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 true The Poker Web 2006-03-31T08:26:00-08:00 2006-04-05T15:35:29Z 2006-03-31T17:01:30Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-114382449066812003 St. Maarten Tournament Poker Beach: A bad beat story <strong>The Solution to A Bad Day<br></strong><br /><blockquote><p><em>This is the bad beat story, told by <b>David “Seal” Eisenstein</b>. The good thing beside "this bad poker beat": Booking the WPS St. Maarten Poker Tournament can be done even after "bad beats". </em></p><p><br /><strong>But read first here:</strong><br /><br />It’s been a very mild winter here in New Jersey overall this year. A local DJ joked that one day we’ll all tell our grandchildren the first sign of global warming was a bunch of 50 and 60 degree days in the winter of ’06. So when the only big snowfall of the year dumped more than two feet of the white stuff on my head right on my birthday, maybe I took it a little personally. “Thank goodness for online poker,” I thought as I logged into one of the <a href="http://www.americascardroom.com/">major poker sites</a>.<br />I jumped right into a <a href="http://www.americascardroom.com/tournaments/index.php">$2/$4 blind pot limit Omaha cash game</a> and my first hand was aces double suited. A couple of miracle cards hit the board and my hand held up. I went on to win the next three hands in a row and more than double my buy in. I stopped short of dancing around my desk like that guy in the TV commercial, but my mood had definitely improved.</p><p>As I waited out the inevitable flood of trash hands that always follows a rush I scanned the lobby for any good tournaments. My timing was perfect as a $30 re-buy satellite to win a trip to the Bahamas and a seat in the big poker tournament down there was just starting. <a href="http://www.americascardroom.com/common/mahobeach.php">A warm island sounded pretty sweet</a> as I looked out on the frozen tundra that my backyard had become.</p><p>I really like to multi-table cash games and tournaments when I play. Sometimes I get bored and play bad hands just for the action in a tournament if I don’t have anything else going on. My multi-table strategy was dead on as I patiently waited for premium hands and the luck was with me for a change as they held up. I had almost 20k in chips at first break and I was also still ahead in the Omaha game.</p><p>Two more hours passed and I was playing well and my luck holding up. I’d lost back most of what I won in the Omaha game, but I was third in chips with 8 left in the <a href="http://www.americascardroom.com/common/mahobeach.php">satellite</a>. They were giving seats to the top 4 winners and they were paying some cash to spots 5-7. The top two had over 500k in chips each, I had almost 150k, and the rest of the players all had less than 100k. One more good hand was all I needed.</p><p>In the Omaha I got my favorite hand, 89TJ double suited, and at the same time I got to play my 78 off-suit in a family pot in the NLHE. The Omaha pot was raised and re-raised pre flop, so there was almost $300 in it to go and the flop came 998 with two hearts. I had no hearts and I’m always scared of draws in Omaha so I came out swinging and bet the pot.</p><p>The NLHE game screen popped up and I saw another beautiful flop, 456 rainbow giving me the nut straight. I checked behind the small blind thinking that somebody must have an overpair and I can<br />double up on them if I let them bet. As I’m waiting for the guy to my left to act, the Omaha game popped up and I saw that the original raiser had pushed all in for about $20 more than I already had in the pot so I moved the mouse to call. Just as I click, the NLHE game popped back up and where the “call” button was in the Omaha is now the “fold” button for the satellite! Three guys all in and they all showed pocket pairs after I mistakenly folded. One of the small stacks had TT and it held up so he won over 400k in chips. Of course, a few hands later I went all in with my AQ and lost to an easy call by the chip leader’s pocket ducks. I took 6<sup>th</sup> and won only $200.</p><p>Later that night I posted my sad story on my favorite online forum, <a href="http://www.pocketfives.com/">pocketfives.com</a>, and asked if any site has a way to make sure this never happens to me again. Some guy told me to go to <a href="http://www.americascardroom.com/index.php">AmericasCardroom.com</a>. He said I should check out a feature they have called “full screen”.