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Saturday, September 17th, 2011
8:32 am	Chinas Zhang Dan Peng Crowned APT Macau 2010 Success Playing in his first-ever texas hold'em tournament, 18-year old Zhang Serta Peng of Guangzhou appeared to be crowned the 2010 Main Event champion with the Asian Poker Tour with Macau, winning HK$1. 678 million (just about USD$215, 000) with her gutsy, aggressive style. Zhang is the first-ever Chinese champion on the APT Macau Main Affair, held at the bundled entertainment complex, the City of Dreams. Zhang, who only began playing poker six months ago, qualified for the 161-player Main Event in one of several APT Macaus satellite functions. Zhang steadily worked his way over the Main Event to land himself in a heads-up battle against Germanys Bjoern Wiesler within Sundays Final Table. In the very very first hand, Zhang went all- around, with his Ace-Deuce busting the 34-year olds Wallet Sevens. As the runner-up, Wiesler will take home HKD$920, 000 (approximately USD$117, 000). Im incredibly happy and really, really lucky to have won around my first tournament, especially as so quite a few great players were in this article, Zhang said. I joined APT Macau to accompany my mate who lost, but I managed to succeed. I honestly had no expectations until the final table and will have been happy with any result. With a total award pot of HK$5. 075 million (roughly USD$650, 000), this years APT Macau was comprised that is competitive field ever assembled for any poker event in Asia. The field included legends such as Phil Ivey, with eight World Combination of Poker (WSOP) wristbands, 10 WSOP bracelet loop Johnny Chan, and online master practitioner Tom Dwan. Said APT Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jeff Mann: The Final Table was thrilling to see and it was great to discover a young, Chinese poker player do so well in his first tournament ipoker google. The 2010 APT Macau was an excellent success, our players from around the globe enjoyed themselves and this tournament has really set the bar in the community for the caliber for players. . A host of side events accompanied the key Event during the nine-day event of poker. Among the most noteworthy side events was the particular APT Macau Celebrity Charity Challenge, which saw model plus actress Grace Huang turn out on top, winning MOP100, 000 for Caritas Macau. ipoker search engine City of Dreams, in collaboration with INCLINED is hosting The Cookware Poker Tour in Macau. The last leg of this Asian Poker Tour for 2010 is one of the biggest events in Asian poker and also the nine-day festival offers an important jam-packed schedule of on-line poker events and tournaments from City of Dreams, an integrated entertainment resort that is the newest must experience spot in Macau. Current Mood: drunk (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
7:25 pm	A brief history of WSOP (World Series of Poker) 1970 -- 1989. WSOP 2011 is only 10 days away and although looking forward and on the point of the new series we wish to remember the history on this magnificent event to and then determine how it evolved into the most desirable and even iconic live poker match. This year over 70, 000 players from every corner belonging to the world will compete designed for $280, 000, 000 of the prize profit 58 different events. It is hard to believe that 1970, when the first World Few Poker began, the entire state of Nevada had only 70 poker tables and on 50 of them in the whole city of Las Vegas. Although Benny Binion is universally viewed as the founder of that Series the story began a year earlier in 1969, when Vic Vickrey and Tom Moore put in place a "Texas Gamblers Reunion" in Reno. A few high profiled Texan players joined the selection of high rolling gaming like Benny Binion himself, Jimmy Snyder, Doyle Brunson, "Amarilo Slim" Preston, Johny Moss and Puggy Pearson. Although the original plan was to acquire this gathering an yearly event 1969 reunion became the first and the last ever sold. However is gave Binion an idea to get going World Series of Poker in his Horseshoe Casino in Vegas the following year. 1970 WSOP attracted only 6 players. The first champion Johny Moss was not even the tournament champion, as he was selected when the best player by mutual agreement of your other players. There was no attention or interest just in case from either press or simply public. What's more Horseshoe Casino would not even have a poker room plus the event to place inside a little alcove about the size of a small hotel place. 1971 WSOP was build as a freeze-out. The tournament fee had been $5, 000 and again mainly seven attendants. Johny Moss defended this title and won the superior prize. In those days the tournament was run on "winner-takes-it-all" basis. Once again nobody outside and the fact is most people in Nevada new anything of what was going on. 1972 WSOP became a turning point, although still with merely twelve participants joining your table. When "Amarillo Slim" Preston won case, he took this possibility to turn his victory to a huge publicity whirlpool plus became live poker's ideal ambassador, telling the nation about this amazing new opportunity. Preston's promotional efforts paid back and 1973 was to begin with in history when live poker tournament came out on CBS Sports. It was also the primary year when other poker variations just like Razz, Seven Card Stud in addition to lower limits of Texas hold em events were introduced. Puggy Pearson was the main even winner that yr rakeback seo. Johny Moss made a brief history and won his 3rd title in 1974 along with Doyle Brunson got your bracelet in three consecutive many years 1975, 1976, 1977. It was 1978 when the tournament format was evolved again to spilt any prize money and award top five players along with progressive amounts. Also the same year the 1st woman, Barbara Freer, joined the tables so that you can compete against all masculine clubs. Hal Fowler became the first unknown amateur player to win