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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Poker Revolution in Russia?
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 by Phil
Generally speaking, it is very rare when Russia can clam being innovative and progressive in something not related to space or weapons technologies . Amazingly, it is poker where Russia made an advance which looks like a real revolution, especially by comparison with the US medieval approach to Internet gaming.
Last year Russian authorities made a very logical but highly unexpected move- they declared poker to be a sport game. It looks pretty simple, after all the decision about poker being a game of skill in US is a century old. But it has not been done yet anywhere in the world. What is really surprising about all this is a fact that poker is not so well known in Russia. When I was growing up we only knew about one version of poker-5 card draw, which is not a game of skill by comparison with other forms. But Russian bureaucrats smell big money from poker related taxation and do not have to worry about the anti-gambling lobby. This is an advantage of having a dictatorship – you can dismiss an opposition…or shoot them.
So the Russian decision to make poker a sport game resulted in the proliferation of poker clubs in major cities not associated with casinos. All this makes poker a very accessible game especially considering the general absence of reliable broadband Internet access in the country. We may expect many more Russian players similar to Ivan Demidov breaking the circle of high stakes professionals in USA and Europe.
