there, but after about 30 seconds, David decided to move all in for about $30,000 more.
I began to study him and think about the consequences of my next move. If I were to fold, then I would still be in second place in chips and still have an excellent chance to win the tournament. If I called and lost the pot, then I would have a short stack and be in bad shape for the hands to come. But if I called and won the pot, then I would have over half of the chips and be unstoppable.
I decided to fold because I would have a better opportunity to invest all of my chips soon enough. Why risk the whole tournament on one hand?
Six players were left during the second hand, and David opened for $3,500 holding 8-8. I had A-A, and raised the pot $7,500 more (with $11,000 to go). After about 20 seconds, David moved all-in for about $40,000 (I had $35,000 total).
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Seven Hours of Poker Labor Yields $2.9 Million
April 25, 2005
Source: OPN Staff
Sunday's World Poker Tour Championship final event saw Tuan Le take home the title of WPT champion, along with a heaping $2.9 million. And it "only" took seven hours of laborious, gut-wrenching poker maneuvers for him to claim it.
Although past WPT championships have seen online qualifiers make great strides in the competition, this year's final table featured veteran land-based casino players only. Runners up include second place winner Paul Maxfield, who took home a neat little $1.7 million, Hasan Habib in third, winning $896,375, forth place winner John Phan, with $518,920, Dutch import Rob Hollink coming in fifth, with winnings of $377,420 and Phil Ivey in sixth, nabbing $264,195. Money was awarded to the top 100 players, with the minimum prize equaling a not-too-shabby $30,000.
Marking its third year at Bellagio, the WPT championship attracted a record 450 players, up from last year's 343. Despite the increase in attendance, the WPT's hundreds of players pales in comparison to the thousands contending for the World Series of Poker title in recent years. The WPT's $25,000 buy-in might have something to do with it. The WSOP's buy-in, in comparison, is a "mere" $10,000.
Fans who were unable to make the live tournament can still catch the televised version, which will air June 29 on the Travel Channel.
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No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker is Still on the Rise
April 25, 2005 Steven Sekelik
EAGLE COUNTY - The popularity of poker is rapidly increasing locally as well as nationally. Its popularity is fueled by a combination of television exposure, technology, and the opportunity to win big money and/or prizes.
Local bars and restaurants are hosting regularly scheduled free poker tournaments to help draw in more business. Cable channels such as ESPN and the Travel Channel showcase the extremely popular World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.
In addition, television advertisements for online poker rooms are on the rise.
The most popular flavor of poker is Texas No Limit Hold'em. In a No Limit Hold'em, a player can go "all in" and bet all of their chips on any given hand, which adds a great deal of excitement to the game.
As opposed to other gambling games such as blackjack, poker is a game that is dictated and controlled by the participants. Poker players can control the game by bluffing, being very aggressive, or by playing a very tight conservative style.
Today's cutting-edge technology and high-speed Internet access provide a gateway for millions of diehards to play poker tournaments 24-7 at one of the many poker sites on the web such as PartyPoker.com, Pokerstars.com, AbsolutePoker.com, and Fulltiltpoker.com.
Most online poker leagues offer free games with play money, as well as real money games. Many online poker rooms feature satellite tournaments that give players an opportunity to win seats at World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour events.
To put the popularity of online poker in perspective, during peak hours, www.partypoker.com can have over 50,000 participants playing on over 5,000 tables on any given day.
All of these online poker sites are based offshore, due to the gambling laws in the United States. Popular poker sites are estimated to be making over $100 million in profits each year.
Steven Sekelik, owner of Interworkz Training and Consulting Inc., can be reached at 376-2233, on the Web at www.interworkz.com or by e-mail at info@interworkz.com.
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