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Gutshot Card Club
The Gutshot Poker Club (also known as The Gutshot Poker Collective or simply The Gutshot) was a poker club, bar, restaurant and internet cafe located on Clerkenwell Road, London, England. The club opened in March 2004 and closed in 2007. It was founded by Barry Martin and Derek Kelly. The club ran poker ring games, and tournaments one to three times per day, and hosted four festivals of poker per annum. Amongst the successes achieved by members of the club are: * Tiffany Williamson, 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, 15th place ($400,000) * Roland De Wolfe, World Poker Tour (WPT) fourth season Grand Prix de Paris winner (€479,680;) WPT fourth season championship, 3rd place ($1,025,505); European Poker Tour (EPT) third season Ireland winner (€554,300); 2007 Irish Poker Open, 2nd place (€325,000) * Praz Bansi, 2006 World Series of Poker bracelet winner ($230,209) In addition to many English poker players, former WSOP main event champions Phil Hellmuth Jr, Chris Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game was played with just 20 cards, today it is usually played with a standard deck, although in countries where short packs are common, it may be played with 32, 40 or 48 cards.Parlett (2008), pp. 568–570. Thus poker games vary in deck configuration, the number of cards in play, the number dealt face up or face down, and the number shared by all players, but all have rules that involve one or more rounds of betting. In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one or more of the players making some form of a forced bet (the '' blind'' or ''ante''). In standard poker, each player bets according to the rank they believe their hand is worth as compared to the other players. The action then proceeds clockwise as each play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Moneymaker
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21, 1975) is an American poker player who won the Main Event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion after qualifying at an online poker site. This has been referred to in the press as the "Moneymaker effect". Early life Moneymaker's ancestors made silver and gold coins and chose the name "Moneymaker" as a modification of their German last name: "Nurmacher." Moneymaker was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Farragut High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, and later earned a master's degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee. After receiving his master's degree, Moneymaker worked as a comptroller. He was also a part-time employee at a local restaurant, in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Poker career World Series of Poker Moneymaker was working as an accountant when he won a seat in the Main Event of the 2003 World Series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Poker Companies
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Merge Network
Merge, merging, or merger may refer to: Concepts * Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road * Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program * Merger (politics), the combination of two or more political or administrative entities * Merger (phonology), phonological change whereby originally separate phonemes come to be pronounced exactly the same * Mergers and acquisitions, the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies Arts, entertainment, and media * Merger (band), a 1970s English reggae band * ''Merging'' (play), a 2007 one act play written by Charles Messina * Merge Records, an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina * ''Merge'', a program broadcast by Lifetime Computer science * Merge (version control), to combine simultaneously changed files in revision control * Merge (software), a Virtual Machine Monitor computer package for running MS-DOS or Windows 9x on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playtech
Playtech plc is a gambling software development company founded in 1999. The company provides software for online casinos, online poker rooms, online bingo games, online sports betting, scratch games, mobile gaming, live dealer games and fixed-odds arcade games online. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Playtech was founded in 1999 by the Israeli entrepreneur Teddy Sagi in Tartu, Estonia, with partners from the casino, software engineering and multimedia industries. Playtech launched its first casino product in 2001, and since then it has grown to become the world's leading and largest international designer, developer and licensor of web and mobile application software to the digital gaming industry, whose customers are most of the blue chip companies in this industry (William Hill, Ladbrokes, Bet365 in the UK, Snai and Sisal in Italy, etc.), as well as governments and regulated agencies.; In March 2006, Playtech was fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cake Poker Network
The Cake Network was a Curaçao based online poker network owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV. Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed, including Sportsbook.com, Red Star Poker and BetUS. As of April 2010 the Cake Network saw a steep decline in player traffic as the company lost two major poker rooms, PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com, to the Merge Gaming Network. Even with the addition of new rooms to the network, Cake continued to lose ground on the rest of the industry. In January 2011, Cake Network's well-known partner Doyles Room left the Cake Network, moving to the Yatahay Network. Cake Poker offered a variety of stakes and types of online poker games including: Texas hold 'em, Omaha (poker), Omaha High / Hi-Lo and Telesina. At one time, Cake Poker was the only site of the 10 largest in the world which allowed players to regularly change their screen names. Cake became no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microgaming
