Erik Seidel started the final table of the Foxwoods Poker Classic with the most chips, and he ended the World Poker Tour event with all of them. The final table — consisting of 6 players — lasted 12 hours and 229 hands, and the eight-time World ��...full article
Erik Seidel started the final table of the Foxwoods Poker Classic with the most chips, and he ended the World Poker Tour event with all of them.
The final table — consisting of 6 players — lasted 12 hours and 229 hands, and the eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner walked away with the first prize of nearly $1 million.
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Harrah’s Entertainment to change its name to Caesars
Harrah’s Entertainment has decided to change the company’s name to Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Harrah’s, which puts on the World Series of Poker, will still be used as a brand name on casinos. According to pokernews.com: CEO Gary Loveman said, “Adoption of the name Caesars Entertainment Corporation will provide ��...full article
Harrah’s Entertainment has decided to change the company’s name to Caesars Entertainment Corporation.
Harrah’s, which puts on the World Series of Poker, will still be used as a brand name on casinos.
According to pokernews.com:
CEO Gary Loveman said, “Adoption of the name Caesars Entertainment Corporation will provide our company with greater prestige and help attract strategic business partners as we pursue expansion opportunities in new jurisdictions. The change also reflects our evolution into a full-service entertainment company that offers a rich range of gaming and non-gaming amenities to our guests.”
Harrah’s and Caesars merged in 2005.
No details yet on if this change will take place in time for this year’s WSOP, which starts next month.
Antigua to reject U.S. proposal on online gambling dispute
In the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and Antigua regarding online gambling, the Caribbean nation is set to reject the Americans’ latest proposal to settle the issue. Antigua and the United States are at odds because the U.S. will not allow foreign online gambling ��...full article
In the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and Antigua regarding online gambling, the Caribbean nation is set to reject the Americans’ latest proposal to settle the issue.
Antigua and the United States are at odds because the U.S. will not allow foreign online gambling providers to have access to the U.S. market. Previously, the World Trade Organization sided with Antigua, awarding the island nation compensation because of the United States’ unwillingness to honor trade pacts on the issue.
According to pokerpages.com:
Antigua and Barbuda agreed to hold off on arbitration proceedings at the World Trade Organisation until the end of March, allowing time for the proposal to be considered and a counterproposal made. Antigua did not receive a settlement proposal back from the United States until after the end of March deadline passed.
“Cabinet has deliberated on the matter and decided on a particular course of action.” Dr. Court told the SUN. A statement is expected to be issued from the government of Antigua and Barbuda shortly concerning their decision.
With this latest round of international wrangling, the dispute appears to be no closer to a resolution.
National Heads-Up Poker Championship TV schedule released
NBC recently updated the broadcast schedule for its fourth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Coverage of the event begins Sunday and will include action from all three days of the event, eventually won by Chris Ferguson against Andy Bloch in the best-of-three final. According to pokerpages.com: The Championship ��...full article
NBC recently updated the broadcast schedule for its fourth annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Coverage of the event begins Sunday and will include action from all three days of the event, eventually won by Chris Ferguson against Andy Bloch in the best-of-three final.
According to pokerpages.com:
The Championship was full of surprises from the beginning, as reported on NBC’s site, with first round upsets including 2007 NHPC champion Paul Wasicka losing to Freddy Deeb; “Poker Brat” Phil Hellmuth going all in with pocket aces, and losing, against online poker phenomenon Tom Dwan on the third hand; and Shannon Elizabeth, the Cinderella story of last year’s tournament, getting knocked out by Bloch. Other poker heavyweights eliminated in the first round were Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, and 2007 NHPC runner-up Chad Brown.
Whole thing here, which includes times and air dates for all episodes.
The final is scheduled to be aired May 18.
Georgia man has Full Tilt win on his mindVickers, who owns and operates a pawnshop and jewelry store in Douglas, Ga., spends a big portion of his days playing online poker and honing his poker skills.
"I am on Full Tilt seven days a week all day long," he said.
"I think it is the best online site to play poker that there is out there - bar none. I have my Full Tilt custom jersey with my nickname on back, and I am waiting for the day that I will wear it in a WSOP or WPT event. Until then it will hang in my closet new and never worn."
He plans to use his freeroll winnings to continue to improve his poker game and work his way toward a major event.
"I told my fiancée about a year ago that I was going to be good enough to compete in the WSOP and WPT one day, and she laughed," Vicker said. "Now after seeing the rapid progression my game is making she is starting to be a believer and is behind me 110%."
Vickers got his start in poker playing Five-Card Draw and luck games such as Three and Five-Card Knock when he was a teenager. Now 35, he started playing Texas Hold'em about two years ago.
"When I started to realize that real poker was more luck than skill and a game that could be mastered is when I got really interested," he said.
He gives some credit for his interest in Hold'em to it being shown on television, but it's also his competitive nature and mainly the lure of the quest to be the best that propels him to continue to improve his game.
In that quest, Vickers, who plays as mikey11773, plays online poker seven to nine hours each day.
"If I miss a day, I feel like I've lost ground and play more the next day to catch up," he said.
Vickers has seen quite a bit of improvement since he began to focus on Hold'em. He gives some of the credit for his most recent improvement to Justin Rollo and his coaching videos.
"I started watching them about a month ago, regularly, and since then have started to go deeper and deeper in the tournaments I play, winning several 90-handed sit-and-gos and numerous final tables in the last month," Vickers said.
Those final tables include a previous stint in the weekly $3k freeroll at Full Tilt Poker as well. Two weeks ago he came in second, and his previous play made him a little familiar with the playing field of the weekly event going into the April 5 tournament.
"There are some good players that play that tourney every week, but there are a lot of the guys that play in it that are pretty inexperienced and don't have the patience to get deep in a tournament," Vickers said, "and they rush their play and play bad hands and don't know when to lay them down."
His strategy this time around involved playing tight and just waiting for premium hands after he saw most of the players he went deep with the time before get knocked out early.
"I can remember one hand a little over halfway through where I got lucky and the momentum I got from that hand pretty much rolled me into the final table," Vickers said.
"A lot of the guys also didn't seem to know how to play deep-stacked with the blinds and antes so high, and I just took advantage of that and kept getting chips."
At the final table he maintained that same strategy and said he was never in danger of busting out.
"I know it sounds vain, but after the last one, I told my fiancée I was going to win this one," Vickers said. "I was way ahead in the last one and feel like I should have won it, so I had my mind made up to take it down, and I did."
The final-table results of the tournament were:
Place Name Prize 1st mikey117733 $810 2nd chockaz $510 3rd nutstrut $382.50 4th soarsoar $300 5th No Outs 1 $225 6th mike24778 $165 7th stormin618 $112.50 8th AAnKK $90 9th ror666 $67.50 Vickers qualified for the Full Tilt Poker weekly $3,000 freeroll by first signing up at the poker site through PokerListings.com.
"I visit [PokerListings.com] a couple times a month to look through the blogs and see what's happening in the poker world," Vickers said. "I think it is a very good site, and I enjoy reading the articles and info on it."
After signing up at Full Tilt Poker through pokerListings.com, all Vickers had to do was earn 150 playing points during the seven-day qualification period for the freeroll and he was in.
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