Here is a site dedicated to the nemesis of every good poker player, Bad-beats. We all get them handed to us and usually do we not only lose the money, but everyone goes on tilt for at least a hand or two so we can lose more of our poker bankroll. The only Bad-beat I enjoyed was the one I got playing strip poker at band camp. We can talk about them and we can cry about them but it really does little good. The next time a fish chases that flush and catches it on the river, he’ll hand us another one. Well here is your chance to get something for your poker pain. Send us your Bad-beat for a chance to win prizes. Maybe you can get some of your poker money back.
To enter send us your poker beats to Bad-beats Slay Me!
We will accept all Bad-beats for possible publication, but to be eligible for our poker Bad-beat prize, we need a transcribed description of your Bad-beat. The Site name and Hand number where you got Bad-beat would be nice, but not obligatory.
A description of your feelings and thoughts when you got Bad-beat will be considered when deciding the final poker Bad-beat winner each month.
Here is our screening criteria.
1. Your betting pattern - If you slow play the hand and get caught it’s a lick on you.
2. Your hand - If you put your money in the pot before you had the winner, it’s too bad.
3. The odds of losing - If someone hits a 45:1 shot, it counts more than a player that hit 4:1 flush.
4. Your opponents play - If your opponent played the hand well and just got lucky, well – that’s just poker.
What the winner gets is a 3-month trial subscription to 5th Street Magazine.
Good luck on winning with your bad luck.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Poker Events Subject to State Laws
The latest gambling craze may be against the law in some places. In bars, bowling alleys and other venues, an increasing number of people are showing up for poker tournaments. But many of those gambling events springing up around the country may be in violation of state laws. Poker is all over cable and broadcast TV. For example, ESPN not only backs a tournament, it has a new dramatic series built around poker. Part of the impact however, is that people in many states want to go out and play themselves."Almost every day," said Carolyn Beck of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, "I get an e-mail or a phone call from someone saying, 'Hey, we want to hold a poker tournament, we want to do 'x,' 'y,' 'z,' these are the details, please tell me that that's legal.' "She doesn't give an answer, she explained, because different district attorneys have different thresholds for what's legal and what's not. Wyoming Attorney General Patrick Crank, for instance, is getting questions from law enforcement about Texas Hold 'Em tournaments—and his answers are clear."Wyoming is a state where virtually any form of gambling is unlawful," Crank said.Chad Hills, gambling analyst at Focus on the Family, said every state has its own nuances when it comes to gambling laws."Some of them are very complex, some of them are very simple," he said. "But, unfortunately, there's a lot of gray area around this, just like there is around Indian or tribal gambling right now."The fallout from this epidemic of gambling, he added, will be increasing numbers of gambling addicts. Hills said he is especially concerned about young people's susceptibility to gambling, noting he has seen 10-year-old boys buying poker chips and cards at a discount store.by Stuart Shepard, correspondentCopyright © 2005 Focus on the Family
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