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Tv’s 12 Best Poker Night-owl Gals, Part I: Veteran Babes

Six nights a week at 2:00 a.m., popular NBC show Poker After Dark features the best professional players of the poker industry. Among them, 12 remarkable women stand out, bringing not only beauty, charm and style, but also talent, experience and confidence to the table.

We invite you to meet them and prepare yourself for facing their sharpness if you are thinking on participating in the show’s free-ticket promotion or if you are seriously saving up for paying the $20,000 buy-in the show requires. Our lady poker pros have been featured according to the number of years under the poker spotlight, from the stars with the most poker years to the more recent ones. In this article, we are honoring the women with most poker spotlight experience in the Poker After Dark cast.

Cindy Violette, 22 years

This poker beauty is the owner of a bracelet and 22 years of poker experience. A fan of card games since her childhood, Cindy worked as a blackjack and poker dealer before deciding to start career in poker. 15 years ago, Cindy took a two-year break from poker but returned because she missed it too much. Known as one of the best mannered players, she is also famous for winning mercilessly at the felt. An assiduous yoga practitioner, Violette says “you have to have balance in life. Poker can be obsessive and then it’s not good for you. You have to stay focused at all times; don’t get emotionally involved, and don’t let it take over your life.”

Dee Luong, 18 years

Born in Vietnam during the war, Dee learned from a very young age that she needed to always find the bright side of circumstances, and make the best out of them to survive. After moving to California at an early age, Dee’s attitude towards life drove her to pursue her dreams in Vegas, getting into the poker scene with the help of poke star Huck Seed, who gave her the tools to make it in the poker world. Since then, she has competed among the best in the game, and still continues to do so.

Jennifer Harman, 14 years

The first woman to win 2 bracelets in WSOP Tournaments, Jennifer has been labeled as the best female player and one of the best players in the world. Harman has more than 10 years of experience as a professional poker player, and her journey has taken her from bankruptcy to top success gradually. Therefore, there is not much Jennifer has not experienced and overcome in poker. She keeps her edge playing in live tournaments, where she says she learns and earns the most, and if you are still doubtful about this harmless-looking lady, you should read the chapter she wrote on Limit Hold’em in Doyle Brunson’s classic titled Super System 2 – according to some reviews, anybody who wants to get serious in poker should memorize it.

Annie Duke, 14 years

Owner of a bracelet and the respect of the poker community for over 14 years, Annie Duke is, according to Phil Helmuth, “the best all-round woman poker player in the world today.” After abandoning a career as a cognitive psychologist by dropping out from graduate school just before her PhD. dissertation, Annie got immersed into poker thanks to her brother, Howard Lederer. It paid off almost immediately, making her over $40,000 during her first full-time poker year. Today, Annie is part of the poker hall of fame, and anybody should think twice before sitting on a poker table with her.

Joanne Liu, 12 years

Born and raised in Taiwan, Joanne first moved to the United States to earn a master’s degree in computer science. Soon after landing a job in California as a systems analyst, she learned how to play poker in 1996, the same year she ventured to enter her first WSOP event, in which she finished fourth. From then on, conquering final tournament tables is a common achievement for Liu, who attributes her rapid success to the principles learned in Sun Tzu’s book The Art of War, her poker bible, which says a lot about how fierce this poker talent is at the table.

Kristy Gazes, 10 years

Leaving a career as documentary filmmaker, Kristy has been in the poker spot light for 10 years. Kristy began playing poker since the mid-80s, bluffing at casinos about her age to be able to bluff at the poker tables. She considers Daniel Negreanu and her ex-husband, Bill Gazes, as her most influencing role models. Having a notorious presence at the tables, she sits down not only to win chips, but to also demand class and respect for every player involved in the game. She hopes to retire in 5 years, but not before earning a bracelet, so beware of the bracelet predator for the next 5 years of tournaments.

Check out these beautiful poker veterans and learn from them 6 times a week in NBC at 2:00 a.m.

Next: Meet TV’s 12 Best Poker Night-Owl Gals, Part II: Newborn Poker Babes

Lady Gaga - Poker Face (Acoustic) LIVE at the Marc Jacobs After-Party

Lady Gaga performs “Poker Face” LIVE at fashion designer, Marc Jacobs, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2010 after-party at Hiro Ballroom, NYC on Monday, September 14, 2009. (Sorry for some shakiness… there were a lot of drunks pushing and shoving). Unfortunately I do not have the full version of “Just Dance”. My camera can only record 10 mins of vid and once it timed-out it took too long to process it =( But at least we’ve got this! =) www.Dougie.tv

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Women and Poker II

Part II: Poker’s Modern Day Female Warriors

Poker has certainly come a long way since the days of illegal back alley tournaments and Mafia run card houses during the Prohibition. Although poker in America received a setback that sent everyone back to the 1960’s due to Congress banning all forms of online gambling save dog and horse racing (go figure how those remained legal). For years women poker players were the exception as opposed to a regular fixture at the felt tables, but nowadays the majority of poker players are still men but women are rapidly catching on and are slowly making their mark in poker tournaments all over the country.

