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After years of trying and several failed attempts to get it approved, no-limit Texas Hold ’em finally came to the largest city in Central California with an official proclamation from the Fresno City Council, naming September 21, 2007 “Club One and the Start of No Limit Texas Hold ’em Day.”. click here to read the whole article! |
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Black Oak adds poker to games On September 13 the Black Oak Casino in Tuolumne joined the ranks of casinos offering poker to their patrons by adding four tables from PokerPro to their gaming room. In doing so, Black Oak became the first Native American casino in California to switch to PokerPro.. click here to read the whole article! |
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There’s nothing quite like a nice weekend in San Francisco, especially when your only real mission is to head in every directions looking for a good poker game. (Well, maybe not west. It’s kind of wet in that direction.) While The City may not have any cardrooms of its own, you don’t have to go too far to find one. Not surprisingly, they tend to have interesting histories too. click here to read the whole article! |
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Kamikaze Korner The popularity of no-limit tournaments has pushed most local poker rooms to offer several small buy-in no-limit tournaments to their local clientele. These tournaments are structured to trim the fields quickly, and are usually over in 4–5 hours. When you play in these tournaments, you are really playing in a “turbo” or “speed” tournament. For those trying to apply normal tournament strategies to these quick tournaments, the experience can be futile and frustrating.. click here to read the whole article! |
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Tournament Player Rankings As we discussed in our last issue, The Cardroom is planning to establish a tournament player ranking system for Northern California poker, culminating in a Player of the Year Award at the end of each year. The input we received from cardroom personnel and players (see the Sept./Oct. 2007 issue of The Cardroom) was greatly appreciated. We’ve taken their advice to heart and come up with a system that we think will work, but we still sent out another email asking for more feedback on the actual plan. We hope to implement the system starting January 1, 2008. First, let’s look at the plan as we sent it out for review: Points will be awarded based on three factors: what place a player takes in the tournament (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), how many players were entered in the event, and the dollar value of the buy-in. Baseline points will be awarded to players placing in the top 10% of their tournament field, with a maximum of 9 players receiving points. If a tournament has 40 players, only the top 4 will receive points. We will round up to maximize the number of players getting points. In other words, if the tournament has 41 players, points will be awarded to the top 5. First = 100, second = 85, third = 70, fourth = 60, fifth = 50, sixth = 40, seventh = 30, eighth = 20, ninth = 10.. click here to read the whole article! |
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