3-0. Mereka dimakan hidup-hidup. Beasley tampak mengerikan, lini belakang dipahat oleh front Ceko, dan operan AS seburuk yang pernah saya lihat. Lebih buruk lagi, selisih gol AS sekarang -3. Setelah Italia mengalahkan Ghana hari ini, Piala Dunia akan berakhir untuk tim Amerika.

Mereka keluar dengan gelisah dan terlalu agresif, melakukan tiga pelanggaran dalam dua menit pertama dan umumnya winning369.win tidak memiliki ritme permainan mereka. Menyerahkan gol awal di menit kelima hanya membuat mereka semakin kacau. Mungkin pertandingan akan berbeda jika tembakan Reyna di menit ke-30 masuk, bukan membentur tiang, tapi siapa yang tahu.

Berita Piala Dunia

Cakupan ESPN benar-benar luar biasa. Grafik yang mengganggu dan tidak berguna, ketidakmampuan yang mengejutkan untuk mengikuti aksi di lapangan, dan beberapa warna terburuk sejak Bill Walton mulai menyebut game NBA. Jika saya mendengar sekali lagi bagaimana sepak pojok Serbia-Montenegran adalah “situasi berbahaya” bagi tim Belanda, saya mungkin akan terbang ke Leipzig untuk memperingatkan mereka sendiri.

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Ini satu untuk semua bartender amatir Anda (dan Ayah): bloody mary yang dibuat dengan Lada Absolut, jus tomat, dan potongan kecil bacon. winning369.win. Permata kecil ini dibawa ke saya (well, to jcn really) oleh The Red Lion di Bleecker Street, di mana kami menyaksikan pertandingan Inggris-Paraguay pada pukul 9 pagi kemarin dikelilingi oleh tipe orang yang Anda harapkan menjadi fanatik sepak bola Inggris, kan hingga ke gigi-giginya yang kasar, kepala yang bertonsur dan kata-kata kotor setiap kali seorang pemain Inggris menyentuh bola dan bola itu tidak berakhir di gawang lawan. Cemerlang.

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Siapa lagi yang menarik untuk Pantai Gading? Palang tempat saya berada meledak ketika mereka menerobos di menit ke-82 melawan Argentina setelah tekanan babak kedua tanpa henti. Apakah orang Argentina yang dibenci secara universal (halo, warisan ternoda Maradona), atau tidak halal untuk melawan negara yang terkoyak oleh perang saudara?

Setidaknya mereka masih satu negara. Serbia-Montenegro bahkan tidak bisa mengklaim itu. Apakah itu berarti saya juga harus mendukung mereka?

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Saya mengunjungi bar lokal di ‘hood saya untuk burger setelah bersepeda panjang yang menyenangkan malam ini. Anak muda Irlandia masuk dan bertanya apakah mereka akan buka untuk pertandingan besok pagi. Bartender bertanya “jam berapa?” Anak bilang jam 9 pagi. Bartender cukup banyak tertawa di wajahnya. Orang Amerika bodoh.

Sejujurnya, dari semua tempat di negara ini untuk menonton Piala Dunia, New York harus menjadi salah satu yang terbaik. Ada lusinan lingkungan etnis di sini, di samping adegan ex-pat yang besar. Tidak ada yang seperti menonton pertandingan yang dikelilingi oleh orang-orang yang menarik untuk tim nasional tercinta mereka.

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Adakah yang memperhatikan bahwa Final dijadwalkan pada hari Minggu 9 Juli pukul 11 ​​pagi waktu Pasifik? Buku olahraga Mandalay itu!

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Dawn Summers Ingin Lebih Banyak Konten winning369.win

Rupanya, saya telah menghabiskan terlalu banyak waktu untuk menulis tentang hal-hal (Piala Dunia) yang tidak menarik baginya dan tidak cukup banyak tentang hal-hal yang menarik baginya (winning369.win, keterbelakangan sosial saya, dll.). Tidak ingin menimbulkan kemarahan teman sekamar Vegas saya, saya telah mengumpulkan beberapa pemikiran poker di bawah flip. Pertama-tama, tidak ada apa-apanya:

Foto oleh jcn. Tag lain yang ditambahkan setelah foto ini adalah “TOO_SKINNY”, “AFRAID_TO_SHOP”, dan “I’M_RICK_JAMES_BITCH_XP”. Apa yang bisa kukatakan? Berikan sekelompok kutu buku selotip dan sharpie dan hal-hal aneh mulai terjadi. Tapi posting ini bukan tentang eros saya atau kutu buku saya atau kemiripan saya yang luar biasa dengan Rick James. Ini tentang poker.