Unfortunately it will likely be many years before women reach an equal representation at poker tables, but there are increasingly many outstanding women who have begun to dominate the tables they show up at. Below, in no particular order, is a list of the best of the best – the women who are making men respect the fair sex all over the world:

Jennifer Harman

It’s difficult to discuss poker’s best female players without mentioning Jennifer Harman. To date, she has two WSOP bracelets around her wrist that she earned at the time she became a professional card player at the age of 21. Nowadays she can be found playing at some of the most impressive high roller tables in the world including the Big Game at the Bellagio. She was also part of the group of poker players who went up against multi-millionaire Andy Beal, and during this match she raked the largest known pot in a cash game in history, a sum reaching over $1.7 million dollars. She is a regular at the $3000 / $6000 limit Hold’em tables, and her total career tournament winnings sit just shy of $2 million nowadays. Arguably, Harman’s biggest accomplishment came in 2000 when she won the WSOP 2-7 Triple Draw tournament: amazingly, she had never even played the game before the tournament!

Annie Duke

Another mainstay on the poker scene, Annie Duke holds the honor of being the most successful female poker player in the history of the World Series of Poker. To date, she has made it to 11 final tables and has accumulated more than $500,000 in winnings. The sister of accomplished poker star Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer, Annie Duke has had no problem emerging from the shadow of her brother. During her first WSOP event in 2004 she actually knocked him out early on in the Main Event and went on to win the Tournament of Champions along with a $2 million prize. Her total career winnings have now surpassed $3,476,942. Most importantly, Duke has been an outspoken critic of the US government for banning online gambling and has been consistently working towards its re-legalization.

Barbara Enright

Barbara Enright began playing poker at home while she was only four years old. A passionate player, she began playing in card rooms in 1976. Since then she has become one of the most recognized professional female poker players in the world. Over the years Barbara has accumulated an impressive stack of titles and records. More importantly, she has been one of the founding spokesman for women in the game as an author and magazine editor. She is also a WSOP bracelet winner. Her career winnings have easily exceeded $1 million at this point. For years she was the only person to reach the final table at the WSOP Main Event but now other women share this accomplishment.

Kathy Liebert

Kathy Liebert, who made the number one spot of the highest earning woman poker player of all time on pokernews.com, is easily one of the best women poker players that have ever lived. Liebert recently passed the $4 million mark which is more than any other woman has one in tournament play by far. She has been playing poker for over 15 years and has an impressive record to show for it: she has garnered multiple first-place finishes as well as earning a WSOP bracelet, and she has made it to more final tables than any other woman so far, including 23 cashes at the WSOP and 13 cases at the WPT (five of which were earned at the final table.) Besides playing poker, Liebert is also active in the stock market and also holds a blue belt in Karate.

Cyndy Violette

Poker’s spiritual and health guru, Cyndy Violette is one of the most recognizable faces in poker today. Although she is small in stare, this fearsome poker player demands respect. Raised in Atlantic City, Violette has now been playing poker professionally for over 23 years, and she has accumulated an impressing $1.3 million throughout various tournaments. During the 2006 WSOP Cyndy Violette went on a rampage cashing in an impressive seven events - it felt as if one could not watch a final table during the 2006 WSOP without seeing the familiar bubbly blonde all over the television screens. Unfortunately she was not able to claim a bracelet that year, but she did manage to wrap one of the coveted bracelets over her wrist after winning the 2004 WSOP $2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split.

Annette Obrestad

Last but not least on our list is the young Norwegian poker phenomenon Annette Obrestad. Obrestad began playing poker online at the age of 15 and quickly caught on to the finer points of the game. To date, she is the youngest person ever to win a WSOP bracelet and is also considered to be one of the best online multi-table tournament players in the world. She has earned the bulk of her money on Pokerstars as well as UltimateBet and her nickname “Annette15” is one of the most feared on these sites. On September 17th 2007 Obrestad made poker history when she won the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe Main Event the day before she turned 19. Her winnings totaled one million-pound sterling or US $2.1 million. In the short years since this incredible young woman began playing poker she has accumulated a more than impressive $2,481,868. One day soon Annette Obrestad may very well go down as the greatest professional female poker player of all time.

Although these women have showed the world that women can play cards just as well as any man, there is still a long way before women reach an equal status with their male peers. Despite the fact that the growth of women in the game is now higher than men, the image of women in the poker world is unacceptable. The sexualization of the female body is a travesty in the poker world. Part III of Women and Poker will examine the way in which the female form is constantly exploited for its sexual appeal in the poker world.

