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Text Box: Poker News May 08 NO Bull! Angola Prison, Louisiana have incorporated poker in to it’s annual rodeo day. One variation involves the convicts playing at a poker table whilst a bull charges at them. The game’s winner is the last man sitting as the bull stampedes the table. He gets $50. The show’s finale is called Guts and Glory. The clue is in the title. A £300 poker chip is situated between the horns of an angry bull. The winner is the one who gets it. It’s all thanks to warden Burl Cain, a devout Christian, who sees Angola as “the land of new beginnings”. Burl commented “”Most people are going to die in here. I can’t save their lives, but I can help save their souls. My mamma told me that I was responsible for their souls. “God is going to hold me accountable. Therefore I took her seriously; you have got to do what your mamma tells you.” Poker News April 08 “Skill Beats Luck In Poker” According to a recent piece in online magazine Science Daily, results from two studies have revealed that skill is more important than luck when it comes to being a successful poker player. The magazine quotes Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student from Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, who carried out two poker-related studies with students that found skill winning out over luck. 'This article provides empirical evidence that it is skill and not luck,' said DeDonno. In the first study, DeDonno had 41 university students play eight games totalling 200 hands of turbo Texas Hold'em, a computerised simulation of ten-player hold'em poker. DeDonno stated that most of the students had little experience playing poker but half of the students were given charts ranking two-card combinations from best to the worst and were told that professional poker players typically play only about 15 percent of the hands they are dealt. The other half was given background on the history of poker but with no strategies and did not fare as well as the group who were given strategies. Before starting the study, 64 percent of the students stated that winning at poker was 50 percent luck. 'If it had been pure luck in winning, then the strategies would not have made a difference for the two groups,' said DeDonno. To statistically verify the results, DeDonno conducted a second study with students playing 720 hands. Again the group was divided and while all students improved their playing with practice, it was the section given strategies that continued to do better. DeDonno stated that students also reduced the average number of hands they played from 27 at the beginning to 15 after they were given strategies, which improved their games and validated that ‘fewer hands does result in improved performance’ “Bluff it like Beckham” In what is a surprise as much as a coup for organisers Harrah’s Entertainment, David Beckham is set to play in this year’s 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. The event, which is scheduled to be held from September 19th to October 1st in London, England, will see Beckham missing at least one game for his Major League Soccer team, Los Angeles Galaxy. Beckham has been granted a wild-card for the tournament with organisers hoping his inclusion in the event will draw in record viewing figures and take the game to a global level. The true extent of Beckham’s poker skills are not known. However, an insider close to Beckham has revealed he has at least played the game before, when on duty with the England football team at the World Cup and the European Championships. “David first played poker with Michael Owen and his close friend Teddy Sheringham (who himself is a handy poker player) at the World Cup in France in 98,” the insider revealed. “Teddy taught him the basics and David has had an interest in the game ever since. He loves the mind games involved.” Poker News March 08 Poker leader flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct We have news of what may be a poker first -- at least for organized tournament poker. Yesterday, at a World Series of Poker circuit event at Caesars Atlantic City, the chip leader at the final table of a major event was disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct. The player, who is identified in the WSOP press release as a general contractor from Richmond, Va., was thrown out of the game and "forcefully removed from the tournament room" at a point when five players remained in the opening event of the WSOP Circuit tournament that had a $300 buy-in and started with more than 1,000 players. At the point the Richmond man, Lesley Thornburg, was disqualified, he had earned about $19,000 for his fifth-place standing. The winner, a 76-year-old retiree from Brick, N.J., collected a little more than $76,000. According to the official tournament report, Thornburg had been given two warnings for unsportmanlike behavior the previous day. The behavior was described thusly: "Ceaseless display of loud comments and baiting tactics lasting several hours." The final straw came when Thornburg was actually the beneficiary of great luck twice. On one all-in, his ace-7 was dominated by an opponent's ace-queen, but Thornburg caught a 7 to grab the chip lead. Then, two hands later, he knocked out a player in sixth place when Thornburg had 4-4 against 7-7 and caught a 4. But then Thornburg lost control, the report said, and he "began jamming chips into the pot with reckless abandon." He was warned by tournament officials and finally, when he shoved half his stack into the pot and announced "all in," officials ejected him for the "annoying and confusing antics."

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