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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
Worst Ruling in Poker
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 by Phil
After I posted the Brandon Cantu hand a week or two ago, I started discussing with a few people what the worst ruling was that I had ever seen at a poker table.
I once heard of a guy who lost all of his chips without even having any cards in front of him. I was playing at the Turning Stone Casino in upstate New York. Sitting next to me was a dealer from the Foxwoods Casino. He proceeded to tell me about a hand that occurred at one of his tables while he was dealing.
The soon-to-be victimized player had folded his cards long ago. He was sitting and telling a story of a poker hand that he was playing at some time in the past. The story went something like this…”blah blah blah, blah blah blah, then I said I’M ALL IN.”
The problem was that right when he threw in the last line to that story, he heard someone at the table say “I call you” followed by the words “I’m gonna have to go all-in as well”. Needless to say, there was now a problem at the table.
This guys actions had clearly affected the table because the third guy got priced into his draw and decided to go all-in. The poker room manager came over and made the following statement. “If a player’s words or actions cause action in a hand, that player will be held liable for that action.”
Basically what this meant was that the guy had to put his money into the pot without any chance to get it back. Apparently this didn’t make him very happy from what I understand.
I thought this was probably one of the strangest rulings that I had ever heard. In the years since I heard about this, I have never found anyone who has heard of something similar. I even considered the possibility that this guy was just a drunk, but I’m confident enough to post this story on here.
I don’t suppose we have anyone from the Foxwoods poker room that reads this blog?
