December 2007

Star Trek Fan's Fake Poker Face

Editor / 31 December 2007 / Leave a comment

STAR Trek fans. Na-noo. Na-noo. The Poker Anorak brings news from the world of fantasy, sci-fi and meals for one. A Star Trek fan who paid who paid $6000 for a poker-player's visor worn by the android Data on the...Read more »

The Best Of High Stakes Poker

Editor / 31 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Monday video - the best of High Stakes Poker:...Read more »

Gambling On The City

Editor / 28 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE City and poker - spot the difference. Over the news wires, the Poker Anorak learns that Rick Rahim will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, December 31....Read more »

Play The Poker Player

Editor / 28 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"POKER: Play the player," says the Chicago Tribune's Steve Rosenbloom. Says he: "Because poker is a game of people played with chips and cards, this column often stresses the way professionals play the player more than they play their hands....Read more »

Letter To America: Poker Is A Game Of Skill

Editor / 28 December 2007 / 1 Comments

PLAYING online poker for money is banned in the US - land of the free. But the natives are restless. A Letter To the New York Times goes thus:...Read more »

Celebrity Poker: A How Not To Guide

Editor / 27 December 2007 / Leave a comment

IN "Secrets of a Hollywood survivor" the Times share a skinny latte with "top Hollywood producer MR X". He relives a poker moment:...Read more »

Poker Is the New Darts

Editor / 27 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THERE'S only one word for that: magic poker....Read more »

Learn To Be Like The Hendon Mob On Betfair

Editor / 24 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Hendon Mob's Joe Beevers beat Ian Cox, Howard Lederer, Liam Flood, Julian Gardner and runner-up Marty Smyth on his way to winning the million dollar pay day at the Poker Million VI in London....Read more »

Monday Video: High Stakes Poker

Editor / 24 December 2007 / Leave a comment

HIGH Stakes Poker video. And Negreanu - "Oh Boy":...Read more »

Russell Crowe Takes On Video Poker

Editor / 20 December 2007 / Leave a comment

RUSSELL Crowe has fought virtual reality lions, and he has won. And now he has won again....Read more »

Advertising Poker And Bansturbation

Editor / 20 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WHAT would happen if a minor were exposed to an advert for online poker? Very possibly, the child would ignore it, more interested in the surrounding adverts for sugar, toys and debt consolidation services....Read more »

High Stakes Poker: Negreanu Fight Back

Editor / 19 December 2007 / Leave a comment

High Stakes Poker shows Daniel Negreanu fighting back - showing why he is one of the best poker players the in the world:...Read more »

Turkey's Brass Neck On Poker

Editor / 19 December 2007 / Leave a comment

INSIDE the pages of the Turkish daily Zaman we note that Turkey's residents caught playing poker on the internet will be punished....Read more »

We Are the Champions

Matt Broughton / 18 December 2007 / 3 Comments

It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. So says Matt Broughton......Read more »

Gambling Commission Rules On Prize Poker Seats

Editor / 18 December 2007 / Leave a comment

News reaches the Casino Anorak that the UK Gambling Commission has decreed that offering seats in foreign poker tourneys is not OK....Read more »

How To Win A Poker Million, By Grant Levy

Editor / 18 December 2007 / Leave a comment

GRANT Levy has been playing poker for two and a half years. And much of that has been online. This was only his third live tournament....Read more »

What can you do?

Byron Jacobs / 17 December 2007 / 1 Comments

Byron Jacobs take a look into the wondeful world of heads up poker - is it best to simply avoid certain players?...Read more »

On Winning The Betfair $150,000 Tournament

Editor / 17 December 2007 / 3 Comments

THE $150k GTD guarantee some Christmas cheer for Jeteast, who won $41,250. For those of you who want to listen to the goings on, live final table commentary was provided by Ben Grundy and Annette on Betfair Radio, Betfair's residents...Read more »

4th day of the WSOPE

James Keys / 17 December 2007 / Leave a comment

I'd made it through Day 3 with an average looking stack, and now we were all in the money....Read more »

A Year With Ben Grundy - The Milky Bar Kid

Editor / 17 December 2007 / Leave a comment

BEN Grundy is the Milky Bar Kid. And he's in town to dispense not sickly chocolate but youthful horse sense and to give us his view of the 2007 poker year....Read more »

How To Choose Your Online Casino And Poker Avatar

Editor / 14 December 2007 / Leave a comment

DOES it matter what you wear to play poker? "In poker, do rags mean riches?" asks The Journal Gazette. It is not wrong to say that Poker players are known for their fashion know how,. Players too often make dartists,...Read more »

Big Winners On Betfair's Poker Tables

Editor / 13 December 2007 / Leave a comment

THE Milky bars are on SuckMyD. Last night the man with the name that is surely not his given name (it is a he, right?) won a $186,000 pot on Betfair poker....Read more »