Di bagian atas, selamat kepada Glyphic atas finis ke-6 yang mengesankan di freeroll blogger PokerStars kemarin. Hanya butuh satu penyedotan besar untuk sampai ke sana. Hadiah Phil: perjalanan ke acara WSOP $1500. Tidak buruk sama sekali. Mewakili para blogger dengan baik, Phil.

Berikutnya dalam daftar: pembukaan ruang poker baru Borgata! Sekitar seminggu yang lalu, saya menerima kartu pos di surat yang mengiklankan “RUANG POKER TERBESAR DI KOTA ATLANTIC DIBUKA 30 JUNI 2006 DI BORGATA”. Ruangan itu akan memiliki 85 meja dan akan ditempatkan sangat dekat dengan tempat parkir permukaan di belakang kasino. Anehnya, Borgata juga telah menjadwalkan “Musim Panas Terbuka”, serangkaian 13 turnamen holdem, stud dan omaha high, untuk pertengahan Juli — bersaing langsung dengan WSOP. Sebagian besar acara adalah pembelian $500 atau lebih kecil, tetapi ada beberapa acara pembelian besar di akhir , termasuk acara kejuaraan $5,000 selama 4 hari. Pertanyaan saya: siapa yang akan masuk? Semua orang akan berada di Vegas untuk WSOP.

Saya sedang mempertimbangkan perjalanan akhir pekan 1 Juli untuk memeriksa kamar baru dan mendapatkan sedikit permainan langsung sebelum perjalanan ke Vegas untuk WPBT Summer Classic. Ada pengambil?

Sekarang kembali ke renungan Piala Dunia yang dijadwalkan secara rutin.

Belum Mati

Jadi, Ghana pergi dan memberi AS bantuan BESAR dengan kemenangan 2-0 atas Ceko, dan AS hanya mampu menang dengan hasil imbang 1-1 melawan Italia. Sangat mengecewakan, tetapi yang lebih mengecewakan adalah wasit dalam pertandingan AS-Italia, khususnya kartu merah “make up” pada Mastroeni pada menit ke-45.

Saya pikir itu cukup jelas Pope menuju kuning lain, yang sepatutnya diambil di 47 untuk mengatasi terlambat dari belakang. (Saya tidak peduli jika dia *melakukan* mendapatkan bola – tekel dari belakang akan menarik kartu.) Di sisi lain, kartu merah pada Mastroeni tidak terduga. Tentu, dia datang dengan cleat up, tetapi tekel gesernya adalah permainan yang bersih, tidak seperti siku DeRossi ke wajah McBride. Paling buruk, Mastroeni seharusnya mendapatkan kartu kuning.

Sebaliknya, dia diusir, dan dua menit memasuki babak kedua, Paus dikeluarkan karena mengambil kuning keduanya. Turun ke 9 orang, AS harus bermain lebih defensif. Beasley menempatkan satu rumah di 70, tapi panggilan offside dipertanyakan meniadakan tujuan. Keputusan di lapangan adalah bahwa McBride, yang berada dalam posisi offside tetapi tidak memainkan bola, “jelas menghalangi” garis pandang penjaga gawang. Itu terjadi pada menit ke-65, dan itu adalah peluang solid terakhir AS.

Pada akhirnya, AS digas. Tidak yakin mengapa Arena tidak menggunakan pemain pengganti terakhirnya, tetapi kemungkinan gol AS dalam 15 menit terakhir cukup rendah. Sekarang, itu ke Ghana. Kami membutuhkan kemenangan melawan Ghana dan kemenangan Italia melawan Ceko. (Lupakan skenario yang melibatkan pertandingan Italia; pertahanan Ghana cukup kuat di dua pertandingan pertama, dan serangan AS yang cukup lemah, sehingga kami tidak akan melakukan pukulan apa pun pada Ghana). Lebih buruk lagi, kita tidak akan memiliki Mastroeni atau Paus. Eh, kalau dipikir-pikir, Pope belum benar-benar membedakan dirinya di dua game pertama. Mungkin dia tidak terlalu rugi.