Poker Hand Odds-Learn Which Hands Give You the Best Odds of Winning!

As more and more people are hooked to playing online poker, there are also more and more tips, techniques, and strategies in the internet whose purpose is to make one win the game. It is very easy to feel overwhelmed especially if one is a beginner, so here are some online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner.

To simplify, there are two essential online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner: (1) you will have to know what it takes to play good online poker; (2) you will have to apply what you know in playing good online poker at all times.

What It Takes to Play Good Online Poker

One of the fundamental online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner is to know how to play good online poker. Online poker is more of implementing the best strategy than just having the better poker hand. Although poker and gambling itself for this matter is a game of chance, still, one should be able to analyze from the numbers. Online poker is a game of math.

The first among several online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner is to read literature on the various strategies in playing online poker. Do not ever substitute this with watching poker on the television. You can browse the World Wide Web for this purpose; you will be able to find several resources. You can also log on to various poker sites that also provide you with essential resources to up your winnings.

The most common mistake among poker players, especially those who are just starting to feel the game, is to focus on how to improve their poker hand. Instead, they fail to analyze and realize their strength against other players in the table. To make you a guaranteed winner, from the online poker tips, you should be able to grasp the comparative strength at the poker table.

Consistently Play a Closely Controlled Game

The second from the online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner is to be able to consistently apply what you have learned in all your games. You must be able to play a closely controlled game. One must take into consideration that in every kind of online poker game that he plays, the strategy may vary, i.e order of the bet, etc. You also have to be patient as winning may come rarely in your first few tries.

Now that you know two most important online poker tips to make you a guaranteed winner, it is up to you to apply these strategies. It will help to remember that playing poker should not be taken very seriously to avoid frustrations. Most of the disappointments, stress, and agony come from taking the game too seriously as if the world is dependent on it.

Just like in any other game of chance, luck plays a major role in playing online poker. Don’t try to conquer your luck in playing. Learn to quit when it is time to.

Poker Bonus – to Have or not to Have

The world of gambling is exciting and fascinating. There are many players who like to play poker and wish to enjoy a cozy atmosphere, both in the real world and online. Many challenges are offered by this wonderful game, which can prove to be quite stimulating and unique.

The most attractive feature of poker stands in the monetary gains and many players love the game because of the substantial poker bonus offered. As the Internet allowed virtually casinos to develop into real money-making businesses, players were lured by various websites to play and receive a poker bonus.

The poker bonus was introduced in order to generate revenues and sustain the poker site itself. Playing poker online has become more popular in recent years and there are many sites to play poker. The poker bonus started to be used as a successful strategy in generating profits for many different casinos for a very long time.

Many websites offer a poker bonus when the player signs up for the first time and some even run promotions where they offer up to 25% of the first payment back. Offering this type of poker bonus helps to attract players to their site.

Another type of poker bonus includes special contests and promotions. These are quality bonuses that can add a considerable amount of money to ones account. The popularity of playing online poker is on constant rise and there is a multitude of sites to choose from. Some websites offer a poker bonus consisting in high-quality merchandise such as T-shirts.

A bonus is offered not just for joining but also for making cash deposits after the account is already open. There are many great bonuses out there but one must bear in mind that there are some limitations on bonus offers. Poker and casino gambling sites are fully aware that people love to receive bonuses in little presents or cash. Used in order to eliminate the competition, they successfully manage to encourage people to use their site.

Poker companies are doing extremely well and they take advantage of every hand that is played on their site. A poker rake can be defined as the fee the poker room charges players. There are two methods that are used to collect a poker rake. In the first case, the card room will take a percentage of the pot up to a certain amount. The requirements in order to collect a poker rake vary from one online poker room to another. The second method assumes that a poker room will collect a certain amount of money every hour from all the players playing. This is not a method used for lower limit games.

Some poker rooms also have a minimum poker rake that they take from each pot, regardless of the size. The percent of the poker rake usually taken is 5%. Many companies respect the same rules and guidelines in order to help the poker player decide which poker room is the best.

Many people are unaware that a poker rake is the house’s commission that all poker rooms take from played hands. The poker rooms may keep the entire poker rake unless circumstances such as promotions and contests appear.

One reason that many players will choose to be very loyal to one particular room is the poker rake. The poker rake will always depend on the pot size and many other factors. Also, it is much profitable to be loyal to one poker room in which case you can play and earn some serious amounts of money.

Two Views Of Poker Bonuses

There are two different types of poker players in the online world. This is not something that is a commentary on the style of poker playing or the way in which you can tell if a person has a hand. Instead, it is a commentary on the view of online poker bonuses that these two types of players have. Bonuses are pretty much unique to the online poker world and for that reason these are two player types and decisions that you will not find at the large casinos in Las Vegas.

