Poker Room Reviews
January 31, 2008
Titan Poker
Downloading, installation, and registration is very easy and just takes a few minutes. For more details, go to Titan Poker Installation. After installation and registration, playing is easy.
CD Poker
CD Poker is designed very well and you can maneuver through the site very well. You can download CD Poker very quick and easy. For anyone on dial-up the file is small, which makes it faster to download and play.
Doyles Room
If you love the “living legend” Doyle Brunson, then you will love this poker room. The site has tons of his articles and stories. Brunson has also written “Super System” and “Super System 2? which are some of the best books written about poker.
Mansion Poker
Mansion Poker is a newer poker room and great things are being offered to the players. Mansion Poker offers great bonuses, eye catching software and a large volume of traffic.
Fair Poker
Fair Poker is a great poker room with unique software, and they also have a great promotion running. Fair Poker is a great poker room and is worth playing on.
Absolute Poker
Absolute Poker is an excellent site. There are large amounts of articles and information. Absolute Poker has games hosted by Mark Seif a pro poker player, you are able to sit down and play with a pro.
Hollywood Poker
Hollywood Poker has a very impressive design that is quick and easy to download and start playing on. There is never any problem finding a poker game of any type with lots of action here at Hollywood Poker.
Full Tilt
Full Tilt poker offers a very large player traffic volume with really great guaranteed multi-table poker tournaments. They have one of the largest pools of pro poker players playing on an online poker site.
VC Poker
VC poker software is really of good quality. There are no unnecessary advertising fields and pop-up windows. The design of the site is very sophisticated lookin
Poker Stars
Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem all past World Series of Poker Champs. All play here on Poker Stars. Large number of players playing ring and tournament games makes it quick and easy to find game to play.
Jon ‘Pearljammer’ Turner is 2007 Internet Player Of The Year
January 31, 2008
Jon ‘Pearljammer’ Turner has been crowned the 2007 Internet Poker Rankings Player of the Year. To achieve this, Pearljammer surpassed some of the best of the internet poker world in a tight race that came down to the wire. The top 10 finishers is a virtual who’s who of internet poker pros.
The 2007 Internet Poker Rankings Top 10 Final Standings are as follows:
1. PearlJammer
2. SCTrojans
3. Tmay420
4. P0KERPR033
5. THAY3R
6. AndyMcLeod
7. mattg1983
8. phat_cat (the 2006 winner)
9. CrazyMarco
10. BKiCe
‘PartyPoker Poker Den: The Big Game II’
January 31, 2008
RETURN OF THE POKER DEN 24 HOUR CASH GAME! Online poker news – 29th January 2008 – ‘PartyPoker Poker Den: The Big Game II’ starts its run on Five in the UK at midnight tomorrow night (Wednesday/Thursday), running for eight weeks. The 24 hour continuous cash game was organized by Matchroom Sport and took place in East London last year. Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott, Tony G, Roland De Wolfe, Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend, Jamie Gold, Thomas Bihl, Todd Brunson, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson
Brian Townsend
January 31, 2008
Brian Townsend is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Santa Barbara, California.
Townsend is largely known for his success playing no limit hold ‘em and pot-limit omaha at Full Tilt Poker, playing under the nickname ’sbrugby.’ Townsend began playing online poker at $0.50/$1.00 blinds but gradually moved up in stakes, eventually becoming a regular player in some of the highest stakes games online. He posts regularly on Two Plus Two Publishing forums under the name aba20. Although better known to be a heads up and short handed specialist online, he has participated in several live tournaments, including an in the money finish at a World Poker Tour no limit hold ‘em event, and making a final table at a World Series of Poker circuit event. His total live tournament winnings exceed $35,000.
He appeared on season 3 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker, sitting with over $700,000.
He is also a co-owner and lead instructor for CardRunners.com, an online instructional website where he posts instructional videos and writes about his daily life and poker experiences in a blog.
He is featured on the front cover of the August/September 2007 issue of Cardplayer (Vol. 20, No. 17: publ. August 29, 2007).
He played Lock for the UCSB Rugby Team and was one of the best players Santa Barbara has ever seen. His rare combination of speed, strength, and on-field leadership led to UCSB’s clenching of the league championship in 2003.