Jika Anda seorang pendukung A.S., saya sarankan Anda menghabiskan 5 hari ke depan mengirimkan semua karma baik yang Anda bisa kepada orang Italia.

The World slot demo Tour today opened their “Poker Walk of Fame” at the Commerce Casino yesterday. First honorees were Doyle Brunson, James Garner, and Gus Hansen. Link

Am I the only one who thinks Gus Hansen is a questionable first honoree? I guess he’s there because he’s been the big WPT winner, but if you really want to have a legitimate poker walk of fame, I can think of a dozen people who should easily be included before Gus Hansen.

Nevertheless, it’s a great idea and will probably be the #2 poker status symbol behind Binion’s Wall of Fame.

grublog poker classic wrap-up

In the aftermath of the first ever poker blogger tournament last night, there has been a fair amount written about the adventures.

First, congrats to Mean Gene for taking slot online down the whole thing! He wins online bragging rights until the next one. Grubby has posted full results here.

Tournament wrap-ups:

Mean Gene basks in his win

The Fat Guy thinks second place sucks

Sean is considering using his winnings to upgrading his blog

The Poker Coder admires Felicia’s play

The Penguin is the self-proclaimed Hellmuth of the tournament

Felicia makes some recommendations for tournament preparation

HDouble recounts his tournament highlights

Edward enjoyed going up against me

Iggy also invokes Phil Hellmuth

Chris blames his wife

McGrupp quotes some funny table talk

Rick says he choked. Big time.

Liquid Swords got free poker lessons for busting out first, and followed up his loss with 2 $10+1 sit’n’go wins

Updates:

Dan invites random bloggers to his home

The Daily Grinder had the door to the final table slammed in his face by some unsuited, unconnected garbage

Grubby has posted his well-detailed recount of the tournament

Paulsburbon pleads guilty as charged to the Penguin’s accusation of steal-raising

the tourney’s over

Well, at least for me. I busted out one off the bubble (8th of 32), which in this case was the true bubble since there was even a prize for the bubble boy 😦

I had been getting blinded down steadily, and ended up having to go all-in under the gun with K8 clubs, and was called by Penguin’s AQo which was good.

Good game all, it was a good time. The main issue I had with the tournament, shared by several others, was that we played 10-minute levels which was pretty fast. I’d prefer to see more of a championship-type structure with much longer levels in the future.

I may have not made the money but I did crack aces with the hammer, which almost made it worth it 🙂

Many of today’s blackjack tips can be traced to the period of time from the 1960 to the 1990s when blackjack was the most popular casino card game in the world. Thanks to televised tournaments beginning in the 1990s the popularity of Texas Hold ‘em soon grabbed the attention of gamblers worldwide, but winning blackjack tips are still coveted by the fans of this legendary game.

The first forms of blackjack began in France in the 1700s. The game was imported into the United State after the French revolution and its popularity spread quickly throughout the country. With gambling prohibited in the early 1900s blackjack became an underground phenomenon so that by the time Las Vegas legalized gambling in 1931 the game had become popular throughout the country.

The ultimate of all books on blackjack tips was published in 1962 when Professor Edward Thorp used his skill in mathematics to create a card counting strategy that was outlined in Pragmatic Play his best selling book Beat the Dealer. Afraid of suffering losses thanks to the book’s revelations, casinos across the country changed many of the rules of blackjack to counteract the strategy. But when gambling revenues dropped sharply as a result of their action the casinos gradually restored the more favorable rules and blackjack remains a casino favorite today.

The concept behind the card counting strategy is that by calculating the number of cards remaining to be dealt and the ratio of the cards within that remaining count an experienced player can actually determine when the odds to win are in the player’s favor. At those times, the player will dramatically increase the amount of the bet to capitalize on the favorable situation.

Most of the best blackjack tips take advantage of this same concept, even in basic strategies designed for beginning or novice players. Like all games of chance, players will lose more hands than they win at blackjack. The key to having financial success lies in the players’ ability to bet more money on hands they’re likely to win and less money on hands they’re likely to lose. If you are counting cards, you know before a hand is dealt if you have better or worse odds of winning that next hand. But if you are merely playing a simple basic strategy, that knowledge comes only after the hand has been dealt.

The most important of all blackjack tips, then, deal with slot online ways in which the player can add more money to his wager after he sees the cards that are dealt. As a player you should first memorize the correct ways to play a hand in terms of when to hit and when to stand. But to convert that knowledge into winning money at blackjack, tips regarding the player’s ability to put more money on the table at the right time are just as important.

