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ESPN Poker Tables

ESPN Has Enjoyed Growing Success With The WSOP Poker Tables
"We have noticed how hot poker has become," Miller says.
As the title of the show indicates, NBC's poker venture is in conjunction with the Travel Channel, which has hit the jackpot with the World Poker Tour.
Its Wednesday night show -- featuring the top poker players matching wits in exotic venues -- has become the cable channel's top program.
Lately, it seems everybody is anteing up for poker.
For several years, ESPN has enjoyed growing success with the World Series of Poker from Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
"TV has helped bring poker back into the limelight," says Cheryl Gray, a poker dealer at the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track in Bonita Springs, Fla. "I hear people at the tables talking and saying that they only came in because they saw poker on TV and that's how they understand how to play it."
During the past two years, TV poker has become the sports rival to "Survivor" or "American Idol." In essence, the world's oldest card game has become TV's first realistic reality show.
Where else can an accountant from Tennessee named Chris Moneymaker (and that's his real name) walk away with a $2.5 million prize?
Anyone willing to put up the $10,000 entry fee for the World Series of Poker can do just that.
It's understood that in order to be successful at poker you need some skills. But does this make it a sport? Or is TV poker just a grander version of your home nickel-dime ante game?
Carol Losadelara, the director of marketing at the Seminole Casino of Immokalee, Fla., believes it depends if you're watching or playing.
"It's like watching a sport," Losadelara says. "When it's on TV, it's like watching tennis or golf where you get to admire the skill of the player. You can see every hand and analyze the moves and that's what has made it effective for TV programming."
Miller says he got the idea to bring poker to NBC Sports when his 14-year-old son, Bobby, dropped his video games and started playing poker. Now, they play and watch poker together.
Miller credits the technology called the "Ace in the Hole" -- which allows viewers to see the players' hole cards -- for making poker enjoyable for the viewer.
The television networks aren't the only ones benefiting from this poker-room boom.
The Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track had to move from a 14-table room to the upstairs clubhouse, which features 28 tables.
The Seminole Casino also expanded its card room from 15 to 27 tables.
"TV has opened play to more people," Losadelara says. "People are becoming more familiar with the game and comfortable playing it."

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Thursday, June 09, 2005

online poker tables

Poker Tables February 3, 2003
In an online casino or online poker site, you can choose the poker table you will want to "sit" at. First, you will need to choose what kind of online poker game you want to play. Standard poker, Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, whatever you want.
Once you have decided what game to play at the poker tables, you need to choose what poker table to sit at. There will be many poker tables to choose from. Take the time to browse through the poker tables.
Many players of various skill level will be playing at the poker tables. Choose a table where you feel comfortable with the skill level demonstrated, and the bets currently playing.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

true tales on the poker tables

True Tales From The Poker Tables January 2, 2003
It’s been a year since the one of the major-sized poker room opened and nearly a decade since poker rooms began trolling down the Mississippi. But the people here have been playing poker for a whole lot longer than that. I remember my own initial foray into “real” poker back in March of 1978.
I was a mechanical designer at a major electronics firm and we were hit with a big time flash snowstorm. The city had already parked its snow removal equipment for the season, but this was the fiercest looking blizzard we’d seen in years. All the smart ones had left for home early. By the time five o’clock rolled around, employees were coming back in the door saying, “Forget it, nobody’s going anywhere tonight.
Management was nice enough to come and announce that coffee and bakery goods would be complimentary for the roughly 2,000 stranded workers. Along about 9 p.m., I took a walk down to the purchasing department to see what was shaking with my friend Doc. As I entered his office, there he was along with four or five other loyal employees playing poker on a conference table.
"Freddie; grab a seat — it’s going to be a long night,” invited Doc as he threw a dollar bill into the pot. The primary game was 5-Card Stud. You could bet a dollar, two bucks on a pair. This was BIG money. Until then, all I’d ever played was a very recreational game of nickel/dime with my family on holidays.
I had about $30 in my wallet, so I figured I’d pull up a chair and play a few hands. Fourteen hours later I was completely tapped out, but the seed had been indelibly planted. I made it home safe and sound that next afternoon and went straight to bed. You’d think I’d pass right out from exhaustion, but no. Instead, poker hands kept rolling through my mind like an 8-millimeter film.
So many “what ifs” remained unanswered? “What if I had raised instead of called — would Doc have played that king/7 then? Should I have folded that pair of 5s? I wonder how easy is it to fill an open-end straight with one card to come, anyway? Who invented silly putty and why?” I knew right then and there that these questions weren’t going to go away. I was hooked on poker.

