Daniel Negreanu wins 4th WSOP bracelet

Daniel Negreanu won a fourth WSOP bracelet and $200K by claiming all the chips in Event #20 the $2,000 Limit Hold'em event.

Get all the description of the final few hands of play at Poker Labrat's blog.

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WSOP starts in Las Vegas.

The World Series Of Poker has started in Las Vegas, and the first final table has several big names included.

Andy Bloch, Mike Sexton, Patrik Antonius and Phil Laak are four of the nine players left in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em tournament.

You can check out all the WSOP news on the Poker Lab Rat blog WSOP category.

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Paddy Power covers the 2008 WSOP with final table bets

Ireland's largest bookmaker Paddy Power is offering a "To Make the Final Table" market on the upcoming 2008 WSOP main event in Las Vegas.

The biggest stars in the poker world will compete alongside thousands of amateurs at the Main Event, which is scheduled to begin on July 3rd and play down to the final table of 9 players on July 14th. At this point play will be suspended until early November, when the final table will be played out on live television.

Defending champion Jerry Yang is available at 300/1 and 2006 champion Jamie Gold is available at 200/1, while some of the world's most famous players, including Gavin Griffin, Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonius & Gus Hansen, make up an elite group of professionals available at 100/1.

WSOP $10,000 Main Event - To Make the Final Table
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Allen Cunningham 100/1
Gavin Griffin 100/1
Phil Ivey 100/1
Patrick Antonius 100/1
Gus Hansen 100/1
Erik Seidel 125/1
Chris Ferguson 125/1
Tony G 150/1
Doyle Brunson 150/1
Jamie Gold 200/1
Jennifer Tilly 300/1
Jerry Yang 300/1

And PaddyPower is offering a money-back special on the "To Make the Final Table" market; where they will refund all losing bets in this market if any Irish player reaches the final table.

The "Top Irish Player" market will be hotly contested as usual, with Ireland's top players competing to be the 2nd Irishman (after Noel Furlong) to take home a Main Event bracelet. A collection of the top players on the island makes up the leading group available at 22/1.

WSOP $10,000 Main Event - Top Irish Player
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Andy Black 22/1
Ciaran O'Leary 22/1
Marty Smyth 22/1
Roy Brindley28/1
Padraig Parkinson 35/1
Ken Powell 66/1

The "Top English Player" market is as hard to call as the Irish market, with an especially strong collection of English players expected to compete at the 2008 WSOP Main Event. Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is one of the three favorites available at 50/1, with Dave Colclough available at 100/1.

WSOP $10,000 Main Event - Top English Player
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Dave Ulliott 50/1
Ram Vaswani 50/1
Roland De Wolfe 50/1
Neil Channing 66/1
Jon Kalmar 80/1
Dave Colclough 100/1
Barney Boatman 100/1
Victoria Coren 200/1

RELATED LINKS :
To check out the bets - it's hiding on the Sports Section of PaddyPower.com (but this link will take you directly there)

To actually play Online Poker visit Paddy Power Poker.

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Poker reviews on the Guide

The team at GoonersGuide have been busy playing poker over the last few weeks and we've had our "Gambling Gal" Elle create a new front end to highlight our favourite places.

I'm not too strong on creating pretty pages - but Elle is a whizz at this graphical stuff and she's put together a new look for our poker summary.

Check it out on our poker ratings page on our new poker subdomain.

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Online Poker Advice

Playing poker online is always a bit of a battle - and us amateur players can always use all the good advice that we can get.

Check out some pearls of wisdom from Mike Caro, Phil Laak and internet player "JohnnyBax" over at the PokerLabRat blog.

The labrats have also collected over 200 pro poker players posts from guys like Chris Ferguson, Doyle Brunson and Howard Lederer too.

It's well worth checking out the whole poker blog.

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Win Aston Villa tickets at 32Red

Aston Villa Sponsors 32Red Poker are running a special poker "Giveaways" tournament on November 15th.

