3/06/2010 11:27:19
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Play poker and learn from an expert

If you want to learn how to play poker, there is nothing better than registering in an online poker site and play for as long as you want while you get expert advice from a poker expert. On the other hand, if you already know how to play poker and want to improve your gaming skills, then online poker rooms offer you the perfect chance to practice free poker without spending a cent.

Register today in an online poker room and you will have access to lots of poker games. In many poker sites you do not even have to download the poker software because you can play from your browser. In order to register you will have to complete the registration form and enter your personal information to create a new poker account.

Online poker sites offer lots of different poker games, including poker Texas Hold’em and many other variants. Choose the poker table that better suits your gaming level and start practicing to become a real poker expert. You can also learn new strategies and poker tips with other poker players.

If you have any doubt or question, you can contact the poker expert who will tell you which is the best strategy to follow in a poker game. This will help you improve your gaming skills and acquire the experience you need to play for real money.

Online poker sites also offer you the chance to use applications like the poker calculator that help you find out your odds of winning a poker hand. Just enter your cards and the cards of the other players in the table and you will discover the chances you have of winning.

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Ciaran O’Leary an Irish poker player

Ciaran O’Leary is an Irish professional poker player born on 27th October 1973 who now lives in Seattle, United States. He has shown his poker skills winning several poker tournaments, including an event of the World Series of Poker, one of the most prestigious poker championships in the world.

Ciaran O’Leary is an Irish poker player who has showed great skills in the poker game. O’Leary has humble origins and he is the son of Terry, an English greyhound trainer, and Sheila. He spent most of his childhood going with his father to different canine events and sometimes they stopped in the business in County Cork where Ciaran spent hours looking at people playing poker.

O’Leary arrived in the United States with $1,000 in his pocket and that same week he turned them into $3,000 playing poker in a pub in Boston. He immediately moved to San Francisco where he continued playing poker and earning money to pay for his expenses. He used the nickname ‘Big C’ due to the complexity of pronouncing his name.

His greatest winning came in 2007 when he won the event #3 of the World Series of Poker, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em with almost 3,000 contestants. There he won his first bracelet and $727,012. This event was televised across the United States by ESPN. Play free poker game and be a winner.

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Free poker and prizes in online poker rooms

The best about many poker sites is that you can play free online poker games with no need to download the software and at the time of the day you choose, with no need to travel long distances. Register and practice without risking your money and improve your skills.

Besides, some poker sites give you access to applications like the poker calculator. This application allows you to calculate your odds of winning a poker hand and the odds of the other players in the poker table. You just have to enter your cards and your opponents’ cards to see your winning odds.

Poker sites are more and more popular every day and many poker players find them entertaining and really useful when it comes to learning poker. You just have to choose the poker table that is best for you and play poker Texas Hold’em games. In many sites you can play poker for free.

Sign up now in a poker site and improve your gaming skills. You can practice for as long as you want from your own home. Once you have acquired enough confidence, you’ll have the chance to play poker for real money in online poker sites.

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More efforts to legalize poker in Nevada

The legalization of online poker in Nevada is being propelled by the efforts of casino companies and Nevada legislators. For some time now, several sectors have made efforts to lift the ban on online gambling, especially on poker, and Nevada seems to be leading the way, with one of the main casino operators joining forces with a renowned online poker site.

Many efforts are being made in Nevada to achieve the legalization of online poker. This week, legislators started considering the topic and an important online poker site made a deal with a large casino company to try to force federal action. Besides, gambling authorities approved a plan presented by a renowned casino company to offer online gaming overseas.

Last Thursday, a group of Nevada lawmakers conducted a hearing in Carson City concerning new legislation that would make online poker legal in Nevada. However, the casino industry, who also offers poker games, is against this measure since they feel they would lose profits if online site are allowed to offer poker.

Companies such as Caesars Entertainment and MGM Grand Resorts have said they would prefer federal regulation instead of state regulation when it comes to poker games. “I’d be willing to bet that no major gaming legislation has ever passed in Nevada that has been opposed by the state’s largest casinos,” an expert in gambling law commented.

Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts said that his company is convinced that the lack of regulation of Internet gaming in the United States has to change. “We must recognize that this activity is occurring and that law enforcement does not have the tools to stop it…. It is time that the thousands of jobs created by this business and the potentially significant tax dollars come home to the U.S.”

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David Vamplew wins UKIPT 2010

Since he won the European Poker Tour Main Event in London, 23-year-old David Vamplew became a sensation in poker circuits and he is now even more popular after winning the UKIPT 2010. Vamplew is now one of the hot names in poker circuits and he is expected to continue winning important tournaments.

The Metropole Hilton in London was the host of the UKIPT poker tournament and many professional poker players from the United Kingdom signed up. In this tournament, the winner takes all and Vamplew managed to beat all the other players and claim the prize while showing his poker skills.

In the final game of the night, David Vamplew and Jamie Burland were the last players standing, but the Scottish showed that winning the EPT Main Event in London was no coincidence. As part of the prize, he won a free ticket to be part of the second season of the UKIPT, including a seat in the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour.

Jamie Burland commented after the game that Vamplew really played a good game and, although he recently won the UKIPT Brighton, he was not able to defeat the young poker player. Vamplew started playing live poker tournaments in 2010 and previously he had only played in online tournaments.

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WSOP Europe starts again this week

The first game of the World Series of Poker Europe will take place on Thursday this week. Since it first started in 2007, the WSOP Europe has become more and more popular and more poker tournaments have been added. In 2007 there were only three poker events and the next two years offered four events each. This year, there are five events.

