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The PokerStars “Big Game” debuted on the FOX television network earlier this week in what was considered a very successful first episode.

Perhaps the main reason for the successful debut was the fact that many of the world’s best live and internet poker players attended the Big Game. Those who sat down at the Big Game poker table included Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, Phil Laak, Daniel Negreanu, and amateur player Ernest Wiggins.

Wiggins, who hails from Washington D.C., was especially interesting since he qualified for the show through a “Loose Cannon” poker tournament at PokerStars. And Wiggins certainly didn’t look like an amateur since he played his poker hands just as good as any of the pros; he even took down a big pot against Phil Hellmuth! The win by Wiggins had the Ultimate Bet pro Hellmuth visibly upset as the other pros joked around about the loss.

The biggest winner of the afternoon was Tony G who somehow managed to make a whopping 95,000 US Dollars after just playing 32 holdem poker handes. For Doyle Brunson, who is the face of Doyles Room and their amazing 33% rakeback deals, it was a tough start as he lost his entire stack by the end of Episode 1.

With the success of the Big Game’s first episode, you can be sure that lots more people will be tuning in to see how these pros fare in future episodes. There will be a whole heap more people who will be hoping to quality for the show through the Loose Cannon poker games. Anybody who manages to qualify for the show will have their buy-in paid along with a guaranteed seat in the nationally televised poker show.

If you aren’t lucky enough to have a win at the Loose Cannon event, or earn a bit on the Big Game, you can still earn plenty of money through the VIP program at PokerStars.

Whatever you choose to do, you can enjoy plenty of games of Online Poker including perhaps a game of Party Poker, or maybe PKR Poker – you decide.

There are so many poker books that picking just one could be a tough process. 

Harrington on Hold’em Vol. 1: Strategic Play by Dan Harrington. Harrington is brilliant at going over the techniques and levels of tournament poker, and his “Zone System” and poker tournament dynamics, counting using “M” as part of your evaluations of chip dimensions and urgency to stack ahead. This manuscript also comes with hand quizzes after every subdivision, which serve as invaluable instruments to make sure your understanding of each chapter’s concepts using fast, interesting hand quizzes that envelop the whole assortment of what you learn from chapter to chapter.

The next book: Doyle Brunson’s paperback Super System 2 . The original poker text continues to be a top quality read for beginning gamers, mainly for the immense array of games discussed, counting both limit and no-limit poker, mtt poker, a forty three tip introduction from Mike Caro, including recommendations on bluffing, and also a piece on online games. Though the level of detail on the no-limit and tournament sections might not meet other specific training systems, the limit segment by Jennifer Harman is spectacular, and the other sections are perfect reads designed for players finding their footing (and you can get rakeback at Doyle’s online).

Mike Caro, Caro’s Book of Poker Tells. If you’re an internet player, this may not be totally as valuable for you personally, but for live gamers, this can be the distinction between being a losing poker player and being a greatly effective player. Caro particulars many general and uncommon givewayas that participants could apply at the poker table, counting verbal, physical, and switch tells, and incorporated with the analysis of the tells are photos of the tells in action, providing awesome visuals that you can scrutinize and use alongside with the descriptions provided.

The Psychology of Poker, Alan Schoonmaker. There is no hold em strategy discussed in this volume. Instead, this manuscript speaks to you concerning the factors why poker players, counting yourself, carry out the things they perform on the poker table; why you are unprofessional, why you’re aggressive, how we lose it (Rush Poker, anyone?), and so on. By comprehending the “why” as well as the “how to” as it comes to opponent’s play, we can further amplify our learning of how to react to those particular players; that makes this paperback just as precious for a up and coming player as several plan for the future manuscript can be.

Despite having success in its first five seasons, the super-popular poker show High Stakes Poker decided to make a big change by dropping the witty A.J. Benza from the commentator booth and replacing him with the sultry Kara Scott. When the move was made, people immediately started criticizing the Game Show Network producers who made the decision, and some online poker rooms even considered pulling their advertising.

Well it’s a good thing those Internet poker rooms didn’t make a hasty decision because High Stakes Poker’s ratings are actually up in Season 6. Amazingly they have climbed above Season 5′s target audience of ages 18 to 49 tuning in nearly 30 percent more! The poker sites that like to advertise their rakeback deals and services can be very happy with the growing popularity of Season 6.

The VP of Programming and Development at GSN, David Schiff, actually believes the improved ratings are a result of the participants themselves as he stated, “”We’re very gratified to see this season of High Stakes Poker performing so well among these important demographic groups, and we can attribute it to an especially strong player line-up this season. We have some of the biggest names in poker this season, including more international players, and the viewers are clearly responding to the outstanding game play.”

Some of the players Schiff is talking about include Patrik Antonius, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, David Benyamine, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, and Daniel Negreanu.

Getting back to the whole announcer switch, fans of the older format are still complaining that the chemistry between A.J. Benza and Gabe Kaplan is missing from the show. They don’t think that Kara Scott works as well with Gabe Kaplan in the booth. It’s hard though to disagree with the switch when the show has attracted nearly 30 percent more of the target audience they were aiming for.

If you don’t have time to join in with the debate and just want to enjoy a game of Internet Poker then why not take a look at Absolute Poker or perhaps Party Poker.