Hollywood Poker’s World Poker Tour Celebrity Shootout Tournaments
July 24, 2005
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The Stars Come Out to Play in Hollywood Poker‘s World Poker Tour Celebrity Shootout Tournaments
Online Poker Site Provides More Big Bets for Members With Two Tournaments
HOLLYWOOD, CA–(MARKET WIRE)–Jul 22, 2005 — Hollywood Poker is firing another bullet with two celebrity-loaded online tournaments. The World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Celebrity Shootout I will be held on July 31, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. EDT and Celebrity Shootout II will be on August 14, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
Hollywood Poker‘s Vince Van Patten remarked, “These tournaments are sure to add a few more chips to the stack of Hollywood Poker‘s revolutionary take on online poker. Where else could such unique tournaments take place? Playing with the big boys is a fantasy for any casual poker player, and Hollywood Poker continues to make that dream a reality for its members.”
The Last Celebrities Standing in each of the tournaments, along with the overall winners, will then be automatically entered into the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino on August 27, 2005, valued at $7,500. In addition, the winners of each tournament will each receive first place prize money from the guaranteed $10,000 prize pool. Hollywood Poker is also providing satellite tournaments at $2+.25 that would allow the winners to play in the $20+2 buy-in Celebrity Shootouts at no charge.
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Hollywood Poker is where the “Stars come to Play!” Our mission is to provide players with world-class, secure online poker entertainment with access to exclusive celebrity games. Hollywood Poker delivers the most technologically advanced online poker games, regular tournaments with huge prize pools, the industry’s most professional and responsive player support team and vibrant and exciting game rooms and community message boards. At Hollywood Poker every player gets the star treatment. You don’t get your own trailer and bowls of M&Ms with “all-the-brown-ones-picked-out,” but you can depend on Hollywood Poker to be the most secure, the most responsive, the easiest to use and the most exciting entertainment experience! Visit us today at Hollywood Poker
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The Gaming Club to Launch First Online Radio Show for Poker Players
July 5, 2005
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Tuesday July 5, 8:21 am ET
Produced by Major League Poker, ‘On The Felt,’ Will Broadcast Live From Las Vegas During the 2005 World Series of Poker
Major League Poker and The Gaming Club Online Poker Room announced today the launch of ‘On The Felt,’ an online radio show created for poker players that is available both live and on demand. ‘On the Felt’ is the first online show to broadcast LIVE from the World Series of Poker Lifestyle Show at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino during the 2005 tournament in Las Vegas from July 6th through to the finals on the 15th. Reports will be exclusively available on Gaming Club’s Poker Website.
‘On the Felt,’ hosted by Mark Arum, a poker player and radio personality, will keep listeners up to date with fast-paced and lively discussions about everything that is happening at the tournament from the hottest players and biggest hands to the biggest bad beats. Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, exclusively on ‘On the Felt,’ hosted by Mark Arum, a poker player and radio personality, will keep listeners up to date with fast-paced and lively discussions about everything that is happening at the tournament from the hottest players and biggest hands to the biggest bad beats. Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, exclusively on The Gaming Club, players and fans can listen to tournament updates from their computer while improving their poker skills.
“We’re excited that ‘On The Felt’ will be the first online radio show to report LIVE from the World Series of Poker, providing our listeners and fans with exclusive access to the tournament,” said Tim Johnson, CEO of The Gaming Club Online Poker Room. “The premise behind ‘On the Felt’ is to enhance the poker experience. As the poker craze continues to sweep the nation, we are offering enthusiasts a unique experience by pairing constant and interactive poker news with online play everyday.”
“It’s not everyday that the general public has access to a premiere event like WSOP,” said Major League Poker’s CMO, Tony Tomassini. “With the tremendous growth of online poker, it only makes sense for us to use the Internet to deliver our radio show.”
As with familiar sports talk radio programs, ‘On The Felt’ is interactive, and listeners are encouraged to email and call to give their opinions, ask questions and even request topics for discussion. Live forums are scheduled to allow the maximum number of The Gaming Club members to get involved and guide the show.
