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ESPN WSOPE Main Event Broadcast

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EPT Berlin makes it easier to buy in

Remember the days when, if you wanted to go see a concert, you had to go stand in line or even camp out overnight to get tickets? These days, standing in line is passé. When you want tickets, you sit at your computer and pound on the keys until you have the seats you want.

Now, remember the days when you had to go down to a casino to buy into a tournament? Well, as far as EPT Berlin is concerned, those days are now a thing of the past, too.

PokerStars and Spielbank Berlin just inked a deal with Hekticket, one of Germany's leading online ticket sites. Now, anyone who wants to buy in can do so online with their credit card or a bank wire.

If you've not yet heard, the folks in Germany are building a brand new glass palace like the one you see above. That's where EPT Berlin expects to host the biggest professional poker tournament ever held in Germany. The event will run March 2-7, 2010. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 players are expected to show up, including 120 people who qualified on PokerStars.

To use the Hekticket service, simple head on over to http://tinyurl.com/ept-hekticket or call +49 30 230 99347 Monday to Friday 10am-5pm and 10am-4pm on Saturdays. The service is available in both English and German.

We'll see you in Germany.

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Online poker is not the only form of online
gambling

It has been a while since poker has become very popular online. Much has happened and changed since the online poker boom that occured between 2001 and 2005. For instance, more and more people have become part of the online poker show and as a result, more online poker sites have opened their virtual rooms to fill the need and give players the opportunity to play poker online, in the comfort of their own homes.

Obviously, online poker is not the only form of online gambling. There are many other ways that you can gamble online. Most probably, you have heard of at least some of them. Perhaps you have already tried them out too. If so, then you can tell me about your experience in the comments below if you wish.

Before I go and tell you about some of the gambling forms that are available on the internet, let me get back to online poker for a second.

Back then when I started with online poker (it was somewhere in year 2006), the poker was still on horizon. The number of online poker players was much lower than it is today. Ofcourse, some of them have already been playing as professional back then, but that number was much lower than it is today.

The same goes for online poker rooms. Some of them have been alive and kicking already. As I can recall, the biggest and most popular among them in that time was PartyPoker. The rest of the poker sites were very small in terms of market share and the number of online poker players that they attracted.

But as the time went on, the big PartyPoker lost its market share to other competitors such as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Perhaps cutting off players from United States of America had something to do with it?

To get back to other forms of online gambling: Online gambling sites have also been involved in a boom of their own. They have grown in number as well as in popularity among the players. This trend was noticed by many poker rooms as well. Many of them have complemented their online poker tables with online casino tables (PartyPoker is one example of that).In addition, poker players (and others) were now given an opportunity to try games like slots machines, blackjack, roullete, craps and video poker that were previously only available offline or in the real world.

I am going to let you decide for your yourself whether online gambling is a good thing or not, whether it is profitable or not (I can only tell you about poker: It is profitable if you have the necessary skills).

Me personally, I do not gamble a lot. Perhaps once or twice a year, so I am not really experienced in such things. But I did find a nice online casino gambling guide, which has lots of interesting information on online gambling in case you need it.

As always, make sure to stay in touch with me and good luck at the poker tables!

This is a post from: online poker guide - scatmann.net

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ANZPT Adelaide: Da Silva is da man on day 1A

The opening day of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) has concluded with 40 of the 73 starters progressing to day two in the ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

On a blisteringly hot Adelaide day, the best players from across the region chilled out in the Adelaide Casino Poker Zone where the day 1A field included a pair of PokerStars.net Team Australia Pros (Emad Tahtouh and Grant Levy, both of who were eliminated) along with defending ANZPT Adelaide champion Karl Krautschneider and top online performers Jonathan Karamalikis and Ben Delaney.

After seven one-hour levels, PokerStars Qualifier Bruno Da Silva finished atop the chip count with 85,275. Incredibly, two sets of twins lie inside the top 10 - Da Silva's brother Nuno (65,650) plus the Butcher boys Tod (76,775) and Ben (70,600).

ANZPT Adelaide day 1A chip leader Bruno Da Silva

ANZPT Queenstown runner-up Andrew Hinrichsen finished third overall on 71,175 with other notables to advance including Raemin Alexander (70,950), Jonathan Karamalikis (67,425), Matthew Pearson (45,725), Peter Aristidou (44,525), Daniel Neilson (44,400), Ben Delaney (33,600) and Steve Topakas (13,500).

Play continues tomorrow from 12.30pm local time (2am GMT) with day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event. On such a glorious summer's evening, a plate of seafood and a couple of Coopers by one of Adelaide's beaches sounds just the ticket. See you tomorrow.

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ANZPT Adelaide: Level 7 updates

Live updates from day 1A, level 7 (blinds 300-600, ante 50) of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from Adelaide Casino in Adelaide, South Australia. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking here.

