Poker News
Pokernex August News 2005!
Pokernex.com Poker News Report May 2005 (We included quite a few new articles give us a break)
Welcome to Pokernex poker news report. So I think we have the phrase that pays. "Pokernex news for poker people". Sounds good, we're working on the site don't worry more poker news on the way. It's coming to the end of April 2005 so we'll do a big poker revise on Monday.
We got the Rounders movie review up today with our poker buddy Matt Damon. The film is from 1998 but I believe it's one of Hollywoods best attempts yet at poker professionals. Hey it's just a movie.
We have also included a fun Smoking Poker Article from the non-smoking poker guys at Pokernex and poker etiquette. The Royal Vegas Poker review is now also up. Going poker tilt and how to watch out for it. Don't forget to check out our amateur poker advice article if your just starting playing poker.
New articles for Hoyt "All-In" Corkins, T.J. Cloutier poker pro, Annie Duke queen of poker, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu poker starand Gus Hansen Hall of Famer and Greg Raymer the WSOP 2004 Winner, David Williams the young poker star & the legend Doyle Brunson.
*Poker News Flash*
Online poker sites raked in $1.4 bln in 2004, according to MarketWatch. There are roughly 1.8 mln online poker enthusiasts. Dennis Boyko from PokerPulse forecasts the revenues to double to $2.8 bln in 2005. 75% of the revenues come from the 3-5% that online players usually leave to the house when playing the game, where the winner takes the entire pot. - Zdnet
First a quick look at how the poker rooms are doing in the standings.
Top poker rooms:
- Party Poker
- Pokerstars
- Paradise
- Pokerroom
- Ultimatebet
These top 5 Poker rooms dominate the poker scene at the moment. Partypoker makes up the lion share of the market at the moment so don’t be fooled by what any of the other poker rooms say about being the biggest. The interesting pokerroom to watch out for at the moment is pokerroom. They are doing very well in the search engines at the moment which is giving them very good growth. This is mainly due to their good optimization of their official site.
Big Poker Tournaments
Poker tournaments to watch out for and news on them:
- Party Poker Million IV
- World Series of Poker (WSOP) *News Flash* - Doug Lees wins WSOP circuit championship
- World Poker Tour (WPT) *News Flash* - Doyle Brunson gets WPT tournament named in his honor
- European Poker tour (EPT) * News Flash* - EPT gears up for the poker tournament at Monte-Carlo Monaco
Poker Game Tour Article
New poker game tour article here.
Poker Jokeof the Day (More Jokes)
The Leprechaun
A guy was playing 10-20 holdem and was stuck about 300 dollars when he looked down beside the table and saw a little green leprechaun.
"Quit playing poker forever right now and I'll give you a pot of gold worth a million dollars.", said the little fellow.
The player replied, "Let me get even first."
More Poker News
More Poker news to come…
