Category: Poker News

Titan Poker 2010 Upgrades

The latest version of Titan Poker software launched this week consisting of major upgrades and completely new features. The first thing players will perceive though is an entirely new design and layout featuring a smooth, easy to navigate, appearance.

Improve also includes the commencement of the Titan Poker Academy, a free online poker training site in the style of the Full Tilt Poker Academy. The adding up of a full training academy will give Titan Poker a great edge over other second-tier online poker sites looking to draw new players.

With the other upgrades, Titan Poker has put in Razz tables to its game lineup; a Flash version for Mac users and five additional languages for players to choose. The wonderful thing about Titan’s upgrades is they don’t alter any players in a negative way, Titan has simply added language options, a new game type, and a flash client.

Nevada Casino Revenues Drop off 0.66% in March

The Nevada casino gaming “win” or its revenue fall out this March 2010 compared with March 2009, based on the figures established by the Gaming Control Board recently. Nevada casinos drag to $912.2 million in March.

Revenues from the popular Las Vegas Strip usually rise in the month of March every year. The said Strip Shows Poker-friendly casinos such as, Bellagio, Venetian, and Aria, that earned $467.1 million for March having an increase of 2.40% from $456.1 million of the same month last year.

Unluckily, Downtown Las Vegas, which happens to be the home of the yearly WSOP drop down to 10.62% in March every year to $49.4 million, the said revenues for its fiscal year was off by 8.23% annually to $380.4 million.

For the North Las Vegas, the revenues fall to 11.75% in the same month to $28.2 million. Even so, in Laughlin the casino gambling climb up by 2.47% to $52.8 million. Boulder Strip that is also located in Clark Country also drop by4.95% in March to $75.5 million.

Gambling in metropolis of Reno that is found in Washoe Country, hit the peak in March, its revenues pop up by 4.59% to $48.3 million. Reno features gambling selection that includes Harrah’s, Peppermill, Circus Circus, and the Grand Sierra. However, the revenues still cited drop by 10.37% to $424.1 million.

The gainer for the month of March this year is South Lake Tahoe with 7.15% year to $21.1 million. Wendover in Elko County also drop to 3.41%. The Nevada’s Carson Valley also increases by 2.26% to $8.5 million.

Las Vegas is heading for the 2010 WSOP that will be staged on May 28th at the Rio. The said tournament series will cover 57 bracelet events that will happen for six weeks, to be exact the end date would be July 17th. Poker players around the world will gather down at Sin City for the yearly gala that also includes the part of Bellagio Cup and Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza.

WSOP 2010 for Women!

Roses turn to be in the spotlight this 2010, it feels like poker is headed by women, great competitors coming from the corners of the globe are now gathered together in WSOP Titan Poker tournament to release their tactics. Leading the rank was the 21-year-old Annette Obrestad, a phenomenal online poker enthusiast who’s joining the high tech world of poker for series of years.

She already conquered many online poker tournament, but never step on the stage of world’s best live poker tournaments. Because she was under-aged, al she can to is to watch for the moves of her friends, but this year wont pass without her in the game, she’s 21 now ready to get into the groove of real life poker. Her participation is most awaited in the WSOP event that will take place in Las Vegas.

Obrestad is known as “Annette_15” in her 18, she already take home a more than $2 million, she made mark in the history as the WSOPE 1st ever main event title-holder and the youngest poker player to take home a bracelet during the main event.

With all of these achievements under her belt, she finally gets a chance to once more prove that she is among the best female poker players around the world today come May 28, when the 1st main event for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas will take place.

There are also other women who will join in the event, Vanessa Selbst who won a WSOP 2008 bracelet from Pot Limit Hold Omaha games. Joining the table is Kathy Liebert she has conquered thirteen 1st place in her games. She has garnered up to $5 million and still working for more.

Ladies is now taking flight on WSOP 2010, this May 2010 the tournament will take its action, just check TitanPoker for updates.

