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- ESPN will broadcast the World Series of Poker
The 39th annual tournament World Series of Poker will take place from May 30 until July 14 in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.
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Who’s going to win?
In the 21th century people want to know: who is smarter – man or machine? And poker fans are still wondering if a computer can beat man at poker.
Phill Luck and Ali Aslami took part in the first poker competition between computer and man. They left the artificial intelligence program Polaris behind.
The second competition between computer and man will be held in the Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, in Jule 2008. Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien will play Texas Holdem against the machine. But the creators of the Polaris program are sure that it’s almost impossible to beat their machine.
ESPN will broadcast the World Series of Poker
The 39th annual tournament World Series of Poker will take place from May 30 until July 14 in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. The main event will start July 3 and the final game is scheduled for July 14. Nine players who made it to the final table will return to Rio de Janeiro on November 9 to qualify for the two final positions. The champion will be revealed that evening.
ESPN is planning to broadcast a new expanded format of the final game of World Series of Poker2008. Nine final players will take part in the competition on November 9-10. ESPN will cover the final table in a two-hour television special on November 11. Jeffrey Pollak, World Series of Poker, said, “We are planning to create a more serious tournament for players and the entire poker industry. The nine finalists are bound to attract much interest and excitement.”
Aussie Poker Champ
The best known person in the Australian poker world is Joe Hachem, who won in WSOP 2006. However, quite unexpectedly David Borg has won the New Zealand Poker Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand.
It is Borg’s biggest win to date. He took home a prize of NZD 100,000 (about AUD 80,000).
Free poker lessons in Rio
The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino is planning to conduct free poker lessons. The game, at special tables, will be organized for new players to turn the education process turning into a fascinating hobby. Free lessons will run every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The table will be set up so that new players have such key poker elements as rating of hands according to value, choice of possible actions and so on.
The tournament’s format will help players learn the basic rules of poker. During their studies, skilled instructors will discuss the main strategy leads and all the finer points that may be of interest for pupils.
Time-table of the seventh season of World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) has published the time-table of the seventh season. However this year there are less tournaments than before. New WPT tame-table has lost the next events: Mirage Poker Showdown, Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, Ladies Night, Turks è Caicos Poker Classic, WPT Spanish Championship and World Poker Challenge. WPT seventh season:
Bellagio Cup IV — Bellagio, Las-Vegas — 11- 17 of July
Legends of Poker —Bicycle Casino, Los-Angeles — 23-28 of August
Borgata Poker Open — Borgata, Atlantic City — 14-18 of September
North American Poker Championship — Fallsview Casino, Niagara falls, Canada — 10-16 of October
Festa Al Lago — Bellagio, Las-Vegas — 20-25 of October
World Poker Finals — Foxwoods, Connecticut — 5-11 of November
Doyle Brunson Five-Diamond World Poker Classic — Bellagio, Las-Vegas — 13-19 of December
Gulf Coast Poker Championship — Beau Rivage, Mississippi — 16-19 of January, 2009
Borgata Poker Classic — Borgata, Atlantic City — 25-29 of January, 2009
L.A. Poker Classic — Commerce Casino, Los-Angeles — 28 of February - 5 of March, 2009
WPT Celebrity Invitational — Commerce Casino, Los-Angeles —7-9 of March, 2009
Bay 101 Shooting Star — Bay 101, San Jose —16-20 of March
Foxwoods Poker Classic, Foxwoods, 4-9 of April
WPT World Championship, Bellagio, Las-Vegas, 18-25 of April
