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Old men clog up the Irish Poker Open, one man's attempt to qualify for the WSOPE, Short-stacked Shamus plays live and a look at some online poker tools. It's all there as we take a look around the world of Texas Hold' Em.

The Irish Poker Open appeared to be full of old duffers according to Owen Laukkanen in his top quality live coverage of the tournament. Here's an extract from Day 1B "A large portion of this tournament's contingent appears to be made up of elderly gentlemen who quite likely predate the invention of the check-raise, or at least its rise into acceptable society.

These men see nothing wrong with limping from early position, and in many cases the poker room is filled with the sound of dealers announcing four or five calls per table as whole platoons of them troop off to see a flop.

If a young turk should raise in the big blind, the flock as a whole will fold out, which makes for a charmingly quaint throwback style of play the likes of which we predict will be all but extinguished before the morrow." Excellent stuff. (Live Poker)

Mac poker has nothing to do with Scotland nor anything to do with raincoats. Surprisingly it's about playing poker on an Mac Computer. If that is the bag you are into then it may be worth having a look at the following site (Mac Poker)

Steven Wright, the American comedian, as opposed to the former Liverpool and Sunderland full-back produced one of the funniest poker quotes when he said. "Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." Sourced from (Poker Quotes)

Betfair is always full of interesting new software to improve your betting and poker. Check out some of the latest advances in poker tools. (Betfair Poker)

The excellent (and prolific) Short-Stacked Shamus has been trying his hand at some live poker. Read his interesting acount of some low stakes games. (Hard-Boiled Poker)

Adam Junglen was going to the EPT Monte Carlo then wasn't going to the EPT Monte Carlo. Still, he has plenty to keep him busy including some writing work with Bluff Magazine, a PokerVT project and perhaps a trip to the WSOPE 2008 event.

If you don't like horse racing there's little point in reading Bert's Blog because it will bore you soft. However, Betfair's founding father lists one of his interests as poker and he came pretty close to qualifying for WSOPE 2007. Here is his interesting account of trying to qualify for that tournament. (Bert Black)

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