Uncapped No Limit Holdem Comes to Florida! The Poker Boom Continues!

In the face of much bad news in the online poker world lately including France walling itself off from the rest of the poker world (read about the French Poker Ban) nothing but great news has been coming from the best places to play live poker.

Today Florida removed the restrictions on the size of it's Poker games which meant for the first time people were seeing playing as high as $50/$100 blinds (you'd typically buy into such a game for $10,000 or more!) in the State. With no State Income Tax and relatively good weather they could rapidly become a popular destination for live players.

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Dusty "Leatherass" Schmidt: American Poker Hero

Leatherass who used to coach for the now defunct StoxPoker brand (now part of Cardrunners) and currently has his home on Drag the Bar and is a Team PokerStars Pro is one of the most successful grinders of the online poker game with millions in winnings. This unbelievable work ethic would be enough to declare him an American poker hero but it turns out there is a lot more to the man that makes him someone a lot of us can look up to.

Live Poker in Delaware! The Game We Love Continues to Spread

As table games have started to spread to the casinos across the East Coast of the United States the ability to play poker in multiple States was inevitable. As the online game is often felt to be getting tighter and tougher new and fantastically soft live games continue to spread from coast to coast!

Delaware Park became the state’s second casino to offer players a wide range of games that include poker, roulette, blackjack and craps, over and above the traditional slot games that were offered until now.
Roger S (Compatible Poker)

David Wintersberger Blasts to a Day One Chiplead at EPT Snowfest

David Wintersberger who plays for Team RedKings - one of the leading poker rooms on the Ongame network - has blasted to a day one Chiplead at the EPT Snowfest event in Austria. We have the interview from the end of day 1 here.

According to the EPT Official Site

The €3,750 event is taking place in one of Austria’s premier ski areas – Saalbach-Hinterglemm near Salzburg – from March 21 -26, 2010. Home to the Alpine Ski World Championships in 1991, this exciting resort offers some of the finest pistes and off-piste in the country, giving poker players plenty of exhilarating ski and snowboard action when they’re not at the tables.

Ivey Fails and Buys Out of Durrr Vegetarian Bet Early for $150k

Phil Ivey quit his bet with Tom "Durrr" Dwan that he could become a vegetarian for one year. The buy out for finishing the bet early was a cool $150,000 according to Durrr's post on the popular Two Plus Two Forums.

he bought out for 150
edit: sometime in early/mid december

Pretty shocking that after taking the easiest $1,000,000 bet in the history of mankind he should choose to give up so early in the challenge. Durrr however has shown how smart he is and how good he is at reading his opponents both on and away from the tables.

Las Vegas Live Poker Advice Part 1

This is the first part of a series where I hope to give you all some pointers about going to Las Vegas to play live poker. Whether it's the first time you've been to Vegas or the first time you go to take your poker a little more seriously hopefully I'll have some good advice for you.

The first thing I'm going to say is Las Vegas Live Poker is absolutely fantastic. It's the most fun you'll have playing poker because it's wild, loose, fun and the drinks are free.

Unless you plan to stay in the gaming capital of the world for a long time and become a live poker pro I'd say the most important thing to do while your there is have a great time.

ABC poker is all you need - the fish will pay you off (heck they are so drunk they won't even fold second pair to an all-in bet sometimes!). You will run into some grumpy 'older gentlemen' who won't start games shorthanded and will barely play a hand - you know what to do when they raise your bet ;). Also you will run into some goodish regulars at the $1/2 games who make some ok money there but they won't mess with you and you won't mess with them too much - there's just too much juicy free cash at those tables still.

So have fun, check out Poker Travel World for advice on where to play and stay and have a great time.

Article 2 will cover off some table selection and game selection issues for those of you who have some early success and are going back for more!

Doyle Brunson Attacks Hellmuth (Clip of the Week!)

At a recent World Series of Poker Europe event Doyle Brunson got stuck into Phil Hellmuth over his recent attire and rather extravagent entrances to the events in full Roman Empire dress on a Chariot!

Phil Hellmuth is the most successful live tournament player of all time with many doubting his record will ever be matched. Doyle as one of the elder statesmen of the game and a true veteran of Poker feels traditional values are more important "I feel embarrassed for you" Doyle uttered at the end of their discussion about the matter.

This spat is our clip of the week found on Youtube and Embedded below for your convenience you can see their confrontation in full as well as clips of Hellmuth's costume.