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The European ladies championship

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

The European Ladies championships of Ladbrokes.com reunite for the third time in the beginning of the month of May the professional of poker from Europe. The fifty best women players will be in contest in London during two days for the title of European champion for a price of $30,000.

The poker players still have time to qualify for the competitions, by gambling in a casino online by Ladbrokes every Monday at 9:00pm.

The lucky winners of this tournament will get packages of $2,500 for the tournament, including the value of buy-in, which worth $2000, accommodation for 2 persons in London Friday the 2nd of May, two entries for an exclusive party, tickets for the studios in London on May 3rd and May 4th and the transportation from the hotel to the studios.

In addition, the best ranked player in the satellites on line will win as well a package of $14,000 to the WSOP.
In case you are interested and passionate about it, all the games will be edited in six shows of one hour each and will be broadcasted on the Sky Sport channel.

The poker for the students

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

As soon the academic semester ends for the students from the University of California, the poker games begin.

The poker clubs and organized tournaments exist in the UCLA since years.

The club was officially opened in the end of the last year but the first formal meeting will take place on November 29th. The first meeting is organized by the GPSTS and it focuses on the attendance of women in the world of poker and the psychology if the game.

In this meeting there will be a jury formed by three public speakers including Annie Duke, a professor of women studies and psychology professor. The events will begin at 7:30pm and will represent a big occasion for the students and the players to learn how to play poker.

Besides, the students and the poker players will be able to participate in the Poker Club in UCLA, to regular meetings, monthly during the discussion on the about the theory of poker.
Finally, if you look for casino options, not only from casino online like free rolls events and other regular games, you will not be disappointed by the campus UCLA.

Campus Poker Tour for all students

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

A new competition was proposed to students by the Campus Poker Tour, organized by Bwin Poker one of the biggest companies in the gambling online industry.
All students can first play poker for free and form a team with players from the same establishment.
Then, the first five poker players qualified will compose a team that will represent his establishment for the continuation of the competition.
In course of this competition, it will face other qualified teams from other schools.

The students will have accordingly the possibility to represent their universities and school along this competition that will allow nine teams to qualify for Brussels where the big final will be on RTL9.
So, the broadcast is predicted to June 2008.
The student who is interested in this competition can register itself and participate to free organized tournaments in their school or university on the site campupokertour.fr.

The registrations will be signed in before April 10th 2008. The teams will face then between them during several tournaments of poker between April 21st and May the 1st 2008.
The winning team will go to Las Vegas and for the finalists will be other awards.
Obviously, you need to precise that the participation to the tournaments are taken to senior students from schools and universities signed to the competition.

History of Video Poker

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The Video Poker is a mixture of slot machines and 5 cards draw. The goal of Video poker is like the rules of poker, meaning obtaining the best hand.

We don’t know the exact date of the invention of poker en ligne , because nobody knows where he first arrived or who invented it. But if the history of Poker is unlit, the history of video poker should have started in the 70’s of the last century, when the chip, composing necessarily to operate all computers, were developed.

However, the ancestor of the video poker machines that we actually know can be dated from the 19th century, when the grand parents of the slot machines ( called that time, ” one armed bandits” used poker cards.

In the beginning of the vide poker history, the player inserted a coin in poker machine and pulled the handle, turning the rolls that contained the poker cards. When the cards stopped, if there was a winning card, the player won cigarettes and drinks.

During the end of the 70’s the history of Video poker expanded rapidly, thanks to the new technology with the development of computers and respective chips circuits.
With screens, sound and visual effects, this machine has been installed in all the casinos, including in a online casino.

Today the Video poker machine as well as the Video poker on line is yet one of the most popular games in casinos.