the bracelet within 1979 to shock that famous professional hard primary. His victory became a genuine aspiration for many unique players, who had never regarded it before, to go Las Nevada and test their competencies. Young New Yorker Stu "The Kid" Ungar appeared to be another surprise for old school Texan dominated fraternity as soon as he won in 1980 and then again the following year. His achievements where so exciting with the nation, that NBC Sports did the coverage on the whole event. In order to make WSOP participation most popular and achievable for virtually all poker players from virtually all backgrounds Eric Drache, WSOP tournament director once, introduced an idea of satellite qualifications in 1983. This idea was what was needed attract universal interest and to move WSOP into a different sort of league. From that point for the Series' popularity shot through the roof. The old Horseshoe Casino could no more host the event by themselves and Binion even were required to buy next door Mint Casino to accommodate examples of the tournaments. Sadly Binion died with 1989 on Christmas Time. If you have not secured your place in Las Vegas the year 2010 yet don't worry there does exist still time to qualify to live poker events WSOP 2011 internet with Unleashed Poker and even many other online texas holdem promotions running now. Current Mood: peaceful (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
3:44 pm	Jennifer Harman a Poker Pros Pro According to Jennifer Harman's official website she was born and raised in Reno, NV, Jennifer Harman got her start in poker at the tender age of eight. Her father played in a regular home game, and Jennifer watched, fascinated by the play. One night, Jennifer's father asked his daughter to play his seat. He was losing and wanted to see if his daughter could do any better. Indeed, she could. She performed so well that her father would regularly call for her help during tough sessions. When she turned 21, Jennifer Harman started playing full time. She specialized in Limit Hold 'em, and for years she played middle limit games. Slowly she worked her way up, adding enough to her bankroll to play in increasingly high limits. Her ascendancy in poker never stopped. She now plays in the biggest cash game in the world, the $4,000/$8,000 mixed game at the Bellagio that includes such fearsome opponents as Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Johnny Chan, and Phil Ivey. Jennifer is among only a handful of players who regularly beat this game, and is thus considered one of the very best players in the world. Jennifer Harman is one of the most recognizable and prominent spokespersons for poker, having appeared on ESPN, Primetime Live, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Discovery Channel, and NPR. poker seo She is also a contributor to Doyle Brunson's Super System 2, having written the chapter on Limit Hold 'em. Jennifer Harman won her first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2000 at the No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball Event (at a final table that also included Lyle Berman and Steve Zolotow). Amazingly she never played the game before the event. She received a quick five minute tutoring session from Howard Lederer before the event on how the game is played and the strategy. She won her second WSOP bracelet in 2002 at the $5K Limit Hold'Em event (the field also included Mimi Tran, Humberto Brenes and Allen Cunningham). She is the only woman to hold two bracelets in WSOP open events. In 2004, Jennifer Harman took a year away from poker to have her second kidney transplant. Problems with her kidneys - shared by her sister and mother, who died from the same illness when Harman was 17 - had plagued her since her childhood. After receiving a second kidney through organ donation, Harman founded CODA - Creating Organ Donation Awareness - a non-profit organization to raise money and awareness for the cause. Since her return to the poker tournament circuit, she has finished 4th at the World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, 5th in the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event, and 2nd in the WSOP Circuit Championship Event at the Rio. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
3:44 pm	Freerolls the American Dream Freerolls is gold digging Starting out your career playing poker Freerolls is a lot like being a gold digger. You come with nothing, you invest nothing and you will probably not make much BUT there is a chance you will. The nothing part is not entirely true because just like the gold digger needed some food, some tool and a place to sleep, you need a computer, an internet connection and some extra time on your hand. But the dream is the same to find the gold! When you are playing freerolls you will never find the big gold mine straight away you might win a few bucks here and there but what you might find eventually and which is the real gold you might find out how to play poker and that is a borderline revelation. I will not tell you a story about how easy it is to become a poker pro because it is probably only five to ten per cent of you freeroll players who will ever become real winning players. The rest of you will have given up as it is too hard to win, you dont want to spent hours playing for small money, the other always gets lucky and by the way they are also retards and so on. I know all the explanations heard them a million times and I understand them perfectly. But there are a few who is able to hang in there, having discipline, keep trying to learn the game, developing the skills, hunting the luck and unlike the gold diggers they will get there. No talent Did you notice that I so far not mention the word talent For the gold digger having success it requires the god given requisite that He had put gold in the earth or rocks where the gold digger was digging to hit the riches. The same you could say about the poker player that he needed some kind of God given talent to be a winning poker