The World Series|Are the Phillies really the best?
Nov
27
Filed Under (The World Series) by mshadows
Nicholas Tan asked:
In the summer of 1949, as the story goes, inveterate gambler Nicholas “Nick the Greek” Dandolos approached Benny Binion with an unusual request - to challenge the best in a high-stakes poker marathon. Binion agreed to set up a match between Dandolos and the legendary Johnny Moss, with the stipulation that the game would be played in public view.
During the course of the marathon, which lasted five months with breaks only for sleep, the two men played every form of poker imaginable. Moss ultimately won “the biggest game in town” and an estimated $2 million. When the Greek lost his last pot, he arose from his chair, bowed slightly, and uttered the now-famous words, ” Mr. Moss, I have to let you go.” Dandolos then went upstairs to bed.
Though significant in its own way as a chapter in poker history, the five-month marathon took on added importance to Benny Binion. It wasn’t until 1970 that Binion decided to re-create the excitement and stage a battle of poker giants - dubbed the “World Series Of Poker” - to determine who would be worthy of the title “World Champion.” Johnny Moss came out on top. The decision was democratic in that the champion of the World Series of Poker was decided by popular vote.
The following year, Moss again was declared the World Series of Poker Champion. In 1972, when Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston won the title and went on the talk-show circuit, the World Series of Poker began to gain a wider following.
It was only a year later that Binion participated in the Oral History Project at the University of Nevada-Reno and discussed the World Series of Poker with interviewer Mary Ellen Glass. “This poker game here gets us a lot of attention,” he told Glass. “We had seven players last year, and this year we had 13. I look to have better than 20 next year. It’s even liable to get up to be 50, might get up to be more than that.” Binion then paused, and as if gazing into the future, prophesied, “It will eventually.”
In the early 1980s, Binion’s prophesy came to fruition and the popularity of theWorld Series of Poker soared.
Today, the legacy Benny Binion left the poker community ranks as the oldest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming in the world. The World Series of Poker has touched thousands of lives over the years.
Five world series of poker rules
1. Hold ‘em
-Each player is first dealt two cards down.
-A round of betting occurs as players decide for the first time if they are in or they’re out.
-Then five community cards follow with betting after the flop, the turn, and the river.
-In the end, the best five card combination wins the hand and takes the pot.
2. Omaha
-Instead of being dealt two cards, each player recives four down cards.
-A round of betting occurs as players decide for the first time if they are in or they’re out.
-Then five community cards follow with betting after the flop, the turn, and the river.
-Those still in reveal their cards. But here’s the catch… A player must use two and only two of their down cards along with three of the community cards. And as
always, the best five card hand wins the pot.
3. Seven card stud
-Each player is dealt three cards. The first two are down and the third is up for everyone to see.
-Players must then decide for the first time whether they’re in, or out.
-The next three cards are all dealt face up, with more rounds of betting after each card.
-The seventh and final card is dealt face down.
-After one last round of betting, players still in will reveal what they have. As always, the best five card hand wins the hand and takes the pot.
4. Razz
-This game is a lot like seven card stud except of course the low hand wins.
-To begin, three cards are dealt to each player.
-The first two are down cards the third is up for everyone to see.
-A round of betting follows, as it does after each of the next three up cards are dealt.
-The seventh and last card is dealt face down.
-One more round of betting before players still in will reveal what they have.
-Now remember the low hand is the winner and flushes and straights don’t count as high hands so ace to five is a good as it gets.
5. Lowball
-Basically, it’s five card draw and the low hand wins
-The point of the game is to have the lowest hand possible.
-But unlike razz, straights and flushes count as high hands.
-So the best possible hand a player could have is 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7.
-Each player receives five cards face down.
-After a round of betting a player is allowed to draw up to five new cards.
-Once a player receives their new cards, a final round of betting follows.
-Players then reveal their cards and since the lowest hand is the best-2,3,4,5 and 7 off suit is as good as it gets.
Joel
In the summer of 1949, as the story goes, inveterate gambler Nicholas “Nick the Greek” Dandolos approached Benny Binion with an unusual request - to challenge the best in a high-stakes poker marathon. Binion agreed to set up a match between Dandolos and the legendary Johnny Moss, with the stipulation that the game would be played in public view.