You can win a whole range of stuff:
- VIP passes to Aston Villa v Arsenal match (Dec 1st)
- VIP passes to Aston Villa v Man City match (Dec 22nd)
- signed team shirts & footballs,
- free sports bets
- plus free entry to a $65,000 Extreme Stack tournament of your choice.

Check it out at 32Red Poker!

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DoylesRoom.com is back in the USA Poker Market!

As at October 19, 2007, the poker site fronted by Doyle Brunson is welcoming US based players back into their rooms.

10 time World Series Of Poker bracelet winner Doyle Brunson is determined to allow American players to play poker online legitimately on the Microgaming Poker platform - and now 39 states are now allowed to play.

Visit DoylesRoom.com now !!

Unfortunately, these 11 states are still prohibitied due to local state laws :
Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington.

If you're in one of those states then you need to search further to find the best Poker room for you.

We have our special report - the top Poker Rooms for USA Players one page showdown - which outlines DoylesRoom.com and also features 3 other PokerRooms accepting ALL American players.

RELATED LINKS :
Check out our full page review about the Doyles Room Poker Site.
Or go directly to DoylesRoom.com and check them out now !!

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Win VIP Sporting Packages playing Poker !

The guys at PokerLabrat.com have found a poker tournament that might just interest me.

Doyles Room (the poker site fronted by poker legend Doyle Brunson) is running a series of tournaments where the prize is VIP packages to 3 amazing sporting events.

1. THE VIP NHL PACKAGE TOURNAMENT
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On September 29 & 30 the Anaheim Ducks show off the Stanley Cup in England when they open the NHL's 90th season and begin the defense of their first championship at the O2 Arena in London against Los Angeles Kings. This also marks the first time a regular-season NHL game has ever been played on European ice.

2. THE VIP UFC PACKAGE TOURNAMENT
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After an absence of over five years the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization is back in London at the new O2 Arena this 8th and 9th of September.

3. THE VIP NBA PACKAGE TOURNAMENT
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The Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves will play in the first basketball game in the O2, London's new state of the art NBA style arena.

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You get travel, 2 nights accomdation, spending money, the full VIP package - and you can win these packages starting from pretty basic buy-in of $5.00 or more.

Check out all the details in the Poker LabRat Blog Post where they go over the offer in more detail.

We've reviewed Doyles Poker Room on the Gooners main site - and our own "Gambling Gal" Elle reckons they're a pretty good microgaming skin.

So if you've got a bit of a poker game and fancy being treat like a VIP - then visit Join Doyle Brunson's Poker Site to win

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WSOP Main Event Begins - A real test of stamina

The 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event has started ... and we are stuck in the middle of "Day One" as the organisers take a "ground-hog day" approach to handling the 6,000+ players who have entered this year.

They will be hosting FOUR separate "Day Ones" each with over 1,500 entrants beginning and expect to whittle the field down to a more manageable 2,400 to 2,500 for "Day Two"

The effect of which is to have the "main event" tournament last over 12 days duration (including a rest day before the final table) - with 11 different playing days - and the last nine players expected to compete in 8 days of cards.

Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
- The Schedule
Day 1a - Fri 6 Jul, 12:00 pm /$10,000 ($10,000+$0)
Day 1b - Sat 7 Jul, 12:00 pm /$10,000 ($10,000+$0)
Day 1c - Sun 8 Jul, 12:00 pm /$10,000 ($10,000+$0)
Day 1d - Mon 9 Jul, 12:00 pm /$10,000 ($10,000+$0)
Day 2 -- Tue 10 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 3 -- Wed 11 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 4 -- Thu 12 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 5 -- Fri 13 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 6 -- Sat 14 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 7 -- Sun 15 Jul, 12:00 pm / -
Day 8 -- Tue 17 Jul, 12:00 pm / -

Casino/Location: Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

RELATED LINK :
You can get the latest news on your favourits players at the WSOP
over that the WSOP stream on the Poker Labrat blog.