7.30pm: Tahtouh says thank you

The remaining PokerStars.net Team Australia Pros Tony Hachem and Eric Assadourian, together with The Poker Star winner Amanda De Cesare, have just popped in to check on the progress of play late on day 1A of the ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

They were here to see their short-stacked teammate Emad Tahtouh placed on Steve Topakas' black list after he crippled "The Big Show" down to 8000 in chips. The money was all in pre-flop; Tahtouh had tabled [ad] [kh] and found himself flipping for his tournament life against Topakas who showed [jd] [jc].

However the dealer spread the board of [4c] [4s] [3c] [qd] [kc], doubling Tahtouh up to 22,000. "Yes, I doubled through The Big Shoe!" Tahtouh exclaimed. "It's The Big SHOW," Topakas shot back sternly.

We're still awaiting final word play will be stretched an extra 30 minutes beyond the end of level seven, with 47 of the 73 starters still seated although there are plenty of short stacks in evidence.

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ANZPT Adelaide: Day 1A, level 7 (blinds 300-600,
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8.30pm: Da Silva da winner ... eventually

Steve Topakas scored a crucial double-up to 22,000 within the last seven hands of the day after he won a flip with [ah] [ks] against an opponent's [8d] [8c] when the dealer spread the board of [6c] [ac] [6s] [7s] [jc].

On the last hand on the day, the same player moved all-in with [kh] [qd] pre-flop. Bruno Da Silva snap-called, revealing pocket aces but the dealer mucked De Silva's hand in a flash, thinking he had announced "fold".

The rest of the table were in uproar and called for a ruling from tournament director David Galpin. All the other players, including the all-in player, vouched for Da Silva, having clearly heard him declare "call" and had revealed the aces (which were one of each colour).

The tournament director ruled in favour of Da Silva and his hand was declared live, however due to Adelaide Casino procedure the cards stayed in the muck. The dealer was then ordered to run out the board, which was spread [jc] [3h] [7h] [5d] [jd], which kept Da Silva ahead all the way and eliminated the opponent, moving Da Silva's stack to more than 85,000.

8pm: Jonathan Karama-like-this

There's no player in better form on the local poker scene than Adelaide's own Jonathan Karamalikis. Firmly entrenched among the upper echelon of Australia's online tournament players over the past years, he's rapidly building an equally impressive live record.

After finishing runner-up in the $1000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2009 Aussie Millions, he went one better last month with victory in the $1500 No Limit Hold'em Bounty tournament for a payout of more than $120,000, along with his fifth-place in the $100,000 buy-in event.

Aussie young gun Jonathan Karamalikis adds another big name scalp to his belt

After a slow start to the day, Karamalikis has charged to 75,000 in chips after eliminating PokerStars.net Team Australia Pro Emad Tahtouh. After Tahtouh raised to 1500 from early position pre-flop and an opponent called before he re-raised to 3900.

Tahtouh was the only caller and he check-raised all in for the remainder of his stack on a flop of Q-6-4. Karamalikis snap-called, showing pocket aces and the turn and river bricked, sending the last PokerStars.net Team Australia Pro in today's field to the rail.

7.30pm: Tahtouh says thank you

The remaining PokerStars.net Team Australia Pros Tony Hachem and Eric Assadourian, together with The Poker Star winner Amanda De Cesare, have just popped in to check on the progress of play late on day 1A of the ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

They were here to see their short-stacked teammate Emad Tahtouh placed on Steve Topakas' black list after he crippled "The Big Show" down to 8000 in chips. The money was all in pre-flop; Tahtouh had tabled [ad] [kh] and found himself flipping for his tournament life against Topakas who showed [jd] [jc].

Emad Tahtouh paired his king to stay alive in the ANZPT Adelaide Main Event

However the dealer spread the board of [4c] [4s] [3c] [qd] [kc], doubling Tahtouh up to 22,000. "Yes, I doubled through The Big Shoe!" Tahtouh exclaimed. "It's The Big SHOW," Topakas shot back sternly.

We're still awaiting final word play will be stretched an extra 30 minutes beyond the end of level seven, with 47 of the 73 starters still seated although there are plenty of short stacks in evidence.

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ANZPT Adelaide: Level 6 updates

Live updates from day 1A, level 6 (blinds 200-400, ante 50) of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from Adelaide Casino in Adelaide, South Australia. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking here.

7pm: A haven from the heat

After a tight start to the day, the rate of eliminations is starting to pick up as we prepare to tick into the final level of play on day 1A of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event. On a stinking hot Adelaide evening, many have sought the cool of Adelaide Casino to watch the final stages of play on the opening day of the 2010 ANZPT season.

Andrew Hinrichsen remains the chip leader on 74,000 with the Da Silva twins Bruno (63,000) and Nuno (59,500) along with Peter Aristidou (50,000) close behind. The remaining PokerStars.net Team Australia Pro in today's field, Emad Tahtouh, is in survival mode with just 11,000 in chips.

6.30pm: Putt shut, Spano spent

It's two-up Tuesday here at Adelaide casinos - two lots of twins and now a double elimination involving Australia's Robert Spano and New Zealand poker icon Graeme 'Kiwi G' Putt.