</p><p>The first thing that surprised me was the number of players on the site. I was expecting there to be hardly anyone there as AmericasCardroom was not a site I had heard of before. Instead there were 12 full tables of Omaha cash games going on and the NLHE tournament that was registering had over 1200 signed up so far! </p><p>I jumped into a pot limit Omaha game and found the AmericasCardroom software to be just as good as any site I had played on. The action moved fast, I liked the layout of the controls, and I even liked the silver and red color scheme of the default table. </p><p>I checked the tournament lobby and saw they had a satellite for an <a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/index.html">upcoming live event in St. Maarten</a>! A quick visit to worldpokershowdown.com told me they are having a whole series of events there starting April 29<sup>th</sup> and running through May 8<sup>th</sup>. <a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/stmaarten-april/sign-up-form.html">I signed up for the sat!</a>.</p><p>As soon as I got both games running I went to the lobby and selected “full screen” from the options menu. My screen blinked for a second and then the Omaha game took up my entire 21 inch monitor.<br />At the bottom of the game was a few tabs – one said “<b>Main Lobby</b>” and the other said “<b>WPS sat</b>”. When I clicked a tab the whole screen showed only the window that I selected, and when it was my turn to act in the other game, the tab blinked. I also liked that a button appeared that allowed me to go back to regular view with one click. This was exactly what I was looking for. </p><p>Well, I lost the <a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/stmaarten-april/Poker-satellites.html">satel for the WPS in St. Maarten</a> that night when my pocket aces lost to a flopped set of eights, not when I miss-clicked. </p><p><strong>But hey,that’s poker. </strong>David “Seal” Eisenstein</p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size:130%;">"Good Stories End", not only for David, but also for all other poker friends who like a "relaxed live poker tournament":</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Sign up to the </strong></span></em><a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/stmaarten-april/upcoming-poker-events.html"><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>WPS St. Maarten Spring Poker Showdown April 29 - May 8,</strong></span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong> 2006 at Sonesta Maho Beach Hotel and Resort, St. Maarten N.A. . This can be done </strong></span></em><a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/stmaarten-april/sign-up-form.html"><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>here with this pre-booking</strong></span></em></a>. </p><p>Fly into the sun, smell the sea, enjoy the beaches, play a cash game, a sit'n go or the poker tournament. See you and David. What else? Oh, I forgot the girls.<br /></p></blockquote> false The Poker Web 2006-03-09T10:42:00-08:00 2006-03-27T15:30:56Z 2006-03-09T18:49:44Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-114193018485108306 St. Maarten Poker Tournament at Maho Beach: Schedule April - May <blockquote>Tournament Schedule <p class="big">St. Maarten Spring Poker Showdown<br />April 29 to May 8, 2006:</p><a href="http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/stmaarten-april/sign-up-form.html">Book your travel and hotel with this Sign-Up form today </a><br /><p class="big">Poker Tournament Schedule:</p></blockquote><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="98%" align="center"><tbody><tr><span class="style1"><td></td><td><span class="style1">Tournament Game </span></td><td><span class="style1">Buy-in </span></td><td><span class="style1">Rebuys </span></td><td><span class="style1">Starting chips </span></td><td><span class="style1">Start </span></td><td><span class="style1">B-Lvl </span></td></tr><tr><td><p>Saturday,<br />29, 3:30p </p></td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$150 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>1500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Sunday,<br />30, 3:30p </td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Monday,<br />1, 3:30p </td><td>Pot Limit Holdem </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>1 Rebuy (1) </td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Tuesday,<br />2, 3:30p </td><td>Pot Limit Omaha </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>Multi-Rebuy (2) </td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>45</td></tr><tr><td>Wednesday,<br />3, 3:30p </td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$500 + 40 </td><td>No</td><td>3000 </td><td>25/25</td><td>45</td></tr><tr><td>Thursday,<br />4, 3:30p </td><td>Limit Holdem </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>40 </td></tr><tr><td>Thursday,<br />4, 5:00p </td><td><span class="style1">Super Satellite </span><br />No-Limit Holdem </td><td>$270 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>2000 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>30 min </td></tr><tr><td>Friday,<br />5, 3:30p </td><td><span class="style1">Main Event </span><br />No Limit Holdem </td><td>$2500 +100 </td><td>No</td><td>5000 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>60</td></tr><tr><td>Saturday,<br />6, 3:30p </td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$500 + 40 </td><td>No</td><td>3000 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>45</td></tr><tr><td>Saturday,<br />6, 4:00p </td><td><span class="style1">Main Event </span><br />remaining players </td><td>.