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Friday, May 13, 2005

Table position key to keeping control.

Poker pros talk about position at the tables all the time. Position allows you to steal blinds every round. Position allows you to control a table for part of a round. Position allows you to isolate yourself against the dead money.

Position, position, position.
It begins to sound like it's one of the Ten Commandments, sometimes all 10.
"Position is good if you have 6-2 or pocket queens," said Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, an actual magician who brings his magic bag of props to the table when he plays. "It doesn't matter. As long as you're good at reading your opponent's hand, you can win if you have position on him."
One of the many instances when position matters big-time is when you're bluffing, because it gives your bet added weight.
You can bluff like you mean it. You can dare someone else to bluff like he means it, too, as Esfandiari demonstrates in today's hand. "One guy limps in from early position," said Esfandiari, who won a gold bracelet for pot limit hold 'em at last year's World Series of Poker. "Three guys after him limp in, so you don't have to worry about them. You only have to worry about the blinds, and if the big blind has ace-king, he calls."
From a late position, Esfandiari picked up 6-3 of hearts. He raised, as you would expect from one of the more aggressive players.
"It got back to the limper, and he calls," Esfandiari said. "Everybody else folded. He's the kind of guy who slow-plays."
The flop came A-7-7. The limper bet.
"Now, I know if he had a 7, he would check for sure," Esfandiari said. "If he had an ace, he would check, too, because he always likes to check into me because I always bet. So, what's he betting with?"
Instead of raising, Esfandiari called.
"Now he's thinking, 'The guy just called me. It's ace-7-7, no flush draw. He's got to have something,' " Esfandiari said.
The turn comes a blank. Esfandiari bets. The limper folds. Esfandiari scoops the pot.
"That happens every time I play poker," Esfandiari said. "That's the value of position and the value of just calling behind somebody to take it away on the next street.
"If someone's bluffing, usually all you have to do is call one time, and they usually shut down and you just take the pot. Most people don't fire twice. They fire once."

Table Talk:
Dead money: Derogatory term referring to non-professionals; losing its meaning now that non-pros have won the last three World Series of Poker main events.To limp: To call the minimum bet, generally seen as a sign of weakness, but sometimes used to hide strength.

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Final table set for poker event.

More than a hundred people hovered around poker tables on Tuesday at the World Series of Poker Lake Tahoe Circuit Event's $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em main event at Harveys Resort and Casino.What the overflow crowd saw was all three Northern Nevada players get eliminated. Tony Le of Reno, who started the day as the overall chip leader with $136,700, was knocked out early on, as were Carson City's Robert Glenn and Genoa's Tony Prestigiacomo.

Twenty-eight players started the second day and only nine remain, including several of the world's top players. Final table action begins today at 2 p.m. at the Harveys Convention Center and will be taped by ESPN. The event is free to attend. Spectators can start filling the bleachers at 1:45 p.m."These good crowds we've been having will be nothing compared to tomorrow," said Vince Contaxis, Harveys Poker Room Manager. "We expect it to get even bigger. For those people who don't get a good seat, there will be large screen TVs put up."Among the big-name players vying for the $542,360 first prize are Joe Awada and Phil Ivey. Italian Jeff Lisandro possess the overall chip lead going into today's final table. The last two players eliminated on Tuesday were 33-year-old Sam Von Duhn of Chicago and Alan Goering from Henderson, Nev. Both players took home $23,010 in prize money."I had to make a move and double up and play some poker," said Von Duhn, who went all-in with K-10 against Lisandro's A-A. "I just ran into Aces. I was hoping to get to the final table, but this is the best finish I've had so far at a major tournament."

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Casino Gambling Southern Style

For the last few years I have been hearing great reviews about Tunica Mississippi as a gaming destination. It is currently the country's third largest behind Las Vegas and Atlantic City. One common remark I constantly heard was that in Tunica you were treated with true "Southern Hospitality."

