March 8th, 2002 Volume 2 Issue 5

Content... PokerSchool Online Software Information Card Player Cruises Championship Poker Tables Poker Dollars Program Player Article Crossword Poker in America Poker in Europe Poker in the UK and Ireland Poker Down Under by David Parlor Shopping at PokerPages.com Sponsors Paradise Poker - World's Largest Online Poker Room Real People, Real Poker TruePoker.com Inside PokerPages Directory of Poker Rooms & Casinos Search our worldwide poker directory! Tournaments Search for major tournaments, schedules, results & reports Poker Info Rules, history, world wide poker and & more! Poker Articles Articles, player profiles & archives Interactive Section Quizzes, puzzles, chat room, forum & more! Women's Section Special features for women poker players including forum Poker Store Shop online for poker gifts & accessories Classifieds Looking for a game? Got something to sell? Check here first Site Map A diagram of the PokerPages website Mark's Recommended Reading Read Let's Do a Deal, where several top players, writers and tournament directors offer their opinions and insights on the issue of final table deal making.

Current Major Tournaments: Winnin' O' The Green Vienna Spring Festival (Austria) PokerSchool Online PokerSchool Online Sponsorships Available Your chance to go to the World Series of Poker and play in the main event with a sponsorship from PokerSchool Online is nearly here. The Big One will be held on Saturday March 30th 2002, at 2.00pm CST, and you will have to be a qualified player to participate. There will be no more than 650 qualified players in this $100,000 Freeroll. Qualifications for "The Big One" will be as follows: Beginning Tuesday 12th March at 1.00pm CST we will be running qualifying events for non qualifiers only. The daily starting times will be: 1.00PM CST 7.00PM CST 3.00AM CST 9.00AM CST The name for these events will be "PSO NON QUALIFIERS EVENT" These events will be for School Members only that have not yet qualified for "The Big One" and WILL NOT have a buyin or be counted towards rankings. The final event in this series will start at 7.00pm CST on Friday 22nd March. The events will run around the clock every 6 hours for the 11 days. The game will be No Limit Holdem with $10,000 starting chips. 1st - 5th places will receive "A" qualification Super Satellite Week in the School From Monday 25th March thru Friday 29th March we will be holding a final week of last minute qualifying Super Satellites with higher buy-ins. These buy-ins will start at $500 of school bankroll. Qualification places for these higher buy-in events will be announced in the school and sent out in email to all school members before the end of February. The Pokerschool Online Tutorial Team Mike Caro "Mad Genius" Nolan Dalla Noted Columnist Lou Krieger Poker for Dummies Promotions Refer A Friend to PokerSchool and Earn $$$ Businesses Earn $$$ through the PokerSchool Affiliate Program Return to Top Software Information There have been some changes in the lobby: you can now use the drop down boxes to select your type of game. The method of entering the single tables satellites has been changed: The buy-in money is taken from your account when you join the event, therefore always going off with the full 10 players. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by us having to upgrade the server for this new change to be implemented, but we are sure that you will all be much happier with the results. Return to Top Card Player Cruises Don't miss the boat! Take a Poker Cruise There is so much to do on a poker cruise. The only difference between a poker cruise and a nonpoker cruise is that the poker room is available for you when the ship is at sea. We feature a wide variety of games and limits, and will spread any game... Read More Return to Top Championship Poker Tables Return to Top Poker Dollars Program We are still awarding Poker Dollars, but this time it is a slightly different system. You play in the Fun Play area and your play in the tournaments is calculated and included in a ranking system (20 games per month). The top 3 players on the ranking system at the end of the month win, 3 months, 2 months, and 1 month respectively in PokerSchool Online. For more information on the latest Poker Dollars promotion, click here. If you are already a PokerSchool member, then you can also participate in the Fun Play tournaments. If you win then, the time will be added onto your existing membership. Old Poker Dollars Program If you still have Poker Dollars that you have not yet claimed for tournament play in a live casino, don't worry: They are valid for a year. These can be claimed at a casino or cardroom of your choice for a tournament buy in or you can use them for membership time in the PokerSchool. Return to Top Player Article By Mark Burtman and Todd Tucker An Exchange with Todd Tucker about "I Read Your Article" By Dr. Mark Burtman What was my biggest fear? Someone would read my previous contribution "I read your Article" and say "What? He sucks at poker! What's he doing writing articles about poker?" Sure enough it