Online poker room Titan Poker is supporting Omaha Pot-Limit players. The game, often called PLO for Pot Limit Omaha, is one of the more popular versions of poker, but still pales compared to no limit Texas Hold’em, but Titan Poker is launching something called the Omaholics Promotion which will award more than $140,000 to the PLO players who do well. The promotion is a leader board style series, which means that players will collect points as they pay and top point earners will be rewarded with cash.

The last two weeks of telecasts took us through the four days that made up Day One of the Main Event.  The focus, not surprisingly, was on well-known professionals, such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Mike Matusow.  The only one of the November Nine that we got to see was, again to no one’s surprise, Phil Ivey, who was as much under the spotlight as a player could be while playing at a table in the hinterlands of the tournament room.  Tonight, ESPN moved on to Day Two, with tonight’s two hours being devoted to Day 2A.  Let’s follow the action and see how the network continued to tell the story of this year’s World Championship.

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Boylesports.com today announced the betting market for the upcoming Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge making U.S. phenom Tom “Durrrr” Dwan 1/3 favourite with courageous British challenger Sammy “Any Two” George the outsider at 9/4.

The Matchroom Sport challenge sees both players buy in for $500,000 and play heads up live over 500 hands with blinds of $500 and $1,000. Players must play at least 500 hands and can only leave before this if they lose their buy in. If neither player has gone broke before 500 hands have been played, the winner for the purposes of the betting market will be the player who has won the most money.

Last week George said on The Poker Show, “It’s man to man, lion against lion. I’ve spoken

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The biggest online tournament series in the world is almost here, which is of course the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) presented by PokerStars.

Players across the globe are gearing up, entering satellites and getting ready to take their seats in this amazing tournament series which will have a total prize pool of a staggering $40 Million Dollars. The WCOOP encompasses 45 events which include three High Roller events, concluding with the No Limit Hold’em Main Event grand finale that features a whopping guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000! And the best news for players is that they can qualify for these events for just a dollar! S Read the full post …

There has never been a better time to become a Titan Poker player. Why? Because when you choose to create your player account at Titan Poker and then make your first deposit, you will be eligible to play for your share of $20,000!

This is an unheard of deal for new players! And to get in on it, simply make your first deposit at Titan Poker and you will become the lucky recipient of FIVE FREE TOKENS good toward your buy-in to any of Titan Poker’s five weekly New Depositor FreeRoll Satellites. That’s five free chances to win your share of some serious bankroll-building cash totaling a whopping $20,000!

And because Titan Poker offers these fabulous FreeRolls every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, you are sure to find a FreeRoll that is fits right into your poker playing schedule. The Read the full post …

PartyGaming, parent company of Party Poker, has acquired the World Poker Tour as part of a purchase of its parent company, World Poker Tour Enterprises.

This is somewhat surprising, as it seemed for a while that a deal with Gamynia, owner of such poker rooms as Titan Poker, would go through instead for $9 million and a percentage of future WPT and Professional Poker Tour revenues. Unfortunately for Gamynia, PartyGaming offered a more attractive $12.3 million with a 5% revenue share on monies made on the purchased assets.

It is still possible for this new deal from PartyGaming to get scuttled, as shareholders must first formally approve it, but it is likely to go through.

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The Borgata Poker Open is going to hold their buy in at a reduced cost. Perhaps as an effort to appeal to those facing crisis during these tough economic times the Borgata Poker Open has dropped the $10k buy in to $3,500. Reducing the buy ins has happened before in recent years, but typically they are dropped down to $5k. The aim of lowering the buy in this much is to bring in more casual players, giving them a chance at a championship title, but also filling the tourney with dead money.

Celebrating their eighth year, Party Poker proves why they are one of the most popular poker sites by continuing to roll out the super promotions. Their latest offering gives players the opportunity to not only pocket huge amounts of cash – but to be a TV star too!

Coming soon is the PartyPoker World Open V in merry old London, and you can be there to show off your poker savvy by winning your Party Poker $13,000 dream package! Win this baby and you are off to London, to join the best players in the poker world to do battle for the $480,000 prize pool in front of the TV cameras!

Starting on October 11th and running until October 15th, the triple starting stack tournament will showcase some of the biggest poker faces on the planet, including PartyPoker ambassador Mike Sexton along with ‘Team Party’ players Remy Biechel, Ian Frazer, Bodo Sbrzesny and Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos. And while Read the full post …

Part one of this series on floating can be found here.

Last time around I began looking at the float play, and outlined some of the factors that should be considered when making this play. In this article, I will complete this analysis before looking at some effective counter strategies.

We can start this by looking at the type of hand you need to float. Since you are not looking to take your hand to showdown, your actual holding appears irrelevant. But this logic doesn’t take account of the fact that some of the time your opponent won’t pass to your turn bet.

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It seemed as if this case was done and over, with the defendant not guilty of gambling and the game of skill argument accepted by the court. But the state of Colorado had other things in mind. Though they cannot retry Kevin Raley for “professional gambling,” the original charge that stemmed from his bar poker game, the state appealed the ruling that poker on the basis that the skill game argument had no place in the case. With that, the Kevin Raley and the Poker Players Alliance are taking it all the way to the Supreme Court.

The case of Colorado vs. Kevin Raley came to light in January of 2009, after Raley and others were arrested during a 2008 raid of Rafferty’s Bar in Greeley, Colorado. The b Read the full post …