Tony G
January 31, 2008
Tony G (born Antanas Guoga on December 17th, 1973 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a professional poker player.
As a child, he was the Rubik’s Cube champion of Lithuania before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11. He has played since the age of 18, and is known for his outlandish table talk and aggressive play. Despite this, many poker professionals and dealers have pointed out that away from the table, Tony is quite personable and easygoing.
He had a fifth place finish in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris 2003, where Howard Lederer refused to shake his hand due to his aggressive table talk during play.
In June 2003, he won back-to-back tournaments in Russia, winning nearly $20,000.
He finished in the money twice at the 2004 World Series of Poker in Seven-card stud and Pot Limit Texas hold ‘em tournaments and three months later earned his then biggest tournament money finish in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2004 where his second place finish to England’s Surinder Sunar earned him $414,478. He finished on the bubble later in the same month at the WPT 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown.
On August 7, 2005 he won the $5,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event of the European Poker Championships, earning £260,000 ($456,822.) Later in 2005 he made the final table of the World Speed Poker Open.
In 2006 he won the WPT Bad Boys of Poker II event when his 10-d 8-d outdrew Mike Matusow’s K-s K-h on a board of 8-s 10-s 2-d 9h Q-c. He wore a kimono throughout the event to promote poker in Japan. Also in 2006 he finished second to Yosh Nakano while representing Australia in the inaugural Intercontinental Poker Championship, taking down $150,000. True to his reputation, Tony G launched many verbal assaults against his opponents, most notably when he eliminated Russian Ralph Perry in fourth place. Tony’s comments were so scathing that it prompted commentator Gabe Kaplan to quip “I think Tony G is speaking more like a Lithuanian than an Australian”. Guoga, however, was more respectful of some players, such as Doyle Brunson when he called Doyle his idol after eliminating him.
On 17 November 2006, he won the Betfair Asian Poker Tour event held in Singapore, walking away with $451,700 half of which he indicated he will give to Asian and Australian charities to be nominated by Betfair.
In February 2007, he appeared on the NBC television program Poker After Dark, coming in third place behind winner Phil Ivey. In November of the same year, he won a tournament in Moscow, earning $205,000. In his blog, he says that he left all of his prize money with the officials to give to Russian orphanages, having been inspired to do so by Barry Greenstein’s habit of donating all his poker tournament winnings to charity.
As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000.
Guoga is also the principal owner of a network of high traffic poker information sites, including Pokernews.com, Pokeraffiliateworld.com and Pokerworks.com.
Faustman Victorious at World Poker Open
January 31, 2008
Faustman Victorious at World Poker Open – The six-player final at the World Poker Open at the Gold Strike Casino featured a power-packed lineup with four prominent names: Freddy Deeb, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Hoyt Corkins and John Spadavecchia, none of whom won the title. Instead, the honors went to an unknown former college wrestler, Brett Faustman. Faustman finished off Hoyt Corkins of Team Brunson for the win to collect by far his largest payday to date, $892,413. Corkins’ deep run was worth $458,267, while Nguyen took third and Deeb placed fourth.
Quick Draw Freerolls at Doyles Room
January 31, 2008
Online poker room Doyles Room has come back with their popular Quick Draw Freerolls this month. The Quick Draw Freerolls have no buy in and allow a rebuy for a dollar, and players typically find they need to buy back in as the blinds go up every two minutes. The freeroll is a poker tournament that does not cost money to enter, but often has real money prizes. The Doyles Room Quick Draw Freeroll – so named because of the very fast blind level timer – offer $300 in real money prizes to the players.
Hardcore Watch Company
January 30, 2008
Designer Steve Soffa
“Working in the world of promotional products for major corporations since 1993, Steve Soffa guided some of America’s top companies in their quest to effectively promote their corporate image and message. He utilized over 800 products manufactured by his corporation to achieve this goal, and felt an instant connection with timepieces - sophisticated and elaborate, watches were the perfect product for branded communication.
In 1996, Steve Soffa was hired to operate a promotional company that specialized in watches only and his success there revolutionized the industry. His methods of presentation and production have become industry standards and have earned him a well-deserved reputation as a top watch designer and artist. His success granted him the opportunity to work and design for Fortune 100 companies that encompassed the whole industry spectrum including high tech, automotive, beverage, cosmetic, as well as apparel. Read more