happened. It seems Todd Tucker read my stuff and reached just that same conclusion. Read Todd's response here. So now I get to respond to Todd. First, let me say that Todd's description of events is quite correct. I did get hit with the deck that day. I had had such terrible luck the preceding three days that I knew I was due for some better luck and I got it. I didn't lose a single hand that went to the river til the final table. I have never maintained that I won by outplaying the field with a short stack. I doubled up early with my A-K against an A-Q early and I had the largest stack at every table I played. And I played my large stack well, avoiding confrontations with any stack large enough to hurt me, by forcing anyone who called to be willing to go all-in with any hand they chose to play against me. So if anyone came over the top of me, I knew they had a great hand and I got away from it. Todd Tucker himself complimented me on my play of my big stack of chips. I also had people raising into me when I had big hands like A-A, Q-Q, or A-K, which greatly accelerated the growth of my stack. Excuse me for being fortunate... Read More Return to Top Crossword Puzzle This section featured crosswords created by some of the best poker minds around. Have fun while developing your poker knowledge and skills by challenging yourself with this month's puzzle, "High Rollers", constructed by Roy G. Biv. Return to Top Poker in America By Tina Napolitano Meng La The 2nd $1 million dollar guaranteed event during the LA Poker Classic took place at the end of February. There is no secret that a deal was struck by the final 3 players at the table and although Ken Jacobs, Chris Bjorin and Meng La all walked away with a huge chunk of change, Meng was the one that triumphed in the end to also take home the No Limit Hold'em title. If you want to see some of the top people in poker's opinions on the question of Deal Making, go to the recommended reading on this newsletter and see what Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Simon Trumper and many more have to say. The last event at the Commerce attracted a huge field of players, with 690 paying the $330 buy -in for the final Tournament of the LA Poker Classic (Limit Hold 'em) and Harold Kaufler from Los Angeles took home $95,090. Many congratulations to the staff at The Commerce for pulling off this fantastic event and I am sure an event that will certainly be marked in the diary of most poker players for many years to come as a 'I must attend'. To find out the full details of winners along with photographs click here. Debbie Burkhead The Peppermill hotel and casino have just finished there Spring Poker Festival and Debbie Burkhead won the Limit Hold 'em Championship event with a top prize of $11,754, she also took home the title of best all around player, so many congratulations to Debbie. The other Championship event was a No Limit Hold'em and Carson Ballentine from Orinda, CA won this. The prize was $9,521 SARGE II was held at The Horseshoe in Tunica, and by all accounts a great time was had by all. We will be featuring a trip report from Ed Barrett on PokerPages on Saturday 16th March. Walt Williams from Augusta, GA took 1st place in the Limit Hold 'em, David Garrison from Robinsonville, MS took 1st place in the Omaha Hi/Lo/ Stud Hi/Lo and Rich Barrett from Thornton, CO won the No Limit Hold 'em. There was a fantastic turnout for the recent Casino Europa Invitational tournament in Costa Rica. Hundreds of players participated in some 11 hour events with hundreds of $10 rebuys to see the winners walk away with prize money ranging from $ 16,029 - $51,708, Jason Brice won the main event the $500 buy -in No Limit Hold 'em Tournament. The Bicycle is in the middle of their Winnin' O' the Green tournament and Max Shapiro is doing a fantastic job with the daily reports from all of the events. Every day there is a guarantee ranging from $15,000 up to $50,000, the tournament ends on March 12th, so still a few days left to get over to The Bike and give it a try. March 1st saw the start of the very successful Poker Plus Freeroll that was held last year by the Station Casino's. You have to play 50 hours of live poker at any of their locations to secure your spot in the $100,000 Freeroll on May 11th and 12th. I must apologize to those players in Saskatchewan, as I reported in the last newsletter that the 6th Harvest Poker Classic was taking place on March 5th - 9th. In fact the 6th Station Poker Classic will be happening on those dates but in April. There is a new buzz on the streets of Vegas and throughout the Poker world as The Bellagio get itself prepared to launch its own schedule of tournaments. It kicks off with a $3,000 buy-in, No Limit Hold'em on April 16th, and the 2nd tournament is a $10,000 No Limit Hold'em event on May 27th which could run for up to 5 days before the winner emerges. Mike Vento at The Orleans is getting ready to open the New poker room and the whisper is that he is going to try it as a relatively smoke free environment, thus joining the Mirage and The Bellagio who set the scene last