ECoOP Is Coming!

PokerStars are now taking their SCoOP but for those that is more polished at the Atlantic corner, the iPoker Network has established that the yearly European Championship of Online Poker will take its scene beginning May 24th.

The said tournament will guarantee a prize more than $5 million and will start with the NLHE 6-max event with a guarantee worth $250,000 prize pool. The Freezeouts and rebuys will be covering the Hold’em Omaha and Stud with an outrageous $1.5 million guaranteed Main Event.

It would be the first time to hold a Quadratic poker tournament wherein players can play four events continuously for a total prize of $100,000. It is one of the highlights during the game.

Just before the ECoOP, there will be a Mini-ECoOP that will begin on May 13; this will take action for a week, having an affordable buy-ins that will be open to all poker players. The satellites are now running at TitanPoker and bet365 for the ECoOP.

You can browse for information about the coming events at TitanPoker, its time for the table to heat up! Who will be the next champion? Get it fresh from your favorite online poker site!

Another challenge for poker pros to defend their hearts using the different poker strategies.

Kentucky Derby Kick Off! Poker Player Tweets

Setting the trend online, poker hits the ground of Twitter! Kentucky Derby is anywhere to be found, with some poker elsewhere.

Tiffany Michelle tweets enough of the poker stuff, it’s KENTUCKY DERBY TIME!” on Thursday morning. Michelle takes on the site with Twitpic. “It’s a gorgeous day. Wow, this feels so surreal. I’m a lucky girl!” tweeted Pamela Brunson showing some jealous with Michelle. I’m so jealous! I’ve never gone to the Kentucky Derby but would LOVE to. Y’all have fun & wear some big hats!”.

Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin was also encouraged to take part for his former playmates. He ended up tweeting, “Catcher bailed me out and picked the hop before it made the backstop. Awesome day and a fun night out after!”

“Hollywood” Dave Stann told hos followers that, “Just got picked by DodgersLive as an alternate to throw a baseball 25 feet into a target to win a 42? TV. The European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Monte Carlo High Roller who has take the action scene was also pop up to Twitter; it features the difficulties of the field. “Out, lost JJ vs A5 of Justin smith pf allin,” Tweeted Lex Veldhuis.

It feels like poker pro is hitting the Twitter, this can be hottest sought-after stuff for poker fanatics to see their favorite player tweeting over the site.

Nicolas Chouity Winner of EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final

Taking home the breath taking prize of €1.7 million from EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final was Nicolas “niccc” Chouity who was qualified from PokerStars that ended up as the top winner. He runs as the second player all the way from Lebanon to get the historic win as EPT titlist.

Chouity stated that “It’s a dream come true. I feel great. I had confidence coming into the final and I had the chip lead, but you never know with poker and I was going for first, only first.”

The Gran Final mark as the end of the season for the tournament series, which are featured 2009-2010 schedule featured a high-stakes casino robbery in Berlin. The said event gathered down a total of 848 players coming down from 51 countries from different continents. With 161 entrants has pave their way through the PokerStars marketing code, the world’s largest online poker site, which include 6 six countries.

The final table result is showed below:
1st Place: Nicolas Chouity (Lebanon) – €1,700,000
2nd Place: Josef Klinger (Austria) – €1,000,000
3rd Place: Dominykas Karmazinas (Lithuania) – €700,000
4th Place: Herve Costa (France) – €500,000
5th Place: Andrew Chen (Canada) – €400,000
6th Place: Aleh Plauski (Belarus) – €300,000
7th Place: Roger Hairabedian (France) – €200,000
8th Place: Mesbah Guerfi (France) – €140,000

The next season of EPT will be the most awaited event for poker players, congratulations to all winners!

Titan Poker Awards $13,000 Package

Titan Poker generously awarded Michael Kusak of Poland for being an outstanding player on the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. Michael Kusak earned the title the Last Man Standing with a point score of over 7,500 and received $13,000 package. The league started last February 1 and is open to all players.

