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71 Year Old Boots Takes Home Poker Victory

Most pensioners play cards down at their local working mens club or card room, placing tiny wagers if any but not this pensioner.

Boots Batson developed a liking for Texas Hold’em while on a visit to the Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas.

Batson developed a strong interest in the game, leaving behind all of her previous favourites, taking up taxas hold’em poker as her preferred game.

Batson found joy as she entered into a ladies only $1,000 buy in no limit poker tournament on an unexpected visit to Las Vegas.

Boots admitted that she isn’t the best poker player in the world, saying she likes to play the game as it keeps her sharp of mind.

Her skills aren’t totally useless as this victory shows but other players in the tournament picked up on the lack of cutting edge thought that you see in many of the high level tournaments these days.

One fellow poker player said

She is a pistol

An absolutely sweet lady who is a good player

Her ability to do well despite her dyslexia is amazing

Batson has won a seat into the main event for the World Series of Poker due to winning the tournament, something which she was going to take a back seat from due to the $10,000 buy in to enter.

We would like to congratulate Boots on her victory and hope to see her at the final table in the main event!

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World Series of Poker Gold Circuit Title Heads To Brooklyn

A poker player from Brooklyn won the recent WSOP “Gold Circuit” tournament this week taking home a prize of a seat in the World Series of Poker main event and $125,775.

Dwyne Pilgrim bought into the $5,000 no limit tournament held at Harrah’s Rincon, winning his second “Gold Circuit” tournament.

After winning his first title Pilgrim told supporters and others that he would return to play another WSOP “Gold Circuit” and would become champion once again.

This is a promise that he upheld, taking home the title and first place in the Rincon near San Diego.

Pilgrim made a name for himself after winning his first tournament back on March 7th 2009, raising interest in the player. This interest meant that poker fans all over the world, as well as writers were aware of the players presence.

The Brooklyn resident only started playing live tournaments last December and has made a huge impact already, one poker crytic wrote:

Dwyte Pilgrim’s previous successes came in the form of six previous cashes, five of which took place at the December 2008 WSOP Circuit event at Harrah’s Atlantic City.  Indeed, Pilgrim had five cashes during that ten day tournament series – which is a stunning accomplishment given the sizes of many tournament fields in Atlantic City.  It appears Dwyte Pilgrim is a player to keep a close eye on in the months and years ahead.  A not-too-bold prediction:  Burgeoning with self-confidence, a blossoming bankroll, and obvious natural talent, tournament poker has not seen the last of Dwyte Pilgrim.

The latest win by Pilgrim shows that although there was a huge mixture of amatuer and professional poker players, he can still mix it up with the best of them over the two day tournament.

Pilgrim wasn’t the only player to take home cash winnings, with the top 9 players all receiving payouts.

Pilgrim managed to get the better of second place finisher Esther Taylor as the two pressed hard against each other at the final table, when a flurry of winning hands fell for Pilgrim giving him the edge to which he took to his full advantage.

Taylor accepted the runner up position with grace and elegance, congratulating Pilgrim on his play but who wouldn’t knowing that they would be cashing out with over $100,000 in tournament winnings.

Pilgrim took the victory in good humour jokingly saying

To know me is to love me

But then the two times “Gold Circuit” winner fired a warning to all professionals and amatuers out there saying

Now look out, i’m shooting for the gold bracelet

With impressive play like Pilgrim’s we are sure that we will hear more from this “live tournament rookie”, offering a hidden amount of talent and passion.

We at ThatsGambling would like to congratulate Pilgrim on his win and hope to see him at the final table at the next World Series of Poker Main Event.

Recession? What Recession Says Online Poker Industry

With many of the worlds industries feeling the pinch due to the global recession one online poker room has stepped forward to prove not all industries have been hit.

888, the company that own Pacific Poker have announced that their profits have increased by 6% this financial year, totalling $48.6 million.