Splitting pairs and doubling down are the two keystones to placing larger wagers on favorable hands. As an example, when the dealer is showing a 4, 5 or 6 the player has a distinct advantage. Similarly, depending on the dealer’s card, when a player is dealt cards totaling 10 or 11 the dealer may be at a disadvantage. It is at times such as these that the player must use the rules allowing splitting pairs and doubling down to increase the money wagered on what is now an advantageous situation.

I’ve mentioned free promotional poker tournaments here, and had a few requests to post what I know is going in Austin.

Mother Egan’s has periodic zero buyin slot gacor tournaments. Their next one is tomorrow, Thursday April 22, 2004 7-10pm, and after that Wednesday April 28, 2004, 7-10pm. I heard they stop play at 10pm regardless of the state of the tournament.

Fado has a hold’em tournament every Monday night.

G-Cue billiards has a big tournament every few months or so. This Saturday, April 24, 2004, is their next one. Pre-registration is encouraged as I heard they already had 150 entrants.

Crimson Restaurant does a cards night once a month, generally on Tuesday nights. I often post the event notice here.

Sugar’s strip club was having a weekly free tournament for a while, but I don’t believe they still are.

That’s all I know about, if you know of any other free, legal poker events in Austin, feel free to post them here!

buy-in to limit games

It’s advice that I’ve heard many times, but I’ve been asked the question so often recently I thought I’d post my personal answer here.

Q: How much should I buy in with at such and such limit game?

A: I recommend buying in for 20x the big bet, and carry another 20x the big bet in your wallet. 20x is a big enough amount that if you bust out, there is a very good chance that it is not because of natural variance but because you’re a weaker player than the rest of the field. It’s also a big enough amount that even if you’re a fairly weak player it should last you long enough to read the table. If you do lose your first 20x, you need to ask yourself whether you busted because you got unlucky, or because you got outplayed. If you really believe you can beat the table, re-buy with your next 20x. If you don’t believe you can beat the table, find another table. If you’re on tilt, take a break, or go to sleep.

20x is also an amount that if you’re playing at the limit right for you, a 20x BB loss is not highly injurious to your bankroll, but 40x is a loss you can feel. I really think you need to be playing at that level. So if you’re playing $8-16 at the Bellagio, you should be able to roll past a $320 loss, but a $640 loss stings a little. If $320 is too big to endure, you should move down a notch or two. If $640 ain’t no thing, move up to $15-30 or above.

This advice isn’t as scientific as a Sklansky bankroll analysis, but it’s advice that I’ve personally followed for a long time and really think “feels” right. If you have your own tuppence to add, feel free to chime in.

dallas poker bust

Yet another Texas game just got busted, this time in Addison, outside of Dallas. The Scrolldown has the report.

Today is International slot gacor History Day here at loveandcasinowar.com.

CJ over at Up For slot gacor wrote an article about his recent Omaha experiences over the weekend. As an aside, he questions the origins of Omaha, and if there indeed was a Nebraska connection with the game.

I was curious about the topic myself, so did a little digging and found what sounds like a fairly consistent story. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Nebraska, and it’s still not clear to me how or when the game’s name came to be “Omaha”. This post from Alan Bostick to rec.gambling.poker from several years ago has the clearest summary I’ve seen:

From: Alan Bostick

Subject: Re: Does anyone know when 7cs/holdem/omaha were invented?

Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker

Date: 1999/10/21

In article <7uhfvd$1qd$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Wallace wrote:

> I’m trying to put together a timieline of poker history, starting about

> 1860 when draw and 5-stud were invented. I can find no indication in

> any book I have access to which gives an approximate date for the

> invention of 7cs, holdem or omaha. Has anyone got any information on

> those questions?

I can’t answer about 7-stud or Texas hold’em.

But I’ve heard a clear, coherent story about the origin of Omaha from Tad Perry. (Damn, I wish he were still posting.)

There Tad says, was a particular home game in Seattle or vicinity in the late seventies or early eighties that was populated by otherwise good players who liked lots of action. It was a rammin’ jammin’ group and they liked rammin’ jammin’ games. Somewhere along the line they invented what they called “four-card hold’em”, basically Texas hold’em played with four cards, you used exactly two to make a hand, etc. etc. Right. It was pretty close to what we recognize today as Omaha high.

