2008 World Series of Poker® Makes Schedule changes
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. announced it is exchanging dates of two events scheduled for the 2008 World Series of Poker® (WSOP). Orginally set to start at Noon on Saturday, June 22, the $50,000 buy-in HORSE World Championship has been re-scheduled for a 5 PM start on Wednesday, June 25.
The $2,500 buy-in Triple Low Ball event, originally in the 5 PM June 25 time/date slot, has been moved to Noon on Saturday, June 22. The simple, short version of the change is just swapping the the two events on the schedules. ESPN said the schedule changes were necessary to provide expanded film coverage of the $50K HORSE event, considered by many to be the true (main event?) world poker championship contest. The trademarked WSOP Main Event remains unchanged with a $10,000 buy-in for the No-Limit Hold'em World Championship.
The 39th World Series of Poker will run from Friday, May 30th through Tuesday, July 15th, the final table of the Main Event. Buy-ins for the 55 events range from $1,000 to $50,000. Check out the revised official 2008 WSOP schedule of events. The ESPN Sports Network will begin televising coverage of the 2008 WSOP events in July.
World’s Largest Automated Poker Room
Last month, Casino de Montreal opened the largest completely automated poker room in the world. With 25 PokerPro tables, the new poker room is by far the single largest poker room with only automatic tables. Now the folks at Casino de Montreal have hosted the world’s largest multi-table poker tournament ever run on solely automated poker tables. The entire tournament was run with only four staff members, who spent a good deal of time with little or nothing to do.
The $225 buy-in tournament was sold-out two weeks in advance, with a record 240 players vying for a piece of the prize pool.
“Running a tournament of this magnitude is what we always envisioned for PokerPro. We are pleased with the success of this tournament and proud of our partnership with Casino de Montreal,”
says Chris Halligan, CEO of PokerTek, manufacturer of the PokerPro tables.
“The Québécois players have embraced automated poker, as validated by the response to this tournament.”
Currently, Casino de Montreal’s 100% PokerPro room offers cash games, daily Sit-and- Go tournaments, plus weekly and monthly multi-table tournaments.
WPT Season 7 Schedule
World Poker Tour® (WPT) has released the schedule for the 14 tournaments making up the 2008/2009 Season VII. With more than 84 WPT Poker-Made Millionaires™ the new season promises to be bigger and better than ever.
The Season VII inaugural event is the Bellagio Cup at the Bellagio resort in Las Vegas July 11-17, 2008. The tour then moves on to hop-scotch around the country from coast-to-coast, stopping twice more at the Las Vegas Bellagio, before returning to Las Vegas and the Bellagio for the season finale, the WPT $25,000 World Championship, slated for April 18-25, 2009. This final event usually creates two or more millionaires.
A list of the Season 7 Schedule with links after the jump...
WPT Season 7 Schedule
Jul 11-17, 2008 • Bellagio Cup IV
Aug 23-28, 2008 • Legends of Poker
Sep 14-18, 2008 • Borgata Poker Open
Oct 10-16, 2008 • North American Poker Championship
Oct 20-25, 2008 • Festa Al Lago
Nov 05-11, 2008 • Foxwoods World Poker Finals
Dec 13-19, 2008 • Doyle Brunson 5 Diamond World Poker Classic
Jan 16-19, 2009 • Gulf Coast Poker Championship
Jan 25-29, 2009 • Borgata Poker Classic
Feb 28-03, 2009 • LA Poker Classic
Mar 07-09, 2009 • WPT Celebrity Invitational
Mar 16-20, 2008 • Bay 101 Shooting Star
Apr 04-09, 2009 • Foxwoods Poker Classic
Apr 18-25, 2009 • WPT World Championship
World Poker Tour Season 7
The World Poker Tour has released it's schedule for season seven and it is a much reduced tour from season six.
Gone from last year's schedule are:
Mirage Poker Showdown, Las Vegas
Turks and Caicos Poker Classic
Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, Las Vegas
WPT Spanish Championship, Barcelona
World Poker Open, Tunica
World Poker Challenge, Reno
WPT Ladies Night
Here is the Season Seven schedule:
Cheating at Online Poker
It is way past time that someone had a few sane words to combat all of those "high moral" opinions being yelped about all over the web. Our topic today: cheating at poker on the internet. By the way I respect your right to find my words insane or at least devoid of morals or standards. I will exercise those same rights when your four letter responses arrive duct taped to the back of turtles. These are opinions, you have the right to hold different ones, which does not make mine any less valid or logical. So here goes:
There is very little real cheating in online poker.
What we have are a bunch of very stupid rules that do not take into consideration either the reality of the internet or the basics of human nature. Time and time again, it has been proven that making rules which have no possibility of being enforced is a fool's errand. We don't need to have this legal and social debate again in the tiny world of online poker. Governments have gone through this redundant exercise for centuries to the same conclusion: If you can't enforce it, don't legislate it. So here are the rules.
If you can see the other players cards; you are a cheat, a crook and a thief.
Because I am in the middle of a rant, I will refrain from any absolute comments on this topic, other than to say that this is the ultimate example of cheating and must be prevented and when it does happen there actually ought to be real punishment.
One player to a hand is a incredibly stupid and unenforceable rule.
Base on the nature of the internet, no rules should be written that cannot be enforced. I had my nephew play my hand for nearly an hour this past Sunday, while I finished cooking dinner. He would call out the cards and I would tell him what to do and in the process he learned a bit about early MTT strategy. Some will say: "Well the intent here was not to cheat." But others claim: "Rules are rules." I agree with the rules are rules people, but they have to be rules for everyone and since certain rules cannot be enforced, they are not rules but suggestions for high moral behavior, which belong in the pulpit and not at the poker table.
Multi-Accounting cannot be prevented with today's technology.
Go to any wired college dorm in the world and you have the ability for multiple player accounts with different ISP tags. Or stay at a certain Las Vegas casino hotel and discover you cannot play on one of the bigger poker websites because several months ago two players in different rooms tried to play the same tournament and now the hotel's ISP is blocked. Same logic as above, if it cannot be monitored and prevented then it should not be a rule. Sorry folks, I know the purists want everyone to play fair but they don't. The only way to catch people and punish them is if they are: a) stupid and allow simply software detection; or b) they talk about it in public. I am OK with punishing the stupid but making honesty a crime seems counter-productive.
Self incrimination is simply speaking the truth.
This brings me to my one solid suggestion: Players shall not be punished based on their own words. You know that thorny issue of self incrimination. Some players admit they have taken over accounts of other players. So they should be punished for telling the truth about what happens in every major tournament every weekend on the net. Why? The truth is that since account sharing cannot be prevented, it should not be illegal.
Yes, I know there are legal arguments against each of my positions. But reason and logic should prevail here not morals or wishin' and hopin'. I would like internet poker to be as fair and level a playing field as live games but that is not possible at this time. Internet gaming creates a different kind of poker with different rules and only rules that recognize the reality of the uniqueness of the internet should even attempt to be enforced.
Show one, show all. Catch one, catch all or leave everyone alone. Why is learning to use poker spy software any less of a skill than learning how to slowplay or bluff? Why..... ah enough, end of rant. I gotta get back to my game, I am leading a tournament and I am in ninth place too.
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