Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: Good Luck! NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 3. Fee: 0. Prize: 10795. When: 2008-01-31 10:15

We at LaunchPoker offer all avid poker fans a chance to make their dreams come true. Send us a letter telling us about your biggest poker-related dream. On Christmas Day, one lucky person will find his wish fulfilled!

Our Weird Mirror: Name the Sketches competition attracted so many of you, and we thank everyone who took their time to participate in the contest! We hope you had a lot of fun guessing the names of some of the most popular poker players in the world - and we are happy to congratulate the winner of the competition, the person who managed to name all of the players correctly. Congratulations go to Jane Lipton - well done!

As promised, we awarded the blogger who introduced the most people to LaunchPoker via our 2006 WSOP Counter by the beginning of the WSOP with free ESPN pay-per-view ticket to enjoy 2006 WSOP Main Event final table broadcast live - congratulations go to Start Smith, the owner of The Online Poker League.com Blog!

Our new 2006 WSOP Informer has attracted a lot of bloggers and it’s a pleasure to encounter it on so many blog sites!

Attention bloggers:
Get rewarded for implementing our Informers on your blog!

Do you believe you know who will win the 2006 WSOP Main Event and take home US $10,000,000? Guess the name the Main Event winner and if you are the first person to name him or her correctly, special gift from LaunchPoker.com will be presented to you.

The winner is still not defined!

If you like poker, you know its stars! But do you know them well enough to recognize them in a funny presentation?
We throw down a gauntlet and ask you to name the world renowned poker players pictured below. The first person to name all of the players correctly will be highlighted on our homepage along with his or her sketch made by a pro painter!

Our new 2006 WSOP Countdown Counter has attracted a lot of bloggers and it’s a pleasure to see the timer placed on so many blog sites! We introduce John Veltheer, the first person to apply our timer on his blog. As a way to thank him, we decided to present him an official 2004 World Series of Poker DVD from ESPN. Congratulations John, enjoy your DVD!

We encourage bloggers to upload the Counter on your blog. By the beginning of the 2006 WSOP we will award the blogger who will get the most users introduced to our site through the Counter. The statistics will be available for your reference. Stay tuned!

Thank you to all those who took the challenge and tested their poker skills in our Smarty’s Party competition! We are happy to announce our winner — Jonathan Dobbertin, a 24-year-old poker player who is making his way into the world of professional poker. While some may consider him young, his achievements include winning a free 10K seat to the 2006 WSOP Finals after beating thousands of contenders! While he is hoping to win Main Event bracelet, he appreciates the opportunity itself to play against the top players in the world in the biggest poker event in history! Jon plays online and offline improving his results constantly and he is serious about making poker his life, whether it is playing the game or writing about it. While very ambitious, he also has qualities that point to a rational person that can fold KK or QQ when needed… He keeps his balance when bluffing and playing aggressively which allows him to keep discrete. Poker stories this guy could tell must be interesting, read one of them now!

Read the article about the present and the future of online poker written by Shawn Marston, the winner of our MIRROR-MIRROR ON THE WALL competition.

Shawn is not new to the game of poker and his experiences include playing with Scotty Nguyen at the WSOP Circuit Event, winning of over US $4000 at the tournament at Casino Arizona a year ago, chatting with Daniel Negreanu, and discussing poker strategies with Greg Raymer in between playing satellites at last year’s WSOP.

Shawn enjoys playing Omaha Hi/Lo, but he has no doubts that his favorite game is No Limit Texas Hold ‘em as the game of skill that also reveals human nature. While most people he plays with regularly consider him a very aggressive player, he doesn’t like to bluff and always maintains his composure regardless of how the game goes. He enjoys the process of the game and doesn’t like it when it is too easy. That’s why he says he was ‘disappointed’ when he got his royal flush with just a Jack of Spades in his hand with the other four cards on the board.

Shawn keeps his dream to make the final table at a major event, and we wish him luck!

Name: $1,500 Launch Poker Freeroll
Date: 21:00 ET on September 9th, 2006
Type of game played: Limit Texas Holdem
Status: Finished
Prize: US $1,500
Eligibility: The freeroll is open only to new Party Poker players signed up through LaunchPoker.com

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Name: LaunchPoker $10K Qualifier IV
Date: June 24th, 2006, 7.30 pm EST
Status: Finished
Winners:
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2nd place - RABEYE
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Prize: Free entry into Poker.com $10K tournament. Moreover, 2nd and 3rd place finishers will get full version of Pokerbility for free (it’s US $49.95 value) from LaunchPoker.com!

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Date: June 23rd, 2006, 7.30 pm EST
Status: Finished
Winners:
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Prize: Free entry into Poker.com $20K tournament. Moreover, 2nd and 3rd place finishers will get full version of Pokerbility for free (it’s US $49.95 value) from LaunchPoker.com!

