Top Online Poker Rooms - Celtic Poker Player

Dec 1, 2005, Tony Cascarino, the former pro Celtic athlete, has set his sites on making a fortune in a new career, working hard as a professional poker player. The former striker and record maker in the nineties for the Hoops, has plans on a casino at Ibrox, but not just any casino. For the big athlete it has to be a super casino.

Paired with Scot poker pro Tony Chessa, Cascarino flew off to St. Kitts to work on the plans. Chessa is the only officially sponsored poker tournament pro out of Scotland.

Both players have received more than Ј6000 in order to show their skills against the best players in the world, competing for a $2million pot at the Caribbean Poker Classic.
Cascarino began his poker career three years ago, when he won part of the World Series of Poker this year in Las Vegas when he netted a five figure purse.

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Poker All-Stars Square Off for 2005 Tournament of Champions

LAS VEGAS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Many of the biggest names in poker will descend on Caesars Palace next week to compete for $2 million in total prize money at the 2005 World Series of Poker® Tournament of Champions, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) said.
The free-roll tournament is expected to feature, among others, the nine millionaires from the 36th annual World Series of Poker's Main Event final table as they go for another seven-figure payday. A free-roll is an event in which none of the participants is required to pay a "buy-in" or entry fee to compete.
The Tournament of Champions will be played Nov. 6 through Nov. 8. The winner will receive $1 million. ESPN, the exclusive broadcast partner of the World Series of Poker, will provide comprehensive coverage of the event, which is scheduled to be telecast from 1 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time Dec. 24, 2005.
"This is poker's All-Star event," said Jeffrey Pollack, vice president of sports and entertainment marketing for Harrah's Entertainment. "Some of the top names in the game will travel from around the globe to Caesars Palace for a chance at a huge payday and bragging rights."
"The Tournament of Champions will be a great culmination of our World Series of Poker coverage this year," said Fred Christenson, director of programming for ESPN Original Entertainment. "With its high-stakes action and some of the best known players in the game, we expect this event to draw very strong ratings."
"Caesars Palace has a long history of hosting world-class sporting events, and this one-of-a-kind tournament will continue that legacy," said Gary Selesner, senior vice president and general manager of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. "This promises to be a spectacle no poker fan can afford to miss."
In all, nearly 120 players earned invitations to the Tournament of Champions. In addition to the nine players who made the final table at the 36th annual World Series of Poker Main Event, top finishers in five World Series of Poker Circuit events held in the 2004-05 season are also eligible. Among professionals who've committed to play are 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winners Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, and nine-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth.
The World Series of Poker is owned and operated by Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harrah's Entertainment. Caesars Palace is a Harrah's-operated casino.

Poker challenge in Las Vegas

October 28, 2005 - The newest event on the poker horizon is the Poker Millionaire Challenge. The inaugural poker tournament is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas from April 21-28, 2006. The Poker Millionaire Challenge is offering freeroll satellites through an online poker room.Apparently a number of poker professionals are on board to attend the PMC including Daniel Negreanu, Kathy Liebert, Annie Duke, Andy Bloch, Evelyn Ng, and TJ Cloutier, among others.The prize pool for the inaugural tournament is estimated at $2.5 million dollars.

Top Online poker rooms and TNT's poker series

TSN isn't bluffing with poker series
By ROB BRODIE -- Ottawa Sun

The poker craze, it seems, isn't dying down anytime soon. If anything, it continues to mushroom. Witness the creation of the Degree Poker Championship, the first all-Canadian version of the popular Texas Hold 'em duel. It's a project that's been in the works for a year at TSN, with the first of four shows airing last night.

It's an all-Canadian affair featuring "everyday" people, said Adam Ashton, TSN's VP of marketing. "The thing we asked ourselves was 'How do you create an authentic Canadian poker tournament championship to find our next undiscovered star?' " he said. TSN conducted an on-line registration for the free poker tournament in the spring and received more than 20,000 responses. Out of that group, 2,000 were randomly selected to compete, equally split into regional poker tourneys at casinos in Niagara Falls and Richmond, B.C.

Forty-five players -- five tables of nine -- made the finals, which were taped at Niagara Fallsview Online Casino Resort in June. The first of four parts of the TV presentation aired last night, with the others tonight, Sept. 23 and Sept. 24. The latter episode includes the $100,000 final and a bonus $1 million final hand poker showdown. Ashton said TSN hopes to draw about 170,000 viewers each night. The entire series has been shot in high-definition format.

So what's the appeal of it to viewers? Ashton believes a lot of it has to do with the way TV presents it. "People at home know what's going on," he said. "To see that unfold is the real drama ... it's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster."

