Writing by admin on Sunday, 30 of November , 2008 at 3:07 am

On Sun., Nov. 30th CBS will present their special “How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters”. This investigation special was produced after a 16-week study into the online Texas Hold’em poker industry and exclusively a scam concerning the online poker site Absolute Poker.
This Texas Hold’em poker room was investigated after a number of the Texas Hold’em players on the website claimed that some person was unduly winning an incredible amount of poker hands. Todd Witteles was a crucial player in this inquiry, according to Witteles; he was losing incredible amounts of poker chips to the exact same Texas Hold’em poker player. Witteles claimed that this gambler was raising against incredibly good poker hands, anyone would have assumed he was basically giving his money away, but he was in fact earning a great deal of cash.
Witteles was in the right with his assumptions, further down the line it was exposed that a person who knew about the site was able to see any player’s hole cards. With the first look, Absolute Poker proclaimed that there were no issues with the webpage or the Texas Hold’em poker competitor. After many more players showed up with claims, the poker webpage examined deeper into the problem and found the problem.
By January of this year, the Kahnawake Gaming Commision discovered what the Texas Hold’em competitors and the Texas Hold’em poker website had supposed all the time. The investigation proved that, there was an employee who had broken through the poker page’s protection and was playing dishonestly for close to a month and a half. The inquiry verified that the Texas Hold’em room had not gained from the dishonest actions by any means, and was definitely not involved.
These illegal activities are further proof that there ought to be more regulation regarding gambling sites. The US government ought to authorize and regulate the internet poker industry to protect these honest consumers. These rules would also regulate the admission to these websites by children, which is turning into another fear nowadays.
Category: Gambling, gaming, internet poker
Writing by admin on Monday, 24 of November , 2008 at 5:18 pm

Take a minute to imagine if you were to have a chat with any typical guy or girl off the street about Texas Hold’em, they possibly wouldn’t deem online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of tactics, plans, or observation. Probably when you point out Texas Hold’em poker with them, they would perhaps visualize some friends sitting around their TV room chatting and drinking beer. They also could believe online Texas Hold’em poker to be a game of pure luck as opposed to ability, more similar to a game of craps rather than a game of skill, for example.
So the big issue you may have is: “Can I become rich by playing Texas Hold’em?”. Believe it or not, you can actually make money this way. Quite a few folks not only rake in some cash by playing online poker, but also make a lot of money by playing Texas Hold’em. The main issue you need to remember about online poker is that even if you can play in a Sin City casino, beside craps tables and slot machines; in online Texas Hold’em poker you are not contending against the house but against other Texas Hold’em players. So, in truth, you are risking your hard cash against other contenders in a game of talent as opposed to a game of chance.
You might be saying to yourself: “Doesn’t it pay to be lucky?” Certainly in poker, not a soul knows which hands will be dealt. That doesn’t signify that you can’t play poker games with a clear quantity of pre-tournament know-how. One thing that is important to keep in mind in Texas Hold’em poker is that numbers do not lie. Statistics plays a very important part in the game of poker. Not forgetting, that even if you get somewhat fortunate frequently the stats always seem to humble you.
Always remember that Sin City casino table games similar to online Texas Hold’em poker where you are really contending vs. other actual contenders CAN be won. It is proven that the more you play the game of online Texas Hold’em, you will find out that it is more of game of expertise as opposed to just genuine fate.
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 5 of November , 2008 at 7:40 pm

The benefits of Full Tilt Poker compared to actual poker rooms are endless, but besides these advantages there are also a number of troubles. Internet poker allows recreational poker players the opportunity to play in pro Texas Hold em Tournaments with pro Texas Hold em players, but these non-professional Texas Hold em players ought to avoid any disruptions that could hurt their chances to win big money.
Many online Texas Holdem players become sidetracked by their environment, or probably by the internet poker webpage they are playing on. These interruptions can in truth cost them great hands and quite possibly their well-deserved Texas Holdem Poker chips. The game of poker is a game of expertise as well as absolute attentiveness, no matter if you are playing at home, or in a brick and mortar poker room.
Most likely, the biggest blunder that online Texas Holdem poker players commit is by competing in more than one table at once. The better part of amateur Full Tilt Poker players will assume that this is a good scheme, but at the end of the day it could prove to be a harm. This scheme of playing different Texas Hold em tables simultaneously will damage your concentration and at the end of the day cost you big. Don’t forget that even the best Texas Holdem players in the world can commit damaging blunders while concentrating their attention on a number of internet poker tables simultaneously.
Any given online Texas Holdem poker player, may at some point, find themselves playing several Full Tilt Poker tables at the same time, while watching a movie, reading their favorite poker blogs, talking on the phone to friends etc. This is a scenario that should be avoided if you desire to win online Texas Holdem games and make the grade for big internet poker tournaments. Remember to concentrate your attention on the other internet poker player’s wagers, their intentions, and your own online Texas Holdem hands if you desire to be the best Texas Hold em player.
Category: Gambling, gaming, texas holdem
Writing by admin on Wednesday, 1 of October , 2008 at 6:15 pm