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: Good Luck! NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 10. Fee: 0. Prize: 9597. When: 2008-02-02 15:00

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After last week’s success in the Full Tilt Million Pound Challenge, Adam No-one has gone missing in action, presumably out in the big wide world now that he is Adam Some-one. Reports of a sighting on Mustique are unsubstantiated, but if he tries to hustle a poker game up together there, he will be back in Hendon broke within a fortnight. Until then, here’s the news..

I think that there is a natural transition with all poker players in how they go about learning certain games. I think that most players travel a very similar evolutionary process, the big difference seems to be the time delay for players to reach certain stages of advancement.
But one of the lessons that I learned (painfully) at the beginning of my time playing PLO was in the overall vulnerability of big pairs and especially when out of position and with deep stacks.
Omaha is a deeply…

In tournaments, I play lots of hands. I’ll put my money in with all kinds of connected cards, especially when in position. I might limp, I might min-raise or raise a little more than the minimum, depending on the circumstances. I’m looking to keep my table off balance so they don’t know where I’m coming from.
My overall goal is to pick up a lot of small pots without a lot of resistance. I might raise in position and hope for a call from one of the blinds. If I raise pre-flop with something…

There’s been plenty of live action recently and seeing as there was no news round up last week we’ll begin with a brief recap of the events from the EPT Barcelona main event held from 10th to 14th September. The Spanish leg is always a popular starter to the EPT season and so it proved this year with a big turn out of 619 entrants for the €8,000 tournament.

No I am not to going to sit here and start spouting about what a great PLO player I am because that would be nothing short of bull. For years and years I side stepped it like you do an embarrassing ex when you are out with your mates. I don’t know what it was about the game but I could never properly figure it out and especially short handed. In fact years ago I would actually muck good PLO hands in dealer’s choice games simply because I couldn’t trust myself from the flop…

This one was posted on the Mob Forum by The Reverend.
£1/ £2 live cash game at the Casino at The Empire in London. Somehow I end up with my opponent all-in on the river with a pot of about £285 and I have 5 high. My opponent, embarrassed at his own high card holding (better than mine, obviously) angrily mutters something including the words "I fold" and throws his cards in face up towards but not touching the muck. This is absolutely irrelevant as far as the rules,…

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: No Limit Texas Holdem qualifier to $20+2 tournaments. NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 3. Fee: 0. Prize: 10631. When: 2008-02-02 04:05

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Room: Lucky Ace. Description: Multi Table No Limit Hold’em. Buy: 50. Fee: 0. Prize: 500. When: 2008-10-07 15:30

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There are many strategies to learn when learning to play poker. Poker, particularly Texas Holdem is growing in popularity. Of all the table games available, poker is the one that demands a consistent strategy to win at it. Even with a bad hand, a good poker player can have a high chance of winning if they use a good winning strategy. Here are some suggestions to help you develop your winning poker strategy;

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: No Limit Texas Holdem qualifier to $20+2 tournaments. NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 3. Fee: 0. Prize: 10631. When: 2008-02-04 02:05

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: Good Luck! PotLimit OmahaHi. Buy: 2. Fee: 0. Prize: 87. When: 2008-01-31 16:45

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In order to put fruitful bluff, a player needs to determine the different situation in which bluffing can bring good results. Following factors may help you to determine your bluffing while playing online poker game:

Room: HollywoodPoker. Description: Running 11 times throughout the day. Open to all players. Top 20 receive entries to the cHp Feature Quarter Roll. Minimum number of players to start is 20. TexasHoldem. Prize: . When: 2008-10-03 21:00

Room: HollywoodPoker. Description: Running 11 times throughout the day. Open to all players. Top 20 receive entries to the cHp Feature Quarter Roll. Minimum number of players to start is 20. TexasHoldem. Prize: . When: 2008-10-03 22:00

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: No Limit Texas Holdem qualifier to $50+4 tournaments. NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 7. Fee: 0. Prize: 10668. When: 2008-02-01 16:20

The World Series of Poker Europe was a period on any sentence that talks about how the Internet has changed the sport. Before today Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad had the glorious distinction of being the best multi-table tournament player that the internet has to offer. In certain snobbish corners of the sport, the “poker elite” behave as if being the best tournament player in cyberspace is the equivalent of being the best race car driver in Hazzard County.

It was about two in the afternoon (British Time) when the evil was exorcised from the gaming floor at the World Series of Poker Europe. It was at this time that Phil Hellmuth was eliminated from competition. Usually when really bad things are killed off it takes an exploding death star or a farm house from Kansas falling on malevolent character to keep them down. In this case all it took was a short stacked Phil Hellmuth running into a very determined player.

Isabelle Mercier was eliminated with extreme prejudice when her pair of sixes failed to hold up against Tong G’s full house. During the previous hand Isabelle had the opportunity to eliminate Tony. She had him lined up for the kill with a pair of Queens when all he was holding was a suited A-K. During the hand her bravado got the best of her, and she took the opportunity to stick it to her flailing opponent.

