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Jaco Costa Rica Poker Adventure!!

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November 5 – November 14, 2010
After a very successful tournament last year, WPS again goes
back to the exotic paradise of Costa Rica for the fourth year.
One of Jazz Casino’s most popular locations is situated at the
Amapola Resort in the world famous party town of Jaco
Beach. Just walking distance from the sandy shores of the
Pacific Ocean, the Amapola Beach Resort offers visitors the
unique opportunity to explore Costa Rica’s tropical exuberance
and treasures while at the same time leave you with memories
equal only to some .
This friendly hotel with its top rated amenities and exotic gardens has a total
of 53 rooms including: 6 suites and 3 fully equipped Villas, swimming
pools, bar, the jazz Casino, and the Ginger Restaurant which offers a
peaceful and relaxed atmosphere where you can enjoy a wide variety of
excellent food ranging from international cuisine, seafood specialties
and wonderful Costa Rican dishes.
The night life at Jaco is incomparable in Costa Rica. Venture out of the
elegant and fully-equipped Jazz Casino &
Sportsbook and take in the restaurants and
clubs of the main strip. Jaco is an amazing little
cosmopolitan party town that just might
entice you with V.I.P. Night Clubs featuring
talent from exotic Caribbean destinations,
blues bars, and Latin beats.
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Tournament in Costa Rica
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No Limit Texas Hold’Em
Jazz Casino, Hotel Amapola
- Jaco Beach, Costa Rica
Visit www.worldpokershowdown.com
for future tournament dates!
Tournament Hosted By: Herb Van Dyke & Kelly Kellner
Tournament Director: Jimmy Miller
Email: wps@citravel.com
757-390-2013 or
Toll Free 1-877-627-8810
Reserve your seat at the table by calling:
Register Online: www.citravel.com/poker

Eastern Caribbean Cruise

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Join Poker Pod Radio on this fantastic cruise!! Mention Code Poker Pod Radio or PTN when booking!!!!

Welcome to the Annual WPS/CPT Supercruise!! Whether you’re a seasoned cruiser, a first-time cruiser, or even if you’ve sailied on other poker cruises, we feel that this cruise is the ultimate in fun, adventure and poker! With the help of CI Travel, we are pleased to offer two cruises this year with the enhanced opportunity to extend your poker and cruising enjoyment to two weeks at sea!!

A 7-night cruise to the Eastern Caribbean from March 27 – April 3, 2011 departs from Port Canaveral onboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas. On this cruise you’ll visit Royal Caribbean’s private island, CocoCay®, where you can take an exhilarating ride in the skies on a parasailing adventure! Or for those who prefer to keep their toes in the sand, simply spend the day on the beach soaking up the sun. In the popular port of St. Thomas, find out why it’s called the “duty-free shopping capital of the world!” Or travel to Mountain Top, the highest point on St. Thomas, and see spectacular views of Magens Bay, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. St. Maarten brings you the once-in-a lifetime opportunity to race an America’s Cup sailboat! Enjoy all that the Eastern Caribbean offers while playing this WPS/CPT tournament!

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June 4, 2010

Poker All the Time, or the Well-Rounded Life? Which One Really Wins?

Filed under: A Blonde’s Guide to Poker, American Life, Poker, Show Business, Vegas Life — Hannah Elisabeth @ 1:39 pm

World Series of Poker 2010 has kicked off at the Rio, and poker aficianados from around the world have flown in to be a part of the party that is poker during June and July in Las Vegas. Since I live here, I get to drop in on the craziness at random times, and then step away from it when I need to focus on other ventures in my life. For me, this yin/yang balance between the intense and sometimes insane world of poker, with the more creative and even mundane aspects of my life, has worked to make me both a better player and certainly a happier woman. But you don’t have to look around too much at WSOP to see whole pods of erstwhile and often anemic-looking young men who, it is clear, eat, drink and sleep poker. They don’t seem to care about girls, or getting an education (let alone a job), and taking care of their physical health is, from all empiric evidence, the last thing on their minds. They might spend six weeks in Vegas during WSOP and never see the sun; and their diet usually consists of fast food and Red Bull (occasionally mixed with booze for a nice amphetimine/barbiturate effect.) Their only workout is walking from their 6-guys-in-a-room hotel suite to the poker room, or to get more coffee. There are no nightclubs, no shows, not even the usually male-mandatory strip club visits for them: it’s all poker, all the time, and that’s how they seem to like it.