player. Talent might have some influence on your poker career. But talent probably does like one percent of your poker skills, but that one percent is what differs Stu Ungar, Tom Dwan and a couple of the other big guys from the rest of us. Becoming a good poker player from playing freerolls is 99% hard work. Hard work but fun work. I still remember my biggest poker victory ever and this might sound fun as I have made hundreds of thousands dollars when I back then reached a bankroll of 1 dollar from playing small sng freerolls after a month of playing online when I had the time for I went out in front of my mirror at my 8 square meter dormitory room and said to myself You can do it! and after that I was progressing crushing basically all stakes within half a year on the site I played on back then. But I stayed on healthy track never risking more than I could afford to lose I didnt have the money to invest if I went broke and I had no intention of beginning from scratch again so I played disciplined and used a strict - what I later found out was called bankroll management. Playing poker freerolls can be the kick start for you to become a poker pro. But only if you allow it! Winning in freerolls take a lot of time and you shouldnt expect just to win the first and the best freeroll often poker freerolls have thousands of players the ones at Poker-Freeroller.com typically have between six-seven players to 1.500 players depending on which one you choose. There some freeroll players who are today very famous and below we have a list of some of those: Freeroll pros the famous ones Some freeroll pros are more authentic than others but they all have an interesting story. Here are the stories of Anette Obrestad and Chris Jesus Ferguson Anette Anette_15 Obrestad used the freerolls to start her career Anette Obrestad is a young girl from Norway who started playing poker in an early age earlier than when you are allowed to play. So she couldnt deposit any money as she was younger than 18 years old so she made an account with a different age and started playing freerolls. She never stopped playing tournament poker and she is now one of the best online and live tournament players in the world. Without comparison the best female poker player in the world. In the professional poker environment she is famous for making an instructional poker video on an online multitable poker table tournament without seeing her cards. And only play according to position, betsizes and reads. Probably the reason for her being famous for the video is she took down the tournament. She was only allowed to look at her cards if her opponents pushed all in.In 2007 World Series of Poker hit Europe for the first time to be more exact London. This meant a debut for Anette_15 in the real live poker tournaments. She had been unable to join the WSOPs in USA because of the age limit of 21. This didnt count in London where you just need to be 18 years old to play. So what happened was that the girl who started her career playing freerolls took down the first European WSOP. Today Anette Obrestad has made more than 3 million dollars in live winnings and most likely a lot more online which is her primary sphere. Anette Obrestad is a real gold digger she came with nothing and took everything. And today in an age of 22 she is a millionaire. Chris Jesus Ferguson Freerolls the rebirth of a star The story of Chris Ferguson playing freerolls is very unlike Anette_15s story. The story of Chris is a story of a player who rose to extreme heights won everything and then started losing. Chris Ferguson was already playing poker by the age of 10. And in 2000 he won the main event of the World Series of Poker. And made several major cashes after that. In 2010 he had won live tournament prizes for over eight million dollars. But online things were turning bad. Chris Ferguson started losing money online. He moved from the highest stakes around down to lower stakes and he decided to stay at Nl1000 when he reached his bottom. Didnt work well for him and he busted his online roll. But instead of going into some kind of ludomaniac frenzy. He decided that this was a good turning point. Chris made a plan. Step one was to go from a bankroll of 0 dollars to 10.000. He made it but lets have a look on how he described the process:Starting out Id often manage to a dollar or two (editor: in the freerolls), but Id quickly get busted and have to start over again. It took some time, after awhile, I was eventually able to graduate to games that required an actual buy-in. Even today, people dont believe its really me when I sit down at Full Tilts small stakes games. They ask what Im doing down here, and often tell me stories about how they turned $5 into $500 or $100 into $1,000. Usually, these stories end with the person telling me that they went broke. Theres no surprise there. These folks tried to quickly to build a bankroll by gambling. Theyd play in a game that was beyond their bankroll and, if they happened to win, theyd move up to a higher limit and risk it all one more time. Inevitable, theyd lose a few big hands and go broke.For me, this experiment isnt about the money. Its about showing how, with a proper bankroll management , you can start from nothing and move up to the point where you are playing in some pretty big games. Today Chris Fergusons bankroll exceeds 100.000 dollars and that without taking in count what he has made live. He gives three very specific advices to players who starts from the scratch and start making money from Freerolls: 1.Never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of your total bankroll (exception: you are always allowed to buy-in in the minimum games if that what you made it to with your freerolls) 2.Never buy into a multi-table tournaments for more than 2 percent of your bankroll. 3.If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represent more than 10 percent of my total bankroll I must leave the game when the blinds reach to me. Current Mood: optimistic (Comment on this)