Poker Articles

July 2005 - Posts

• Party Poker Pro's Beware.

  
  

  The blog on what you need to do to go pro will have to wait a little longer, sorry I've been really busy. All of you who play seriously on Party better be careful, they are now giving people pop up windows threatening to ban their accounts for using Poker... Read More... Posted Jul 17 2005, 02:56 PM by Fox with No Comments

• They play poker here too? - Chapter 7 of ESPoker

  
  

  Even after a fairly late night I was still up before ten, so I took the Chan sisters to the breakfast buffet at the Bellagio. Lisa loved the pizza and had four slices and then some fruit “for the vitamins”. Sandy took advantage of the oriental offerings... Read More... Posted Jul 16 2005, 11:56 AM by seal with No Comments

• Steely's WSOP

  
  

  I flew in on Tuesday night on the same flight as McGarrett, who I know from the bustling Boca Raton poker scene. Before I forget, congrats to McG on making in deep into Day Two – he came in around 800th. Great guy (and pocketfives poster). We were both... Read More... Posted Jul 13 2005, 08:36 PM by steely with No Comments

• A commentary on UltimateBet

  
  

  Over the last several weeks I have been reading on almost a daily basis people expressing their displeasure at the changes, software, customer support, card-fixing and Beanie sightings on UltimateBet. I will start out by saying I am not a spokesman or... Read More... Posted Jul 09 2005, 10:51 AM by Brighttail with No Comments

• Hello from Vegas!

  
  

  Hi everyone! You may have been wondering where the PocketFives admins have been for the last day or so, or you may be aware--we left Nashville at 6 am yesterday (Wednesday) to fly out to Las Vegas for the biggest poker tournament in history! We've been... Read More... Posted Jul 07 2005, 12:59 PM by Adam with No Comments

• The Lazy River - Chapter 6 of ESPoker

  
  

  I arrived at the pool at the MGM around noon. As I showed my room card to the guard to get in I noticed that for three hundred dollars you could rent a private cabana for the day there. I had more than a thousand dollars in my wallet and another twenty... Read More... Posted Jul 06 2005, 09:46 PM by seal with No Comments

• My first WSOP -- Part II

  
  

  Part 2 of a 3-part series about my first trip to the World Series of Poker After borrowing Ali’s rope-a-dope strategy to send Poker Stars boy stomping out of the poker room after the single table satellite, it was time to turn my attention to Friday’s... Read More... Posted Jul 05 2005, 03:04 AM by AawwNutz with No Comments

• From Rank Amateur to...

  
  

  Somebody whom I consider a good friend said it would be nice to see an article from a relative newcomer to online poker, and poker in general, about my perspective on the game, what I have learned and what I would like to get out of the game. I started... Read More... Posted Jul 01 2005, 03:28 AM by dead_plant with No Comments