The largest prize pool ever was announced by Bodoglife, with the main Texas hold em event giving away $300,000. The total for the eight day poker event will be over $650,000, over the course of the fourteen tournament event. The Bodog Poker event will begin Sunday, September 28th and continues through Sunday, October 5th. The well-known Texas Hold em tournament website will also feature six “Bounty” tournaments, where the contestants can win $109 in Texas Hold em credits for each Team Bodog poker player they eliminate from the poker tournament. The hottest poker players will be playing all conteders in the poker contest.
Team Bodog champ, Justin Bonomo, is indisputably excited about the poker championship. Throughout his poker career, the 23 year old has received around $1.4 million. He says that if you considered that the first Texas Hold em tournament was huge, you will definitely be astounded with this year’s Texas Hold em Tournament and the cash involved. He also challenges anyone that has the courage to knock him out of the poker tournament to step forward.
The first Bounty Tournament is going to be the first poker game in the championship on Sunday. Any poker player has the ability to buy-In right into this, and any of the other Texas Hold em games with cash. Or another choice is to win their way into the poker events through the satellites which are held every night during the poker contest week. Bodog will feature six bounty events and seven “Championship Events”, which will feature higher buy-ins and deeper stacks.
Bodog’s event will have thirteen tournaments which will lead up to the main Texas Hold em event on Sunday, October 5 at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. This is the poker championship with a guaranteed $300,000 in prizes, regardless of the total number of players in the championship. All the poker players who want to enter the main tournament will have to pay $500 for the buy-in and in return will receive 10,000 in poker chips.
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 3 of September , 2008 at 4:22 pm
The NFL Regular Season is about to start, and some people are still a little puzzled about how to bet on the total of a game. Basically the way it works is the sports book website will create a total for a specific aspect of the game and the bettor will either guess on the points going higher than the amount set or lower.
The most common over-under bet at any sports book would be the total points scored by the end of the game. The best example is from the online sportsbook pinnacle sports, which has the total of the Redskins vs. Giants game at 41 points. If you were to guess that the total points scored by both teams combined will be higher than 41, you would have to risk $110 to win $100 (the odds are the same for the under).
You may notice other sports books posting a total with a half-point, for example the sportsbook sbg global has a total of 38½ for the Bengals vs. Ravens game. The idea of the half a point is basically to avoid a draw if the total points in the game actually add up to 38 points.
There is another way that the sport book websites can adjust the line without touching the total, this is by moving the money line. For example the online betting website intertops sports has the odds the boxing match between Marquez and Casamayor at 9½ rounds with the over at -350 and the under at +275. This tells you that the favorite is the match lasting 10 rounds exactly.
Now you should be an expert at betting on the total points, so take a look at your favorite sportsbook for more total odds.
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 27 of August , 2008 at 2:25 pm
With the NFL Regular Season right around the corner, it´s time to load up your favorite sportsbook page and begin wagering on your favorite teams. If you are one of these people who has grown tired of the same boring point spread and total, then the “proposition” bet may be just what you need. This overlooked portion of the betting world is now becoming more and more popular among die-hard bettors. The proposition or “prop” (as it is more commonly referred to), involves almost every aspect of the game you can think of. Maybe you´re willing to bet your month´s salary that Brett Favre will pass for more than 300 yards against the Bengals, or that the Bengals will be the first team to score a touchdown in that game. Props not only involve wagers on a single game or player, but also on a specific team´s performance throughout the season. Some examples could be a wager on the Patriots to win the AFC Conference, risking $100 to win $165, or wagering on the long shot Atlanta Falcons to win the Super Bowl $100 to win almost $17000.
The Super Bowl is probably the most famous sporting event related to proposition bets. In this particular game, you are able to wager on almost anything from the winner of the coin toss, all the way to a bet on whether the game will finish in overtime. Not even the half-time show is off-limits in regards to prop wagers, some past props include: which song a certain performer will sing or if there will be another “wardrobe malfunction” as we saw a few years back.
Maybe football is not for you. Would you dare to wager that Obama will become the president of the U.S.? You would need to risk $260 to win $100, or you could bet on McCain to win the election at odds of $100 to win over $200.
Props are definitely a good choice for any bettor, with high odds and exciting decisions. Why not check out your trusty sportsbook for these and other great proposition bets.
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Writing by admin on Tuesday, 27 of May , 2008 at 10:04 pm
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Writing by admin on Tuesday, 15 of April , 2008 at 9:41 pm
Wagering on the outcome of sporting events is a tradition that has dated back to the earliest days of human civilization. In the future it is likely that this activity will continue, as there has been little change since the beginning of man in this regard. In the modern day, it is simply easier to log onto the Internet and make the types of wagers that are so popular there. As more and more users focus on the sports betting website as a way to generate revenue, it becomes more and more popular and more players begin to focus on joining in the competition. Despite this increased amount of attention from the government, the sports betting websites have continued to generate strong levels of revenue and continue to operate with impunity on the web. Fortunately, players have shown their willingness to deal with the workarounds that are necessary to compete at their favorite sports betting websites.
With the ease of use and basic simple interface, these types of sports book websites have continued to offer a wealth of possibilities and opportunities for players who are concerned with the chances of winning by wagering on their favorite teams. One of the most popular new types of gaming and gambling establishments is the online sports betting website. With this focus on removing the ability to easily fund the players bankroll through use of a credit card or other type of convenient lending institution or bank-based currency, the United States government has made it almost impossible to compete at the online sportsbooks that have proven to be so popular.
With this focus on wagering on a known quantity, the performance of a sports team that the players are familiar with, the online sportsbetting websites can offer players a reason to believe that they have a good chance of earning at these types of games of skill. Unfortunately, the United States government has passed all manner of different types of laws that make it impossible for players to fund their gaming and wagering bankroll from any type of American institution or banking service. Featuring a tremendous level of action and competition, these types of sites have much to offer due to their focus on sports and event-based gaming. In recent years, these types of sportsbetting websites have seen a strong level of popularization in the mainstream as well as with gaming and gambling fans.
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 2 of January , 2008 at 7:11 pm
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Writing by admin on Wednesday, 14 of November , 2007 at 7:14 pm
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