During the course of the marathon, which lasted five months with breaks only for sleep, the two men played every form of poker imaginable. Moss ultimately won “the biggest game in town” and an estimated $2 million. When the Greek lost his last pot, he arose from his chair, bowed slightly, and uttered the now-famous words, ” Mr. Moss, I have to let you go.” Dandolos then went upstairs to bed.
Though significant in its own way as a chapter in poker history, the five-month marathon took on added importance to Benny Binion. It wasn’t until 1970 that Binion decided to re-create the excitement and stage a battle of poker giants - dubbed the “World Series Of Poker” - to determine who would be worthy of the title “World Champion.” Johnny Moss came out on top. The decision was democratic in that the champion of the World Series of Poker was decided by popular vote.
The following year, Moss again was declared the World Series of Poker Champion. In 1972, when Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston won the title and went on the talk-show circuit, the World Series of Poker began to gain a wider following.
It was only a year later that Binion participated in the Oral History Project at the University of Nevada-Reno and discussed the World Series of Poker with interviewer Mary Ellen Glass. “This poker game here gets us a lot of attention,” he told Glass. “We had seven players last year, and this year we had 13. I look to have better than 20 next year. It’s even liable to get up to be 50, might get up to be more than that.” Binion then paused, and as if gazing into the future, prophesied, “It will eventually.”
In the early 1980s, Binion’s prophesy came to fruition and the popularity of theWorld Series of Poker soared.
Today, the legacy Benny Binion left the poker community ranks as the oldest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming in the world. The World Series of Poker has touched thousands of lives over the years.
Five world series of poker rules
1. Hold ‘em
-Each player is first dealt two cards down.
-A round of betting occurs as players decide for the first time if they are in or they’re out.
-Then five community cards follow with betting after the flop, the turn, and the river.
-In the end, the best five card combination wins the hand and takes the pot.
2. Omaha
-Instead of being dealt two cards, each player recives four down cards.
-A round of betting occurs as players decide for the first time if they are in or they’re out.
-Then five community cards follow with betting after the flop, the turn, and the river.
-Those still in reveal their cards. But here’s the catch… A player must use two and only two of their down cards along with three of the community cards. And as
always, the best five card hand wins the pot.
3. Seven card stud
-Each player is dealt three cards. The first two are down and the third is up for everyone to see.
-Players must then decide for the first time whether they’re in, or out.
-The next three cards are all dealt face up, with more rounds of betting after each card.
-The seventh and final card is dealt face down.
-After one last round of betting, players still in will reveal what they have. As always, the best five card hand wins the hand and takes the pot.
4. Razz
-This game is a lot like seven card stud except of course the low hand wins.
-To begin, three cards are dealt to each player.
-The first two are down cards the third is up for everyone to see.
-A round of betting follows, as it does after each of the next three up cards are dealt.
-The seventh and last card is dealt face down.
-One more round of betting before players still in will reveal what they have.
-Now remember the low hand is the winner and flushes and straights don’t count as high hands so ace to five is a good as it gets.
5. Lowball
-Basically, it’s five card draw and the low hand wins
-The point of the game is to have the lowest hand possible.
-But unlike razz, straights and flushes count as high hands.
-So the best possible hand a player could have is 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7.
-Each player receives five cards face down.
-After a round of betting a player is allowed to draw up to five new cards.
-Once a player receives their new cards, a final round of betting follows.
-Players then reveal their cards and since the lowest hand is the best-2,3,4,5 and 7 off suit is as good as it gets.
Joel
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Nov
15
Filed Under (The World Series) by mshadows
Brian Garvin asked:
Joseph Hachem is an Australian poker player. He is a Lebanese by birth. Now he is famous as a Lebanese-Australian poker player after he won the 2005 World Series of Poker Championship. Joseph Hachem is from Lebanon. He was born in the year 1966 on 3rd November in the Republic of Lebanon, a small country of Western Asia. When Joseph Hachem was at the age of six his family moved to Australia from Lebanon. Till 2002 Joseph Hachem was not a regular poker player. He played poker but often. He was by profession a chiropractor at that time. He could not be able to continue that profession as a chiropractor because he was suffering from a rare blood disease. He left his job for that physical incapability.