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By Luis Gomez of the Union-Bulletin (Sept 6th, 2005)
In the Old West you might have been shot at a poker game. Fast-forward a couple of hundred years and today you might get a shot at winning millions in a matter of seconds. Or at least that's how poker TV makes it look, some folks would say. In fact, some of those same folks would tell you that Texas Hold 'em is not about odds or luck. It's about skill.

It's not a new game but poker, particularly Texas Hold 'em, has become a cultural phenomenon over the last few years, spawning countless online poker rooms, books, game kits, magazines and poker tournaments. Younger players are turning up at casino tables, waiting to make that big break. The 1998 movie 'Rounders,' a dramatic tale of two, slick, fast-winning poker players, inspired David Abajian to join the booming number of young faces at the Goldstrike online casino, on Ash Street in Walla Walla. 'It's a good mind game,' said the 18-year-old. ''I use my mind more playing poker than in anything else.' Texas Hold 'em is a beastly breed of nerd and slick: a combination of mathematical probability and hustling.

The beauty of the game: Anybody can beat anyone at any time,' said casino dealer and tournament champion Ted Newman. The 30-year-old local man competed at a Goldstrike Casino tournament and won a spot in a Reno, Nev., tournament last year. His strategy is to play passive-aggressive and set the other players in a trap, he said. He was no match for professionals like Men the Master' Nguyen or Dan Harrington, he conceded. All these young people, they see it on TV and say, Oh yeah I can go play and win,' but they don't,' said Ruben Ornelas, 38.

The boldest example to come out of a free poker tournament in Las Vegas is the story of Chris Moneymaker - his real name - who started out playing Internet poker rooms.
A $40 game won him a spot at the 2003 World Series of Poker. Within three days, Moneymaker talked out a millionaire. The way I see it...it's people that don't have a good job can make a lot of money in a matter of days,' said Abajian. But it's a huge risk. About $115 out of his hard-earned money goes into playing poker every week, he said. In reality, that's a minimum amount.
Goldstrike dealer Alfredo Garcia says the amounts of money per game depend on what the limit is. Some games may range between $300 and $2,500. At a small-scale tournament, a minimum of five players at a table can start with a small bet of $5 and raise it,' or double, that amount each time a community card is drawn. By the time the fifth card, dubbed the river,' is dealt and when most players fold out of the game, a mountain of chips accumulates to big money,' Garcia said.

Players get really excited to know they have a chance at winning a big pot and just knowing you have the best hand...it's an adrenaline rush,' he said. Ornelas, who has been playing for 20 years, says there is a thin line between a good player and a bad player. Good poker players know when to hold 'em' and when to fold 'em.' Bad players run on luck. The luck runs for so long and then you run out of luck,' he said.

But players like Abajian are far from discouraged. I think if you're good enough to play, it's worth (taking the risk),' said Abajian, who considers himself a good player. You also have to know when to quit.

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Top Online Poker Rooms - Jennifer Tilly Poker Tournament

September 5, 2005
Jennifer Tilly has won her second major poker tournament, and confidence in her playing poker ability.
"I felt like I was suffering from the 'impostor syndrome,' " said Tilly, who jumped from the table after her win. "I had these niggling self-doubts. But now I know I can really play. These women were extremely tough poker pros with blood lust at the poker table."

Tilly's victory at the World Poker Tour Ladies Night III at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles on Thursday makes her the first poker woman to win that title and the World Series' Ladies World Poker Championship.

The win guaranteed her a spot in the $25,000 buy-in WPS Championship in April.
The actress, an Oscar nominee for her role in the 1994 film "Bullets Over Broadway," has been playing the game for a year. She said she learned pointers from her boyfriend, poker player Phil "Unabomber" Laak.

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Top online Poker Rooms - Noble Poker

Dallas, TX -- (ArriveNet - Aug 31, 2005)
-- Noble Poker (Online Poker) recently announced that they will continue to give away $1 million dollars to anyone who can win 7 consecutive sit no go poker tournaments. This bonus million is on top of the normal prize pools. Noble Pokers says they have seen so much praise from the million dollar giveaway that they will continue to promote the million dollar giveaway.

Noble Poker is now run by the owners of Empire Poker but the software and the promotions will remain the same. Noble Poker’s old owners have sold Noble to Empire and now the old owners have created Titan Poker (http://www.titanpokerroom.com/) which will launch on September 1, 2005.

Titan Poker Room hopes to gain a part of the market created by the World Series of Poker. Many poker affiliates say that the WSOP brings in many new players to the online poker world.To view Noble Poker and the million dollar giveaway visit http://www.noblemillion.com/ To view Titan Poker after Sept 1, 2005 visit http://www.titanpokerroom.com/

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