</td><td>.</td><td>.</td><td>.</td><td>.</td></tr><tr><td>Sunday,<br />7, 3:30p </td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Sunday,<br />7, 4:00p </td><td class="style1">Main Event<br />Final Table </td><td>. </td><td>. </td><td>. </td><td>. </td><td>. </td></tr><tr><td>Monday,<br />8, 3:30p </td><td>No Limit Holdem </td><td>$300 + 30 </td><td>No</td><td>2500 </td><td>25/25 </td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="6"><br />-------All events except Super Satelitte will have 3% taken out for Tourney staff<br />1) 1 optional Rebuy till end of 3rd level, may be taken as a Re-buy or an Add-on<br />2) Multi-Rebuy 1st 3 levels (must be at 2500 chips or less to Re-Buy) NO ADD-ON<br />-------Dinner Break Approx 7:45 - 9 Pm </td></tr></tbody></table> false Poker Unlimited 2005-11-25T12:44:00-08:00 2006-03-23T23:11:48Z 2005-11-25T21:48:29Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-113295530959418845 Phil Ivey defeats bad beat to win championship
MONTE-CARLO, Monaco (PRIMEZONE) - Phil Ivey beat out British player Paul Jackson to win the 2005 Monte Carlo Millions (www.montecarlomillions.com). Ivey took home $1 million and the coveted championship title of the first poker tournament to ever be held in the illustrious Casino de Monte-Carlo. The tournament will be broadcast across the U.S. on FSN and internationally through its broadcast partners in early 2006.

"It was nice to be a part of this and to play here was amazing. I'm looking forward to coming back next year and defending my title. This has been a superb tournament," glowed Ivey.
 false The Poker Web 2005-11-09T21:32:00-08:00 2005-11-10T13:16:03Z 2005-11-10T05:39:11Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-113160115161182040 Poker Cruise 2005: Last cabins As seen, there are only some cabins left on the famous caribbean poker cruise December 11, 2005. <br><br />Worth to have look, in special after a "Bad Poker Beat". <br /><strong>Poker tournaments with Greg Rayner and other celebreties!</strong> false The Poker Web 2005-11-02T09:58:00-08:00 2007-04-03T04:02:11Z 2005-11-02T17:58:31Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-113095431111034644 Free Online Poker Tournament
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November 1, 2005 - A new radio show is hitting the airwaves every Monday night at 9pm EST, dedicated to the world of one the fastest growing games around, poker. The “Joe Average Poker Show," on channel 122 for Sirius Satellite Radio subscribers, launched in June of this year. The marketing director, Mark Siebert, says the show has a basic format and goes beyond just talking with poker players."We don’t just go to the people who play; we try to get real in depth with the people involved in poker," Seibert says. "It’s for anyone who wants to understand the poker world."Last week Roy Cooke was a guest on the show, and in September it was Lou Krieger, both writers for Card Player Magazine. Politicians are getting in on the act as well, such as North Dakota House Representative James Kasper, discussing poker and politics.
 false Poker Unlimited 2005-10-31T12:43:00-08:00 2005-10-31T20:44:42Z 2005-10-31T20:44:15Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115406.post-113079145598527667 Poker charity in the news
October 31, 2005 - Camp Fire USA, Texoma Council is hosting a "Texas Hold 'Em for Texoma Youth" poker night Nov. 12. The fundraiser will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2027 South Austin Avenue in Denison."This is something new for us as a fundraiser," said Sandra Ashby, Camp Administrator." Poker is very popular and it sounds like it will be a lot of fun. We hope the public will join us for our first annual Texas Hold Em for Texas Youth' poker night. Not only will it be a fun night, but it will benefit the area's children as well. You just can't lose by being a part of this!"All poker proceeds from the $50 buy-in will benefit Camp Fire USA's youth programs such as "Baby Think It Over," club programming and outdoor education for Texoma youth. Participants must be 21 years old.Registration begins at 6 p.m. Games begin at 7 p.m., and prizes are guaranteed to the top three finishers.Refreshments will be served.To register or for more information regarding this poker event call the Camp Fire USA office at (903) 465-2790.
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