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Watering down the talent pool has made it tough for the good players to shine. A world class player who has to face down 6500 opponents in a big tournament like the World Series of Poker Main Event is still a heavy underdog to make it to the final table. This is evidenced by the fact that it has been over five years since a big name pro has won the WSOP Main Event, and this year the November final table is basically a who’s who of the poker unknowns.

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The all in bet has been a staple of big poker tournaments ever since the ESPN cameras became part of the sport’s reality. There are a number of reasons for this that can be explained from a tactical point of view, but the reality is that the all in bet is exciting: it’s the “Home Run” of the sport of poker, and makes for good viewing. Newer players have been watching this on television for years, and it has become an accepted part of the game. In older days these types of all or nothing gambits were less frequent.

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So does a plumber have an unfair advantage when he uses a wrench to stop a stubborn leak? Well perhaps the leak thinks so, but in reality the tradesman is just using the proper tool of the trade to solve a problem. People might look a little sideways at the gentleman if he tried to stop the leak by swearing at it using cream cheese to stop the flow of water. In short, we expect people to use the tools available to them in order to be good at their jobs. Poker odds calculators are a relatively new wrinkle that has been added to the landscape of the online poker world.

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Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is returning their popular Sit and Go game series called Sit and Go Madness. SNG Madness Part IV will kick off Friday August 1st and run through Sunday August 3rd, and will feature a $75k prize pool to be shared out via leader boards, on top of whatever players are winning in the individual games. Leader boards cover two hour blocks, and that gives plenty of chances for a player to win a leader board prize pool during the 48 hour period of SNG Madness IV.

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Woman poker player Dianna Donofrio has launched a new pod cast on Yaktivate.com, a pod cast that will feature the ladies of the poker world. The name of the pod cast is WomensPokerYak, and will feature interviews with well know female poker players such as Jan Fisher, Evelyn Ng, and Linda Johnson, the first lady of poker. The show will focus on those women poker players who have made an impact on the game of poker for women worldwide…

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The National Deaf Poker Tour made some noise at the Venetian in Las Vegas in a two day finale to the four stop 2007-2008 season. The event was created by Nathan Montoya, Jarrod Musano, James Rydstrom, Joey Seifner, Alok Doshi, and Andy Foster to provide a venue for deaf poker players to relax, enjoy themselves, and hold conversations with everyone around them without worrying about being understood. Created in 2006, the National Deaf Poker Tour made their latest stop with a $200 buy in main event that drew 136 people playing for a chunk of the $20,672 prize pool.

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Security and financial software group QFX Software is offering a “software shield” they say will offer an extra layer of protection for the online poker player that is useful across many online poker sites - such as at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, PokerRoom, PartyPoker, Titan Poker, CD Poker, Hollywood Poker, and VC Poker. KeyScrambler seeks to defeat online poker identity theft from “keyloggers” by using “advanced keystroke encryption.” Keyloggers are a form of malware that can be hidden on a user’s computer and record keystrokes, sending the information back to thieves who can then use it to log into poker accounts and steal the funds they find.

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The fifth Poker Open hosted by 888.com, also known as Pacific Poker, is coming this fall and the online poker room is currently hosting qualifiers to get in to the event on the cheap. Buying directly into the event will cost much more than buying right into the qualifiers, which run around $330. Players can satellite into the qualifiers for even less, starting as low as $3…

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Some players have been reporting that they are getting payouts from online poker rooms that seem to be printed on rubber checks. The checks have been bouncing that were processed from Zip Payments, an online payment processing company that handled payouts for some online poker rooms. Poker forums are buzzing with the news, some more positive than others…

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