After that he made his decision to play poker as a professional player. He started playing the casino game professionally from the year 2002. Now he lives in West Preston. West Preston is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He lives with his wife and four children. In the year 2005 Joseph Hachem made the world record in playing poker. In this year he participated in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and he did the impossible in that tournament. He beat 5,619 players in the table. The prize money that he won is really surprising. He got $7,500,000 in that championship.
The final table in the 2005 World Series of Poker championship was a marathon session. The viewers were witnessed of a rare scene that Joseph Hachem is defeating the players one by one and it stopped when a total of 5,619 players became the losers. The marathon play was continued for 14 hours. The world tournament was started before six days and Joseph Hachem was struggling for all those days with an average result at the final tables. But at the last day he establishes that nothing is impossible. At last he won the $10,000 no limit Texas hold’em main event in the 2005 World Series of Poker.
In the next year he took part on the World Series of Poker and he finished at the second position in $2,500 short-handed no limit hold’em. In the $2,500 pot limit hold’em tournament he secured the fourth place in 2006 World Series of Poker. Joseph Hachem took part in the other poker events also. He appeared in the Poker Superstar III but he did not get a remarkable achievement in it. He could not reach the super-sixteen round.
He made the final table in the circuit event of the World Series of Poker. In the 2007 he earned a lot in poker tournaments. Joseph Hachem’s total earning in live tournaments crossed the amount of $10,400,000 in the year 2007. He ranks second in the poker world whose earning as a Professional Poker Player has crossed the limit of $10 billion. He is among the five Professional Poker Players who won in the World Series of Poker main event. He also got the World Poker Tour title.1n December, 2007 he proved himself the best in the Poker Stars tournament of champions.
Ben
Joseph Hachem is an Australian poker player. He is a Lebanese by birth. Now he is famous as a Lebanese-Australian poker player after he won the 2005 World Series of Poker Championship. Joseph Hachem is from Lebanon. He was born in the year 1966 on 3rd November in the Republic of Lebanon, a small country of Western Asia. When Joseph Hachem was at the age of six his family moved to Australia from Lebanon. Till 2002 Joseph Hachem was not a regular poker player. He played poker but often. He was by profession a chiropractor at that time. He could not be able to continue that profession as a chiropractor because he was suffering from a rare blood disease. He left his job for that physical incapability.
After that he made his decision to play poker as a professional player. He started playing the casino game professionally from the year 2002. Now he lives in West Preston. West Preston is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He lives with his wife and four children. In the year 2005 Joseph Hachem made the world record in playing poker. In this year he participated in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and he did the impossible in that tournament. He beat 5,619 players in the table. The prize money that he won is really surprising. He got $7,500,000 in that championship.
The final table in the 2005 World Series of Poker championship was a marathon session. The viewers were witnessed of a rare scene that Joseph Hachem is defeating the players one by one and it stopped when a total of 5,619 players became the losers. The marathon play was continued for 14 hours. The world tournament was started before six days and Joseph Hachem was struggling for all those days with an average result at the final tables. But at the last day he establishes that nothing is impossible. At last he won the $10,000 no limit Texas hold’em main event in the 2005 World Series of Poker.
In the next year he took part on the World Series of Poker and he finished at the second position in $2,500 short-handed no limit hold’em. In the $2,500 pot limit hold’em tournament he secured the fourth place in 2006 World Series of Poker. Joseph Hachem took part in the other poker events also. He appeared in the Poker Superstar III but he did not get a remarkable achievement in it. He could not reach the super-sixteen round.
He made the final table in the circuit event of the World Series of Poker. In the 2007 he earned a lot in poker tournaments. Joseph Hachem’s total earning in live tournaments crossed the amount of $10,400,000 in the year 2007. He ranks second in the poker world whose earning as a Professional Poker Player has crossed the limit of $10 billion. He is among the five Professional Poker Players who won in the World Series of Poker main event. He also got the World Poker Tour title.1n December, 2007 he proved himself the best in the Poker Stars tournament of champions.
Ben
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Nov
01
Filed Under (The World Series) by mshadows
Lil’ Dice asked:
The premiere edition of the exclusive Fortune Lounge magazine has been much-anticipated and is a global call for all players to epitomize the ultimate World Player, which is the name for this new title. Built on all the core traditions that have made the Fortune Lounge group stand out in the industry, World Player magazine represents success, aspiration and the good life.
