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World Poker Tour

Per — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:16 +0000

Steven Lipscomb, the television producer, started the World Poker Tour in the United States of America. It is a series of international poker tournaments that feature many of the world’s renowned poker players.

In 2002, people saw the first series of the WPT on the television. It was aired in the spring of 2003 on the Travel Channel on American cable TV. The World Poker Tour series have led to a visible boom in the table game.

The most attractive part of the World Poker Tour is that anybody who can afford the “buy-in” or has been a winner of a “satellite” tournament” is eligible to compete against the professional poker players.

Fun Poker Facts part 2

Per — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:09:12 +0000

Poker has become such a religious game that people have forgotten its fun part. Here are some interesting facts about poker.

Playing cards was introduced in the 1300s in Europe. The first Texas Hold’em was played in 1900s in Texas. A group of Texas gamblers brought the game to Las Vegas. Doyle Brunson is the first poker player who won $1 million after winning the 1976 and 1977 World Championships.

The famous poker player Groucho Marx got this name because he carried his money in a “grouch bag”. Due to the French influence on the game, Hearts represent the clergy, Clubs represent the peasants, Diamonds represent the merchants and Spades represent the Royalty.

Norman Chad

Per — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:04:36 +0000

Maybe not a poker player, but yet an important figure in the poker scene. Norman Chad is a well known sportswriter who was born in 1958. Chad is a Cuban from his maternal side. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976.

Norman Chad is also known as one of the best commentator of the World Series of Poker on ESPN. He is also a syndicated columnist whose each column has something for the reader. Recently, he has published his own book that talks about his views on the ESPN as a sports network. It also has his criticism on different sports program.

Chad has been making NFL predictions for the last 11 years. When asked he simply shrugs off by saying that he just tossed the coin to know the winner!

Run

Per — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:40:14 +0000

Run is a poker movie made in 1990. Although a few critics have called it as one of the best movies, some of them do not consider it anything great.

In this movie some rare scenes of the game are depicted such as tipping the dealer and waving off a second hand smoke. Patrick Dempsey is shown as player who loves to kill his time on the poker table. The climax of the movie is when out hero is forced by a violent player to draw one card rather than a standing pat.

Recommended, watchable movie.

The Sting

Per — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:26:17 +0000

The Sting (1973) is one of the best three poker movies I’ve seen, the movie is set in 1936. It stars Paul Newman, Robert Reford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Hefferman, Jack Collins, Lee Paul, and many other actors.

The screenwriter of The Sting was inspired by a real life story that he created into a motion picture. The musical score of the movie, especially the main theme track, is one of the reasons of its wide popularity. It made over $160 million and was a huge box office hit. It got seven Academy Awards.

The Sting is distributed into different sections with conventional title cards with illustrations and lettering.