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Here’s my pick for the third-best performance of the 2006 Sihoki Slot preliminary events. If you missed the earlier entries, click on the other names in the Top 5 list below.

The rest of this list will be coming soon. Then we can return our focus to the top stories of the Main Event.

The Top 5 Players of the 2006 WSOP Prelim Events:

1. Jeff Madsen
2. Phil Hellmuth
3. Joe Hachem
4. Joe Hachem

Carlos Mortensen was the last WSOP champion (in 2001) to receive much respect. Ever since Robert Varkonyi won in 2002, and the fields started exploding post-Moneymaker, everyone expects the winner to be an unknown. And then they immediately disregard the unknown winner as “lucky.”

Our reigning champion, Joe Hachem, was unknown to American fans when he won $7.5 million last year. But Hachem was comfortable with the title of champion in a way that Chris Moneymaker never was. A lot of poker fans felt that Hachem had to prove himself as a worthy champion with a follow-up victory of some kind. But Hachem never felt the pressure to prove anything to anyone at this year’s WSOP.

New Rules: Cover Her, Don’t Pimp Her

New Rule: If you’re the exclusive real time reporting media outlet, you should actually try covering the, now, only remaining woman in the WSOP field.

I noticed that Card Player put up an obligatory video interview with Sabyl Cohen yesterday as she was one of the three remaining women in the field. But so far today, she can’t buy coverage.

According to CP, her stack has gone from 398,000 to 960,000 to 1,400,000 to 905,000. So far they have covered one of her hands. How many interns does it take to cover 9 tables; apparently more than seventeen. And Card Player still has her …

As the Shrink has argued many times in the past, the entire “legal” argument about poker as ‘game of skill’ or ‘game of luck” is unproductive and misses the point. The point being that governments anywhere have no right, no business and no mandate to be mucking around if what you do with your time, your money and your life. Yet, again another country of poker players are having their rights restricted based on the bogus discussion of “Luck vs. Skill”, this time we take you to Denmark.

The Danish High Court (Eastern Division) ruled that tournament QQWIN99 is a game of chance, overturning a previous lower district court ruling that, of course, found poker to be a game of skill and games of skill are not subject to Denmark’s restrictive gambling laws.

The decision is a setback for the Danish Poker Association which once again finds itself in breach of the Danish Criminal Law. Yes, their existence, including lobbying and speaking out for the rights of poker players are technically criminal under the existing law.

Poker tournament organizers have been sued by, who else, the Danish Casino Association for organizing illegal gambling events. Not that the DCA organizes anywhere near the number of poker events the poker playing public would demand in an open and free marketplace.

There will be another appeal, of course, but in the meantime the estimated half a million Danes who play poker will have to consider whether an evening of enjoyment playing poker is worth arrest and possible prosecution with penalties right up there with auto theft and burglary.

“Women in Poker” Hall of Fame

The Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) Tour is founding the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, which will be located at Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel, the original …

The 2011 World Championship of Online Poker has come to an end.  With more than $40,000,000 in prizes handed out over the course of 62 events, the 2011 WCOOP was one of the biggest tournament series of all time.  For three weeks some of the best tournament players in the world battled it out in huge events with gigantic buy-ins.  Tournaments like the $10,300 buy-in 8-game championship, $2,100 HORSE tournament, and $5,000 Main Event tested all of their skills.  The final event was the biggest and best of them all. More than 1,600 players ponied up the $5,000 entry fee for the chance at more than $1,000,000 in first-place money.

With such a large buy-in fee, the turnout was quite impressive. There was more than $8,000,000 in the pot for the 189 players fortunate enough to make the money.  Unfortunately, even those lasting deep into day-2 were not guaranteed a huge payday. Amongst those who fell just short of the big money were David “david1213″ Vamplew (183rd place; $13,422), “lechuckpoker” (166th; $13,829), Bertran “Elky” Grosspelier (135th; $15,049), Francis “teachuppoker” Cagney (132nd; $15,049), Steve “gboro780″ Gross (122nd; $15,456), Jimmie “AlusivPnkBny” Guinther (118th; $15,456), and Johnny Lodden (102nd; $17,083).