The World Series of Poker ranks as one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious gaming competitions in the world, and draws the attention of poker professionals, celebrities and mainstream America to Vegas. The high stakes tournament began on June 2nd and runs through to the finals which will take place at the legendary Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas on July 14th and 15th.
About Major League Poker
Major League Poker is a marketing and entertainment-based company engaged in three primary areas within the world of professional poker: the development and production of original programming for radio, TV and the web, the management of poker tournaments and events, and the creation of top-quality poker merchandise. MLP was founded in 2003 by professional poker player, Roger Ledford. MLP members include ranked, pro poker player Layne Flack, and player/tournament director Jim Miller.
About The Gaming Club Online Poker Room
The Gaming Club Online Poker Room is one of the gaming brands operated by Belle Rock Gaming, which is owned by Carmen Media Group Limited based in Gibraltar. Part of the Prima Poker Network — a global card room network where Players from different card rooms play against each other. The Gaming Club Online Poker Room is designed to bring players the ultimate entertainment experience. The Gaming Club incorporates cutting-edge technology and rich interface features to bring the best online poker games to life. Players can experience the action at Gaming Club Poker, the most trusted name in online gaming, Belle Rock Gaming continues to set the standard in fair play, transparency initiatives and the promotion of responsible gaming.
At the Gaming Club, players and fans can listen to tournament updates from their computer while improving their poker skills.
Poker professionals face the ultimate challenge: how to bluff a robot
July 4, 2005
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By Olga Craig
(Filed: 03/07/2005)
In a vast, glitzy gaming room in Las Vegas, two poker players will soon be steeling themselves for a marathon card game. One will be struggling to conceal his nerves, all the more so because he knows his opponent will have none.
For this will be no ordinary poker contest. It will be the ultimate battle between man and machine. Whose sleight of hand, whose double-dealing and whose wily cunning will triumph: that of a master poker player or a robot?
As the popularity of online poker rockets – in the past two years it has grown into a global industry worth £15 billion – the organisers of poker’s most prestigious event, the World Series in Las Vegas, have come up with a finale to find out if a poker-playing robot can outwit the best in the world.
Running in tandem with the tournament, over the next two weeks, for human players will be another for robots, or “bots” as they are known. And when a winner in each series emerges, each more than $2 million richer, they will play each other.
In the chess and backgammon arenas, computer software already exists that can outwit human players. Those games, however, are tests of strategy. Poker, in the eyes of its aficionados, is one of psychology, cunning – and, dare we say, a touch of cheating.
For Paul Maxfield, one of several thousands of Britons who have flown to Las Vegas to compete, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. “Poker isn’t just gambling, it’s psychological warfare,” he says. “For the best in the world it will be no contest. A master poker player will win over a bot every time. Against a poor or average player, the bot will triumph. Poker is about psyching out your opponent, getting under his skin, using your skills to know when he is bluffing.”
Mr Maxfield should know. Last year he went to the world series in the hope of winning a few games and came home £1.7 million richer as runner-up. If he takes the title this year, he will take on the bot. “I’ve played them before,” he says. “There are many ways to beat them. They might be becoming more sophisticated, but they are nowhere near the stage of human cunning.”
Not everyone is convinced. Though using bots is banned by online casinos, many bot designers use them while claiming to be “real” players. Already, Party-Gaming – which last week completed the biggest London flotation in five years, with a market value of about £5 billion – is so alarmed by the practice that it has employed 100 poker detectives to root out the bots. The Las Vegas contest, however, has lured many of them from the shadows.
Brian Edwards, from Florida, is one of six bot designers who have registered for the contest. “In the future, bots are going to take over,” he gloats. “Even though there is still some fine-tuning to be done on the programs, with luck on its side, a bot could beat a human for a few thousand hands. But up against a world champion? That’s a different matter.”
Most professionals feel that the increasing use of bots is immoral and will ruin poker’s appeal. “There are far too many bots playing online, in the guise of humans,” says Paul Magriel, a veteran professional player, “and in my book, that’s unethical. These machines can play for hours, obviously without tiring or losing concentration.”