One view of poker bonuses is the view that is held by the average online poker player. To the average online poker player, the online poker bonus concept is not one that is particularly important. The average player plays online poker because it is far more convenient to play than offline poker. They can play it in their house and in their bedroom wearing their bathrobe if they want to and in some cases they do not even have to get out of bed in order to play online poker. The convenience factor is maximum for them and for that reason online poker is certainly the way to go.

However, all of this has nothing to do with the online poker bonus concept. For a player that is into online poker because of its high level of convenience, the most important thing is not the bonus, but the site itself. They are interested in finding poker sites that are easy to use, offer a lot of action and offer a lot of choice. The poker bonus is merely icing on the cake, but the average online poker player is much more likely to choose a great poker site with a bad poker bonus than they are to choose a bad poker site with a great poker bonus.

This of course places them in direct contradiction with the other group of online poker players. These people are known as bonus collectors and their primary interest is the online poker bonus. They are interested in online poker bonus codes to increase their bonus yields and they never go after poker bonuses unless they believe that they can get them in a very big and very easy way. These players have massive amounts of experience playing at many sites with many different interfaces and for that reason will not be bothered by poor poker software if the bonus is good. If you want to be one of these players, you need to get good at finding excellent poker bonuses, using poker bonus codes and then releasing the bonuses quickly.

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Poker: the Colour of Poker Money

“What’s that father?” a little boy once asked his father. “Can I play with them?”

The father replied, “No, son, it is not a toy! It is money, my boy!” The boy hurried off to play outside, though, wondering why his father considered those colorful chips as money.

Most children in America grew up with different kinds of colored chips. This colored chips represents money in the casinos. For example, a player who wants to play poker has to buy some chips to be used when betting. And because this is the kind of money that is being used during a game in the casino, particularly poker, others eventually call it poker money.

Poker money comes in various shades of blue, red, and other colors usually seen in the casinos.

In a particular poker game, a player’s poker money account is comprised of real cash and real chips. Normally, players could convert their cash to chips and vice versa. This can be done any time the player wants to do transactions except during a game.

Poker money arrives after a player settles down on a table and is ready to play poker. This poker money, in terms of chips, is being laid out in front of the concerned player.

However, before proceeding into playing poker, every player must make a deposit for his poker money.

In a live poker game where players get to play facing each other, the poker money are converted easily from cash to chips and vice versa on counters provided in the casino.

On the other hand, online poker games have different ways of managing poker money. Most of the online poker websites require their players to have their poker money accounts through deposits. Generally, these can be done into two categories. One category of depositing poker money is through direct methods wherein players use a credit card or draft in order to deposit money. The other category of depositing poker money is through a 3rd party services like NETeller or prepaid ATM which acts like Internet banks. Here, players can do transactions such as depositing poker money and transferring funds to online poker Web sites.

There are six deposit methods usually used when dealing with poker money by means of a 3rd party.

First of its kind is the Neteller. This method of depositing poker money is usually available on many Internet sites. Neteller offers players the choice of cashing out directly poker money into their account. Opening a Neteller account is like having an online wallet.

The other method you could consider is the MyCitadel wherein online poker players need not check their mails for drafts. MyCitadel is a payment system that manages US and Canadian customers mostly catering to poker money related matters. Here, poker players can have their poker money by purchasing chips online.

Then there is the FirePay, a Web based cash account. FirePay is great site wherein players with fund accounts from a United States bank can directly open a poker money account with them. Funds can be transferred directly from a U.S. bank account.

You also have the option in using a prepaid ATM. The difference with prepaid ATM is that players get to deposit their poker money to an ATM card and not just a Web site. When doing cash outs, it goes directly to your card. And the good thing about it is that the prepaid ATM works with most local ATM machines.

If you are not so convenient in using ATM, you could opt for credit cards. Poker money deposits can be easily managed without having a 3rd party. Or better yet, you could use the bank draft or check wherein your poker money deposits are better secured. Plus most Web sites offer 10% bonus when you deposit poker money through this method.

Last option would be the UseMyBank method wherein it also guarantees secured, fast, and easy transactions. Though, only those who have Canadian online bank accounts can be eligible.

And after you are through making poker money deposit, and maybe playing some hands of poker, there are online poker Web site that will give you a choice if you want to cash out your poker money at once or remove your funds at the site if in case you still want to come back and play. With the six deposit mode mentioned, you can be assured of having your poker money, whether chips or cash, remain exactly like you left them.

So, when the time comes you have finally decided to play poker online or in a live poker room in the casino, try to think of ways how to manage your poker money. After all, those chips are not just plain plastics. Poker money is exactly the reason why you have played poker in the first place.

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