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Poker on a Mac: Ways to Find Poker Bliss
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by admin.
It has been said time and time again, there’s just as much fun on a Mac as opposed to another operating system. While in a couple areas this may be a little true, there is still a lot of enjoyable things that a person can get into if they want to have some fun. When it comes to poker, or even another gaming solution, there are a myriad exciting formats for the Mac user. When it comes to poker though, these options may be a little more limited than most. While this was not up for debate a few years ago, the statement is quickly becoming falsehood with every passing day.
Practically any of the websites that a Mac user will visit will offer some kind of support for the Mac user – such as Full Tilt Poker Mac. Even more so, with Apple’s attention to people who love the compatibility of Windows, they are constantly making steps and changes to their format for the Mac user to be able to play with people with a PC. This even further closes the gap, and makes playing apple poker online a bit more competitive. At the end of the day, that’s one of the most fun about playing poker online, the fact that there are people playing from every operating system all times of the day.
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Bwin’s Acquisition of Gioco Digitale: How It Foregrounds Bwin’s European Development
Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Austrian online betting corporation Bwin has for a long time held a wish to extend its business into the market in continental Europe. Bwin is already well established in business circles and in the online gaming and gambling industries in Austria, but a natural need for its business to extend has seen a desire to manifest itself in countries such as Portugal in the past. Its recent acquisition of Gioco Digitale, the biggest provider of online poker and gaming operations in Italy, has clearly begun this journey for Bwin. The opportunity for further extension into the continent is now looking far brighter for the corporation, which is currently based in Austria.
Now that a very large part of Italy’s gaming and gambling empire is under its control, Bwin has certainly got the manpower to be able to extend its business wherever its needs require it to go. As long as it stay within the laws of the countries that it wishes to expand into, there appears to be no further problem. One may think, however, that extending into Italy and taking on such a big responsibility may be enough for Bwin to deal with at this point. Before it extends further into continental Europe, it is likely to want to establish itself in Italy.
Bwin’s recent acquisition of Gioco Digitale, and henceforth all the power that comes with it, is also likely to have given it more clout within the gaming industry world stage. Bwin is currently embroiled in a legal wrangling with the Portugal courts, over the fact that it cannot extend into the country because of strict laws on who can control gambling. However, once Bwin proves itself as a serious organisation that has the power to bring in great amounts of positive revenue for the country it has expanded into, other countries in Europe are much more likely to want it to share some of its worth with them. Bwin also has plans to extend Gioco Digitale, although these plans are hardly likely to have been finalised yet, and this is likely to see it be able to further establish itself as a major worldwide brand.
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Sexy Babes in the World of Poker
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Shana Hiatt’s modeling career bloomed when she won Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2005 and she represented Beach Haven, New Jersey. She was the girl in the Playboy mag in April 1995 ‘The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic’ issue.
Shana constantly traveled around the world with her brother and parents. She was an athlete during her high school years and began to model at the age of 18. She was born on the East Coast from where they moved to different countries.
She is the hostess of The World Poker Tour and takes charge of providing information about professional poker players in the world. She was also the host of ‘Poker After Dark’ but was replaced by Marianera Pereyra. She also used to host National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is now hosted by Leean Tweeden.
Ming-Na, or Ming-Na Wen in real life, is a Chinese-American national. She was born on November 20, 1963 in Coloane Island, Macau. She finished the bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Drama at the Carnegie Mellon University.
She was married to Eric Michael Zee with whom she bore two children. She and her own family currently live in Calabasas, California.
She is popular for voicing for Fa Mulan in the film Mulan, for Aki Ross in the Final Fantasy, and for Ellen Ying in the Batmam animated series.
She competed in a Hollywood Home Game on the World Poker Tour, which she won. Ming-Na is one of the top sexiest celebrity poker players today.
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Jamie Gold and Joe Hachem
Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Poker is a card game in which a player bets his money believing that his cards are higher than his opponents’ are. Poker is usually the leisure activity of business people in the western countries. Two of the most successful poker players in the world today are Jamie Gold and Joe Hachem.
Born in New Jersey, Jamie Gold was declared Champion during the World Series of Poker in 2006 and brought home $12,000,000. But in his recent games in 2007, his rank shrank to 44th, 85th and 35th place. He was influenced by his mother and his grandfather to play poker. But before getting into the world of poker, he was a talent agent in US television. Few of the celebrities who were discovered by Gold were Felicity Hoffman, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Kirstin Davis. He decided to be a full time television producer and began to produce a poker show. From then on, he started playing poker and has had plenty of luck with it.
Joe Hachem is Lebanese, and is currently living in Melbourne, Australia. He won 1st place in the 2005 World Series of Poker, bringing home $7,500,000. The following year, he stepped down to 2nd place with $256,800 in hand. He first played poker when he was a teenager, and when he was 34 years old, he decided to try his luck in poker at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. It was also this year that he had a disorder of his hands, which forced him to stop his current job. Since then, he devoted his time as a mortgage broker and poker player.
