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No Limit Becoming the Norm
The most recent and significant trend in poker as of late is the trend towards tournaments of hold’em with no limits. As you would guess the number of no limit contests has increased to a level that has not been seen before. These no limit events are showing up at every tournament of any size and all tournaments that are significant have a major no limit hold’em you can buy in on.
The World Series of Poker has four no limit hold’em contests and the number of people showing up to watch and participate has increased dramatically. This is no surprise to people who follow or play. For people who have not been following poker are surprised but should not be as poker has become far more reachable to everyone through television broadcasts and Internet access.
People love to watch the high end tourney play. Anyone who has played poker has had thoughts of playing in a major league tournament some day. Everyone has thought “I could do that and be good at it.”
You would think that with the shear number of no limit hold’em games that there would be plenty of opportunities for people to play at the side games, that is not the case.
Until recently, people have shyed away from no limit games being intimidated that it could get out of control or out of their reach quickly. People need to keep their fears in check. There is no reason not to take a shot at no limit games. There are plenty of self-help books, poker tools and websites. Author T.J. Cloutier has written one that hits the mark, No Limit & Pot Limit Hold’em. The book focuses on strategies for addressing the no limit games. The book has helped countless get over their fears of playing in a no limit tourney.
How Much Should You Raise?
Thanks for creating a site like this!
By the way, for an instance, you are sitting in the small blind and the blinds are $2/$4 in a no limit game, then the lime light turns to you, and you opt to raise. But since you already have $2 in the pot, you bet at least an additional $2 to meet the $4 which is the initial big blind.
My question now is, what will happen when you raise? I mean, should your raise be $4 to have a total of $8 or just be $2 for a total of $6?
Also, are there any exceptions for the small blind?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Kent
Kent,
When you are the first person to raise, the raise must be at least the amount of the big blind. In the above example, the raise must be to $8. There are no exceptions for any position, including the blinds.
Harrah’s Sues for Right to WSOP.com Domain
Harrah’s has recently announced it is suing Federico Schiavio, a former Binion’s IT manager who is the owner of the domain wsop.com. Harrah’s believes its World Series of Poker trademark entitles it to the rights for the wsop.com domain as well, alleging that the current owner of the domain is intentionally misleading visitors.
Harrah’s claims that “Schiavio’s use of the WSOP mark in connection (with) the domain name WSOP.com is intended to trade off Harrah’s goodwill and reputation.” While Harrah’s does own the WSOP trademark (which it purchased from Binion’s), the crux of their case revolves around whether or not visitors believe they are visiting the official WSOP site when they type in wsop.com, or whether it’s reasonably clear that the site could belong to anyone, not just Harrah’s.
WSOP Finalist Charged by San Antonio Police for Illegal Bookmaking
2006 WSOP finalist Richard Lee’s home was raided by San Antonio police in early September, with police collecting evidence to connect him to an illegal San Antonio-based bookmaking operation. Lee placed sixth year at this year’s WSOP.
Police had apparently been investigating Lee for over a year, alleging that he was illegally taking bets on sports through a website he owned and operated.
WSOP Winner Jamie Gold Sued For Half His WSOP Winnings
Television executive Bruce Leyser met Jamie Gold (who would go on to win $12,000,000 as the 2006 WSOP Main Event winner) in July. According to a lawsuit filed by Leyser in late August; Gold asked Leyser to help him find celebrities to endorse Bodog in the Main Event. If Leyser did so, Gold promised that he would “share” his Main Event seat. In light of the fact that Bodog was only giving away one seat, Leyser reasonably deduced that “share” meant “share the winnings”, leading him to sue Gold for $6,000,000, or half of Gold’s winnings.
As evidence Leyser claims to have an answering machine recording of Jamie Gold in which Gold states: “I promise you there’s no way anybody will go anywhere with your money. It’s your money.”
Leyser also asked a judge to file a temporary restraining order to prevent Jamie Gold from collecting his winnings from the Rio. Leyser fears that Gold might spend or gamble away the money before the issue is resolved. Chief District Judge Kathy Hardcastle granted Leyser’s request and has prevented Gold from collecting any of his winnings before Sept. 1st, the scheduled date of the case’s first court hearing.