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| BCLC Offers Casino Style Online Games - Poker to Come | Jul 15, 2010 |
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Casino-style gambling goes online in British Columbia as BCLC adds 75 games to it's playnow.com website. The only poker so far is video poker, but BCLC says to expect real poker next year, in conjunction with Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
Click the read more link for an article from the Vancouver Sun, and other stuff.
For a forum discussion, go here: http://www.604poker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22627 | | Read More... |
| 2010 WORLD SERIES OF POKER | Jun 1, 2010 |
| The 2010 World Series of Poker is underway in Vegas! Good luck to all 604 members participating! Check out these links:
LIVE UPDATES OF 604 MEMBERS - Last Updated Thursday
Congrats to forum member DRAIZEN for finishing 347th in the Main Event for $36,463!!
Other Main Event cashes from BC Players:
For a full list of every cash from players from the Vancouver-area and everywhere else in British Columbia click the read more link below (there's so many we can't list them all here!) Congratulations everyone!!
Notes: Paul Ratchford from Delta has the BEST cash so far, for $2,604. Yep, two thousand 604 dollars.
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| 604poker's Private Tournaments! | Jan 3, 2010 |
| January 3rd, 2010
DOUBLE the tournaments, DOUBLE the fun! January 3rd we are going to run a $22 NLHE mtt, and a $22 PLO mtt at the same time! Why argue over PLO or NLHE, when we can play both. Here's the info:
Come join us in two private 604poker tournaments on Poker Stars on Sunday, January 3 at 8:00pm Pacific:
Search Poker Stars under the Private Tournaments tab for "604poker" or scroll down to January 3, 20:00 Pacific time.
The password for both tournies: "petepete"
Link to forum thread |
| 2009 B.C. Poker Championships! | Aug 30, 2009 |
| The 2009 British Columbia Poker Championship schedule has been released, this is official:
- Event 1 - Nov 12-14 - $550 No Limit Hold'em - (Day 1A-12th, Day 1B-13th, combined fields Nov 14th) 200+ players per Day 1
- Event 2 - Nov 15 - $120 w/ $100 Re-buys* & $100 Add-on Super Satellite to Main Event - 550 players + alternates
- Event 3 - Nov 16/17 - $1,100 No Limit Hold'em 550 players + alternates
- Event 4 - Nov 18 - $120 w/ $100 Re-buys* & $100 Add-on Super Satellite to Main Event - 550 players + alternates
- Event 5 - Nov 19-22 - $2,700 No Limit Hold'em - 750 players + alternates
Here's the September 2009 River Rock tournament schedule
Defending champ is Daniel Negreanu. Good luck all and see you there!
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| Poker Skills Tests Could Sway Gaming Laws | Apr 2, 2008 |
| | An article from the April issue of New Scientist details new studies indicating poker is a game of skill. From the article:
"IS POKER a game of skill or luck? For regular players that's a no-brainer, but showing that skill wins out has proven surprisingly difficult for mathematicians. Now two studies that tapped the vast amounts of data available from online casinos have provided some of the best evidence yet that poker is skill-based. Many hope that the results will help to roll back laws and court decisions that consider poker gambling, and therefore illegal in certain contexts."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227024.800-poker-skills-could-sway-gaming-laws.html |
| Why You Shouldn’t Track Your Results | Mar 4, 2009 |
| | Tracking your results is bad for you! Pete expands on an idea from Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" and applies it to poker, and tries to weigh the benefits of ignoring the variance in results inherent to poker while balancing the need to manage your bankroll.
Discuss this article in our forums here! | | Read More... |
| WSOP Schedule Released | Jan 26, 2009 |
| | The 2009 World Series of Poker schedule has just been released!