The sixth day didn’t end with a bang - it was more like a flushing sound. Day 2A of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event concluded with a pair of last minute eliminations. Pat Scanlan ended Ian Munns tournament on the very last hand of the night while Gus Hansen took out Chris Bjorin in a hand that had all the excitement and energy of a Bob Newhart running the 40 yard dash.

On Monday Phil Hellmuth arrived in grand fashion atop a double decker bus. Phil is a legend, a bit of a knob, but a legend nonetheless. His entrance was as big as his presence in the sport. On Day 1B Doyle Brunson’s exit was far less grand and in direct contrast to man who surpassed him as the most decorated player in World Series of Poker history.

The first event at the World Series of Poker Europe was won by a guy from Germany. Today an Italian was crowned the champion of Event 2. The last time folks from these two nations dominated a European struggle, well… really bad things happened. Seeing as neither of these winners has dreams of world domination or a tasteless little mustache, we think the EU you are safe.

Jennifer Harman may not have won any bracelets at the WSOP Europe, but she has had the uncanny knack of somehow being wherever the action was happening. She was a runner up in the first event, and on Day 1A of the Main Event, took out Andy Bloch.

Today we have crowned the first winner ever at the World Series of Poker Europe. The person who will forever hold this place in history is German poker ace Thomas Bihl. That is the good news, the bad news is that he had to beat Jennifer Harman in a heads up match to secure this place in poker history.

Usually when a story involves a New Zealander, a German, a Chick from Nevada, and Jesus it is the start of the sort of joke that one commonly finds written on the walls of the men’s room of a high school or the DNC headquarters. In the historic first event of the World Series of Poker Europe, this situation described the final four players vying for the first bracelet to ever be awarded outside the Las Vegas borders.

As of the writing of this column the final table has been set for the first event of the WSOP Europe. Unlike the WSOP proper that boasts dozens of events, the first European branch of this franchise has only three events to speak of. Don’t think of it as small though, we prefer the term “intimate”.

While he didn’t finish the day at the very top of the stack, he was close enough: Kid Poker showed his stuff at the World Series of Poker Europe main event, sponsored by Betfair and currently running in London. Plenty of big names were still in the event, such as Phil Laak and Justin Smith, but other than the eventual chip leader John Juanda, non were doing as well as Daniel Negreanu. These and others totally 36 made the money in the tournament, and only the top 24 made it through to the next day of the WSOPE.

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: This is a qualifier to $30+$3 tournaments. 1 seat is guaranteed. Good luck!! NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 5. Fee: 0. Prize: 10545. When: 2008-02-03 05:35

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Poker Room: Redkings
Room: Redkings. Description: $3+0.3 No Limit Texas Holdem Freezeout Turbo Tournament. Good Luck! NoLimit TexasHoldem. Buy: 3. Fee: 0. Prize: 87. When: 2008-02-04 04:30

The Bicycle Casino in California, better known simply as “The Bike”, has started their Big Poker Oktober tournament series, which will run through October 12. The main event, which starts on October 10, has a $500 buy in, is a No Limit Holdem championship event, and is boasting a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The preliminary events have buy ins ranging from $50 to $300 and incorporate a number of poker games, from No Limit Holdem to Omaha Eight or Better, a Seven-Card Stud tournament and a NLHE with rebuys.

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Hit NBC poker TV show Poker After Dark typically has six pro poker players pay $20k of their own money to form a $120k winner take all prize, but this week the show is dropping an amateur at the table. This will be the second “Dream Match” week, where a qualifying amateur got to pick five of their favorite poker players to play against. This time it is Paul Featherstone of Woodland, California, who chose Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Sexton, Jennifer Harman, and Gavin Smith.

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The World Series of Poker Europe main event is coming along and many top pros are holding out as chip leaders after the first two days. The biggest chip leader is a big name in poker, Andy Bloch, with more than 300k in chips. Right behind him is online poker pro Brian Townsend (sbrugby) with about 290k, Erick Seidel, John Juanda and Daniel Negreanu are all in the top ten…

Online poker room VC Poker has announced the second Prague Poker Palooza, the Czech poker event that was very popular last year. The Prague Poker Palooza II will run on November 24 and the following three days, with a $25,000 live freeroll on the last day. The main event has a 1000 buy in but online satellite qualifiers are running now at VC Poker, for this and the other preliminary events…

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is trying to seize online poker room domain names, claiming they are hurting his state’s gambling properties, and the court case where the issue is being heard was granted a continuance. The judge issued the continuance to allow the defense attorneys - those representing the online poker rooms - a chance to prepare their arguments. The lawyers represent 141 websites named in the lawsuit…

For the third year online poker room Party Poker is hosting the Party Poker Den, a thirty six hour cash game poker marathon with some of the biggest names in poker. Timed to coincide with the World Series of Poker Europe running now in London, the Party Poker Den III starts today and will run for thirty six hours. David Ulliott, Robert Williamson III, David Williams and more will play a high stakes game of no limit Texas Holdem cash poker, each putting up $10k to play, with blinds at $25 and $50.

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