Leslie Radue

Well known poker pro Phil Laak has gone on to set a new Guinness World Record at Bellagio for the official longest single continuous session of poker ever recorded. The previous record was held by Paul Zimbler a British poker pro which was set last year at 78 hours, 45 minutes and 41 seconds while the official Guinness World Record was recorded as 72 hours and 2 minutes held formally held by Larry Olmsted. Phil Laak was permitted a 5 minute break per hour, but at he times choose to skip the breaks and continue playing at the $10/$20 No-Limit Hold’em at the Bellagio Poker Room in Las Vegas.

According to Laak, he has always wanted to hold a Guinness world record ever since he read the record book in high school he went on to comment that “This has been a wonderful Journey”.

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UWinPoker have announced a series of freerolls requiring no deposit to enter, with $500 up for grabs totally free no deposit needed, player value for the series is expected to be high due to low number of players registered at UWinPoker. UWin Poker is an Everleaf network skin that only opened it’s doors this week the full schedule of events follows below.

Download UWinPoker, create a new players account and you will get entry to the UWinPoker Freerolls the online room has a fully downloadable poker version or flash based version that plays in your browser with an option to even play via Facebook as a poker app. We are sure cash game players will love the skin as player skill on the network is, lets say limited.

UWinPoker kicks off with daily freeroll tournaments in addition to the many other regular promotions and events running on the Everleaf network which include more daily freerolls, Poker cruise promotion, a Rake race and much more.

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Pokerstars have announced dates for the Spring Championship of Online Poker known as the PokerStars SCOOP 2010 the series begins 3 May and runs through until 16 May 2010, it consists of 33 events per buy-in range, the buy in ranges are low, medium and high stakes covering a wide range of buyin’s the SCOOP boasts a massive $36 million in guaranteed prizes with a total of 99 events with buy in’s starting at $5.50 (NL Hold’em Event 1) right up to $25,500 as each event is mirrored according to buy in level i.e. Event #1 (NLHE 6-Mediumax, Rebuys) Low buy-in = $5.50 Medium buy-in = $55 and High buy-in = $530.

PokerStars SCOOP’s two-day main event is scheduled for Sunday, May 16th, at 17:00 ET with the low buy-in at $109 guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000, the medium buy-in $1,050 guaranteed prize pool of $3,000,000, the high buy-in $10,300 with a $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

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Playing Heads Up Poker is a true test of one’s poker skill and ability. Heads-up poker is perhaps one of the single most overlooked aspects of improving your own game especially when you consider that in tournaments the difference in payouts between a first place win and a second place finish can often vary vastly percentage wise with most first place wins rewarding the winner substantially more than all other entrants.

What sparked me into writing this information is I recently won a few T$ at PokerStars and wanted to convert them into real money, so I figured Heads-Up Poker was the way to go as it is quick and basically 50/50 chance of winning, which actually ended up me winning six out of the seven games I played, making made me think about heads up a bit, and that perhaps there is a better way to play the game or some kind of advanced Heads Up Poker Strategy, so with that idea in mind I googled “win playing heads up” and got very few decent search results, I then looked for books on the subject matter and only found one or two books matching the description, apparently Collin Moshman’s “Heads-Up No-Limit Hold ’em” is the definitive book on the subject matter, yet I read several reviews that implied it was a bit too basic for advanced players so I decided to give it a skip.

Which lead to me compiling this guide about how to win playing heads up no limit Texas Hold’em and the best strategy to use against your opponents based on the information I have gathered and read with a bit of personal experience added.

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The WSOP 2010 tournament schedule has been released. The 2010 World Series of Poker will be the 41st WSOP which is set to start on May 27th, 2010 scheduled through until the 9th November, 2010.

The 2010 WSOP will offer 57 WSOP bracelets and is set to begin with the Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em event on May 28th. The World Series of Poker 2010 schedule is set to end November 9th, when the main event winner is declared.

The main event is scheduled to begin on July 5th, 2010 with Day 1 A. July 17th marks the date when final table participants will be finalized at which stage the WSOP have opted for a “November Nine” finalists table in 2010 once again, where the nine finalists will compete for the coveted main event title 6th-9th November 2010.

There are a number of changes that have been made by the WSOP in 2010:

-$50k HORSE championship has been removed and substituted by a $50K “Player’s Championship” (Event #2) featuring 8 different games.
-$10K HORSE Championship scheduled for (Event #43)
-$25K 6-handed NLHE event added to the schedule (Event #52)

Other notable changes set for the 2010 running of the WSOP include more poker tables being added as well as changes in the assignment of starting days to the main event after a certain date.

Pre-registration for the 2010 WSOP is now underway, players can enter via the Main Cage at the Rio or through WSOP.com.
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