The launch of World Player magazine is a milestone in the history of Fortune Lounge, and demonstrates the maturity the group has reached as a reputable and industry-leading organization. “It is designed with your lifestyle tastes in mind”, says the magazine’s Editorial Director, Michael Jones. Its pages are filled with lifestyle images and articles that convey the luxury and opulence of places like Monte Carlo, Las Vegas and the French Riviera.
As with most Internet-based industries it is hard to keep track on who’s who in your zoo so the World Player is a mix of fun for everyone, and is packed with everything and anything that resembles the lifestyles of those aspiring for a better, more fulfilled lifestyle of the rich and famous. It is laced with trendy sections like fashion, sport, stylish new gadgets, celebrities, spas and has all the qualities that make up the ‘high life’.
“The premiere edition of World Player magazine focuses on the greatest online gaming event in history, the International Casino Games hosted by Fortune Lounge Group”, says Jones. The front cover and main feature story alludes quite nicely to the nautical theme that has been created for the first edition, and this echoes a sure sign that Fortune Lounge is heading in the right direction with regard to keeping their players happy. Be sure to check out “Cruise Control” which is an article relating to cruising on the Caribbean, which is essentially what the International Casino Games is building up to.
Poker players need not feel left out because the magazine has a section dedicated to your needs too. You can now have those burning Texas Hold’em questions answered by the legend himself, Lou Krieger, who has been called on to reply to player submissions every month so be sure to submit yours before the next edition is published. Also with the rising emergence of new stars at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), “Hollywood Players” is a fascinating look at the latest craze to hit Tinseltown - poker and get the lowdown on what went down at this year’s WSOP.
World Player is a complimentary magazine and it will be distributed every month to Fortune Lounge casino and poker players. Don’t worry if you’re not a member because they’re making these lovely magazines available at designated hotels and casinos in and around Vegas. If you’re a Fortune Lounge player then you can expect your very own copy of the World Player in your mailbox on September 1st, 2005
Gary
The premiere edition of the exclusive Fortune Lounge magazine has been much-anticipated and is a global call for all players to epitomize the ultimate World Player, which is the name for this new title. Built on all the core traditions that have made the Fortune Lounge group stand out in the industry, World Player magazine represents success, aspiration and the good life.
The launch of World Player magazine is a milestone in the history of Fortune Lounge, and demonstrates the maturity the group has reached as a reputable and industry-leading organization. “It is designed with your lifestyle tastes in mind”, says the magazine’s Editorial Director, Michael Jones. Its pages are filled with lifestyle images and articles that convey the luxury and opulence of places like Monte Carlo, Las Vegas and the French Riviera.
As with most Internet-based industries it is hard to keep track on who’s who in your zoo so the World Player is a mix of fun for everyone, and is packed with everything and anything that resembles the lifestyles of those aspiring for a better, more fulfilled lifestyle of the rich and famous. It is laced with trendy sections like fashion, sport, stylish new gadgets, celebrities, spas and has all the qualities that make up the ‘high life’.
“The premiere edition of World Player magazine focuses on the greatest online gaming event in history, the International Casino Games hosted by Fortune Lounge Group”, says Jones. The front cover and main feature story alludes quite nicely to the nautical theme that has been created for the first edition, and this echoes a sure sign that Fortune Lounge is heading in the right direction with regard to keeping their players happy. Be sure to check out “Cruise Control” which is an article relating to cruising on the Caribbean, which is essentially what the International Casino Games is building up to.
Poker players need not feel left out because the magazine has a section dedicated to your needs too. You can now have those burning Texas Hold’em questions answered by the legend himself, Lou Krieger, who has been called on to reply to player submissions every month so be sure to submit yours before the next edition is published. Also with the rising emergence of new stars at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), “Hollywood Players” is a fascinating look at the latest craze to hit Tinseltown - poker and get the lowdown on what went down at this year’s WSOP.
World Player is a complimentary magazine and it will be distributed every month to Fortune Lounge casino and poker players. Don’t worry if you’re not a member because they’re making these lovely magazines available at designated hotels and casinos in and around Vegas. If you’re a Fortune Lounge player then you can expect your very own copy of the World Player in your mailbox on September 1st, 2005
Gary
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