Behold the power of the Jackhammer, or Jack-Four in Hold ‘Em to the uninitiated. It’s a favorite bad hand of ours to play, and CJ from Up For Poker enjoys laying the wood to the ladies with it too:
“Just a few hands later, I take my first shot at Heather. She talks a big […]

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Another person upset over the NYC poker club raids and suggests some alternative licenses issuance for prosepective club owners and blasts some clubs for exposing themselves too much. This idea was posted on Craig’s List, of course.:
“To the frustrated poker players out there I feel your pain. I too miss playing and view these clubs […]

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We found this article in the Delaware County Daily Times, where the author warns against slowplaying your "monster hands" at the table. He relays this hand:

"With the blinds having been raised to 75-150 with a 25-chip ante, I was in the big blind with Q-K suited - a strong starting hand, particularly when the only two players to act before me were my fellow large stacks, both of whom only called. I decided I wanted to feign weakness by casually checking when the option to raise came my way…

The flop came out K-Q-5 … Yahtzee! I was first to act, but I coolly checked the hand, praying one of my fellow players either caught a piece of the flop, or would try to use position to bluff their way to the chips.

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· A few North Dakota lawmakers are pushing to allow Internet poker sites to relocate to their state. This guy says “There are enough ways to gamble in North Dakota. We don’t need another.” Why wouldn’t you trade a room full of computers for a few dozen million in tax revenue every […]

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Alex Rodriguez’s card room carousing days in New York City underground poker clubs are probably over. According to the New York Daily News New York Yankees’ brass officially told A-Rod to keep out of the card rooms and instead concentrate on more important things like hitting over .200 in a playoff series. The story portrays major league baseball owners as extremely paranoid that one of the league’s biggest stars is possibly setting himself up for controversy by playing poker in New York’s underground card rooms. According to one itchy baseball official in the story, Rodriguez is taking a huge risk:

"What in the world is he thinking?

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We’ve all had that little voice inside our heads that begs us to lay down the best hand because we just can’t take one more bad beat, right? Is it just us? Maybe this sort of indecision sounds better coming from Mean Gene Bromberg, but then again, maybe it sounds better in Pig-French:
“So, […]

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What to do if you’re a big-time poker pro stuck just outside of Louisville on Halloween? You grab a couple of the guys covering the WSOP Circuit event, rent a limo, and go find a party. Jason Kirk was along for the ride:

"It?s almost a cop-out to say that Chris was the life of the party, but when a phrase lends itself so easily to the reality of the situation you kind of have to go with it. He traded hats with the Lead Pimp (and eventually ended up in his pimp coat and bling), found a cane that became a dancing accessory, handled a never-ending procession of pimped-out admirers with ease, handled a similar procession of ho?s with an easy smile, and from time to time disappeared dancing into the rest of the bar."

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· 888.com says we shouldn’t worry about the burst of the poker bubble, they’re still making money. [Reuters]
· Poker is really catching on in Moscow, unfortunately none of the locals laugh when you do the Ivan Drago “I must break you” line. [Moscow Times]
· Those elitist Apple Mac bastards are still whining that […]

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See mom? We can meet someone special playing online poker. From Online Casino Reports:

"(O)nline casinos can hardly be regarded as a good place to find a date. Not in the case of Danny Tackett and Marianne Graves, who got engaged as a result of playing against one another in a game of poker hosted by Poker World Online Casino. The two have set a date and they are scheduled to get married next month on November 17th.

After playing just one hand of Texas Hold?em, the two began corresponding in online chats, sharing their love for the game of online casino poker.

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