The Canadian Poker Tour and the World Poker Showdown Complete Strategic Alliance to Market Upcoming Events
July 21, 2008
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire - June 23, 2008) - The Canadian Poker Tour, the recently acquired poker brand of HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (the “Company”) (PINK SHEETS:HDUP) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with the World Poker Showdown to enhance and promote each others series of events. The Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) is launching its 2008 season with the first event beginning this Wednesday in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with the Calgary Classic at the Cash Casino (http://www.canadianchampionshippoker.com/Events/).
Ontario prof calls for online gambling rules
July 16, 2008
TORONTO - Online gamblers play more frequently and aggressively than those who take their chances in casinos according to a study from the University of Western Ontario that suggests new regulations to govern Internet gambling.
Gamblers are using websites run by offshore companies in “leaps and bounds” but if there were regulations to oversee Canadian gambling operations there could also be safeguards to reduce problem gambling, said June Cotte, associate professor of marketing at the UWO’s Richard Ivey School of Business.
Play slows down at World Series of Poker, seven Canadians still in the field
July 14, 2008
LAS VEGAS — Play slowed considerably at the World Series of Poker on Saturday, as the top tier of the field held powerful chip stacks and enough rounders had been eliminated to let players be more picky about their hands.
Some players used the breathing room to tighten their play and only play pots with good starting hands. Others used the extra chips to play more hands, driving up action and leading to big pots for players holding less-than-stellar hands.
Thomas (Thunder) Keller, who won a gold bracelet at the world series in 2004, cracked an opponent’s aces and doubled his stack with a king-10 when the fourth and fifth community cards gave him a straight.
Poker punch-up nets probation
July 9, 2008
An Edmonton poker player was fined $750 and put on probation for a year yesterday after pleading guilty to assault for punching a fellow casino card player in the face after the man beat him for a large pot with a better hand.
Hon Van Tran, 34, was also banned from going to any casino during his 12 months of probation.
“Your way of handling disappointment at the poker table is not appropriate,” said provincial court Judge Larry Anderson, noting Tran had a previous assault on his record.
Canadian Poker TV Goes Online with MoboVivo and HeadsUp Entertainment
July 8, 2008
Canadian poker fans will soon be able to catch up to the game and watch full programs streaming over the Internet or Buy & Sync the programs so they can watch anytime, anywhere they like even without an Internet connection, thanks to a collaboration just announced by iPhone entertainment heavyweight MoboVivo and HeadsUp Entertainment.
All 13 episodes of Canadian Championship Poker season will be available from the MoboVivo website.
Episodes of Canadian Poker Tour will also be made available following HeadsUp Entertainment’s acquisition of the Canadian Poker Tour and its TV shows last week. These announcements will make HeadsUp the top producer of poker television programming in Canada and MoboVivo the top provider of poker TV shows online.
The Canadian Poker Tour and the World Poker Showdown Complete Strategic Alliance to Market Upcoming Events
July 4, 2008
CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire - June 23, 2008) - The Canadian Poker Tour, the recently acquired poker brand of HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (the “Company”) (PINK SHEETS:HDUP) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with the World Poker Showdown to enhance and promote each others series of events. The Canadian Poker Tour (CPT) is launching its 2008 season with the first event beginning this Wednesday in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with the Calgary Classic at the Cash Casino (http://www.canadianchampionshippoker.com/Events/).
There will be a series of tournaments across the country in which winners from each main event will qualify for the televised CPT Invitational Finals to be held January 20-22, 2009 as part of the World Poker Showdown’s series of events held at the Ocean World Casino in the Dominican Republic.
The Online Advantage
July 3, 2008
Sorel Mizzi, from Canada, is one of the most accomplished online poker players in the world, playing under the names “Imper1um” and “Zangbezan”. He consistently sits in the top spots of online poker leader boards with his extremely aggressive play and by-the-instincts rather than by-the-math strategies.
If any tournament in the World Series of Poker favours the online player, it is the six-handed format, where the vast majority of six-handed play is found. Given Mizzi’s online experience, and his considerable success, Mizzi is a player to watch in the $5000 No Limit Hold’em Six-handed field.
Poker program goes for a rematch
July 2, 2008
POKER SOFTWARE called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Developed by an artificial intelligence group at the University of Alberta in Canada, Polaris will be pitted against several professionals at the Rio Hotel between June 3rd and 6th. Its human opponents will include Stoxpoker.com coaches Nick Grundzien and Ijay Palansky along with Matt Hawrilenko, all of whom have well over $1 million in lifetime winnings from playing poker.
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