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Cincinnati Focus Group Considers Look of New Casino

Poker TV — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:55:08 +0000

Nearly 200 Cincinnati inhabitants spent their Saturday afternoon in a collective brainstorm plan to discuss how the city casino’s appearance would be. The development company of the casino, which has already been approved, was interested in the ideas of citizens and listened to what city residents would like the casino to look like. The ideas expressed by the crowd focused on how to limit light and noise pollution, as well as the importance of energy-efficient construction. “We want it to be beautiful, it’s going to be something we can be proud of – said a community member - but at the same time, we want the developer to be considerate of the environment”.

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Cincinanti‘s community members including local architects and business owners have focused their attention on the environment, especially on how the casino – which is scheduled to open in 2012 – will fit into the Pendelton neighborhood. “We’re just trying to create guidelines, principals that address the concerns that people have talked about, in terms of what people would like to see with the casino” said John Kornbluh, an architect who helped organize the meeting. “We’re all coming together to help guide the developer on how the building would integrate and what to be sensitive of”, said another volunteer who participated. The citizens also proposed to incorporate a green roof into the parking structure that can also be used as a park.

WSOP Final Table, first big chance for Duhamel

Poker TV — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:42:42 +0000

The awaiting for the kick off of the World Series of Poker Final Table has almost finished. The Nine players still on the run will begin their battle at the poker table on November 6th to 9th in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. Already all but one of them have become millionaires, but that won’t change a thing in their enthusiasm to go for glory and the richest poker prize of all: the winner will get just under $9 million, plus the most coveted gold bracelet. The first player to be eliminated will collect $800,000.

The chip leader is professional player Jonathan Duhamel, who was born in Boucherville, Canada, in 1987. He gave up his education early – He was majoring in finance – in order to follow his ambition to become a poker star and win millions. As for now his live tournament earnings amount to only $109,000, he has cashed a total of seven times and the largest one was in 2008 at the EPT in Prague where he finished in 10th position winning €42,800. So this is his first chance to win big cash prize.

IOC will monitor worldwide sport betting

Poker TV — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:18:52 +0000

President of International Olympic Commitee Jacques Rogge told recently that he set up a firm to monitor illegal betting patterns in relation to the Olympic Games. International Sports Monitoring (ISM) will monitor the gambling industry for signs that illegal betting is taking place on upcoming IOC events: the 2012 Olympics in London and the Winter Youth Games in the Austrian city of Innsbruk.

“One day there will be match fixing in the Olympic Games and that’s why we built a company which has already monitored the Beijing and Vancouver games” explained Rogge. No cases have so far been identified by the IOC at the two events that they trialed the system at. But “There is some irregular betting in every nation; some more than others but no one is free of it” Rogge added. With cooperation from major sports betting agencies, the IOC hopes to stop irregular betting and match fixing in Olympic Games before it starts. The function of the ISM, which was founded in 2009, is to monitor sports bets and the flow of funds through online sportsbooks. If spikes in activity are detected for particular matches or events, the IOC is notified, and an investigation will begin.

Play with the Sexiest spy’s poker app

Poker TV — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:21:51 +0000

From now on all the poker fans can play poker with the Russian Bond girl Anna Chapman. The sexy Russian spy launched an iPhone application in which she will challenge the player to a hand of poker. It costs $99 cents. The player who eventually should beat Anna will win access to an exclusive collection of Chapman’s hot pictures and will automatically added “friend” on her Facebook account, where she will keep her followers up-to-date on her activities, and get access to a special online blog.

Angela Waters, Marketing manager of the company who developed and offered the application stated: “Anna is a huge fan of Apple products. She has been using an iPhone and Mac for quite a while and has recently got an iPad too. We choose Anna because she’s a trendy, modern girl”. Anna Chapman, who is said to be a skillful poker player, became famous being arrested earlier this year in the United States as a part of an alleged ten members Russian spy ring. Then she was deported back to Russia in an exchange for U.S. and allied operatives, making mockery of the old KGB dictate that retired spies should fade away into anonymity, leaving nothing but a glorious public myth behind.