Today's entry is Day 1D and Phil Hellmuths grand entrance.

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I think that I've got some way to go before having the discipline to enter these vast real-world multi-table events.

For most of us "internet only" players the idea of sitting down at a multi-table tournament online and playing means putting aside a short chunk of time of a few hours.

We can regularly get though 8,000+ players in a Microgaming Prima poker event at Bet365 Poker or 32Red Poker in about 3.5 hours. Many players last less than 10 minutes.
;-)

(oops - I just busted out to aces - while writing this blog post)

And if you've got an hour or less then you can play a 200 person TURBO tournament at Canbet Poker with a fast rising blind structure and often you'll get done in under 60 minutes.

Check out our World Poker Room Guide for online poker site reviews covering three licensing jurisdictions

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Online Poker

Todays online poker blog entry is nothing more than a cynical attmept to get Google to rank this blog entry on online poker high in the blogsearch rankings for online poker.

I searched google for the key phrase "online poker" and saw all the big online poker rooms where listed there.

#1 Online Poker listing was Full Tilt Poker which was good to see as they are one or our favourites.

Then there were the spammy entries for 888.con and Pacific Poker (bad online poker places in my opinion) before entry #4 was a Wikipedia entry for Online Poker.

Rounding out #5 was top online poker room Bodog Poker which was then followed by lessor online poker sites like Pokerroom, Pokerstars, PokerPlex and such like.

For a list of our preferred online poker sites - by licensing jurisdiction visit the main site online poker site guide.

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Hellmuth wins 11th WSOP bracelet.

After a week of non-descript winners the drought has been broken for the pros with Allen Cunningham and Phil Hellmuth winning bracelets at the WSOP.

Get the full details at the PokerLabRat.com WSOP section on their blog.

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Greg Raymer talks poker at the WSOP (VIDEO)

Greg Raymer Speaks about the WSOP and the US Internet Poker Ban

Here's a rare thing - after hearing from all the doofus amateur players in the first week someone has actually decided to seek out some quality players - and we finally get an interesting interview with a poker player at the WSOP!!

Greg Raymer gives an interview during an event in this years WSOP and has some pretty interesting things to say about the WSOP level structure, about the internet gambling ban, and other things.

Well worth a look - and I've gotta say I was impressed with the man.

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Take a look at a WSOP Bracelet

WSOP Bracelet Less Tacky Than Usual !

I still don't know that these will be actual fashion accessories (except for wanna-be rapsters who don't know when to stop the BLING) but the new WSOP bracelets do look much less gaudy - and are certainly an improvement on previous events.

The bracelets are manufactured by watchmaker Corum and are fairly carefully crafted looking at the detailing and the tiny inserted jewels.

The normal event winners will receive a bracelet with 53 diamonds as shown in the picture.

The $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E event will feature a special version with 91 black diamonds and two rubies.

While the winner of the $10,000 Main Event will get a bracelet with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds in an extravaganza of over-the-top bling that even celebrity jail-bird Paris Hilton or Elton John would not wear.

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2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) starts

The World Series of Poker has alreeady started in Las Vegas, with the first event beginning on Friday.

It was a $5,000 buy-in "mixed holdem" event (where you have to play both limit holdem and no-limit holdem) and it attracted 452 entrants.

It's taking 3 days to play out and the final table has just been determined with 9 players left after Saturday's play. Check out the Poker Lab Rat blog as they'll give daily updates in their WSOP category.

Other details of the WSOP event is that it's taking 47 days to complete the 55 poker events running from June 1st all the way through to July 17th !!

The "main event" is of course #55 on the list and being the finale does not start until July 6th, while the biggest buy-in event is the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Championship (Event #39) which starts on the 24th of June.