Curtain rises at the Golden Nugget during the time of the WSOP in (if I’m remembering what Tad told me correctly) 1982. A bunch of players from this Seattle home game are in something like a $10-$20 hold’em game, and rammin’ and jammin’ and having a good ol’ time, and because they’re used to playing against each other in that sort of game and because the locals don’t, eventually they win all the money, and keep playing. “Hey,” says one of them, “can we play four-card hold’em?” “You can play whatever you want to,” says the dealer, “as long as everyone at the table agrees.” They all went for it, and started playing, and the game goes on for a while. Some locals sit down again, some get their clocks cleaned, others win a bit, and the game continues.

Eventually Bill Boyd comes over to the table to watch what’s going. The game looks interesting to him, he sees that it’s an action game, and that it seems to have legs. He decides to try to spread it again another night. But instead of calling it four-card hold’em ,he calls it “Omaha hold’em”. The rest is history.

I can’t vouch for the truth of this, but it has the ring of truth to me. (At this point, all the alt.folklore.urban veterans who post or lurk on r.g.p. join in a chorus of “MOTTO!”) Tad told me he played regularly with some of the regulars in that old home game, even playing in the house where “four-card hold’em” was invented, so he says. There are probably enough hooks to the truth in this story that an enterprising researcher (i.e. one with more enterprise than me) could straighten it out where I’ve gotten it wrong, fill in the gaps, and so on.

Hope this helps.

— Alan Bostick

Alan’s story is mostly confirmed from this message from Tad Perry from mid-last year:

I’ve talked to Gwen about this before. She called it “9-card holdem” when introduced to Boyd, and she says what you say: he changed the name.

As RGP’ers know, in Vegas, they will deal you anything you want to play if you can describe it to them. (See “Chowaha.”)

According to Gwen, the game was being played a lot in an underground Seattle game, and when a large group of players from that game descended on Vegas for the WSOP that year, they found 5 or 6 of themselves all at a holdem table at the Nugget. She says at one point only Seattle area players were seated (others were walking) and so they asked for “9-card Holdem” and Gwen taught the dealers how to deal it.

There were observers on the rail and a lot of interest. When the walkers returned they decided to try it. Gwen says she went to her room to sleep and when she came back, it already had been given the new name, and essentially became Boyd’s “invention.”

However, RGP is here to set the record straight.

tvp

The Poker Babe actually credits Robert “Chip Burner” Turner with taking the game to Bill Boyd on this page, but also says that at the Golden Nugget, where it started in Vegas, it was called “Nugget Holdem”. This is corroborated by Robert Turner’s interview over at Poker Plus:

RT: Probably the most memorable run that I had occurred at the Super Bowl of Poker at Caesars Palace. In the first four events, I had two firsts and two seconds back to back. But back to my job at the Nugget, in 1983 I asked Mr. Boyd to start spreading Omaha. I had been talking to a player from Seattle and told her than in the South, we played four-card poker. “I run a game in Washington,” she answered, “and we play a lot of four-card poker there.” So, Mr. Boyd cleared it with the Nevada Gaming Board and we started our first Omaha game four-handed at $5-$10 limits. Although everybody there knew how to play the game, it was slow and boring at those limits so we raised them to $10-$20. The game started around 2:00 that afternoon and by 6:30 that night we had changed it to pot-limit. For 30 days the game went around the clock without breaking up. The World Series had started at Binion’s and a lot of players were crossing the street to the Nugget to play in our pot-limit Omaha game. When the Series was over, Mr. Boyd put Omaha on the regular schedule as a $2-$4 limit game, calling it “Nugget Hold’em.” That game never broke up either — when the Nugget’s poker room closed, the game moved to the Horseshoe where it is still being played today at $4-$8 limits.

So it seems likely that the Golden Nugget was not responsible for the name change to “Omaha”, but I’m not sure who is.

It was reported not so long ago in the Finish newspaper called ‘Helsingin Sanomat’ that it has been suggested that a new government report is recommending that the current gambling laws be amended in order to allow sanghoki players to retrieve previous online losses from the game.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health commissioned the paper and has made claims that the new law could and most likely would effectively give online sanghoki companies little option but to block all Finnish players from participating in games on their sites. This move would of course have negative repercussions upon the poker industry in both Finland and upon companies from all across the world. Companies would in turn lose substantial amounts of profit, along with of course preventing Finish players from roaming the freedom that is enjoyed by the rest of the world when playing poker online. This surely cannot be a good thing for the morale of the game in Finland and may force many players out of the game entirely as there are a lot of players that rely solely on online poker games for income or leisure.