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Poker TV — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:59:43 +0000

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Vanessa Rousso’s diet tips

Poker TV — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:50:46 +0000

Poker star Vanessa Rousso recently released her own advice on how to eat when playing poker telling how a strict diet is crucial to winning at the table. In a recent interview the 27-year-old poker pro claimed that eating too many carbohydrates could reduce players’ chances of success in tournaments. “One of the secrets to going deep in a main event is mental and physical endurance. Keeping track of your blood sugar level and not bloating up on too many carbs or processed sugars will really help you do well during the course of a tournament. When I play poker like to start out with muesli or oatmeal and that’s pretty much the only carbs I’ll have all day. I’ll also have some orange juice and hard-boiled eggs – which should be in there somewhere for protein.”

Then the French-American poker player told she only eats the egg whites: “I don’t like the yolks”, before telling one of her poker secrets. “My mom really understands people and she taught me many intuitive psychological things. Understanding people it’s 50 per cent of being a good poker player”.

Irish Poker Open 2011 dates released

Poker TV — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:15:51 +0000

Irish Poker Open 2011, among Europe’s most popular poker tournaments, will take place from April 22nd 2011 through 25th at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. This €3,500 buy-in event is the longest running poker tour in Europe, and second in the world only to the World Series of Poker. Created by Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers in 1981, Irish Poker Open has always been inspired by the World Series of Poker in Europe.

This would be its 30th edition of an event whose popularity still has not stopped growing. The 2010 edition saw 708 players bought into the event, eventually won by James Mitchell who walked away with €600,000. For the 2011 event organisers doubled the starting stack to 20,000 up from 10,000.

The WSOP event with the largest attendance ever

Poker TV — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:22:18 +0000

The 27-year-old semi-pro poker player Brett Schwertley from Omaha (Nebraska) won the largest poker event ever held in the seven-year history of the WSOP Circuits: 1,611 players making their way to the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, for the first event of the Regional Championship, which culminates with the Main Event starting on Monday 25 October. Schwertley won among an enormous field size which shattered the previous record of 1,412 set here at Horseshoe Hammond last year and got a first prize of $77,438 plus a coveted gold ring.

When this tournament began promptly at noon on Friday, October 15th, every single seat and poker table was filled to capacity. Nearly 200 alternates were seated as players were gradually eliminated. Turnout was so large that the original plan to play two consecutive days was scrapped. A third day had to be added in order to play into the money, reach the final table, and ultimately to determine the winner.

Soi Nguyen, the lone non professional at WSOP final table

Poker TV — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:53:50 +0000

The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table is just around the corner. Let’s give a look at Soi Nguyen feel only three weeks before the event. “I’m tired and excited, but burnt out at the same time” stated he the day after having made its first final table ever. Native from Santa Ana, California, with 37 years of age Soi Nguyen is the oldest among the 2010 November Niners and will be also the lone nonprofessional poker player at the final table. With only nine million chips, Nguyen will enter the final table as one of the shortest stacks.

Despite he has been playing poker for roughly twenty years – he learned to play with friends – he currently works for a medical supplies distributor while playing poker as a semi-pro. He made the November after an eight-day grind and a nearly six-hour final table bubble. That was just his fourth live tournament (with no winnings yet) and first World Series of Poker and he achieved what every Main Event entree aims for: a seat at the final table.

Harrington and Seidel into the Poker Hall of Fame

Poker TV — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:36:46 +0000

Two new players will be inducted in the Poker Hall of Fame Class 2010. The new members are Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel and they are the 39th and 40th inductees to the Hall of Fame, which is the highest honour that can be awarded to a player. Let’s see why they have been chosen. Dan Harrington won the World Series Main Event back in 1995 and pocketed more than $6 million in tournament winnings, as well as a World Poker Tour title, in a 25 years long career. He also reached four main event final tables, with two in a row (in 2003 and 2004). Moreover Harrington wrote some of the game’s most authoritative guides to poker. Erik Seidel won eight WSOP bracelets and finished runner-up at the 1988 Main Event, in the final hand immortalised in the film Rounders.

The pair will be inducted during a ceremony held on 8 November at the Rio, prior to the heads-up phase of the World Series Main Event.“I’m very honoured to be elected to the Poker Hall of Fame this year and it’s an extra bonus for me to be going in with Dan Harrington,” Seidel told. “We have played together and have been great friends for my entire poker career. I have such a high regard for the many members of the Poker Hall of Fame that I have played with over the years and it’s a real privilege to be able to join them”.