There were plenty of other big names making it inside the top-100 including “Buck21″, “Assassinato”, Grayson “gray31″ Ramage, and Eugene Katchalov who all cracked the top-100 but could not quite reach the final table.  Coming even closer was Dani “supernova9″ Stern, also known as “Ansky” to the online poker world. Stern was part of the TV series “2 Months 2 Million” that aired on G4 in 2009, along with fellow poker professionals Jay “Krantz” Rosenkrantz, Brian “flawless_victory” Roberts, and Emil “whitelime” Patel.  The show was a hit amongst the online community but was not renewed for a second season. Ansky, who is …

From breakfast to lunch, a study in blind faith, blind stealing, and blindly stepping into an alternate universe

guinness.jpg”What are you looking at, lady?”

That’s what I wanted to say. But, of course, I didn’t. Because slot hoki even as snarky and tired as I was feeling, it just didn’t seem right to dress down the woman right in front of her video game-obsessed kid.

It was 7am. I’d made exceptionally good time on the interstate run from South Carolina to Charlotte, NC. I’d packed just one carry-on bag to carry with my briefcase. Check-in proved to be almost too easy, which left me with time to kill.

I toyed with the idea of finding a coffee stand or a crystal meth dealer. I hadn’t slept but a couple hours before I left for the airport. I felt my internal systems fighting against themselves in what I was sure was a prelude to a greater war that would be fought on the Las Vegas battlefield.

Instead, I wandered into the airport bar and found a spot near the back. The bartendress approached.

“What do you have on draft?” I asked.

“Bud, Bud Light, Miller Light, Sam Adams, Bass…”

The word “Bass” was forming on my lips when the nice bartendress finished.

“…and Guinness.”

I don’t know what it was. Maybe it was that I’ve always considered Guinness to be the best of the breakfast beers. Maybe it was that I was wondering whether Iggy was going to make the trip. I dunno. All I know is that before I knew it, I was nearly shouting, “Guinness. Yes, a Guinness would be great.”

And so I sat with the tan foam on my upper lip, recording a few notes in a pocket notebook, and wondering where the trip was going …

St. togel  Day is one of those holidays that’s easy to get swept up in without even thinking about it. What could be more fun than wearing green, singing Irish songs, and breaking your dietary routine for some corned beef and cabbage!

Today St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by people of all backgrounds, and it is the most celebrated national holiday around the world, more than any other national holiday. Countries that celebrate this day include Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Singapore, Russia, to name just a few.

But there’s more to St. Patrick’s Day than green beer, shamrocks, and singing Irish songs. At least there is at Bingo Entertainment! They want to make this a very special day for everyone wherever you are, come and join any of our participating bingo sites, and see if you have the luck of the Irish. What better reason do you need to join in the fun of St. Patrick’s Day than an amazing 100% deposit bonus on ALL deposits over $20!

But that’s not all, if you’re looking for your pot of gold, then Bingo Entertainment is the place to be. On this special day, between 6pm and 10pm EST, there will be $50 pots, and $2,500 jackpots playing once an hour on the ‘shamrock’ pattern, on 25c cards!

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There’s a new winner every week on UltimateBet.com thanks to the Ultimate Tournament Leaderboard. If you haven’t had a chance to familiarize yourself with the UltimateBet’s weekly tournament leaderboard yet, please click here to read my post from Monday. To put it in a nutshell, the Ultimate Tournament Leaderboard is Ultimate Bet’s way of showcasing and rewarding its best and most frequent tournament players. On Monday I mentioned that the leaderboard for any given week is won on Sunday nights, so I’ll spend this article looking at how this week’s leaderboard is turning out so far. You’ll have to come back to my blog next Friday to find out who actually ends up winning, though!