The money was all in pre-flop with Spano the big favourite after tabling [kh] [kc] against Putt's [ac] [js] and the [ad] [kd] of Australian PokerStars Qualifier Ricky Kroesen. "No ace, no ace," Spano cried repeatedly, turning his back to the table.

The flop came down [as] [9s] [4d] before the [8s] spiked on the turn, giving Putt the flush draw but he missed when the [ah] fell on the river. Though 'Kiwi G' had made trips, he was outkicked by Kroesen and thus joined Spano on the rail.

6.15pm: Two pair better than one pair

As if it's not rare enough to have twins playing in a poker tournament, we've just discovered that a second set of twins are charging towards day two of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

We're getting better at this - meet Nuno Da Silva ...

Hailing from the Queensland capital of Brisbane, 32-year-old twin brothers Bruno and Nuno De Silva have been playing poker for five years, regularly hosting a home game on Tuesday nights with their mates. When they're not playing poker, they're working together running a locksmith business.

... and this would be his twin brother Bruno Da Silva

Bruno qualified for this event via a $16 rebuy event on PokerStars and after Nuno got the good news, he decided to follow his brother down to Adelaide and buy in directly. They're expecting some of their friends to come on down in the next couple of days for the event - could the ANZPT Adelaide title be heading to Queensland?

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ANZPT Adelaide: Day 1A, level 6 (blinds 200-400,
ante 50)

7pm: A haven from the heat

After a tight start to the day, the rate of eliminations is starting to pick up as we prepare to tick into the final level of play on day 1A of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event. On a stinking hot Adelaide evening, many have sought the cool of Adelaide Casino to watch the final stages of play on the opening day of the 2010 ANZPT season.

Andrew Hinrichsen remains the chip leader on 74,000 with the Da Silva twins Bruno (63,000) and Nuno (59,500) along with Peter Aristidou (50,000) close behind. The remaining PokerStars.net Team Australia Pro in today's field, Emad Tahtouh, is in survival mode with just 11,000 in chips.

6.30pm: Putt shut, Spano spent

It's two-up Tuesday here at Adelaide casinos - two lots of twins and now a double elimination involving Australia's Robert Spano and New Zealand poker icon Graeme 'Kiwi G' Putt.

The money was all in pre-flop with Spano the big favourite after tabling [kh] [kc] against Putt's [ac] [js] and the [ad] [kd] of Australian PokerStars Qualifier Ricky Kroesen. "No ace, no ace," Spano cried repeatedly, turning his back to the table.

The flop came down [as] [9s] [4d] before the [8s] spiked on the turn, giving Putt the flush draw but he missed when the [ah] fell on the river. Though 'Kiwi G' had made trips, he was outkicked by Kroesen and thus joined Spano on the rail.

6.15pm: Two pair better than one pair

As if it's not rare enough to have twins playing in a poker tournament, we've just discovered that a second set of twins are charging towards day two of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

We're getting better at this - meet Nuno Da Silva ...

Hailing from the Queensland capital of Brisbane, 32-year-old twin brothers Bruno and Nuno De Silva have been playing poker for five years, regularly hosting a home game on Tuesday nights with their mates. When they're not playing poker, they're working together running a locksmith business.

... and this would be his twin brother Bruno Da Silva

Bruno qualified for this event via a $16 rebuy event on PokerStars and after Nuno got the good news, he decided to follow his brother down to Adelaide and buy in directly. They're expecting some of their friends to come on down in the next couple of days for the event - could the ANZPT Adelaide title be heading to Queensland?

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ANZPT Adelaide: Level 5 updates

Live updates from day 1A, level 5 (blinds 150-300, ante 25) of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from Adelaide Casino in Adelaide, South Australia. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking here.

5.20pm: Grant's a goner

It was a quiet exit for PokerStars.net Team Australia Pro Grant Levy - after he was moved from his original table, he was eliminated by Australian PokerStars Qualifier Dean Blatt. As Blatt recalled to us, he raised preflop with A-K and Levy shoved the rest of his short stack over the line with A-J.

Despite his success elsewhere, Grant Levy is still to collect an ANZPT cash

Blatt called and made trips on the flop of K-K-J, which was good all the way down the rest of the board to send the 2007 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final champion to the rail. Meanwhile, teammate Emad Tahtouh is hanging tough on 21,000 after falling to less than 10,000 in the early going.

5.15pm: Hinrichsen running hot

Players have just returned from their second break of the day with 62 of the 73 starters still in contention for a day two berth in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Adelaide Main Event.

After finishing runner-up to Danny Chevalier in the ANZPT Queenstown Main Event last July, 22-year-old Andrew Hinrichsen has signalled his intentions to right that statistic by charging to a big chip lead on day 1A. Hinrichsen holds more than 70,000 in chips, and leads from Melbourne's Peter Aristidou. Fresh from his victory in yesterday's $1100 No Limit Hold'em event, Aristidou is on 55,000.

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