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Housewife’s Night Out
In Mid August, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria hosted a Celebrity Casino Night along with her husband Tony Parker, who plays for NBA basketball side San Antonio Spurs. Quite an unlikely coming together, but such is the draw of the great game of poker—and a good cause.
Online gambling site UltimateBet were on board to sponsor the evening, which was a fundraiser for Longoria’s charity, Eva’s Heroes, dedicated to enriching the lives of those children with developmental challenges. The event took place at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch in San Antonio, Texas.
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H.O.R.S.E. Bucks the Trend with Omaha
Omaha might be a big city in Nebraska and situated right on the banks of the Missouri River, but as Lee Munzer details in the latest installment of his H.O.R.S.E. strategy campaign, it’s also a highly complex poker game that, among many things, is adverse to water.
When playing limit Omaha high-low eight-or-better (O/8), you receive four cards. Five board cards are dealt (three on the flop, one on the turn and one on the river). You combine two cards from your hand with three of the community cards to make the best high hand, the best low hand or both. Read More... |
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Two out of Nine Ain’t Bad
 GOM catches up with a couple of fascinating characters making up the opposite ends of the final table of the World Series of Poker. They still have a few more weeks to get their heads in the right space before they all re-assemble on November 9 at the Rio in Vegas. But from what Dennis Phillips—chip leader—and Kelly Kim—short stack—tell us, everything is already in the right place.
Dennis Phillips, St. Louis, Missouri
GOM: You were a sleeper sensation at the Main Event this summer. Did you stick to a certain strategy from the beginning?
Dennis Phillips: It definitely depended on the situation, but I started off playing a fairly tight game until I got a “feel” of the table and tournament as a whole. Then I just played my game.
How much time are you devoting during this time off before the final table to hone your game?
Not as much as I’d like to. Read More... |
