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PokerStars yesterday announced the line up for its upcoming Asia Pacific Poker Tour beginning September 1.
Joining the field of 20 world class champions in a tournament with 500 plus expected participants is poker legend Johnny پeThe Orient Expressپf Chan. There are few players on the planet who can rival his poker record, with 10 World Series of Poker bracelets to his name and more than US$6.7million tournament earnings during his career, the release said.
Johnny Chan first shot to fame in the late 1980s, winning the championship event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in two consecutive years (1987 and 1988) and was also featured as one of the greatest poker players ever in the 1998 movie “Rounders” with Matt Damon and Edward Norton.

VIENNA, Austria - For the abandoned US poker players whose online poker accounts were closed by the gaming operators as a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

There is now a new way to stay in touch with what is happening in the poker world. PlayPing.com of Austria is a new Web 2.0 gaming community, bringing together poker players from all over the world including the US.

Every member has various methods to communicate with other members at his disposal and receives additional member benefits like a welcome gift, personal profile webspace, blogs, private messaging box, picture sharing, live chat, instant messenger or free classified ads.

There are two ways to make money at poker: sticking to the tournament scene or grinding it out in cash games. You'll need to learn a vastly different skill set to consistently grow your bankroll in each environment because each venue tends to attract a specific kind of player.

Recreational players are more apt to play in tournaments, whereas higher-skilled players usually favor cash games. That's an important distinction because the better-skilled your opponents are, the more creativity and sophistication you'll need to bring to the table.

Players on AbsolutePoker.com and UltimateBet.com will soon notice the tables are little busier. The two online poker sites announced Thursday plans to merge the two independent rooms to form the CEREUS network.

The newly-formed network will combine the players from both sites onto one platform. The move is meant to offer increased liquidity to current players and integrate features from each site onto one platform. Players will still play at their favorite sites as they have no plans to combine into one singular brand.

Last weekend, a computer system called Polaris outperformed seven top online poker players at a human-vs.-machine competition held in Las Vegas. The score was computer 3, people 2, and one draw in the Texas Hold'em matches.

You'd think with the human element playing such a big role in Texas Hold'em, that it would be harder for a computer to beat humans than in chess or checkers. Think again!

"Poker is a completely different game," said computer scientist Michael Bowling, the leader of a Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta in Canada.

NEW YORK -- DuplicatePoker.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities will add cash games to its growing repertoire of playing options beginning today Moshe Davidovich announced today.

EDMONTON - A computer created by a group of U of A programmers changed the face of poker on Sunday night, when it defeated some of the best players in the world.

In the second man-versus-machine competition held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend, Polaris II narrowly defeated seven players from the online poker training site stoxpoker.com.

"We're very excited," said Michael Bowling, head of the U of A team. "I think there's no question that we're playing on the level of the absolute best human players in the world at the game of heads up limit hold 'em."

The computer emerged from the weekend with a record of three wins, two losses and a draw.

Texas Hold ’em poker, in Ken Rabideau’s mind, is one part skill and one part luck.

You have to play your hands correctly, but in the end, you’ve got to get the cards.

Rabideau, a local mortgage broker, tried last week for the second time to make it to the finals of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Rabideau only made it to the first day’s evening session last Thursday.

His World Series of Poker quest began innocently for Rabideau four years ago.

“I got into a tournament at the Sahara (in Las Vegas),” he said. “Just by luck, I finished fifth.”

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Top poker pro Annie Duke is missing the first week of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, and though she relays that she suffered a triple pelvic fracture while jogging, her blog reports that she chose to miss the first week of the World Series of Poker to be with her kids longer before the long separation imposed by attending the WSOP.

Bodog poker pro Eveyn Ng during Event No. 15 - Ladies Event - at the 2008 WSOP. (Bodog Beat Image)

It's been an estrogen fueled day here at the 2008 WSOP and Team Bodog's favorite pro poker players of the female gender have been out playing up a storm in the Amazon Roon for Event No.