The Maxim/Coors Light "Ultimate Players Party" will be presented by HeadsUp Entertainment Inc on March 5th and will kickoff this year's COPC.
Taking place at the Snatch Rock n' Roll Lounge in Calgary, Alberta, the party will feature an intimate performance by Suzie McNeil. McNeil is most well-known for being the runner up in the popular reality television show Rock Star INXS and is nominated for the 2008 New Artist of the Year at this year's Juno Awards.
Also confirmed to be attending is actress/poker player/bombshell Jennifer Tilly. Raised in Victoria, B.C., Tilly has won numerous accolades in the acting world but has made quite the splash in the poker world and in 2005 won the $1,000 Ladies' No-Limit Texas Hold'em event. Tilly is currently dating poker pro Phil "Unabomber" Laak who will also be attending the party.
2004 LAPC winner Antonio Esfandiari will also be taking part in the festivities as well as 1996 Main Event winner Huckleberry Seed. Everybody's favorite Canadian poker pro, "Yukon" Brad Booth, will also be making an appearance.
The party will be hosted by the girls from Coors Light, Maxim Magazine and HeadsUp Entertainment so it's doubtful the night will get boring.
"This will be a night like Calgary has never seen," said HeadsUp Entertaminment's president and CEO Kelly B. Kellner. "With some of the Canada's most beautiful women, international celebrities, poker pros and phenomenal entertainment this is a must attend event and a rare opportunity to attend a Maxim party!"
The party begins at 7 p.m. with a limited number of VIP tickets going on sale to the public on Feb. 16 through Ticketmaster.
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Card Player publishes survey of European online poker industry
CardPlayer.com published a handy cliff notes to the current political state of online poker in Europe, where the legal picture is understandably muddled as the EU tries to piece together a coherent policy out of the wildly varying approaches taken by member nations. The Cardplayer article, ��...full article
CardPlayer.com published a handy cliff notes to the current political state of online poker in Europe, where the legal picture is understandably muddled as the EU tries to piece together a coherent policy out of the wildly varying approaches taken by member nations.
The Cardplayer article, written by Brendan Murray, offers a quick drill down of the major movers in the EU when it comes to online poker. Excerpt:
It was never going to be easy to reconcile the interests of the 27 member states of the European Union with the goal of a single economic market, but Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy probably never envisioned it would be this hard.
Since the start of 2008, he has watched on as Germany banned online gaming, France stepped back from its hard-line position, Austria instituted a state-run poker room, Netherlands planned the same but got cold feet, Finland considered banning online poker but then suggested the Swedish state-monopoly model may be the way forward, while Sweden’s arbitrary edifice showed signs of crumbling under unrelenting pressure from the European Commission.
WPT announces TV broadcast schedule for Season 6 on GSN
The World Poker Tour announced the upcoming broadcast schedule for Season 6 of the poker tournament series today. This season, the WPT is leaving its long-time home at the Travel Channel and showing instead on the Game Show Network, also home to the popular ��...full article
The World Poker Tour announced the upcoming broadcast schedule for Season 6 of the poker tournament series today. This season, the WPT is leaving its long-time home at the Travel Channel and showing instead on the Game Show Network, also home to the popular High Stakes Poker series.
The show airs at 9PM ET. Layla Kayleigh will be taking over the hostess duties for Season 6. A press release issued by WPT laid out some of the highlights of the upcoming episodes. Excerpt:
PokerScout: DoingPoker utilizing bots to boost traffic?
Popular player traffic reporting site PokerScout ran a piece earlier this week about their suspicions regarding the use of bots at online poker room Doing Poker. Doing Poker is a new room that is not part of a network. PokerScout was careful to note that the suspicions ��...full article
Popular player traffic reporting site PokerScout ran a piece earlier this week about their suspicions regarding the use of bots at online poker room Doing Poker.
Doing Poker is a new room that is not part of a network.
PokerScout was careful to note that the suspicions were just that - suspicions based on observation of what PS considered unusual traffic patterns at DoingPoker. PokerScout lays out a fairly compelling case in the article. Excerpt:
Some players may consider the use of bots to be a harmless extension of the concept of proposition players, or props. Most players have no problem with playing against human props, but not everyone is comfortable playing against robots, especially when those robots are programmed and managed by the house.