Losses would be recouped from one of the following; the online provider, credit-card Company, or player, and the legal amendment is designed to protect problem gamblers and children. This apparently the aim of the application of the legislation, the outcome of it is yet to be seen and many hold controversial views that apply to both sides of the argument.

There is no such law found anywhere else across the globe, and the Ministry appears to feel that many other countries will in turn follow suit and mimic the actions taken by the Finnish government. If this were to happen then the poker world could potentially be devastated, along with having an impact on all of the financial organisations involved in the process such as banks.

Helsingin Sanomat has said that Finns spend approximately €150 million on online poker every single year. It is also claimed that there are great levels of problem gamblers existing in the country (around 40,000) and that Finns are the fourth-biggest gamblers in the world in terms of how much they spend per head of the population.

Titan sanghoki Players in Ireland Open

The Titan Poker website has recently been so interested in the Irish Open poker event that it has decided to take a particular selection of its finest online players to travel to Ireland and take part in the tournament. This decision is certainly a positive element for Ireland and the game, as the location will most likely now be put on the international map as a result of such high class players showing their faces.

Titan poker has definitely avoided any bias in relation to their choice of players to represent them in the competition, with players deriving from all across the globe. Player origins include Denmark, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Spain and Switzerland whom will be sent to Dublin for the tournament. Titan Poker have stated that the 16 players who were selected for the trip to Dublin have each been awarded $8,500 prize packages to the Irish open which is to take place between March 19th and 24th. Included in these prize packages is entry into the €3,000,000 Guaranteed Main Event in Dublin, aeroplane flights, accommodation and of course an opportunity to have a tourists look around the great Irish city.

One of the entrants coming from Titan Poker is Danish player Ole Langvad Wessby, who has said he plans to treat his win as both work along as a vacation at the same time. Ole is evidentially excited at the prospect of his trip to the Irish open, as can be seen in the following quote:

“I’m really excited for this opportunity to compare my poker abilities against the pros,” said another winner, Jeffrey Maynard from the Netherlands.”

Titan Poker appears to enjoy sending its top players across the globe, most likely in an effort to promote the site as a whole and provide a representation of the manner of competition that is offered online in terms of players. The poker site doesn’t solely send its players to Ireland of course, and the Irish open is obviously not the only tournament Titan Poker’s players are entered into. Entrance seats to tournaments all across the world and quite often awarded to its players, in turn spreading the word of the site at a variety of different locations.

If you are the lucky alaskaslot blogger to eliminate $mokkee from the tournament you will be rewarded with a seat in Bodog’s Main Event Semifinal 5 Seat Guaranteed to be held on June 8th at 3:15 pm ET.

You read it right, Bodog is adding an extra T$270 in value to Tuesdays June 3rd tourney!

This will be an exciting and eventful night and bloggers around the globe are invited to participate. It is also the last chance for bloggers to climb their way into the top 18 on the Bodog blogger tournament leaderboard!

Tournament Series Final Table May 6th 2008

40 donkeroos sat down to battle it out for valuable TOC leaderboard points in week 14 of the Bodog blogger online poker series.

Final Table Players and Payouts

1. ICrushBloggers – $160.00 + T$109

2. InstantTragedy – $96.00 + T$109

3. RedKoi – $64.00 + T$109

4. MiamiDon – $48.00 + T$109

5. vin_nay – $32.00 + T$109

This week’s final hand came down to a showdown between Bodog poker bloggers ICrushBloggers and InstantTragedy, where ICrushBloggers raised from the small blind with an AhJh and InstantTragedy then jammed all-in with an Ac9h.

ICrushBloggers then insta-called his bet, flopped two pair and rivered a boat giving him the 1st place money this week and moving him into 10th place (from 24th) on the poker tournament leaderboard. InstantTragedy now also sits in 9th place while previously sitting at 20th.

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Tournament Series Final Table May 27th 2008

With only one more tournament left to play before the Tournament of Champions on Tuesday June 10th, this week’s blogger tournament was a donkey pushing race to valuable TOC points.

The poker blogger who takes 1rst place in the TOC on June 10th will win a $12,000 World Series of Poker* prize package and be a part of Team Bodog 2008 during the Main Event starting July 3rd in Las Vegas.