Michael Kusak is a novice and has been playing poker for only 24 months. But when he joined the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, he realized that he could be one of the best when the number of his opponents started to decrease. He was quoted saying that he has no intentions of taking this promotion seriously but his confidence boosted when he was able to maintain his post and continue on playing with the world’s best poker players.

The Titan Poker website is where Michael Kusak began his poker career. It turned out that the Titan Poker website can lead you to become one of professional players of poker at the World Series!

What Happen on April 19th Tournament?

The event were ruled over the weekend by PocketFives.com members, which included by Norway’s KenshoSatori, who ranks second place in the PokerStars Sunday Million for $182,000. Schukie and coastalpgm who ended up 8th and 9th respectively with $18.6k and $13,100. Fazi of UK gathers down Stars Sunday Warm-Up for 142,300 during the weekend. Other poker pros followed to be the winner during the tournament.

For the Full Tilt Poker, it was headed by Taylor ElMastermind McFarland who was the official winner and take home for $176,900 as a result of a 3-way deal with gypsy tears who run second place, and THE UTE (3rd for $95,000). Nineteenth-ranked Jeremy Chipsteela Menard gets his luck on Sunday on the Absolute Poker with $39,000.
The top finisher among the members in the Titan Poker was PocketFiver daragh999 who settled for second place for $31,600.

The summary of the final table results includes: Absolute Poker with 281 entrants with $150,000 paid out to 27 spots. Cake Poker with a total of 577 entrants and $100,000 who paid out 90 spots. The Titan Poker with 879 entrants with a guaranteed prize of $250,000 which paid out 100 spots.

Also present during the tournament are PartyPoker, (1,436 entrants), Full Tilt Poker (2,102 entrants), and so with the other events that give out a lot of prizes during the tournament.

To all PokerFivers who take home the prizes this Sunday’s major online tournaments congratulations! For those who miss the tournament you may visit poker sites that will give you the final blow of the event.

The Stolen Poker Game

The game has stolen by haggard! It is said that two gunmen robbed over the poker game in Auburn, Alabama lately. The Auburn Police Department stated that the suspects break away the scene on foot. The said robbers were easily identified, well, special credits to the genius tracking power of the police department’s canine officers. 35-year-old Maurice Martin of Tallassee, who happen to be one of the suspects, were traced up by the K-9 unit, and few moments later they arrested the 42-year-old Kenneth Justice after he showed up on for his duty. The two men were held up with multiple charges that include burglary and robbery. Even though the robbers get away with some cash and few of personal belongings, the evidence is still left hanging because of the fact that there is no single good has been recovered.

Although the said items were not found, the important thing is that suspects were lock up and was filed with charges, everything will turn out after the investigations, the table for poker was heated and this time by robbers and not players. Now poker spots should be double secured for the safety of players, thanks to the alert policemen who immediately come to rescue.

RSR Embraces Titan Bet

The Ring Side Report or known to be as RSR give out a warm welcome to their latest advertiser Titanbet.com.

Some browsers would thought what Titan Bet is all about, giving answers to internet and sport fanatics. Well, Titan Bet is a huge sports betting, that caters also big sports enthusiasts. No matter where you from, coming from the bunch of beginners on Titan Bet; or maybe an experienced player who is still in great need of having the fantastic sportsbook that will complete your needs; it would be 100% guarantee to enjoy the momentous actions that Titan Bet is going to showcase.

The great name represents the company itself; Titan is considered to be the giants of the sports betting. The wide spread of Titan Bet is the newest addition to the prestigious Titan mega-brand. It is the same aura of the entertaining group that produces the Titan Poker; which happen to be the largest poker room on the iPoker network, which coincides with the Titan Casino. Titan Bet makes it to the point that quality should always comes first.

For people who wanted to invest their money on their favorite fighter or player, or does some entertaining game like poker, well then Titan Bet is just the right one for you.

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