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We get used to seeing quads in the early stages of tournaments when the tables are packed and the action thick and fast. But with 24 players to go before the money kicks-in at the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final, we’ve seen quads twice in the past five minutes. Hong Kong’s Manish Sansi just made quad jacks (holding A-J) against A-2, which earned him a nice pot and a warning from APPT tournament director...
Here’s the scenario: there’s 15minutes to go at level 13 (1200/2400 with a 400 ante), the average stack is 116,000, you lose a big pot and get left with 4500. Limp out? Not Petar Lackovic, who has staged an amazing comeback since his pair of kings was overtaken by a set of kings to leave him with nine purple 500 chips. You can take the boy out of Perth but you can’t Perth out of the boy – Lackovic...
LONDON – A rubbish collector in central England could have a very good Christmas if he can solve one of the biggest jigsaw puzzles going – £10,000 worth (€11,520) of torn-up bank notes.
Less than 100 players – 97 to be exact – have returned after the dinner break as the race for the money starts in earnest on day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. Apparently a handful of players wanted to extend their meal break judging from the frenzied activity just before the dinner bell sounded. Team PokerStars Pro Gavin Griffin, PokerStars Sponsored player Ivan Tan and Tom Guise were...
That wasn't my shortest Day 2 ever, but it was close. I'm a little pissed off about it. 400/800, third hand of the day, folded around to 2-off who limps. I am in the cutoff in Seat 1. I hate Seat 1. I did not see him limp and raise to 2100 with AcQc. The BB calls and the limper calls. The flop comes 776 with two clubs. BB checks, limper bets some amount, I shove, BB folds, limper snap-calls and shows...
From APCW.org: So, last week 60 Minutes decides to “expose” our industry with half-truths and spin. This week, it’s our turn to expose them! Also, get a different insite on the Kentucky domain seizure case. Plus an update on the Gambling Wages Challenge!
After last night's Bodog Blogger Series II tournament, we're left with 3 tourneys plus the "Last Chance" tournament on Wednesday, December 17th. Anyone who's played at least 3 Bodonkeys in this... [This is a content summary only. Click-through to www.smokkee.com for Bodog Girls, 2008 WSOP coverage, brag posts and online poker offers. Stop by to bitch and moan about Bodog's Poker client and slow payouts....
Board game aficionados with a PS3 console will soon be able to enjoy the classic board game Settlers of Catan when it comes to the PlayStation Network . If they're in Japan , at least. Genji developer Game Republic will be releasing the PS3 version of Catan in Japan on December 18 for 1200 Yen. This isn't a port of the game's XBLA release and will feature 1080p graphics and 5.1 surround sound. No word...
It’s like 100 buses just pulled up at Star City Casino and unloaded their contents in the past hour. With the teams’ event about to kick off, many players have returned to the poker room, joining the scores of railbirds and players still chasing glory in the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. Many businesses around the city are also holding Christmas parties tonight, and you can be assured many of those...
The end-of-the-year board game recommendations are starting to flood across newspapers, and the game choices are sometimes surprising in their modernness and obscurity. Here are three examples: The Modesto Bee features an Associated Press story by Peter Svensson that name checks Carcassonne and Catan – perhaps assuming that readers might know of these titles from their exposure on XBLA – and goes on...
"Quantitative Easing". That has a nice official sound to it, doesn't it? Certainly better than "crank up the printing presses!" Quantitative easing is, in fact, the Friedmanesque "helicopter option", whereby you print lots of lovely new notes, put them into a helicopter, take off and then scatter the notes all over the north-east, or north-west, or the countryside. Perhaps, in a first for the UK, some...
I had plans to head down to AC on Sunday with the suspects usuale. I resisted the siren calls of Mary, who by Friday was all “I want to go now!” Although, looking back, I have no idea why. I sure as heck wasn’t doing anything on Friday. Anyway, late Friday night I started to get the nostalgic “hey, wouldn’t AC be fun,” emails, which usually means somebody has killed her man and he is rotting in the...
If there’s a cult figure in today’s event, it’s Scott “Punty” Smith. He has fans following online and a big contingent on the rail, and they’ve had plenty to cheer about today. He’s been a steady climber all day and recently took out another player when his opponent pushed all-in on a board of Qs-Ac-Qc-Ks. Smith called and tabled As-Kd, ahead of his opponent’s Ah-10s, with the 6c on the river sending...