Actually that last sentence wasn’t completely true. If you just can’t stand the suspense and have to know who wins this week, you could check our up-to-date network page (also mentioned back on Monday). Scroll down to where it mentions the leaderboard and click on a day in the calendar that you wish to view. If you were to scroll down and click April 4th, for example, you would see this page, which shows the data I’ll be basing the rest of my article on.

Here is what the top ten of this week’s leaderboard currently looks like:

1 spades27 – 367.83 (Tournament Points)

2 scottyclark – 323.28

3 foolishgolf – 256.60

4 sweetjj – 251.93

5 KzooHustlin – 231.61

6 canadiansjw – 201.85

7 CrazySixeS66 – 182.95

8 frigid1 – 173.97

9 thrushed – 173.31

10 chewygotu – 172.02

Although the top fifty tournament players are listed on this leaderboard at any given time, only the top ten will receive prizes at the end of Sunday. spades27 is currently in the lead with almost 368 Tournament Points, but scottyclark is close bitcoin dice  behind …

This article is the first of many future updates on Titan Poker, a poker room that is part of the increasingly popular iPoker network. As mentioned in previous articles, iPoker ranks third for online poker traffic. This is despite the fact it does not offer its service to U.S. players.

Titan Poker recently sent 66 of its players to the Eurocity result hk Tour (ECPT) in Madrid, offering prize packages that could be won by playing in a variety of satellites on their site. That’s how Greg Metzak, a 23-year-old psychology student from Vancouver (Canada), came to play his first ever live tournament in Madrid – he won an online freeroll on Titan. Titan offered the VIP freeroll to those players that were able to earn a certain number of Titan Points within one week.

Metzak was more than rewarded for his efforts. Not only did he go to Europe for his first time ever, he beat a field of 150 players and won the first prize for 40,000 Euros (almost 62,000 USD). He couldn’t be more happy about his impressive feat, saying, “Thanks to Titan Poker, I have had a week in Madrid and now 40,000 Euros – who could ask for more?” Someone asked him which person would receive the first phone call with the good news and Metzak replied, “I think I am going to wait until I get home and when people ask how it was, say ‘well, you know … poker’s a tough game … anything can happen …’” The second place winner for the same tournament was also a Titan Poker player. Ingo Nassall from Germany won a healthy 23,000 Euros for his efforts.

If you’re interested in being sent on a fabulous poker vacation via Titan Poker, definitely …

Contrary maybe to your experience, getting a good quality translation is not a Russian roulette game…. I put three bullets in the 6-bullet cylinder, I have a good 50/50 chance surviving pulling the trigger…. I did my due diligence when selecting my translator/translation agency, I can be reasonably certain of the successful outcome….

Maybe. But leaving things to chance does not bode well for your final satisfaction. In fact, empirical data show that the editing time spent on any translation does not increase/decrease in linear proportions with the quality (or lack thereof) of the job done.

My personal experience over the last 15 years taught me that compared with a good translation job, a mediocre one will drastically increase the time I spend proofreading/editing it, whatever the number of actual translation errors found in the document!

But why?

The mechanism is a simple one: as the proofreader/editor notices that translation errors are a bit too numerous for his/her own comfort, his/her attention cannot help but zeroing in on the possibility of further errors. His/her critique becomes unforgiving. Gradually, he/she rewrites larger and larger chunks of the copy. What might have be considered acceptable quality to start with becomes less and less acceptable. More “has” to be rewritten. Even on purely subjective grounds of perceived style improprieties.More about Translation Agencies UK

In quite the opposite way, an editor correcting a generally well-written and technically accurate translation will become less and less keen to superimpose his/her own indiosyncrasies on the translation job: “Mmmh, I wouldn’t have written it this way, but it’s correct”. Or in other terms, the editor tends to go by the rule “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Based on this, how can you avoid the pitfalls of translator selection?

