The print component of Woman Poker Player magazine has been recently purchased by Bluff Media, publishers of Bluff Magazine.

The purchase of the magazine is explained by the fact that the number of women playing poker is growing. So, the acquisition is “a strong move to further strengthen” Bluff Media’s position.

“As women are beginning to make up a larger percentage of the overall player base it’s important that our magazine properly reflects this and we feel that this move does just that,” said Eric Morris, co-president and publisher of Bluff Media.

Now, subscribers to Woman Poker Player magazine will now receive Bluff Magazine on a monthly basis.  Bluff Media has agreed to continue servicing subscribers to Woman Poker Player magazine providing them with the same quality content, excellent poker education for all poker players and a valuable information resource.

Texas Holdem is a relatively new member of the poker family. At the same time one of the most popular varieties in last years.

The game

In Texas HoldEm you get two cards, the other player does not see. Five cards on the board with the front will top several times. They are community cards that all players can use to a five-card poker together.

To the best hand, you can either use your both Hole / hole cards together with the three community cards on the board, or a hole card with four community cards or simply all five community cards.

The player who has the highest poker hand can win the pot.

Blinds

Texas Holdem is played with blinds. Before the cards are treated the first two post players on the left of the dealer a small and largely blind to an incipient pot.

The dealing

If the blinds have been announced, each player is dealt two hole cards - face down.

Then, the first bet, starting with the player on the left side of the Great Blind

The flop

If the first bet is to be three cards, face down on top of the table. They are “The flop?.

Then the second betting, starting with the first player to the left of the dealer, still in his hand.

The Turn ( Fourth Street )

After the second betting, is the fourth community card dealt. It is “The Turn”.

The third bet, will be held, starting with the first player to the left of the dealer, still in his hand.

The River ( Fifth Street )

The fifth and final community card is River (river). Now the hand finished by the fourth and final round of betting, again beginning with the first player to the left of the dealer, still in his hand.

If more than one player in the hand after the betting remain, there is a showdown.

Advice for Texas Holdem players

Start playing only with good hands
Get off not betting with any two cards! With 10 players around the table, there is always someone with a better starting hand. If you’re in the game with the second best hand is to get your competitor in advance to the pot.

The importance of the position

In Texas Holdem, your position remains the same throughout the hand. A player who is behind you, also remains to River behind you. This is a big disadvantage for you. The rule to remember, play only very strong hands in early position. One when you are in a late position, you have the advantage investigate.

Schuyler Twaddle won $395,095 at the $500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack Poker Tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City. It is said to be the first winning of the big tournament in his career.

Twaddle had more chips left at the end than the three other competitors: Weiwen Lang (he was second), Alan Engel and Mark Reynolds. Other participants of the final table were John Racener, Larry Goldstein, Eric Siegel, Mihail Stoykove and Richard Marshall.

800 people had turned up to compete in the tournament. Roy Winston and some other famous players were also among them.

Shannon Shorr, the 2006 Bellagio Cup Champion, was knocked out of the World Series of Poker Circuit main event by Justin Bonomo.

Shorr, being disappointed with his result, decided to take a break. Now, he is planning to go to London and Amsterdam after a small trip home to Alabama.

Shannon Shorr will be back playing top level cards in a month’s time.

Tom Dwan, having finished 8th in the WPT, could not stop. So, he continued his play and showed his talent for pot-limit Omaha. Tom managed to take $150,000 in one game alone.

Most of the sum, Tom took in one hand against the player known as lady marmelade when he won a pot worth $112,000.

Tom Dwan has become noticed thanks to his success at Texas Hold’em.

The first winner of the WPT Ladies tournament is already known. Nancy Todd Tyner, political consultant, having fought her way through the field of 150 amateur and professional players got her WPT championship bracelet and her first WPT title. Besides, she won $68,640.

Tyner started playing poker only 18 months ago, but she is new in the world of poker. She’s been specializing in gaming issues since 1992. In 1990 she led the campaign to legalize casinos in Mississippi. She’s been a political consultant to more than 196 campaigns in 42 states and six countries. Her winning records amount to 98%.