Get Set For The Three Kings $500,000 Christmas Giveaway

Editor / 13 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WE three kings are in a set, helping you to make a bet... That's enough of that. But Christmas is coming - it's almost unstoppable. And that means Betfair has dipped into its sack of goodies and now offers you...Read more »

West End Poker

Dave Woods / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

Looking for a spot of high culture but can't bear to turn your back on the cards? Dave Woods has the answer......Read more »

Poker Options: The Natural Bluff

Editor / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

"ONE of the most successful poker strategies one can employ when in trouble is the bluff," says Canadian website Point Spreads. Well, yes. The other strategy, broadly, is not to bluff. Other options when holding a losing hand include sobbing,...Read more »

Top Ten Poker Players Of 2007

Editor / 12 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WHO are the poker stars of 2007? The questions is being debated on the poker forums. And also on Poker King. Here's their ten "impressive tournament accomplishments in 2007":...Read more »

The Ages Of Poker

Editor / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ON the Betfair forums: "Please be honest and say your age and we can work out the average age!"...Read more »

Poker Loser Made To Strip

Editor / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

SOMETIMES the story is made after the headline: "Man says he was robbed, made to strip at poker game."...Read more »

Poker Is Backgammon With Cards

Editor / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

POKER News has an interview with Sky Poker's Kara Scott, presenter of The Open....Read more »

Poker Pips British Darling To No.1 Internet Spot

Editor / 10 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WANT to know what the most popular search term is on the Internet for 2007? Can you guess? According to Lycos, the search engine, the top search is......Read more »

The Poker Forum Awards 2007

Editor / 10 December 2007 / 1 Comments

AS noted on the Betfair Poker Forums, it is the end of the year, the season when organs and journalists fill time and space with an awards do....Read more »

Poker Performance of the Year for Betfair's Annette Obrestad

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

Betfair sponsored player Annette Obrestad has become the youngest player ever to win the "Tournament Performance of the Year" award at the prestigious European Poker Awards in Paris....Read more »

Anyone For Kosher Poker?

Editor / 07 December 2007 / Leave a comment

ANYONE for Kosher Poker? The Jewish festival of Chanukah is almost upon us, and for Jews that means wine, candles and a chance to play the dreidel game, a pastime marginally less exciting than counting dust....Read more »

Six Top Poker Gifts For Christmas

Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

HEAR that? It's the sound of an obese economic migrant with a fetish for air travel making ready to damage your roof tiles and break into your home? Chances are that Santa also smokes, eats fatty foods and supports Croatia....Read more »

Poker Faces At Dusk Till Dawn

Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

IN the pages of the Lincolnshire Echo - "one of Lincolnshire's leading newspapers" - we read: "CABBIE SCOOPS £15,000 POKER JACKPOT."...Read more »

Annette 15's $1000 Tourney For Blog Readers

Editor / 05 December 2007 / 1 Comments

Having won the WSOPE, it seems only right that Annette should get her own tournament. You're invited. (The prizes just keep on coming.)...Read more »

David 'Chip' Reese Has Passed

Editor / 05 December 2007 / Leave a comment

WE celebrate the new stars, and we lament the passing of the old. It is with sadness the Poker Anorak tells you of the death of David "Chip" Reese, three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He was just 56....Read more »

Dan Carter On Why Winning At Poker Is So Easy

Editor / 04 December 2007 / Leave a comment

OVER the newswires, and via the must-read Gloucester Echo, the Poker Anorak learns of Dan Carter....Read more »

I'm all in...

Dave Woods / 04 December 2007 / Leave a comment

Dave Woods watches the latest episode of his favourite TV show. But is it poker or soap opera?...Read more »

3rd day of the WSOPE

James Keys / 04 December 2007 / 2 Comments

The biggest day of my poker life and the biggest bubble on the world tournament circuit, 36th place would get $54,0000....Read more »

Teaching People To Play Poker

Editor / 04 December 2007 / Leave a comment

In "teaching people to play poker" canary boy wonders. But not for long. It's "very stressful". Question asked; question answered....Read more »

The More You Know, the Less You Know

Matt Broughton / 04 December 2007 / 1 Comments

If you're still thinking about what you're doing, you're probably spending too much time thinking and not enough time doing. So suggests Matt Broughton......Read more »

Tony Guoga Wins In Moscow, So Too The Orphans

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

TONY Guoga goes by the nom-de-guerre Tony G. When you travel the world introducing yourself, "Mr G" is encouragingly simple in any dialect....Read more »

Wales Is The New Las Vegas: There Be Dragons

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

HEADLINE of the day: "Wales Becoming The New Poker Capital of The World."...Read more »

Drew Cary On Poker - As American As Cricket

Editor / 03 December 2007 / Leave a comment

POKER has a celebrity face. Says American actor and game show host Drew Carey: "Maybe Dallas wouldn't be ranked as the 34th most dangerous city in America if Dallas police weren't devoting precious resources to raiding friendly poker games played...Read more »