Microgaming is a privately held gambling software company based in the Isle of Man. The company first developed online casino software in 1994. Overview In May 2009, Microgaming's progressive slot Mega Moolah paid out $6,374,434, the largest online casino pay-out to date. A new Guinness world record was set on 6 October 2015 when it paid £13,209,300 (equivalent to €17,879,645 at the time) to a British soldier. In November 2021, Microgaming’s ancient Egyptian-themed Mega Moolah Goddess once again set a record of €3,947,030.58 in total. This is the biggest win ever revealed in a progressive jackpot A progressive jackpot is a jackpot (a gambling grand prize or payout) which increases each time the game is played but the jackpot is ''not'' won. When the progressive jackpot is won, the jackpot for the next play is reset to a predetermined value ... slot. References {{reflist Online gambling companies of the Isle of Man Online poker companies Gambling websites Gambl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Poker
Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a huge increase in the number of poker players worldwide. Christiansen Capital Advisors stated online poker revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to $2.4 billion in 2005, while a survey carried out by DrKW and Global Betting and Gaming Consultants asserted online poker revenues in 2004 were at $1.4 billion. In a testimony before the United States Senate regarding Internet Gaming, Grant Eve, a Certified Public Accountant representing the US Accounting Firm Joseph Eve, Certified Public Accountants, estimated that one in every four dollars gambled is gambled online. Traditional (or "brick and mortar", B&M, live, land-based) venues for playing poker, such as casinos and poker rooms, may be intimidating for novice players and are often located in geographically disparate locations. Also, brick and mortar casinos are reluctant to promote poker because it is difficult for them to profit fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showdown Poker Tour
A showdown is a duel. The term may also refer to: Places * Showdown Ski Area, in Montana, United States Books * ''Showdown'' (Amado novel), a 1984 novel by Jorge Amado * ''Showdown'' (Dekker novel), a 2006 novel by Ted Dekker * ''Showdown'' (Flynn novel), a 1946 novel by Errol Flynn * ''Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party'', a 2012 book by David Corn * ''The Showdown'', a novel in the '' Left Behind: The Kids'' series Film and TV Film * ''Showdown'' (1942 film), a Superman animated short * ''Showdown'' (1963 film), an American western starring Audie Murphy * ''Showdown'' (1973 film), an American western starring Dean Martin * ''Showdown'' (1993 film), a film starring Billy Blanks * ''Showdown'', a 2000 film directed by Izu Ojukwu * ''The Showdown'' (1928 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent * ''The Showdown'' (1940 film), a Hopalong Cassidy film * ''The Showdown'' (1950 film), a film starring Marie Windsor * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Bloch
Andrew Elliot Bloch (born June 1, 1969) is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. Blackjack While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featured in the book '' Bringing Down the House''. Bloch said he has made up to $100,000 in one session while playing blackjack. He was one of the members of the team to play in Monte Carlo as detailed in Ben Mezrich's ''Busting Vegas''. Bloch was featured in the blackjack documentary ''The Hot Shoe'', as well as starring in his own instructional blackjack DVD, ''Beating Blackjack'', which explains card counting. Poker career Bloch started playing poker seriously in 1992, entering some small $35 weekly tournaments once a month. By the end of the year, he had won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100 entry fee no-limit Texas hold'em tournament. That was the first time he ever played no-limit Texas hold 'em. In 1997, Bloch skip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Lederer
Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1964) is an American professional poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and holds two World Poker Tour titles. Lederer has also contributed to several books on poker strategy and has provided commentary for poker programming. He is known by poker fans and players as "The Professor" and is the older brother of professional poker player Annie Duke. Lederer is a founder and board member of Tiltware, the company that launched Full Tilt Poker in 2004. In 2011, the Full Tilt Poker website was shut down by the United States Department of Justice on charges of bank fraud and illegal gambling. In December 2012, Lederer settled a civil lawsuit with the Department of Justice relating to Full Tilt Poker. Early life and family Lederer was born in 1964 in Concord, New Hampshire and was introduced to card games at a young age by his family. As a child, Lederer's father also taught him to play chess. As a teenager, Lederer developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