Robyn Moder, Executive Vice President, WPT Studios, said, “We could not think of a better way to end our season or a better person to show the strength and importance of women in poker. Nancy encompasses the heart and soul of the ladies tour and what it’s all about – providing the opportunity for women everywhere to make their mark in the sport of poker…”

The WPT Ladies tour was launched in January. The goal of the tour is to support the growth of women in poker.

The tour featured stops at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, Bay 101 in San Jose, Calif. and Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. The last stop was at Bellagio on April 13 – 14. It must be noted that 15% of each $1,500 buy-in was donated to help end breast cancer forever. The first season of the WPT Ladies tour raised more than $51,000.

David Chiu, the Chinese poker player, won the WPT Championship on Saturday night. He has become $3,389,140 richer.

Chiu managed to overcome the near six-to-one deficit in the game against Gus Hansen who had previously knocked out Jeff King, Tommy Le, Cory Caroll and John Roveto single-handedly.

Chiu admitted that he played even better than he had expected. Thanks to the victory, Chiu enters Card Player’s player of the year rankings in fourth position on 2,880 points, while Hansen and Roveto move up to joint-12th and 15th respectively.

Titan Poker is a fast developing and growing internet gambling company. Their gamblers have found more money in their pockets thanks to another increase at the site.

Constant offers of unique promotions and incentives cannot but attract both newly registered and established online casinos poker gamblers from all over the world.

online casinos poker gamblers can now win a guaranteed $16 million each month when gambling at the site. It means that the guaranteed prize pool is raising $4 million each month from the $12 million the site has been guaranteeing in the past two months.

Using Playtech’s online casinos poker gambling platform, one of the top ones available in the industry, the Titan Poker also benefits from it.

Being 25 years old, lots of people wear ripped jeans, listen to music they like and prefer extreme kinds of sports, but very few can boast of more than $1.6 million in career earnings. Vanessa Rousso is 25, but she is the one who can. She is a professional poker player. Her earnings have already placed her in the top 25 all-time for prize money won by women.

Her career goals were different from what she is now. Having graduated from High School at the top of her class, Vanessa went to Duke on a full scholarship. Having graduated in just 2 ½ years with an economic degree, she went to the University of Miami Law School.

During her first year of law school, Rousso began to compete in tournaments. In 2005, she finished seventh in the WSOP Tournament Circuit event at Harrah’s in New Orleans. But the tournament that put Vanessa on the map was the 2006 WPT Five-Star World Poker Classic. Before that she had earned $40,000 as poker player. In the months leading up to the event she started asking friends and her family to buy “shares” in her, as she attempted to get money for the buy-in. As a result ten people decided to invest their money. And Vanessa did not let them down. The investors made their money back ten-fold, as Rousso earned $250,000 with her seventh place finish in a field of more than 500 players. During that event she got her nickname “Lady Maverick”.

That was the time when PokerStars came to Rousso regarding sponsorship. And then the idea of playing poker for living came to her mind.

Being a Law School graduate, Vanessa had already made close to $1 million playing poker. That was the time to turn from a part-time pro into a full-time professional poker player. That was the time of making career decisions. And she chose poker.

She’s been traveling a lot all her life. Being born in New York, she spent the first ten years living in France.

She’s moved more than 20 times. All her life has been and is on the go. E.g., next week she’ll be in Brazil for the inaugural event of the Latin American Poker Tour, and after that she’ll go to Vegas for three-week break before the start of the WSOP.

By the way, Rousso first learned to play poker at the age of 5. When at Duke, she took a class in game theory which helped her interest in the game soar to a whole new level.

Vanessa receives lots of support from her family and her fiancé. She appreciates it.

During the break before her third WSOP she’ll take advantage of the time off and keep her mind and body fresh by limiting the amount of poker she plays.

“I’m playing as well as I ever have,” she says. “Everything is really coming together for me. I know what to expect, now it’s just a matter of executing and getting the right cards. If I do that, I’m expecting big things.”

Ayre, the founder of Bodog, is going to retire.

The company was founded in 1994. They started from a small site offering entertainment and gradually turned into a great casino with a range casino games and sports betting and music business.

Having taken the reduced role of running the poker room, Ayre has sold the company to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, based in Montreal, Canada. The plans to expand in South American gambling market won’t be changed.