What happens when you offer a $1.5 Million Guaranteed Pot on a Sunday tournament online?

If the PokerStars Sunday Tournament 1.5 Million Guarantee is any indication, you’ll find yourself with 8,431 entrants and a massive $1,686,200.00 total prize pool. This ensured a cool $204,198.82 to the winner and with that kind of prize money, you can be certain this tournament is taken seriously.

With such a monstrous field, did the online poker wizards stood a chance? Once again proving that poker is a game of skill, online phenoms Andy McLEOD and Zach ‘’nofingclue11′’ Clark emerged as chip leaders going into the final table despite the sheer number of poker wannabes in their midst. (Yep, these guys should’ve just stayed home watching the 2008 World Series of Poker on TV…)

Unfortunately for both, despite their strong showings, Andy McLEOD and nofingclue11 ended up in 4th and 5th place respectively. Hey, don’t feel too bad for them, that was $75,879.00 for 4th place and a very respectable $59,017.00 for 5th.

The final three saw RProps, betofetus and Fred_Brink battling for glory with Fred_Brink dead last with only 13,553 in chips. The three discussed a possible deal and luckily for Fred_Brink, the deal was never agreed upon.

With RProps having 43,391,921 in chips and betofetus having 27,284,169, Fred_Brink seemed to be well on his way out. But…

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A whopping 6,844 entrants for the 2008 WSOP $10,000 NLHE Championship is just unthinkable.

As we go deeper into the 2008 World Series of Poker tournament, we saw the second largest field in WSOP Main Event history. A total of 6,844 aspiring bracelet winners trooped to the Rio pumping up the total prize money to a staggering $9,119,517.

Doomsday soothsayers beware. Top 666 of the players will get paid and the minimum cash-out will be $21,230. How about that huh?

Day 1D of the 2008 WSOP Championship saw former champions Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Jerry Yang, Carlos Mortensen and Noel Furlong joining the fun.

Poker stars Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Annie Duke, Phil Gordon, Allen Cunninghan and Men ‘’The Master'’ Nguyen also joined the fray. Celebrity sightings include MLB pitcher David Wells and UFC fighter Chuck ‘’The Iceman'’ Liddel.

Casualties were many too. EPT Scandinavian Open winner Tim Vance lost when his opponent gambled with middle pair and hit a runner-runner flush to beat his straight on the flop. Poker pro David Williams was cruelly eliminated when his…

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Imagine this…

You just earned a seat to the biggest poker tournament of the year, maybe the 2008 World Series of Poker for crying out loud, after months and months of sitting in front of the PC, folding all these good hands in your favorite online poker room.

But once you finally take your seat with the top professional poker players of the world, you realize that your no longer inside the comforts of your living room. You realize that everybody around the world will be watching your every move, laughing at you every time you fold a damn good hand. What do you do?

If you want to be a part of the live poker scene, here are some of the stuff you can take note of and hopefully, you won’t look like a horse’s ass pretending you know something about the game of poker.

Buy a hat and really really dark sunglasses. If you’ve been watching these tournaments on TV, you should know this by now. Wearing these will probably make you feel comfortable and protected from visual scrutiny.

Second, NEVER EVER say one word during a hand. Silence in poker is gold. You can’t…

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In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, you should know that poker has this thing that lets you play anonymously online.

Apparently, the trend has actually gone from nice to irritatingly too much the moment that they started developing artificial intelligence for the sole purpose of playing poker.

Yep, Polaris, dubbed as the best poker-playing computer program from the University of Alberta, challenged the best poker players of the world to test just how good Polaris is in bluffing, calling and raising you whenever you go all-in. And what’s even more surprising is the fact that two poker players actually answered the challenge.

Phil Laak a.k.a. ‘’the Unabomber,'’ and Ali Eslami, a.k.a. ‘’we don’t give a rat’s ass who he is,'’ was invited to play Polaris to test the computer’s capabilities in playing against the best poker players in the world.

Wait, are these guys really qualified to represent mankind against Polaris?

The University of Alberta needed poker players who not only sowed excellence in the game, but were also capable of speaking through…

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In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, the 2007 WSOP tourney has arrived.

And yeah, just because we’re having a scarcity of sports other than MLB baseball lately, we’ll continue talking about the 2007 World Series of Poker until it makes us puke whenever someone says, ‘’W-S-O-P.'’

Different kinds of people have gathered for the 2007 World Series of Poker, all hoping to be that one guy who’ll win at the final table of the WSOP and get hold of that mountain of over 10 million in hard cold cash.

Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, homemakers, meter maids, past-their-prime athletes and former stockbrokers burned out on reading the ticker have found their way to Las Vegas. They’ve all come to chase the elusive dream of winning a wheelbarrow full of cash and to gain a slice of immortality in the world of high-action gambling.

Either that or they just want to get their nameless asses famous for a change.

Winning the 2007 WSOP tournament is probably the surest way to become an instant…

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Jennifer Tilly has big ass tits.

