Itâs time to drop your britches and get some riches. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is making its inaugural visit to the Midwest in March, introducing the Hollywood Poker Open, a new 28 event series at the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The tour will culminate with a no-limit holdâem $10,000 WPT Championship Main Event from March 20th-24th with final table action being filmed for broadcast on Fox Sports Net in June.
With an estimated first prize of over $1 million and as always, a $25,000 paid entry into the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, the winner will be in hog heavenâliterally.
The recent addition of a Midwest circuit marks the newest US destination on the tour in years, after much time was been spent expanding the brand internationally during the first leg of Season VIII â including new stops in exotic locales like Cyprus, Moracco, Venice, and Bratislava, Slovakia. Expanding internationally seems like the smartest venture for the WPT when a US-dominated tour schedule became bloated and watered down like an overworked plow ox. This was evidenced by the removal of the North American Poker Championship at the Fallsview Casino in Canada as well as the spring visits to Foxwoods in Connecticut  and the Borgata in New Jersey shortly after the international dates were announced. There are still currently 12 stops in the US, 1/3 of which take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Located just minutes from Cincinnati, Ohio, the Hollywood Poker Open gives Midwestern residents their first opportunity at poker fame without having to take a flatbed full of chicken coops across the country to find it.
That noise youâre hearing isnât the dinner bellâitâs destiny.
Ok â so Football Christmas is only days away and weâre going to see the Colts (-5) take on the Saints (+5). In all of this media hype and national attention, Iâd like to ask âwhat about the poker?â
Poker strategists discuss table position all of the time. Early, middle, and late positions have been thoroughly dissected from every angle so most people know how to bluff from these spots. But one area of the table you donât see discussed much is the blinds â especially the big blind. Thatâs why many people arenât sure on how to bluff from this position. With that in mind, letâs take a look at bluffing from the big blind.
Everyoneâs on Twitter, even your mom (trust me, I know).
Towards the end of 2008, it seemed like all we heard about was US swimmer Michael Phelpâs foray into the poker world. Phelps was playing cash games and tournaments in Las Vegas, hanging out with poker greats like Doyle Brunson, and teasing multiple poker rooms into thinking he would sign with them. Then Phelps went back into preparation for the World Championships of swimming and has yet to be heard from as far as poker goes.
High Stakes Poker is making its highly anticipated return for its sixth season on the Game Show Network (GSN) this Valentineâs Day, Sunday the 14th. Once you get sick of watching Marley and Me over wine, role-play by changing the channel over to GSN at 8 p.m. ET for the greatest action in televised poker. Strengthen your bonds of affection while you spoon to people (who arenât you) losing thousands of dollars from their $200,000 minimum buy-ins, then seal the deal by reraising all-in with some heavy petting.
Feature time!
February is here! (Happy groundhog day).
With his second place finish in the Aussie Millions $100,000 AUDÂ buy-in event over the weekend, Phil Ivey surpassed Mr. Peanut, the Monopoly man, Mr. Burns, and God as pokerâs all-time tournament winnings leader, with over $12.6 million highlighting his illustrious career. The title was previously held by Daniel âKid Pokerâ Negreanu, who relinquished the title back to the pro poker community from 2006 World Series of Poker champ Jamie Gold before he fell into obscurity.
