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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
A Big Week for Balks at the World Series
Friday, October 24th, 2008 by Phil
It seems that I’ve seen a lot of balking lately. We all saw Cole Hamels’ balk in game 1 of the World Series (obvious balk). Not to mention, there was some ugly umpiring last night in game 2.
If any of you were watching coverage of “the other” World Series this week; the World Series of Poker, you probably saw Brandon Cantu call out his opponent when he balked on the river. His opponent moved a huge stack of chips into the pot and then withdrew them…eventually cutting out a stack of 1.5 million chips.
It looked pretty shady the way that it all went down. I think that if the tournament directors had seen the way it happened they might have used some discretion. Instead, the tournament director ruled that the player’s bet of 1.5 million (the
smaller amount) would stand because the player did not release his
chips.
In some casinos you are allowed to grab a handful of chips, cut out your bet and then bring back the remaining chips. As long as your hand is still on your chips, you can reach back for
more chips and do whatever you want. You are just not allowed to string
bet. Once your hand has released the chips, you can’t go back for more
and you can’t change your bet.
Although a string bet actually refers to a player who goes back for more chips, it’s sort of the same concept, and it looks like the same rules apply. And wouldn’t you know it, someone has already ripped a video of this hand and put it on youtube. Check this vid out…you have to admit that it looks like he wanted to bet that whole stack of chips. You be the judge, is this a balk? leave your comments below.