More events mean more players and a bigger prize pool, which has reached the £15,166,890. Besides the cash prize, the winner will take home a golden WSOP bracelet, a trophy coveted by most poker players in the world. As to the number of players, in 2007 the competition had an average 207.76 players and in 2009 it climbed to an average 313.5 players, with more participants expected this year.

The schedule for this edition includes only one non-hold’em event: the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. Besides, the tournament will include a £2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event and a £10,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up event. The first one is expected to attract a big number of players and the second one is meant for elite poker players.

The two only players who have managed to cash all three years of the WSOP Europe are Chris Ferguson and John Juanda. Ferguson made it to the final table twice but he has not been able to win yet. Juanda was the winner of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2008 and took home a £868,800 prize. These two great poker players will be back this year to show their game in European poker tables.

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Third day of the WSOP Main Event

The third day of the WSOP Main Event started with 2,557 poker players, all that is left of the initial 7,319 field. Day three was the first day in which all players played together in the same room, since the first two days of competitions were divided in several calendar days due to the big number of players. David Assouline started the day as chip leader.

The winner of this year’s $10,000 buy-in Main Event will take home a prize of $8,944,138 and the nine players who make it to the final table will receive prizes of more than one million dollars. Some of the players who reached day three of the poker competition were Jesper Hougaard, Jim Collopy, Evelyn Ng, Barny Boatman, Johnny Chan, Vanessa Selbst, Marco Johnson, Dragan Galic, Patrik Antonius and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

Only 1,240 poker players went through to Day 4 after the action during Day 3. James Carroll is the leader with 803,000 and his closest rival is Imari Love with 741,000 in chips. It was also a great day for former poker champion Johnny Chan, known as The Orient Express, who ended in the top ten and was chip leader several times.

Some of the players who were out of the tournament during day three were Scott Seiver, Phil Laak, Jennifer Harman, Chris Moneymaker, David Williams, Erik Seidel, Kara Scott, Bill Chen, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso and last year’s Main Event winner Joe Cada. Michael, Robert, Eric and Danny Mizrachi made it to the fourth day of the poker tournament.

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First deposit bonus in Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker is a renowned online poker room with international popularity that offers new poker players a fabulous poker promotion. Visit the virtual poker room and learn all about their poker tournaments and games and the 100% first deposit bonus up to $600 you can win if you register and make your first deposit in the site.

At Full Tilt Poker you’ll find a wide variety of poker games, including Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Cards and 7 Cards Hi/Lo, Razz and HORSE. The poker site offers different table limits like no-limit, fixed limit and pot limit with poker bets that go from $0.05/$01 to $1,000/$2,000. If you like poker, here you’ll certainly find the perfect game for you.

You’ll also have the chance to play poker with professional poker players and legends like Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey, among others. Besides, at Full Tilt Poker you’ll have the unique opportunity to play poker with real money or just for fun. You’ll also find useful information about poker rules, glossaries, poker hands, as well as a fabulous poker school.

In order to cash you bonus, you’ll have to earn Full Tilt Poker Points. You’ll win one point per each dollar you bet and you’ll also receive seven points per each dollar you pay in poker tournaments rakes. You’ll have 120 days to cash your Full Tilt Poker bonus. Visit Full Tilt Poker now and learn to play like a pro to become a poker winner.

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South Africa 2010 in Titan Poker

Titan Poker, one of the most popular online poker sites in the market, invites poker players to play poker and watch the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The poker site is giving away $1,000,000 and many other prizes that can be yours just by taking part in this fabulous poker competition. Hurry up and register today to be a winner!

In order to win, all you have to do is play poker during the World Cup matches. Just play as many ring poker games or poker tournaments as you can and you’ll win betting tokens. You’ll have the chance to win one token per day and to know their value just check the tables you’ll find in the poker site. Winning is really simple with Titan Poker.

Once you have the betting token, you’ll have the chance to choose between three special one hand heads up SNGs for each day’s match. Each SNG corresponds to a possible result and you need to register depending on the token level you won and your match prediction. After you register, you have to play poker in the SNG in Titan Poker in order for your bet to be placed.

Take into account that you can place one bet for each day of the football match schedule. The more bets you place the more you’ll be able to win and once you have guessed 7 correct results, you’ll start winning prizes. If you love football and poker, then Titan Poker is the perfect online poker site for you.

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Sammy Farha wins his third World Series of Poker bracelet

Sammy Farha, one of the poker players responsible for the 2003 poker boom, has won another World Series of Poker bracelet after a marathon heads up battle with James Dempsey. Farha played in the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split/8 or better event and he took home a large prize of $488,237. He is considered one of the best Omaha poker players in the world.

This is the first World Series of Poker bracelet Farha wins since 2006 and he has won his three bracelets in Omaha tournaments. Up to this day and after this event, Farha has won more than $2.8 million in career tournament winnings, also building a solid career and reputation in the poker world.

The heads-up match with Dempsey lasted almost four hours and was pretty exhausting for both poker players. “I didn’t get frustrated,” Farha commented. “That’s not normally me. I didn’t get a good night’s sleep so I was surprised that I won’t getting frustrated, which is good.”

James Dempsey is now the leader in the WSOP Player of the Year Race and he has already won a World Series of Poker bracelet this year. Dempsey is a British poker player who so far has won $694,878 in poker tournaments. He started playing professional poker in 2003 and he finished first in the 41st World Series of Poker 2010.

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