Now that THAT is out of the way, yeah, Jennifer Tilly is rooting for all the women at the 2007 World Series of Poker. The bride of Chucky (although Jen Tilly is not really a bride of a scary doll…) can’t seem to stop talking about women. Heck, we’re beginning to think she’s into this whole lesbian thing or something…

Jennifer Tilly, the Academy Award nominee, not to mention the 2005 World Series of Poker ladies’ champion, has a theatrical take on the subject of women in poker. And yeah, people listen to her. She is after all, a poker tournament champion.

‘’You know how you hardly ever see women serial killers?'’ Jennifer Tilly said. ‘’But when you do see one, she really stands out because of her viciousness.'’

‘’It’s kind of the same in poker. The women who are successful playing in tournaments against the men are so competitive, so intense, so strong, it’s kind of amazing how good some of the best female poker players are.'’

As the 2007 World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada heats up, Jennifer Tilly will be a part of the 2007 version of the Queen of Hearts team together with a dozen female poker professionals, celebs and executives who will donate their winnings in any 2007 WSOP tournament to the…

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The 2007 WSOP tournament stretches for seven weeks while the MLB baseball season has 168 games.

Yep, as the 2007 World Series of Poker tournament heats up before our very eyes, can the full seven-week poker frenzy be compared to the ups and downs of a full 168-game MLB baseball season?

Sure. Only shorter. I guess. And if MLB baseball enables you to deal with the excitement and disappointments of an entire season running in an outdoor park, the 2007 WSOP season only lets you do that to a more confined space like sitting on a chair. The rest is more of the same.

‘’The World Series of Poker, over the course of 48 days, is not much different from a sports season that runs eight to 10 months,'’ Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series, said shortly before the opening ceremony of the world’s biggest and richest poker tournament, yep, it’s the 2007 World Series of Poker in case you didn’t get that.

‘’We have a beginning, a middle marked by a sort of all-star event and an end that captures the world’s attention. But we do it all in a very compressed time period, and in essentially…'’

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He he… Yes, I’m serious.

There are TWO ways to win in poker, one is to improve your game which will definitely take time and a whole lot of practice. Yep, it takes a lot of time, experience learning, introspection and the obvious, HARD WORK.

The other one is MUCH MUCH SIMPLER. The secret to winning in poker? Find bad players. Yep, find players who are worse than you are (if that’s STILL possible) and win their money.

If you are the 10th best player in your neighborhood but have the poor decision of always playing against the nine other players that are better than you, chances are, YOU WILL LOSE. Jeez… You don’t need a rocket scientist to figure that one out right?

Your profit at the poker table is the difference in playing ability between the other players at the table and you.

Of course, looking for bad players shouldn’t be too hard. Look for any poker table. Are there a lot of checkers? Are there a lot of callers? Are there a few raisers? Does the pot always include many players? Do few players fold on the first round of betting?

Yep, these are GOOD poker games with BAD PLAYERS. Or better yet, these are games just waiting for you to win all that cash from the…

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Yup, here I am again busting my ass for you just so you’ll get all those Benjamins lying around the poker table.

For starters, I would like to tell you that No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker is different from Limit Hold’em, for obvious reasons. Well, if you fail to see the difference, the basic idea of No Limit Texas Hold’em is the fact that players can bet as much as they want, hence the term ‘’no limit'’ whereas Limit Hold’em has this irritating budget ceiling.

In Limit Hold’em, this poker game is more about the starting hands. DO NOT play suited connectors in Limit Hold’em unless of course both cards were higher than a nine.

As for No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker, it’s all about betting and the implied odds that you might have if you happen to end up with a huge hand. For instance, if you can make a $15 call with suited connectors preflop against an opponent with $400, it would be worth it to make the call in certain situations.

Yeah, winning a huge pot with suited connector hands is indeed rewarding BUT what’s even more rewarding is the fact that other players can see that you are capable of playing any two cards.

Initial reactions like, ‘’WTF?!? How could he play a goddamn hand like that when it was raised?'’ or ‘’If this asshole is capable of playing a hand like that, what could he turn over next time?'’ is very normal.

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Of course, everybody can play poker, BUT not everybody can play it right.

Yes, the problem with some poker tables these days is that there is an increasing number of irritating players in it who don’t know squat about the game but keeps on playing it anyway.

What makes it worse is every single time they talk, you’ll find out you’re better off listening to emo all day than hear that screeching belch that annoys you more than a new TV Reality show.

With that said, I will try to teach you some pointers that will help you maintain the sanity in every poker table. Oh yeah, if there’s still that one irritating player who thinks she’s God’s gift to beauty in spite of looking like the missing link to man and ape, please just shoot her in the head with a shotgun.

First off, splashing the pot is a big NO-NO. Most players just chuck their chips at the general direction of the pot. Please don’t do this. Not only does it slow down the game because the dealer STILL has retrieve the chips and count them, but sometimes some of the chips go into the pot and if the dealer doesn’t notice them, not only will it NOT COUNT as your bet but it will be a part of the pot.

Do not stack your chips improperly. Yes, you read it, there’s a proper way to stack your chips. The common mistake with stacking chips is that some players tend to have lower denomination of chips stacked high with the larger denomination of chips hiding behind…

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