| Written by Somethingaboutpoker | | Saturday, 23 February 2008 |  Is this seriously going to be the next “Rounders” Movie, A new movie called “DEAL” that has already been postponed is now set to come out sometime in April 2008. The movie stars poker playing actresses Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth alongside old timer actor Burt Reynolds. Burt stars as a retired gambling poker player who quits the game because he missed an emergency back in his hey day when he was busy playing cards, (Probably trying to get even) and because of this promises his wife never to play the game again. He ends up discovering a young kid, Actor Bret Harrison who has a good basic game. In short he takes the young gun under his wing teaches him the ropes to become a better player and then somewhere along the line they have an argument, like most movies over a girl (Shannon Elizabeth) break off their partnership and square off against each other going heads up in a WPT Tournament. It sounds very similar to the movie “Lucky You” and also the movie “Colour of Money” that starred Paul Newman as the senior hustler with young punk Tom Cruise. There are a slew of current poker professionals in the scenes like Greg Raymer, Joseph Hachem, Antonio “The Magician” Esfandari, and Scott Lazar to name a few. Plus you can hear commentary from Mike sexton of WPT fame. This will make for interesting watching to see if these poker players can act. I could see the likes of Phil Laak starring alongside Jim Carrey or Gus Hansen alongside The Rock in an action flick, which would be funny to watch. I hope this movie does come out as a good poker movie and it doesn’t end up with the final hand being a royal flush vs. 4 of a kind type of ending. Visit Website And Watch Preview |
| WPT Now In Lucky Seventh Season |
| Written by Somethingaboutpoker | | Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |  The WPT has just announced its schedule for it’s now seventh season, poker has come along way with so many different poker type tours opening around the globe with WSOP, the WSOP Europe, the EPT (European Poker Tour) and the new APPT (Asia Pacific Poker Tour).
The only issue with the new WPT season is that most of the tours are still centered in the US four WPT tournaments alone being held at the Bellagio Casino. You will see that the Turks and Caicos event and the Barcelona event are not on the schedule. WPT Season Six is all ready to go and will begin airing on GSN at the end of the month, its new home network which it has changed to from the Travel Channel. GSN is also the home to High Stakes Poker which stars all the big name players that play at the highest limits so viewers to the channel will probably be more sophisticated watchers of the game and will be used to seeing a show like the WPT on the channel. GSN has yet to guarantee an agreement for the seventh season. See below all the dates for WPT Season Seven
Bellagio Cup IV Bellagio July 11-17 2008
Legends of Poker The Bicycle Casino August 23-28 2008
Borgata Poker Open Borgata September 14-18 2008
North American Poker Open Fallsview Casino October 10-16 2008
Festa Al Lago Bellagio October 20-25 2008
World Poker Finals Foxwoods Resort November 05-11 2008
Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Bellagio December 13-19 2008
Gulf Coast Poker Championship Beau Rivage January 16-19 2009
Borgata Poker Championship Borgata January 25-29 2009
L.A. Poker Classic Commerce Casino February 29-March 2009
WPT Celebrity Invitational Commerce Casino March 07-09 2009
Bay 101 Shooting Star Bay 101 March 16-20 2009
Foxwoods Classic Foxwoods Resort Casino April 04-09 2009
WPT World Championship Bellagio April 18-25 2009 Now is the time to mark these dates in your diary and look out for the offers we post on the website informing you how to qualify for a seat at one of these events and win your own title and a 6 figure prize. |
| Pokercast Episode 13 - Mike Sexton |
| Written by Somethingaboutpoker | | Monday, 18 February 2008 | This week on Pokercast Mike and Adam discuss the massive number of participants in the online tournaments that took place over the weekend. Including the $2 Million Turbo Take Down on Poker Stars, the Pokercast freeroll and of course the Sunday Million. World Poker Tour host and poker ambassador Mike Sexton was the featured guest this week on Pokercast. Mike talks about several topics including the WPT moving to its new home on the Game Show Network, the controversial final table structure and some of his own poker principles. The guys wrap up the show talking about the L.A. Poker Classic, the chosen Super Nova qualifiers and give away the password for the Feb 24th Poker Stars VIP Club freeroll for Pokercast listeners. Listen To Audio Below: {audio}http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/podcast/13.mp3{/audio} 
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| Pokercast Episode 12 - Bryce Paradis |
| Written by Somethingaboutpoker | | Monday, 11 February 2008 | The featured guest this week on the 2+2 Pokercast was Bryce Paradis. Better know by his online handle “Freedom25”, Bryce spent most of 2007 crushing the high-stakes limit games, focusing mainly on short-handed and heads-up play. Bryce shares his poker story, including his shocking decision to retire from full-time play after a 2.5 million year. We get Bryce's approach to heads-up play and answers to questions from a few 2+2ers. Mike and Adam also discuss several topics in forum static including tournament rules, overused poker terms and of course give away the password for the Feb 17th PokerStars VIP Club freeroll for Pokercast listeners. Listen To Audio Below: {audio}http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/podcast/12.mp3{/audio}
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| Pokercast Episode 11 - Shaun Deeb |
| Written by Somethingaboutpoker | | Sunday, 03 February 2008 | The featured guest this week on Pokercast is Shaun Deeb. Overall winner of the Poker Stars 2007 Tournament Leader Board. Shaun talks about several topics including how he managed to take down the 2007 TLB, some Super Bowl prop bets and his plans for this year’s TLB. Shaun also gives some strategy tips for multi table tournaments. David provides some game selection tips in this week’s installment of "The Sklansky Minute". Nick "Stoxtrader" Grudzien talks some limit holdem strategy. Mike and Adam give away the password for next Sundays PokerStars VIP Club freeroll for Pokercast listeners. Listen To Audio Below: {audio}http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/podcast/11.mp3{/audio}
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