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Study: You're Like A Pigeon When You Play Poker
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Well, this is an odd one—but may be of some use to those interested in understanding the psychology going on at their poker table. Researchers at Warwick University in the U.K. have come out with comments that claim there is a parallel between the …

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Nevada Online Poker Sites Collect $985K In July
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Nevada's three online poker sites took in roughly $985,000 during the month of July, down from June's $1.037 million, according to figures released Thursday by the state. The World Series of Poker ended in mid-July, after starting in late May. The …

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Station Casinos Shuts Down another Live Poker Room
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USPoker.com has reported that a poker room located at Texas Station to the north of Las Vegas will be shut down this week. Although Station Casinos Incorporated, which owns this eight-table poker facility, has an online poker business in Nevada, it has …

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Screen Actors Guild Foundation 4th Annual Poker Classic Benefiting the Don …
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Actors, voice-over talent and poker players who turned out to support the SCREEN ACTORS GUILD FOUNDATION's DON LAFONTAINE Voice-Over Lab included POWERS BOOTHE, JOE CIPRIANO, SHARON LAWRENCE, FRED MELAMED, PAUL PAPE …

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Andre Lettau Wins 2014 European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event
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The 2014 European Poker Tour Barcelona €5,300 no-limit hold'em main event drew the largest ever field on European soul in the tour's history. A total of 1,496 players turned out to the 100th EPT main event to build a €7,480,000 prize pool. From that …

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How One Flower Delivery Company Got Its Start From An Epic Poker Game
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Along with co-founders Gregg Weisstein and Farbod Shoraka, Daneshgar went to Los Angeles to compete in a two-day poker tournament to win $30,000 – exactly how much the three would need for BloomNation's seed funding. While Daneshgar played …

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Poker Hand of the Week: 8/27/14
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Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

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Newsweek Looks at Bitcoin Online Poker
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Newsweek has published an article on Bitcoin online poker and gambling less than one week after a scathing cover story about online gambling in general. Poker players and gamblers were up in arms over the last story penned by Leah McGrath Goodman, …

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The Power of Thinking Positively in Poker
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Now you may ask what does this have to do with poker? In my opinion positivity is essential to being a successful poker player in the long term. No matter how good you are at this game there are going to be times when things aren't going smoothly and …

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Texas Station Closes North Las Vegas Poker Room
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The eight-table poker room at Texas Station in North Las Vegas closed for good this week, according to a report from USPoker.com. Despite having online poker in Nevada, Station Casinos Inc. elected to close the room. The casino operator also closed …

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888 Online Poker Review
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888 Poker, also known as the All-American Poker Network, is one of the premier online poker companies in the United States. 888 Holdings serves as both a backend operator and a standalone provider in the U.S. They provide the backend for WSOP.com …

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Texas Station Closes Poker Room
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Las Vegas has lost another poker room. Texas Station ceased its poker room operations this week. Texas Station, located on the Rancho Strip in North Las Vegas, is owned by Station Casinos. Others casino operations are not affected by this move.

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Online poker revenues rose in the month of July – Delaware
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Online poker market in Delaware has experienced a downfall in terms of revenue compared to that of other States which, month after month, has been increasing. The State of New Jersey generates the highest revenue with its $ 2,146,500 from online poker …

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Poker Makes an Appearance at the Primetime Emmy Awards
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The Celebrity Poker Challenge was organized by Antonio Villard's Chief Operating Officer (COO) Tristan McMurphy, who said: “Our goal is not just give our e-cigars to the celebrities in attendance, but rather to do something unique that is fun and …

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Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: How To Choose Your Bluffs
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Ed Miller Most players don't bluff often enough. Part of the problem is that bluffing consistently requires a certain leap of faith that can be hard to muster. It can be especially hard to muster if you've been enduring a bad run. But another part of …

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Televised poker is focused on the wrong target audience
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"I'm not here to play perfectly," is how one player in my regular home game described what our semi-weekly poker gathering means to him, "I just want to get out of the house, have a little fun, and play cards." During the Poker Boom players such as my …

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Tyler Cornell Leads Final Day 1 Flight at WPT Legends of Poker
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The third and final Day 1 flight for the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event was the largest yet with 222 entries. After ten levels the field was trimmed to 95 survivors with Tyler Cornell leading the field as the only player over the 200,000 …

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Mapping Poker-Starting Hands to 0..1325
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I'm trying to develop a poker-tool and I'm having a little tought-problem. There are 1326 poker starting hands. I want to be able to identify each of them with a number between 0 and 1325. Then, when I have an input of f.e. 768, I want to be able to …

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