I had been planning on visiting Tunica to see for myself. When my friend, author Frank Scoblete invited me to join him for some seminars he was conducting at Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, I accepted his offer immediately. It would give me a chance to check out the place and see if it was as friendly as everyone says it is. I was not disappointed with what I experienced.
The attitude of the casino personnel can best be described as "player friendly." In all the contacts I had with the casino employees each one of them seemed to go out of their way to make the players feel comfortable. I observed this at the five-dollar poker tables as well as the higher limit tables. Speaking of limits. There are plenty of tables available to lower limit players and the table limits do not increase forcing players to either increase their bets or leave the game as they do in other places. Players seeking lower limits can find plenty of five-dollar tables open on Friday and Saturday night.
The table games are good. Blackjack players can find double deck games in all denominations. Craps players can get 10x odds and higher in some places. Full pay video poker is a little harder to find. There are some casinos offering 9/6 Jacks or Better but others have shorter pay tables. You really have to look around. Slot player will enjoy everything from a nickel machine up to the large denomination high roller machines.
There are ten casinos to chose from in Tunica. They are spread out over several miles but some are grouped in walking distance to each other. See Map. A car or shuttle bus is need to go from one area to the next. Combined the casinos have 633,000 square feet of gaming space which houses 515 table games and over 17,000 slot machines. There is a little something for everyone no matter what game you enjoy to play.
The actual casino gaming space must be located on water to meet the States gaming regulations for "Riverboat Casinos". Instead of boats they are actually huge barges that are moored in the water. Most of these seem to consist of big ponds filled with Mississippi River water. You can't tell when you cross over from the land-based hotel onto the "floating" casino floor.
Before casino gambling was legalized, Tunica County was one of the poorest counties in the United States. Since the casino boom there has been a considerable increase in the per capita income. The influx of money generated by the casinos has been a godsend to this once desolate land of cotton fields. The area is growing in leaps and bounds. The Gold Strike is the tallest structure in Mississippi. There are presently over 6,000 hotel rooms spread amongst the casinos. A brand new 100,000 square foot exposition center is slated to open this July. There is still much expansion going on at the casinos. Sam's Town is in the middle of a 21 million-dollar renovation that will include creation of the largest state-of-the-art buffet in the area, addition to the Atrium and a full service RV park on the property. Next door the Isle of Capri plans to construct a 14 million-dollar Entertainment Center featuring two adjacent theaters under one roof.
Las Vegas style entertainment has made its way to Tunica. This is partly due to the fact that most of the casinos are owned by several of the same corporations that own casinos in Las Vegas. They have been bringing in their expertise to transform the area into the world class destination that it has become.
All of the casinos have joined together in a remarkable concept to market all the casinos as a resort destination rather than focusing solely on individual efforts. There have been many joint promotions among the casino that have benefited the entire area. Recently the first World Poker Open was held in Tunica taking place in the Horseshoe and the Gold Strike next door. The cross-promotion also includes shuttle between various casinos to make it easier for guest to visit surrounding properties.
Casino Gambling mixed with Southern Hospitality is a winning combination. If you would like to try a refreshing new gaming vacation, I would highly recommend a trip to Tunica Mississippi.

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Saturday, May 07, 2005

Where Are The Five Dollar Tables

Since Las Vegas has dozens of casinos, they don't have a problem that befalls many players in smaller gambling venues; namely the lack of lower limit poker tables. One of the questions/complaint I am always asked it, "Why don't casinos have more tables for the five dollar player?"
Places with only one or two casinos and even Atlantic City on a weekend all suffer from the lack of tables to accommodate the lower limit players. Unfortunately it's a matter of supply and demand. Since there are more players than table space the casinos can raise the limits still fill many of the seats. The sad reality is that, it also makes more economic sense to the casino to have higher limit tables even if some of them are not full.
We have all been to the casino on a crowded night and seen and empty table. We rush over only to find that the table limit is a minimum of $25 or $50 per hand. We question why they can't change the empty table to a five or ten dollar table to accommodate the lower limit players. Incredulous as it may seem, the "bean counters" have discovered that a higher limit table will make more money even if it is empty for hours at a time.

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