More International Poker Tournaments News

PokerStars announces first half of 8th annual European Poker Tour World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Wiinner is James Bord EPT London Poker Festival Partridge Wins PokerStars Baltic Festival

Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book

by Phil Gordon

Valuable sections include Cash Games AND Tournament Play; Sit and Gos; Satellites and Supersatellites. Nicely illustrated with many lessons, examples and analysis, it’s a balanced, smooth-reading textbook, some of which is based on the author's experience. This balance of common sense, strategies, ploys and an honest appraisal of what was going through his mind when he made his moves adds strength to this powerful, positive pack of lessons. One unique approach is to 'improve at poker is not by finding answers. It is by finding questions,' says champion Chris Ferguson in the foreward. This companion book to Gordon's Little Green Book does just that.

Get it at Expert Insight!

Read a review of Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book

Casinos Poland to Host Polish Poker Open 2008

Saturday, November 15, 2008

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado -- Casinos Poland will present the grand Polish Open 2008, a four-day Texas Hold'em No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour Season at its

Poland wins World Cup of Poker. casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw from November 15 to November 19, 2008.

The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a total prize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. US$2,700,000. The buy-in for the tournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. US$7,000. According to the official website of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop on the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to compete at the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand Final winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier.

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, which kicked off Season 5 in Barcelona on September 10, 2008, is Europe's richest and most popular poker tour. Season 5 features 11 scheduled events. The EPT Grand Final will take place in Monte Carlo in April/May 2009. The upcoming EPT in Warsaw is the third stop of the grand EPT Poker Tour in Poland hosted by Casinos Poland.

Century Casinos holds a 33.3% stake in Casinos Poland Ltd. since March 2007. Casinos Poland is the market leader in Poland with a 50% share of the Polish casino market. The company owns and operates seven casinos in international four and five star hotels and one slot casino throughout Poland.

For further information about the Polish Open 2008 in Warsaw please visit the website of Casinos Poland Ltd. under www.casinospoland.pl/en/index.php.

[ more gambling news or poker news ]