Even if the bots are not cheating and are easy to beat, there is another thing to consider. A site which has almost no real players also has very little cash flow, and may have difficulty paying the players who do win. This is especially true when any money won on the site is likely to have been lost by the site’s robot players. In other words, unlike every other poker site, at DoingPoker the players are playing against the house, giving the house even more incentive not to pay out. There has been at least one unsubstantiated claim that the site refused to pay out winnings to a player.
As stated above, the existence or non-existence of bots cannot be conclusively proven by observation. Players are urged to do their own investigation and to use caution when deciding to play at a new site.
DoingPoker responded to an email from PoekrScout and denied the use of non-human players on their site. Excerpt:
DoingPoker.com has not been officially launched yet. We are still testing our software and for that purpose we have both modes available, play money and real cash. We have a testing facility that gives jobs to a lot of people and those we use, for playing money mode and also real cash games as well. We also use our own programmers in India, programmers in China and friends to help us test our software. Most of the people we have playing are not that much of poker savvy, but we get great feed back. DoingPoker.com does not have any kind of Bots as mentioned in your email to fill in spaces.
U.K. court upholds Gutshot conviction
Kelly was originally convicted last year of violating the Gaming Act 1968. His offense was hosting Texas Hold'em tournaments at the Gutshot Club in December 2004 and January 2005 and collecting a rake on the games, which British law considered "games of chance."
The judge at the time fined Kelly £10,000 and sentenced him to two years' jail time, though Kelly received an immediate conditional discharge based upon his character. Kelly immediately appealed the conviction, leading to the decision this week.
The appeal was based on several factors. Kelly's defense team suggested that the first judge had ordered the jury to base its decision on the earlier Betting and Gaming Act 1960, rather than the later, more relevant Gaming Act 1968.
The team also submitted to the Court several decisions from courts in Canada and the United States regarding games of mixed skill and chance, such as contract bridge.
The Court upheld the appeal based on its interpretation of the 1968 law, which it said did not distinguish between games that were mostly skill and those that were mostly chance. It also noted that the judge in the original case had properly instructed the jury, and in some regards may have even had them lean in Kelly's favor.
While some media outlets have reported the case as resolving once and for all that poker is a game of luck, the facts of the case argue differently. The judge in the original case noted that the expression "game of chance," as defined in the 1968 statute, was meant to include any game that combined chance and skill.
If the definition of "game of chance" were changed by Parliament, Hold'em - which the Court accepted in Kelly's original case as being approximately 70% skill and 30% chance - could be classified differently.
As of today, Kelly has issued no comment on the court's decision.
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World Poker Tour downsizing live schedule?
Pokerati is reporting that the World Poker Tour live tournament schedule, set to be released next week, will feature significantly fewer tournaments than 2007’s schedule. The tournament rumored to be cut are primarily Las Vegas stops. Excerpt from Pokerati:
Pokerati is reporting that the World Poker Tour live tournament schedule, set to be released next week, will feature significantly fewer tournaments than 2007’s schedule.
The tournament rumored to be cut are primarily Las Vegas stops.
Excerpt from Pokerati:
PokerStars offering $2 million Turbo Takedown
The online room will host the $2 million PokerStars Turbo Takedown on Feb. 17 and the entry fee will be 10,000 Frequent Player Points. It's a high value tournament with one in three players getting paid and the first place player walking away with an astounding $200,000.
Even if you can't take down first place there's a good chance you can turn those FPPs into cold hard cash.
The tournament structure will see each player given $3,000 chips with 10-minute levels but things get slower after Level 18.
Even if you don't feel like using that many of your FPPs on one event, PokerStars is running plenty of satellites to make sure everybody has a shot at some of that Turbo Takedown money. You can qualify for as little as 10 FPPs. There are a variety of options including 30, 50, and 1,000 FPP points.
If you love action then you'll love the PokerStars Turbo Takedown. Make sure you register soon as the event kicks off at 14:30 ET on Feb. 17.
PokerStars.com is the world's largest poker site and their software is free to download and play. They are fully licensed and regulated in addition to offering award-winning 24/7 customer support.
Here's a look at the top nine payouts for the Turbo Takedown:
| Place: | Prize: |
| 1st | $200,000 |
| 2nd | $120,000 |
| 3rd | $80,000 |
| 4th | $65,000 |
| 5th | $50,000 |
| 6th | $40,000 |
| 7th | $30,000 |
| 8th | $20,000 |
| 9th | $11,000 |
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