Barney plots Power put-down

December 14th, 2011

Gareth Walker Darts – World Championship preview

Advent calendars, freezing weather, letters to Santa, Christmas music everywhere, massive excitement levels among young and old; it can only mean one thing. Yes, it’s time for the World Championship Darts.

Now firmly settled at Ally Pally for the fifth year, with a cool £1million up for grabs in prize money, Thursday December 15 sees the start of two-and-a-half weeks of tungsten heaven, culminating at the start of 2012 with both semi-finals on New Year’s Day, and the final on January 2.

As always, the first betting revolves largely round Phil Taylor. The Power has won an incredible 13 PDC World Championships, out of a possible 18. Spon

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New Chair at U.K. Casino Forum

December 12th, 2011

Former MP Malcolm Moss has been named chairman of the U.K.’s National Casino Industry Forum.

The NCiF represents the interests of 160 of the U.K.’s 186 casino licensees in dealings with the government. Moss comes to the association following a 23-year career as an elected public official.

Moss served the Conservatives as shadow minister of culture, media and sport, the department which oversees casino gaming and sports betting, from 2005 to 2006. Before that, he was shadow minister for tourism and the arts, 2002-2005.

“I am very pleased to accept this appointment,” Moss said. “The Br

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Tags: Casino Forum, Forum

Is Isildur1 using a fake alias on PokerStars?

December 10th, 2011

There are some quite interesting rumors circulating in different forums at the moment. One of them is that Viktor Blom, whose sponsor deal with PokerStars is about to expire and also hasn’t been seen playing on the site for quite some time, has been active lately under a fake nick. “Wilhasha”, who has taking on everyone at the $50/$100 NLH tables, is rumored to have used account “drpill” on Full Tilt Poker and was known to have shared accounts with no one else than Viktor Blom.

The style of playing poker and the desire to play against anyone and everyone at these high NLH tables is very similar to Blom and, of course, it has added fuel to the fire.

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Tags: Pokerstars

Oakland @ Green Bay Betting: Perfect Packers can race off to another fast start against injury ravaged Raiders

December 9th, 2011

 

The Green Bay Packers are four matches away from the perfect regular season and the first of those four matches comes at their home ground Lambeau Field on Sunday night when they welcome the Oakland Raiders to town. The Raiders arrive as joint leaders in their division and know they really need to keep on winning if they are to secure the division win and the place in the playoffs which comes with it.

Green Bay have been superb on offense this season and there hasn’t been a defense which has had the answer this season yet. Oakland can probably expect to deal with a barrage of aerial plays as running back James Starks is ruled out. Ry

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Pro Tip #270: Understanding Effective Stacks

December 7th, 2011
When you understand the concept of Effective Stacks, you can adjust your play to better compete against all opponents, whatever their stack size. In this weeks tip, Full Tilt Poker sponsored pro Annette Obrestad talks us through a sample hand in which her play was greatly influenced by the number of chips her opponent held…

Tags: Effective Stacks, Stacks