Poker – How to host a home game By Kevin Bright
So you’ve decided you want to host a home game and battle the night out with your buddies, well how do you start? There are specific items for specific games here we will discuss the generalize needs as ...
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Gambling Comps 101 or The Ask Game By D. Ebert
Gambling Comps 101 or The Ask Game
I don't know who did it or when it happened, but someone shortened the word complimentary to comp and made it an industry standard.
In casino language, comps are cash or gi...
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How To Extend Your Stay & Play At A Casino By D. Ebert
How To Extend Your Stay & Play At A Casino
If you decided to build a new home, would you start construction without first developing a plan or blueprint? Or would you begin a new business without having a business plan?...
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The Truth Behind The Limits: What Minimum and Maximum Bets Are About By Bill Edge
Have you ever thought about the reason behind the existence of minimum and maximum bets? The truth is simple: casinos want your money. As simple as that. So they restrict your possibilities to win.
It was in 1654 that Antoine Chevalier ...
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Why All the Excitement Over Poker? By Tom Howze
Poker's new upsurge in popularity in is due to televised
showings of championship poker tournaments, such as The World
Poker Tour and The World Series of Poker. This has resulted in
millions of people all over the world playing either online or
...
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World Series of Poker Mania By Tom Howze
The popularity of the World Series of Poker gained tremendousmomentum from The Travel Channel's World Poker Tour showings. Although the event had been showing for a number of years on ESPN, when new technologies such as the table cam...
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Poker Online Freeroll Tournaments By Tom Howze
Poker online freeroll tournaments are a huge way to leverage a player's way into major tournaments and to win big money at no cost to the player. Casinos and poker rooms offer them to reward active players and to recruit new ones. Generally by p...
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Online Poker Gambling Sees Tremendous Growth By Tom Howze
Online poker gambling at casinos and poker rooms is one of the fastest growing forms of wagering on the Internet. Fueled by the televised tournaments seen on Travel Channel's World Poker Tour, ESPN with the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and...
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World Poker Tour -- The Beginning of a Phenomenon By Tom Howze
World Poker Tour high stakes poker tournaments started a revolution in the way the game is viewed, enjoyed, followed and played. Even though the World Series of Poker had been televised for years before the World Poker Tour (WPT), the game of po...
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Online Poker Tournaments -- Time to get aboard By Tom Howze
Online poker tournaments are skyrocketing in popularity due to reasons ranging from low buyins into major tournaments for a fraction of their usual cost to those who do not live within driving distance of a land based poker room. (And of course ...
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Florida Supreme Court Reverses Governor
- The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Florida has been running Blackjack and other casino table games since June 22nd after making a compact with Governor Charlie Crist. The...
Double or Nothing by Tom Breitling - Tim Poster and Tom Breitling started a hotel reservation company which they sold for millions. The used that money to buy the legendary Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas and...
WSOP Final Nine Wait for November - The final table for the main event of the 2008 World Series of Poker has been determined. Now the players must wait until November to finish the tournament. The players...
Casino Games on the IPhone - I love electronic gadgets so for me it was never a question of IF I would buy an IPhone but WHEN I would by one. Last year when Apple introduced...
High Table Limits - The other day I met a group of friends at the casino. Most of them are slot players and I asked a few of them if they ever played a...
New Jersey Casinos Safe from Budgetary Closings - New Jersey legislation signed into law last week will keep the casinos and racetracks open in the event of another budget crisis similar to the one in 2006. During that...
The Poker Boom Has Peaked - The poker boom has peaked according to a published report from the University of Pennsylvania. The report said that the number of college aged men playing poker has declined...
Video Poker for Winners - Video Poker for Winners (VPW) is the best training software on the market today. Video Poker is a game that requires skill to win. Each game has a set strategy...
WSOP Main Event Underway - When most people hear about the World Series of Poker, they only think about the $10,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em main event that wraps up weeks of smaller tournaments. This...
Internet Gambling Bill Defeated - On Wednesday, June 25th, the House Financial Services Committee defeated HR 5767, a bill proposed by Congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul that would have paved the way for legalized...