The company do admit that the last quater of the financial year has seen a decrease in profits, costing them 4% leaving the total increase at 6% instead of 10%.

With the company 3 months into the new financial year, they have seen a lower profit margin than they saw in the disappointing final quater of last years financial year.

The company still insist that the number of new players is “encouraging” for the new year, with new business plans already in the pipeline to improve their already high rated business.

With this in place Gigi Levy, Chief of 888 moved to tell the world that the company will pass through the recession unscaved:

Whilst remaining cautious in our outlook we are confident our customers will continue to enjoy our services and that the overall strength and resilience of the business will ensure we weather this turbulent period well.

Just as we managed to grow market share after the industry was hit by the closure of the US market, we are confident we will outperform the market in these challenging times and continue to grow our business.

It just goes to show that the recession hasn’t hit every industry in the world, but there are more casualties then there are winners here.

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Australian Government Set to Follow US Investigation

The Australian government are currently in the process of deciding if they should too look into banning online poker sites from its nations internet, saying that it will protect its native citizens.

The plans are to ban a number of ‘Bad’ sites on the internet that can lead to people getting them into financial difficultly, with online poker sites been rated as one of the categories that fall into the ‘Bad’ site listings.

Senator Stephen Conroy s leading the group which are planning the ISP blocking of such sites, limiting the chances of citizens getting onto the sites via the internet.

This comes just months after the U.S. congress have started investigations into whether they should make online betting illegal, including online poker.

Recent tribunals are helping the U.S. congress to make their decision, with the poker world calling on some of the biggest named spokes people in the sport to help fight the corner of the poker community.

The U.S. congress has stated that should they decide not to illegalise online poker and gambling, they would be looking to place a tax onto the funds won by the better.

An Australian government spokesman issued a statement, referring to the AUS citizens as sheep:

Imagine a young lamb inadvertantly wandering into an internet cafe, ordering a medium latte and logging on only to be faced with the evil that is online poker - there is potential to lose the entire flock’s winter feed and supply of that extra-strong sheep-dip which kills off those pesky ticks

As this news comes into the light that is the media, there is bound to be a number of people who will want to contest this move, with a number of poker professionals coming from AUS.

Only time will tell if the AUS government actually follow through with the proposal, but there will be a huge number of ’sheep’ that will not want this to come into action.

We would like to hear from any AUS players that have an opinion on this story, what are your thoughts?

Are governments moving in the wrong direction to prevent ‘financial difficulties’?

Pro Poker Europe Expands Global Presence

Pro Poker Europe Magazine this week reaches its global presence by offering greater distribution across Europe.

The magazine has renewed its contract with highstreet chain WH Smiths, with the magazine available from most newsagents.

In a bid to improve both sales and awareness of the magazine, the company have moved to sign a new European Sales and Marketing Manager in the way of Cal James, who is well known within the printed poker world for his successes within the marketing and sales field.

Top 10 Online Poker Players on Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars Revealed

Online poker is still a growing industry but since its creation, there has been a huge boom, with players flocking to their computers to ante up against some of the worlds best.

With all players aiming to be the best, there is huge competition to become the best player in the huge online poker community.

Recent poker rankings have been released from a number of online poker sites such as Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars, two of the biggest sites within the genre of online gambling.

thatsGambling thought that you guys should be able to know who you are playing against in the position next to you… if you see one of these names we suggest you tighten up on the bluffing!

All rankings are based on stats from the last 120 days.

Full Tilt Poker Rankings

1. PureCash25
2. gboro780
3. UFman2
4. Julian Verse
5. bigdogpckt5s
6. The Universe112
7. S_Dot111
8. Nina_Wiggle
9. imabigkidnow
10. David Pham

Poker Stars Rankings

1. D1rtyR1v3r
2. shaundeeb
3. Moorman1
4. SixthSenSe19
5. troster16
6. danskemann
7. bdybldngpkr
8. LosChief
9. BobbyFi
10. icallseat3

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