Mr Maxfield, however, maintains that a machine will never beat a professional player. “If you possess a good hand you might want to bid $1,000. With a bad one your bid might be $200. Every so often you will reverse that, just to bluff. A computer still can’t differentiate. It will assume you are using the same strategy each time. Continued….
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Hollywood Poker Announces Exclusive Access to the WSOP
July 4, 2005
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Sun Jul 3, 8:00 AM ET
(PRWEB) – Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) July 3, 2005
You think you know poker? Well, you will now. Hollywood Poker will bring you the latest news, interviews and updates on all the stars and players during the world”s largest poker tournament, the World Series of Poker. Rich Wilens, host of the syndicated radio poker show “Poker Talk America” will host the interviews and bring a side of poker to the table that you haven’t heard.
Commenting on the exclusive coverage offered from the show, Rich Wilens said, “Doing my updates live from the WSOP and streaming them to players around the world with Hollywood Poker will keep poker enthusiasts up to date throughout the event. As a poker insider I’ve always had great access to events, add the cache of being associated with Hollywood Poker and I now have real star power.”
TV and Radio show host Rich Wilens has been called the “Poker Insider” for many years. His access to the poker players, celebrities, poker rooms, poker room managers, casinos and the poker media keeps Wilens informed with up to the minute poker happenings. With Wilens interviews, Hollywood Poker will put their members on tilt, dealing a daily audio talk show live via the Internet with listener participation. Interviews with Hollywood Pokerstars such as James Woods, Vince Van Patten, Hollywood Poker Celebrity Shootout winner Bob Goen and many more will give their opinions and insight on the World Series of Poker.
Hollywood Poker will also have a booth at the WSOP Lifestyle Show from July 6-9, 2005. Visitors will be able to play online at the website, as well as play actual poker with the Hollywood Poker girls and celebrity guests.
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Women staking their claim at the poker table
July 4, 2005
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By Adam Goldman, Associated Press | July 3, 2005
LAS VEGAS — No woman has won the prestigious no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event at the World Series of Poker. In fact, in the tournament’s 35-year history, only one woman has made it to the final table.
But this year, several women have established themselves as top contenders ready to conquer the world of green felt and show this no longer is just a man’s game.
”I think that this is the first year that it is actually possible,” said Shirley Rosario, who runs the poker-babes.com website. ”If a woman wins this year, they’ll finally have to stand up and recognize that we can compete with them on their level.”
Topping the list is Jennifer Harman of Las Vegas, one of the most feared players at any high-stakes table. She finished second in a World Series of Poker circuit championship event this year.
She is among the women who should be taken seriously when the cards are shuffled at the World Series of Poker’s most well-known event beginning Thursday at the Rio Hotel and Casino. An estimated 6,600 players will compete for about $62 million, with a first prize that could reach an eye-popping $10 million.
”She definitely has a shot,” said Daniel Negreanu, perhaps the world’s best poker player. ”She’s been tearing it up. Jennifer is already among the greatest players in the world — men or women. She’s a killer. She’s a pit bull in a Chihuahua’s body.”
Joining Harman is Annie Duke, who beat out her older brother and eight other poker legends last year to win $2 million at the World Series of Poker’s Tournament of Champions.
And watch out for Cyndy Violette and Kathy Liebert, an expert at throwing off opposing players with her quizzical expressions and the first woman to take home $1 million in a poker tournament.
Mirroring poker’s national surge in popularity, the main event at the World Series of Poker has grown dramatically among both men and women. Three years ago, only 631 people registered to play.
But since then poker has exploded, thanks to the game being dealt into homes through nightly TV shows and a pair of poker phenoms who learned how to play on the Internet and won in 2003 and 2004.
Suddenly, one of the most difficult card games became accessible, and anyone willing to practice could become a winner — a big winner.
Also, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., the largest gambling company in the world, bought the rights to the World Series of Poker and created the popular championship circuit. Company officials decided to move the tournament to the Rio’s cavernous convention hall and announced this will be the last year the finals are held at the historic Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel. Continued… Please click here to go to Boston.com and see more of this article
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