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Female Poker Players
Posted on 13. May, 2009 by admin.
One of the most popular female poker players today is Jennifer Tilly. She was born on September 16, 1958 in Harbor City, California. She attained her beauty from her multi-racial parents – her father is Chinese while her mother is Caucasian. She borrowed her mother’s maiden name for her Hollywood career. She was married to the late Sam Simon, the producer of “The Simpsons”. She topped the 2005 World Series of Pokers Ladies Event with $158,335 cash.
Jennifer TIlly started playing poker during the making of a gambling comedy wherein Tilly was asked and taught to play poker. She enjoyed it and continuously played poker with friends in a home-based duel. During an invitational tournament, she met her current boyfriend Phil Laak who is a professional poker player. He encouraged Tilly to join in competitive tournaments in 2003. It was also Laak who taught Tilly techniques in playing and winning poker.
Another Jennifer in the poker world today is Jennifer Harman. She was born on November 29, 1964 in Reno, Nevada. She started playing poker when she was 8 years old. She was a promising childhood poker pro, but she encountered several health problems during those years.
Harman went to University of Nevada and finished biology. She worked as part-time waitress in a restaurant wherein after poker players finish their games, she used to get their tips on the tables. She also worked as a bartender and played poker. After some time, she thought that poker is not her career choice, thus she started opening up her own business.
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Expect DiCaprio in the New Online Poker Movie
Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Do you still remember the monumental performance of Matt Damon and Edward Norton in the movie “Rounders”? The writers behind this highly revered poker movie are again making another film starring the popular actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
The yet-untitled movie is about the online casinos based in Costa Rica. David Levien and Brian Koppelman, both involved in the success of the Rounders movie, wrote the story used within the film. The film was reported to have mainly gathered the interest of blockbuster movie producers Paramount, and has been rising to fame as another great movie to expect on the theaters.
DiCaprio has already signed the contract to get the lead role of the poker movie project. The unstoppable success of the international film icon would bring excellent progress to the movie’s schedule. The film is said to be advancing from the pre-production stage to the actual production at a rapid rate.
The writers behind this upcoming poker movie are also responsible for some notable films such as Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experiences as well as the successful Las Vegas movie Ocean’s Thirteen. The gunfire and heist scenes expected to be present all throughout the movie will definitely delight poker enthusiasts. This would definitely be another great success in the poker-based films hitting the movie theaters.
However, the release date of this upcoming poker movie was still unannounced by the filmmakers. DiCaprio will make another movie appearance in Shutter Island, a film by popular director Martin Scorsese.
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Celebrity Poker Players
Posted on 29. Mar, 2009 by admin.
Some female celebrities attract male poker players because they are good at playing poker. Two of the most talked about sexy female celebrity poker players are Daisy Fuentes and Shannon Elizabeth.
Daisy Fuentes is a Cuban national but migrated to Madrid three years after she was born. She earned a degree in communications and journalism at Bergen Community College. During college, she worked as the weather girl for WXTV Channel 41. She further became a news anchor and a reporter in television news.
Aside from being into news and current affairs, Fuentes also modeled for several beauty products. She, too, became MTV Latino after noticing her beauty and potentials. She hosted several TV programs and beauty pageants such as America’s Funniest Home Videos, Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe Pageants. She also acted on the big screen. She used her poker skills for charities. She competed at the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games so she could help the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital charity.
Shannon Elizabeth obtained her beauty from her Syrian father Gerald Edward Fadal and French-American-Indian mother Patricia Abbott. She was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Waco.
Elizabeth appeared in several movies and TV programs like American Pie, Scary Movie, Jack Frost and Digg Dogs, One on One, and Tomcats. She also posted for Playboy magazine and Maxim. She usually plays poker at casinos and described poker as her “second choice career”.
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A Quick Look in Online Poker
Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by admin.
In the past years, the game of poker has grown more popular than ever. This is due to the thrill of playing the game. Now, it has also reached the World Wide Web. It started as a small website offering a small amount of money as a stake in the game. However, over the years of the existence of online poker, it grew into a luxurious industry, especially Texas Hold’em poker. The reason behind this is that the rules of this kind of poker are simple and easy to understand. Even beginners of the game can easily grasp the concept after just a few minutes of playing.
Due to the increase in the popularity of online poker, there are now high stakes poker games played online. This where anyone can buy poker chips with real money and play with other players online. Most of these games use online money transfer accounts or credit cards for the payment and redeeming of winnings. This may sound like easy cash for someone who is not aware of the online poker world, but there are many great players battling it in out in online poker tournaments. Winning in online poker tournaments may be impossible for someone who is not well versed in online poker games.
For those who wish to learn the basics of online poker and gain experience, it is recommended to play online poker games first that do not require ‘real world’ money. This way, even if you lose in the game you will not be losing money.