There are 57 events, Event #2 is a $40,000 No Limit Hold'Em event, and rebuy tournaments have been eliminated. Check it out here, from ESPN.com:
2009 WSOP Schedule |
| Card Combination Theory and Attacking a UTG Pre-Flop Raiser | Aug 12, 2008 |
| | Pete explains card combination theory and how it affects how often we get dealt each particular hand; and for the advanced player shows a common situation where you can attack another good player's flop continuation bet to steal pots. | | Read More... |
| Latest Poker News | Jun 3, 2008 |
| Various news articles, including a big article on the Ultimate Bet Super-User scandal in the National Post that is a must read:
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| 604poker Private Poker Stars Tournament, March 2! | Mar 2, 2008 |
| Come join us in a private $20+2 604poker NL tournament on Poker Stars on Sunday, March 2 at 8:00pm Pacific!
Search Poker Stars under the Private Tournaments tab for "604poker" or scroll down to March 2, 23:00 Eastern time.
The password is: "petepete"
Link to forum thread
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| Video: Heads-Up Match Mike vs. Pete | Jan 31, 2008 |
| Mike and Pete play a Heads-Up No Limit match on Full Tilt, both recording their side of the battle. Check out the two videos, one by Pete and one by Mike. Let us know if you have problems with the download... be patient the videos are pretty big. The videos run one hour each.
This is like Kenny vs. Spenny... online!
Pete's side of the story
Mike's side of the story
For comments and discussion on the video, go here: http://www.604poker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11466
Note: apparently Pete's vid won't work for Macs, we'll work on it if there is a Mac user out there - let us know in the forums. |
| Why Playing Live Poker is Killing You Slowly | Jan 18, 2008 |
| Pete tells you why live poker is slowly rotting out your insides and why you need to stop playing live poker before you die!
Holy crap, it's a new article! | | Read More... |
| 2007 B.C. Poker Championships Results | Nov 28, 2007 |
| Here are the results of the recent 2007 British Columbia Poker Championships. Congratulations goes out to Daniel Idema for winning the Main Event and $402.000! Brian Joslin took $148,000 for his win in the NL Hold 'Em Event, Scott Craig won $63,500 for prevailing in the Pot Limit Hold'Em Event! A special congrats goes out to the winner of the first ever Ladies Only NL Hold'Em event, Paula Stregger, who has a new $30,000 to spend!
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| Video: Tournament, Stars $215 | Sep 9, 2007 |
| A two part video of Pete playing the Sunday Poker Stars $215 multi-table tournament. Part 1 consists of the very first hour of the tournament. Pete discusses beginning tournament strategy, developing reads from scratch, and general tourney play.
In Part 2 Pete elaborates more on strategy when the blinds get higher relative to stack sizes.
Please click the Read More link below to get to the link to the forum thread about these videos.
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| Video: 6-max $0.10/$0.25 No Limit | Aug 31, 2007 |
| | A 45 minute long video of Pete playing two tables of $0.10/$0.25 6-max No Limit. He sticks to two tables only and discusses aggression, bet sizing, and note-taking. $0.10/$0.25 Short-handed No-Limit Video
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| Video: Short-Handed $1/$2 No Limit | Aug 21, 2007 |
| | An hour long video of Pete playing $1/$2 6-max No Limit. He discusses table selection, stereo-typing players, and aggression. Click the link below to download:
$1/$2 Short-handed NL Video
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| Man-Machine Poker Championships | Jul 24, 2007 |
| For the last two days, the "First Man-Machine
Poker Championship" has been taking place in Vancouver, with Phil Laak and Ali Eslami (a high-stakes heads-up limit pro from the Commerce Casino)
representing humanity, and the Polaris program written by a team from the University of Alberta representing Skynet. The
University of Alberta has been the major force in poker ai for years now, and has been running fairly high profile matches
against human pros since 2003, when they played against thecount, who was at the time one of the most successful players
in the Poker Stars 100/200 game (at the time pretty much the biggest regular game on the internet). | | Read More... |
| Pillaging Short-Handed 6-max No Limit | Jun 1, 2007 |
| | Pete releases his basic strategy for winning at the popular 6-max short-handed No Limit games. He presents a strategy designed to put opponents to the test, and discusses the importance of position, pot odds, stack sizes and aggression in the success of that strategy. Most winning players use this aggressive strategy as a foundation to win at not only the small and mid-stakes, but also the highest limits both online and live. | | Read More... |
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