Interestingly, although the number of (particularly younger) women in No Limit poker has grown exponentially in the last few years, they don’t seem to reflect the same “poker is all I live and breathe” mentality that the young guys do. Some would argue that might be why there are fewer female than male champions in the game; although recent coups by Annette Obrestad, Liv Bouree and Vanessa Rousso, among others, are beginning to lay that stereotype to rest at last. Others would say that women are innately more balanced than men, with perhaps the latter being generally more genetically programmed to be single-minded in the old “hunter-gatherer” paradigm that has been bandied about by scientists for eons. (And yes, I know some of the men reading this are scratching their heads in wonderment, going, “Balanced? Not any woman I’ve ever known!”) But I’m talking here about interests, lifestyle and what ranks as important in our lives, not the emotional highs and lows we girls can be subject to that send the male pysche into a “Huh, what’d I do?” tizzy with such ease.

Whether or not one subscribes to the theory that some balance in life overall is the way to go, for poker players there is always the question of, “Ok, but what does it do to my poker game?” In other words, who actually wins more money: the players who spend their every waking moment calculating odds, reading poker books, playing 20 tourneys online simultaneously, and forgoing normal social contact, physical self-care, and the pursuit of any kind of non-poker related knowledge; or those who love the game and try to play it with as much zest and intelligence as they can muster, while still believing that family, friends, art and culture, and an occasional walk in the park (not to mention on the wild side,) are just too satisfying to be missed in favor of becoming a poker nerd, even if it’s a winning one?

I sat yesterday in the so-called poker “kitchen” at WSOP, listening to two guys behind me yabber on endlessly about who played what hand and why and how and….oh my god, the huge, tedious yawn of it all. I love poker, I think my cash and tourney games are the strongest they have ever been; but when I am not playing poker, it is frankly not my favorite topic of conversation. Two fine artists of tremendous talent who recently found me on Facebook have reminded my culture-starved essence that there is much to lap up in our short visit to the planet other than poker, poker, all the time. I have lived long enough to know that life is indeed fleeting, and there are many things I value more than a game of cards, as much as I genuinely enjoy playing this one.

It would, in fact, be interesting for someone to do an unbiased study of this issue, to track exactly what the win rates are of those who fall into the “live and breathe” poker category, versus those who don’t. And by “those who don’t,” I mean including those who may have poker-related business ventures (training camps, websites, ad campaigns, photo shoots, sponsorship deals, etc) that are not specifically about playing the game non-stop in and of itself. I myself have tied poker in with all of my creative assays: my humorous radio podcast, these blogs, and my upcoming video webisode series about Vegas. But so many other talents, people and skill sets are involved in those efforts, that they pull me into a different part of my mind, heart and soul, while still keeping me connected to a world I know, love and truly relish.

Just as key as overall win rates, it would be fascinating to do a 40-year study that would follow players from say, age 16 to 56, just to see how satisfied they are with their lives as a whole, or even how many are still alive on both sides of the “all-poker-all-the-time” (or not) lifestyle choice. I have met and spoken to so many of these “Peter Pan” boys over the past few years, and have advised many of them to see the world as bigger than just poker, before they find out they can’t even open the door to other vistas anymore. I truly fear that severe loneliness, depression and social disconnection will engulf most of them over time, not to mention more obvious health issues such as how they eat, smoke, drink and ingest both legal and illegal substances. We all crave love and acceptance, and we all want heart on some level in our beings; it’s just how human beings are, unless you are truly sociopathic, in which case you’re probably going to end up playing poker head-up with your cellmate on the other side of an electronic prison gate.