Final Table Players and Payouts

1. ICrushBloggers – $140.00 + T$109

2. pokerpeaker – $84.00 + T$109

3. ScottMc – $56.00 + T$109

4. MiamiDon – $42.00 + T$109

5. APOSEC72 – $28.00 + T$109

In the final hand played this week, ICrushBloggers sat with a 4-1 chip lead over pokerpeaker. He then limped in from the button with AJ0 and pokerpeaker min-raised with an AT0. ICrushBloggers then jammed all-in and pokerpeaker called off his remaining chips.

Neither player improved and ICrushBloggers took this victory with a JackAce moving him from 13th place on the poker tournament leaderboard into 3rd.

Contact Bodog Poker with questions related to the Bodog blogger tourney.

Best wishes to Bodog poker blogger ScottMC whose wife is expecting any day now. Congratulations!

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Tournament Series Final Table February 5th 2008

Bodog would like to welcome all new players to this tournament series. A record turn out of 54 poker bloggers showed up for Tuesday night’s tournament.

Tournament Series Final Table February 5th 2008

Final Table Players and Payouts

1. kurokitty – $162.00 + T$109

2. Newinnov – $108.00 + T$109

3. MiamiDon – $64.80 + T$109

4. Goat Rodeo – $54.00 + T$109

5. 23skidoo – $43.20 + T$109

6. Abby17 – $35.10

7. NumbBono – $29.70

8. JL514 – $24.30

9. Riggstad – $18.90

Here’s how the last hand went down. With the blinds at 2000/4000, kurokitty limped in with K6o from the button, Newinnov checked to see a free flop. kuro flopped top pair and Newinnov pushed all in with the middle pair on flop. kurokitty insta-called and took it down. Apparently he had to drive home 1.5 miles during the final table while playing on his laptop to pull this score off. What a devoted poker blogger wouldn’t do for the great game of poker.

Do you have an interesting story about your Bodog poker blogger tournament experience? Let us know. We want to read your comments.

With 11 more tournaments to play, there’s plenty of time to secure your position on the tournament leader board to earn your seat into the tournament series TOC.

Simply by finishing in the top 5 at least 3 times shows how fast you can make your way up the leader board.

So what are you waiting for? Live the poker blogger dream!

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Tournament Series Final Table March 25th 2008

51 bloggers sat down at the Bodog poker tables last night for a shot to duke it out with Bodog Poker Pro Josh Arieh for all the blogger glory and $100 cash.

Abby17 laid claim to the $100 bounty on Josh Arieh’s head when she re raised Josh’s pf bet with an AQ and Josh pushed all-in with with a 77. An Ace hit the flop and Josh was out.

Final Table Players and Payouts

1. StinkyBritches – $156.00 + T$109

2. TripJax – $104.00 + T$109

3. Abby17 – $62.40 + T$109

4. RecessRampage2 – $52.00 + T$109

5. emptyman – $41.60 + T$109

6. Newinnov – $33.80

7. JL514 – $28.60

8. raisydaisy22 – $23.40

9. TheDutchster – $18.20

With StinkyBritches sitting on a commanding 4-1 chip lead in the final hand, he then limped in from the SB with 8-Ts. TripJax checked his option and the flop came 4c-6s-7c.

StinkyBritches then minimum bet the flop and TripJax called. 9h was dealt on the turn and all hell broke loose. StinkyBritches then bet a little over half the pot and jammed all in after Tripjax 3-bet which Trip then called. TripJax didn’t improve on the river and StinkyBritches took it down hitting a gutshot on the turn.

A HUGE Thank You to Josh Arieh for coming out! On behalf of all bloggers playing in the tourney, we welcome Josh back for more poker blogger action in the weeks to come!

Not sure where you stand in point totals for the tournament?

Find out at the Bodog blogger tournament leader board.

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Bodog Poker wants to help you read your poker opponents and improve your game, so we put together this short and humorous video that shows you involuntary and common poker tells to look for the first time you sit down with someone.

Most skilled poker players have is the ability to read their opponents, which is why in the game of poker we often hear about poker tells – any physical reaction, kind of behavior, or habit that gives (or tells) the other players information about your hand.

Generally, when a player acts like they have a strong hand, they usually have a weak hand and when they act like they have a weak hand, they probably have a strong hand. This example of a common poker tell is easily spotted when you know what to look for.