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Posts Tagged ‘Monterey County Herald’


Phil Hellmuth: Dancing at the poker table with JC Tran (The Monterey County Herald)

JC Tran is truly a great poker player. In fact, I’d call him a natural-born Texas Hold’em player. He’s a two-time WSOP bracelet winner and was the World Poker Tour Season Five Player of the Year.
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Poker column: Anatomy of a raise decision (The Monterey County Herald)

A n interesting hand came up while playing in the UltimateBet.com Online Poker Championships last week. With the blinds at $200/$400 plus a $25 ante, I was sitting on $10,000 in chips with Q-10 offsuit in the cutoff position — one position to the right of the button.
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Poker column: Anatomy of a raise decision (The Monterey County Herald)

A n interesting hand came up while playing in the UltimateBet.com Online Poker Championships last week. With the blinds at $200/$400 plus a $25 ante, I was sitting on $10,000 in chips with Q-10 offsuit in the cutoff position — one position to the right of the button.
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Poker column: Anatomy of a raise decision (The Monterey County Herald)

A n interesting hand came up while playing in the UltimateBet.com Online Poker Championships last week. With the blinds at $200/$400 plus a $25 ante, I was sitting on $10,000 in chips with Q-10 offsuit in the cutoff position — one position to the right of the button.
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Busted at the UBOC Poker Tournament (The Monterey County Herald)

I was playing a $200 buy-in UltimateBet Online Poker Championship event on Sunday and was cruising against some tough competition. With 300 players remaining out of a starting field of 1,600, this interesting hand came up.
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Layne Flack at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic (The Monterey County Herald)

Two years ago, at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, pro player Layne Flack was playing a $1,500 buy-in, No Limit event with 471 other players. With the blinds at $500/$1,000 plus a $200 ante, fellow pro Nick Binger made it $3,600 to go with A-J.
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My annual holiday poker game back home (The Monterey County Herald)

My Holiday Poker Game is an annual tradition in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. This year it was a $1,000 buy-in $5-$5 blind Pot Limit Hold’em event. The game got started around 4 p.m. By 2 a.m., over $50,000 was on the table.
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Poker After Dark with the girls (The Monterey County Herald)

One of my favorite poker shows on television is Poker After Dark. I remember a great PAD match that featured well-known Danish poker pro Gus Hansen and The Girls — that is, Clonie Gowen, Erica Schoenberg, Vanessa Rousso, J.J. Liu and Beth Shak.
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Poker players show holiday spirit, give back (The Monterey County Herald)

A nnie Duke showed that professional poker players have heart when it comes to raising money for charity. In last season’s Celebrity Apprentice which she won — okay, she finished second to Joan Rivers — Annie raised about $500,000 in charitable contributions from the poker world.
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Poker players show holiday spirit, give back (The Monterey County Herald)

A nnie Duke showed that professional poker players have heart when it comes to raising money for charity. In last season’s Celebrity Apprentice which she won — okay, she finished second to Joan Rivers — Annie raised about $500,000 in charitable contributions from the poker world.
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