One of the things you learn as you become a better and more experienced poker player is how to make choices, and how to pick your battles. In cards, as in life, we only get so many hands to play, so we better make the most of the ones we think are winners. For my money, diversity in life gets you more in the long run, just as it does in the game itself: those who tend to only play premium hands seldom get paid off, even when they hit. It’s a helluva big game out there, and one with more outcomes than a mere game of cards could ever deliver. I wouldn’t want to miss the best rivers just because I never dared to play the most unconventional and interesting flops. So I’ll keep on balancing poker with the other loves of my life: writing, broadcasting, good friends, hot guys, my dog, and shopping, to name but a few…and I’ll just let the chips fall where they may.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

My New Journey as a Sponsored Poker Pro Begins

Poker and Writing are my two passions, writing poker of course! It has been a long time now that I have written and written and written. Writing normally means I am not playing but as from this moment as I write this blog my life has changed.

I have blogged about becoming a poker pro, getting sponsored, living your dream and to be honest I thought “I have four kids and I can’t do this!” I have since thought about it, added up the amount of time I spend making my living writing and compared it to my time on the felt and what I earn in cash. Needless to say i earn more playing cash games so out with most of the writing and IN with the poker.

As I was thinking about all of this is when FeltStars approached me. It was fate I guess! I was smashing away on cash tables on numerous other online poker networks and starting to really kill as they came forward. I had written less, played more and was loving it. I went back to where I started, playing poker!

Most people play poker and move their way into sponsorship. I played poker and moved my way into writing for poker media only to…. turn around and start all over again playing more poker and working my way into sponsorship. I can’t say I am sorry though. I now have great skills in poker media; awesome skills in my opinion.

SO what with the writing now? Is there an available position anywhere? The answer I am afraid is no. I will continue to write hot topics for Australian Poker Weekly even after I have featured on the cover in weeks to come. I will continue writing for Woman Poker Player Magazine, Womens Poker News and Canadian Poker Tour. I will of course also continue to write on this blog. I will not be making any other writing moves though, other then to continue with my (now 3) books.

As for my poker radio and broadcasts, I will also continue to do this. You have a few more years of putting up with me yet I am afraid! There will be a difference though. I will be an official FeltStars Team Pro Member rather then just Hot Aussie Chick from the Land Down Under.

There will be times when broadcasts and articles will be held up, this I have no doubt about. I am sure everyone will forgive me though if I happen to be playing the final table of a big event and I dont blog for a week or miss my weekly podcasts. Maybe that’s a little far fetched yet, who knows – I don’t!

Anyway; I was thrilled to have the offer to head over to the WSOP in just a week to play the ladies event but you know what? I declined it – CRAZY? I think not! I am working with a serious marriage to FeltStars and chose to play Aussie events instead. I think getting word out to my fellow Australian Poker Players that they can play on the Merge network on FeltStars is more important right now then jet setting to Vegas. You WILL see me next year though.

You will of course also so me on FeltStars where preparations are still underway to get my face in with my team mates in the above picutre on the main site (and abroad) and to get me into the bounty tourney worth a staggering $100,000.000 every week. I will also be playing in the $409 monthly WSOP seat tourney which will be fantastic. You will also see me playing each week in the $50,000.00 GTD. Mostly though I will be trying to smash cash!

If you are a player who is wanting rakeback, let me know. I would love to have you playing with me and would rather you get rakeback from me then another site, so send me a note!

That’s about all for now other then a short wrap up on my next 2 weeks. I am going to party! I have an online welcoming tourney (christening) being organised and i am going to give all my gifts to you! I have already been given books, clothing, cd’s, all sorts of things. this will be broadcast live on radio. Secondly, I am having a big Team FeltStars Female Poker Pro BBQ Bash (I am hoping not at my house) where I am inviting all of my friends and poker family to join in drinkies. If I have your phone number expect a prank phone call during one of these events! Lastly, I am going to try and take down my first big tourney on FeltStars.

I look forward to seeing you there! Join me and enter code : CHICK300 for a massive 300% sign up bonus. I dont think you will find better! USA, Aussies, EVERYONE is WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!