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With over 8,000 players expected at this years World Series of Poker, and some big name poker celebrities in the mix. What are the odds of your fav celeb poker player winning this years event? According to Pinnacle Sportsbook Ben Affleck pays +180,000, while rookie Leonardo Di Caprio gets +270,000. Who is the favorite? None other than Phil Ivey at +19,000 other notables amongst the mix are Chris Ferguson +36,000, Daniel Negraneau +27,000, and Howard Lederer +58,500.

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Everest Poker will offer qualifying satellites to all seven events on the European Poker Tour’s Season 3 calendar. Everest Poker’s Direct Entry Satellitesfor each event will take place on the following dates:

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Barcelona Open — August 19, 2006, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

EPT London — August 26, 2006, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

EPT Baden Classic — September 9, 2006, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

EPT Dublin — September 23, 2006, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

Scandinavian Open — December 16, 2006, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

French Open — January 20, 2007, 14:00 GMT ($300+20 buy-in)

EPT Grand Final — February 3, 2007, 14:00 GMT ($200+15 buy-in)

EPT Grand Final — February 17, 2007, 14:00 GMT ($200+15 buy-in)

EPT Grand Final — March 3, 2007, 14:00 GMT ($200+15 buy-in)

The prize package for each EPT Direct Entry Satellite will be worth $7,500, which includes the buy-in for the event plus travel expenses and spending money.

Everest Poker will also be running daily satellites that feed into each Direct Entry Tournament. Daily satellites for the first two events on the tour, the Barcelona Open and EPT London, have already started running.

In addition to dedicated satellites for each EPT event, Everest Poker will be offering flexible Winner’s Choice Satellites every Wednesday at 20:00 from July 12 through December 13. The winner of each Winner’s Choice Satellite will get to select which EPT event they would like to attend.

“This season represents our heaviest involvement in the European Poker Tour so far,” said Jonathan May, the Property Manager for Everest Poker. “With dedicated satellites for each event plus the Winner’s Choice tournaments, we want to give our players every opportunity to compete in these prestigious live tournaments and hopefully win some money and notoriety!”

Everest Poker is also currently featuring satellite tournaments for the following events:

-The Everest Poker European Championship, an exclusive Everest Poker 50,000? freeroll championship, taking place September 9, 2006, at the Casino Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

-The Legends of Poker, a World Poker Tour event taking place August 26-30, 2006, at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California.

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There are two major differences between Pot-Limit and No-Limit Hold ‘em tournaments. The first is that simply declaring “all-in” usually isn’t an option. You can only bet the amount that’s in the pot. (For an open-raise, the pot size is seven times the small blind.) In No-Limit tournaments, when a player is on a short stack, he will often move all-in. This puts pressure on the other players; in order to call, someone has to find a strong hand. However, in Pot-Limit tournaments, unless you’re on an extremely short stack, after you open-raise, you’ll still have chips in front of you. This gives other players a chance to re-raise and move you off your hand.

In Pot-Limit tournaments, I prefer to be the player re-raising the open-raise. Usually, this is enough to put anyone all-in, so it’s the point where you can apply the maximum pressure to your opponents.

The second major difference between Pot-Limit and No-Limit Hold ‘em tournaments is that, in Pot-Limit, there are never antes whereas, in No-Limit, antes are added to the pot pretty early on (Level 5 of the WSOP structure).

To understand why this is so important, consider the math. In Level 12 of the WSOP No-Limit Hold ‘em structure, the blinds are $600 and $1,200 and the ante is $200, making a total pot of $3,800 prior to any action (assuming a 10-handed table). If a player can steal a pot by open-raising to three times the big blind, he’ll be getting some nice value; the $3,600 bet can win him $3,800. Stealing blinds and antes is so important in No-Limit that a player like Phil Hellmuth, Jr. can attribute much of his success to his ability to steal pots once the antes kick in.

In Pot-Limit, however, when the blinds are $600 and $1,200, the same open-raise to $3,600 can claim only $1,800 in profit. The risk-reward ratio isn’t nearly as favorable. For this reason, I believe it’s proper to play tighter in Pot-Limit events than in No-Limit events. It also provides another reason why you want to be the player re-raising rather than open-raising. The pot that you’d win by open raising and stealing the blinds isn’t nearly as valuable as the one you can pick up by re-raising the open-raise.

In the WSOP event that I won, a few of my opponents didn’t adjust to the Pot-Limit structure especially well and opened too many pots. My strategy was to let my opponents have many of these small pots. I was waiting for occasions where I could come over the top of an open raise with a big re-raise. I had crafted such a tight image that when I did re-raise, my opponents had to give me credit for a pretty big hand. When I took down these pots, I gathered a significant number of chips. This worked especially well late in the tournament, when each decision could cost a player his tournament life.

So, if you’re heading to the WSOP, your favorite card room or online in order to play a Pot-Limit event, remember to play tighter pre-flop and look for spots to re-raise - that’s where the best opportunities lie.

Titan Poker is proud to announce a World Poker Tour - Legends of Poker 2006 Super Satellite awarding one or more skillful players with a seat(s) at the World Poker Tour - Legends of Poker 2006 Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in California in August 2006.

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The World Poker Tour - Legends of Poker 2006 Super Satellite will be staged on August 13, 2006, at 7pm EST.

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