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Poker Hands: Tens

4 July 2008 | Poker Anorak

Continuing the Poker Anorak's look at poker hands: Four Tens...... More

Let's get this show back on the road

3 July 2008 | Pud's Poker Progress

Anyone who knows me from the poker world (writes Yorkshire Pud) will tell you I am a sucker for starting challenges then binning them after a week or so. I mentioned in my last entry that I had started a... More

GO ON - SERVE YOURSELF A DOUBLE SCOOP THIS JULY!

3 July 2008 | Press Releases

Get on Betfair Poker's daily tournaments this July and double winners will scoop a huge $25,000 bonus cash prize or a package to the WSOPE!... More

2008 World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair.com

2 July 2008 | Press Releases

2008 World Series of Poker Europe Presented by Betfair.com - Announces Tournament Schedule... More

Monday Video: Poker Queens

30 June 2008 | The Monday Video

THE Poker Anorak's Monday Video: Queens...... More

Prop bets and a WSOPE freeroll

27 June 2008 | Pud's Poker Progress

Although I was in the middle of a run of 13 tournaments without cashing, I decided to offer some of the members on Raise The River some action on a prop bet I made. I took $150 of action that... More

The jbong Challenge .. Week 2

26 June 2008 | From the Forum

So we enter our second week of the league !!! And its all to play for still. 1 win can put you straight into the top 5. I have to take my hat off to read`em,who not only finished in... More

BIG BETFAIR WINNERS

26 June 2008 | Press Releases

Congratulations to our latest Pokerfecta Winner el Timba... More

Filling The WSOP Void

26 June 2008

PADRAIG Parkinson says the delay to the WSOP Main Event Final 9 is a disaster. Parkinson recalls 2002 WSOP winner Robert Varkoni, a man less than charismatic and media hungry.... More

Annette - Most people thought I was a boy!

26 June 2008 | Poker Web Watch

Most people believed Annette Obrestad was a male when she first started playing online poker the WSOPE champion has revealed in a recent interview.... More

Betfair make football and poker go hand in hand!

25 June 2008 | Press Releases

Betfair Poker's latest Daily Freerolls have been a footie fan's dream as the goals fly in at Euro2008.... More

Unlucky for some

25 June 2008 | Pud's Poker Progress

I am currently going through a torrid time at the tables, having failed to cash in the last 13 tournaments I have entered! It seems no matter what I do, I simply cannot win. If I have a pair then... More

Poker Laws And The USA

25 June 2008 | Poker Anorak

TO New Mexico, where the New Mexico Gaming Control Board is investigating whether a poker tournament hosted earlier this week in Akela by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was "improper". For improper, read illegal.... More

Barack Obama's Poker Change

24 June 2008 | Poker Anorak

IN Las Vegas for the WSOP, Barack Obama arrives. There is no escape. But what's that in his pocket?... More

Poker Pros Need To WIn

20 June 2008 | Poker Anorak

FOR the past six years an amateur has won the WSOP Main Event. Poker is not football's Premier League or the Formula 1 procession - in poker anyone can win. But still the poker pros rock up to play in... More

Sweden's #1 Female Player joins Team Betfair

19 June 2008 | Press Releases

Michaela Johansson, a 23 year old from Sweden, has signed a sponsorship deal with Betfair Poker. She will represent Betfair Poker during the Main event of the WSOP in Las Vegas, starting July 3rd, and in WSOPE in September in... More

Poker: I Read Therefore I Play

19 June 2008 | Poker Anorak

CAN you learn to play poker from a book? If poker theory as useful as poker practical?... More

The jbong Challenge .. League Week 1

19 June 2008 | From the Forum

What a night !!! Tiltmonster steam's to top spot with a well deserved 1st place after taking me out and winning his Betfair hoodie and 5 bounty points and cashing $510 !!!. A cracking heads up between Tilt and nurderSVW... More

Phil Galfond Upsets The Faces

18 June 2008

CONGRATULATIONS to Phil Galfond. You may know him by the name OMGClayAiken. Galfond worked his way through a talented field to win the $817,781 first prize in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys event. Oh, and the all important poker... More

WSOPE Final Table Delayed - For A Nice Cup Of Tea

18 June 2008 | WSOP Europe

Just weeks after the announcement that ESPN will be delaying the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event for a 4-month long advertisement break, Melted Felt can bring you a shocking exclusive on this year's European Version... More

Hallelujah! Praise be Rule 36

17 June 2008 | Bloggers

Apart from the obvious general excitement of the tournament, something I'm very much looking forward during the 2008 WSOP is the introduction of Rule 36.... More

Random? Moi?

17 June 2008 | Bloggers

Cower in fear. Matt Broughton's brain has burst open and the yolk's on you!... More

Phil Hellmuth And Old School WSOP

17 June 2008 | Poker Anorak

POKER is going mainstream. Poker has gone mainstream. At the WSOP, over 4,000 players entered the $1,500 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event. "Is poker popular?" asks Phil Hellmuth. "My face is on 12 million beer cans right now. This may be... More