The …

Salah satu pengunjung lama dan favorit kami, Colly, mampir ke Thailand pada putaran terakhir perjalanan keliling dunianya – dan beberapa dari Anda akan ingat bahwa kami pernah bertemu sekali di Vegas pada putaran pertama perjalanannya saat saya meliput dua pertunjukan besar di Vegas. Dan pengunjung forum Casinomeister juga akan tahu bahwa kami membahas “Petualangan Hebat” di mana kami akan mengunjungi Poipet, Kamboja, rumah bagi enam (dan segera lebih) kasino besar yang melayani penduduk Thailand.

Saya membuat pengaturan untuk bertemu Colly di hotelnya, dan ketika kami berjalan keluar untuk minum kopi, saya bertemu dengan seorang teman – sebenarnya, teman yang telah saya rencanakan untuk mengajak kami ke Poipet, yang belum pernah saya kunjungi. dapat menghubungi selama lebih dari sebulan.

Dia siap setuju untuk mengatur mobil dan sopir, dan Petualangan Hebat dimulai.

Poipet adalah kota non-deskriptif di perbatasan di seberang Aranyapathet di provinsi Sa Kaew Thailand, empat jam dengan mobil dari Bangkok. Di masa lalu, kota ini dikenal terutama karena pasar perdagangannya yang besar – Toto SGP saat kami melewati Imigrasi, semua jenis barang dapat terlihat melintasi Kamboja, termasuk pakaian dan secara mengejutkan banyak produk segar – saya membayangkan bahwa sayuran akan berlimpah di sisi lain perbatasan tetapi jelas bahwa sebagian besar perdagangan adalah satu arah.

Pengunjung diharuskan memiliki visa – yang menurut Colly dan saya agak aneh karena dia membawa paspor EC dan saya paspor Amerika, yang biasanya memberikan akses gratis di sebagian besar negara – tetapi untungnya kami dapat mengatur visa pada saat kedatangan untuk 1000 baht (sekitar $22 AS) dan karena Colly tidak membawa fotonya, dia harus membayar tambahan 100 baht ($2,20) untuk foto yang tidak pernah diambil… dan jika Anda ingin mempercepat perjalanan Anda , izinkan salah satu pria Kamboja – atau “pemandu” – untuk mengurus semuanya untuk Anda dengan tip 100 baht – kami benar-benar dicap masuk …

Digibyte Price

This morning it became apparent that the cryptocoin called DigiByte ($DGB) was set to skyrocket in price. In the past 24 hours, the price of the coin went up a cool 43%, and beat its own previous top price (from May 21st) – once, and hasn’t looked back since. But why – why has DigiByte suddenly turned into the third most traded coin on the market overnight? We’ve got a few answers.

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE!

1. Minecraft Integration

There’s some confusion when it comes to this particular point, but the end result is the same – DigiByte will indeed have their own Minecraft server soon. To be super clear, this does not mean that Mojang nor Microsoft are affiliated with DigiByte, nor the other way around. This has nothing to do – nothing directly, anyway – to do with the release of the Minecraft Marketplace this week, the Discovery Update 1.1, or Minecraft Coins.

The Minecraft DigiByte server will be housed at Mine That Digi and it’ll be launched on the 10th of June, 2017. That’ll coincide with the event taking place on the 9th with Citi. This is just one part of the puzzle.

The reason this Minecraft announcement has caught on in the crypto-hype market is its perfect timing with the two events mentioned above. Minecraft Marketplace with Minecraft Coins launched this week on Bedrock Platforms, and DigiByte (official) is going to make a presentation at a Citi event.

UPDATE: Just for kicks we’ve also reached out the the Minecraft team at Microsoft to ask if any DigiByte business was coming to Minecraft in the near future. They said that this was “the first they’d heard of it”. So that’ll be a final nail in the coffin of that particular angle.

2. Meme