July 08, 2010
Introduction
Week 6 of the 2010 WSOP and the countdown to the final of the Main Event game, a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold ‘em tournament, has begun. As in other recent years the actual champion won’t be known until November as, once again, that is when the final table of 9 poker players will reconvene [...]
June 11, 2010
Introduction
Here at pokertipsbook.com we’re aware of an article, emanating from the UK, about their perceived unfairness over the transatlantic time difference when it comes to playing online poker tournaments. Now before we all jump up and down shouting “whingeing limeys” and other such good humored insults – what about a west coast poker tournament and [...]
May 14, 2010
Introduction
In our recent poker blog posting “Super Euro Online Poker”, on this poker website, we informed you that PartyGaming was looking to merge with the Austrian online betting and poker site BWIN. Well it now looks like that deal has been sealed and is heading for completion sometime this summer, which is little wonder having [...]
April 29, 2010
Introduction
Feeling tired? Feeling old? Think you’re losing your memory? If any of those things describe you then perhaps it’s time you took to playing more poker, rather than just sitting in front of the fire with your slippers on and watching TV. Whilst the TV adverts would have us think that the only way to [...]
January 29, 2010
Introduction
News coming in this week indicates that a super Euro online poker consortium could shortly be realized and that just could be good news for online poker players in the USA as well as Europe.
Partying whilst gaming
One of the top UK based internet poker companies, PartyGaming who own the PartyPoker website, has been in talks [...]
January 15, 2010
Introduction
The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on the exclusive Paradise Island, Bahamas, is now entering its closing stages. All the PokerStars satellite tournaments for online poker players have ended and the real action has moved on to a $25,000 High Roller game, which saw PokerStars professional, Dario Minieri forging an [...]
December 18, 2009
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The poker talk this week is centering on just one thing – is ‘Isildur1’ talented or just a chancer at poker? Only just a few weeks ago Isildur1 seemed to be a veritable online poker enigma – taking top professional players for millions and yet managing to remain the mystery player of the moment at [...]
November 27, 2009
Introduction
If any of you online poker fans fancy winning big this month then, with just a few days to go now, a European poker website, Titan Poker, could be the site to go to. Until the end of the month Titan Poker is running a ‘turbo’ poker tournament totaling $50,000 and this week-end is your last [...]
November 19, 2009
Introduction
Despite the 2009 WSOP Main Event only having just been completed last week it appears that a ‘night of the long knives’ has erupted over the way it was handled, resulting in the resignation of commissioner Jeffrey Pollock. Describing his departure as “bittersweet” all that Jeffrey would say was that he had “great memories” and [...]
November 10, 2009
Introduction
After waiting months for the 2009 WSOP Main Event to begin in just a few days it was all over and Joe Cada emerged as the 2009 WSOP Main Event winner. Apart from the prestige of winning this event Joe walks away with a winners check for $8.5 million and that all important WSOP winners [...]