year with this move. Well done Mike, Keep up the great work. Take care Tina Napolitano Return to Top Poker in Europe By Tina Napolitano Lothar Landauer News from The Omaha Poker Championships from Casino Austria in Bregenz. Lothar Landauer from Germany was the proud winner of this Event over 4 days and took home 31,530 Euros. Yi Ti Huang from China was 2nd and Roland Specht also from Germany came 3rd. Also the Prague Poker Open was unfortunately postponed but I am sure as soon as they can they will add it back into the European poker players calender. The Vienna Spring Festival with the 6th annual E-WSOP Trail is well under way at The Concord Card Casino. The Super Satellite for the E-WSOP is on the 10th March and this will be your final chance to get your place in the main event which starts on March 11th. This runs for 3 days until the winner is crowned, unless of course you pay your entry fee of 2,000 Euros. They are estimating that the winner could walk away with a cool 100,000 Euros. To find full details of winners so far, click here. This will be the last event in Europe for the month of March as all the focus moves to the UK for the 2 big events in the annual calender. Tina Napolitano Return to Top Poker in the UK and Ireland By Tina Napolitano The Gala Casino in Teeside had a very successful Poker Festival, in February and I. McDonald won the main Limit Texas Hold'em event and took home 23,000 Pounds for a 525.00 buy-in and entry fee. The next event to look out for is the March in the Midlands from The Grosvenor Casino in Walsall from March 13th - March 17th. Following this, the players will begin their exodus to The Grosvenor (or Vic as we all know it) for the British Open. This starts on the 18th March and runs until the 27th. You still have time to get in your postal entry by the 11th March, as I am sure that every event will be full to capacity. Then from here it will be a short stroll across the Edgware Road to the Metropole Hotel for the Poker Million. We will endeavour to keep you all up to date with all of the action as it happens, and of course we would love to print any of the trip reports you submit. Take care, be safe and of course be lucky Tina Napolitano Return to Top Poker Down Under By David Parlor With The National Poker Championship concluding last month in Canberra the focus has moved back to Crown Casino for the live action and some interesting tournaments. One event in March will be designed to assist Christchurch casino in building the New Zealand Championship to be held in April. The Crown Poker Room will be conducting a Special weekend of poker beginning on the 7th March with the regular $60 tournament and points being awarded for the freeroll that will be run in a few month's time. A Super satellite will follow this on Friday with a prize valued over $2,000 including accommodation and entry into the main event in New Zealand. Saturday will see many $110 Single Table Satellites being run for the Australasian Poker Championship to be held at Crown in January 2003. Winners will be entitled to take their prize as either a seat in a single table satellite for the main event or enter any of the $1,100 events in January. One of Crown Casino's characters, Joe "The Nuts", has been given the honour of a tournament being held in his name. This will be held on Sunday and will be known as The No Limit Holdem Costa Rican Joe "The Nuts" Memorial Non Smoking Cash Classic. With an unusual rebuy structure to match the unusual name this is sure to be an interesting tournament and will attract many entrants. For further details on the structure of this tournament please contact The Crown Poker Room directly. For any questions about Poker in Australia please email me. David Parlor Return to Top Shopping at PokerPages.com Be sure to browse through our Shopping Mall! Our Shopping Mall features a huge catalog of products, with you the poker enthusiast entirely in mind. Products by KEM Playing Cards, Kestall tables and Wilson Software are among the many items available. So be sure to visit the mall for all of your poker needs. Our recommended product for March: World Heads Up Poker Championship, 2001 The World Heads Up Poker Championship 2001 features highlights of the exciting heads up matches. Return to Top Feedback Poker Pages has produced this newsletter for you, the poker enthusiast. We have a worldwide audience of Beginners, Intermediate and Professional players and we try to accommodate all. With this in mind we would really appreciate your feedback and ideas on how we can reach perfection in this newsletter and at www.PokerPages.com. This Newsletter is being distributed to over 70 countries worldwide. I for one would be very interested in hearing about Poker in your part of the world. I would be delighted to hear from players from anywhere in the world that is not currently being covered at PokerPages.com. Please contact me and we can discuss it. Tina Napolitano Submit Your Profile We would love to feature you in our Player Profile section. Just send us your photo along with a Profile summary. Click here to submit your profile.