That's one hell of a buy-in, and the action is sure to be fierce as the professional players seem to consider the H.O.R.S.E event their true World Championship - mind you that's probably because none of them can get near the final table of the main event these days.
;-)

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Taking your poker bankroll from $0 to $10,000 in a year

How many poker freeroll players out there dream of making a living from poker playing?

Well here is a way to go from a starting bankroll of $0 to $10,000 in a year - if you're as talented as Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.

There is a good blog post on PokerLabrat.com from Mr Ferguson talking about the process - and the importance of money management discipline.

It's well worth a read ...

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Doyle's Room moves to Microgaming Software

Doyle Brunson Poker Room Software Change

Speculation and rumour on where the famous Doyles Room.com online poker venue would relocate came to an end this week with the announcement that the popular site has joined the expanding Microgaming Poker Network.

Doyle's Room launched in 2004 and since that time has established itself as one of the world's most popular online poker sites.

In addition to offering one of the largest tournament selections in the industry, Doyle's also draws players to its extremely popular Bounty tournaments, a series of weekly events in which players vie to win prizes by knocking out the bounty players.

See more details at the blog post at PokerLabrat.com

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Canbet have a $2500 poker freeroll on Thursday

$2500 Poker Freeroll at Canbet

If you like poker freerolls then may I suggest checking out our Canbet Poker Review on the main site and joining up asap.

Canbet have a $2,500 freeroll starting in 16 hours (called Grand National FreeRoll) where the top 80 places are paid.

Canbet are part of the OnGame Network, and have been around for ages - they're a good safe place to play - but unfortunately US players will have to miss out as they're not accepted at Canbet these days.

OK. The freeroll starts at 21:00 UK time, or 20:00 in Europe, or 8am (!!) my time ... so I've gotta set the alarm clock to wake up.

It's limited to 2,000 places - there are still over 1,000 spots left - I'm entered and plan to play so I hope to see you there ... look out for me ( PK10PK ) .. and remember I NEVER bluff ...
;-)

Here's a direct link to CanBet Poker if you want to check it out now.

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US Poker Players Still Playing Online

Although the US senate attempted to put the block on US players playing poker online there are still plenty of good places that are prepared to accept US players.

The PokerLabrat.com website keeps their eyes on the ball, and one of their main contributors over their is our own "Gambling Gal" Elle - who also looks after our poker section on the main Guide site.

She has blogged on the topic today.

If you're looking for a good place to play then see her poker lab rat blog piece here or go straight to her list of top 3 poker sites for US players.

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Poker Freeroll at 32Red

I like the 32Red Poker Room (we rated it at 90% - see our review) it's clean simple graphics make it easy to play and being a PRIMA skin you know that you've got a reasonable RNG generator and access to a network of tournaments.

But the other good thing about 32Red Poker is that they also run several of their own tournaments and free rolls each month that are exclusive to their site.

On Wednesday night (at 9:45pm) they're running a Euro2008 free roll, with a minimum of $1000 in prizes (down to 50th place) and they'll bump the prize pool up by $100 for every Irish goal and by $500 for every goal by San Marino.

There are no hooks to this - simply download the 32Red Poker Room register for the free roll and you're in ...

See you in the poker room.

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Doyles Poker Room Growing Fast

Doyles Room Ranked in Top 6 Poker Sites.

Doyles Room, the self titled poker room for Poker legend Doyle Brunson, is now ranking as the #6 poker room in the world after a number of big time players pulled out of the US market earlier this month.

Doyles Room and its network of websites recorded a peak of 2334 cash players over the past 24 hours, making them the 6th most active poker site network on the web, ahead of Microgaming, Paradise Poker and Bodog.com.

As reported in the top rating Poker Blog PokerLabrat.com Doyle Brunson has personally stepped up to bail out US players and give poker loving Americans a safe place to play.

We published the press releases from Doyles room a little while ago and since then have had good feedback from several players who have joined up and found it a good place to play.

Learn more about Doyles Room and its top bonuses and tournaments ...

Or go straight to Doyles Room now and join-up and download your FREE poker software.

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