New Sky Poker UK Online Poker Series starts today

Lee Bell
October 31, 2011
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Sky Poker UK Online Poker Series (UKOPS) will start today – as the inaugural event, the virtual series will promise some high guarantees over eight events running until 6 November.

The UKOPS will feature a mixture of events including a Bounty Hunter tournament, a Pot Limit Omaha one rebuy/one add-on, a £500 +£30 High Roller event and a £20 +£2 turbo rebuy tournament.

Poker star, Dave Bland, who will most likely be there kicking everyone else’s butts, said: “The UKOPS is the natural follow-on from the Sky Poker Tour. With such a popular live event series it was only a matter of time before Sky put its name to a huge online series too, and we hope the first ever UKOPS will cater to high roller and recreational players from all around the UK.”

Event #1 is the £100 +£10 Bounty Hunter tournament that has a £20,000 guarantee attached to it. For each opponent a player knocks out they receive 75% of their bounty in cash and the other 25% is added to their own head, making them more attractive to attack.

Sky Poker‘s grand finale will take place at 1900 on Sunday 6 November, Event number 8, the £200 +£20 Main Event, with a £40,000 guarantee, with players starting the main event with 8,000 chips playing to a 15-minute clock.

Blinds will start at 15/30 then go up very gradually to 20/40, 30/60 and 40/80. The poker series assures that by the time players have been at the virtual felt for two hours they will still only be paying 125/250 in blinds.

For those wanting to have a go who don’t want to risk their life savings, then there will be many satillites running daily, which start at £1.20 a go. Cheap as chips! Well..

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Adelson inducted; Caesars’ Loveman makes casino pitch to Japanese lawmakers

Peter Amsel
November 2, 2011
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Las Vegas Sands (LVS) bigwig Sheldon Adelson was inducted into the American Gaming Association’s Gaming Hall of Fame (along with the Blue Man Group and local chef Charlie Palmer) on Tuesday night at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. It’s been a pretty good week for Adelson, currently riding high on his company’s boffo Q3 results, to which operations in the white-hot Asian gambling hubs of Macau and Singapore contributed the lion’s share of LVS’ 26.2% revenue growth.

Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman has yet to receive his Gaming Hall of Fame induction notice, but we’re sure his infamous decision not to apply for a Macau gaming license way back when had nothing to do with the omission. Besides, Gary’s keen to make amends for his earlier shortsightedness by pressing hard to make inroads into untapped Asian markets, including Japan. Inside Asian Gaming reports (by way of Japanese consultants Gaming Capital Management) that on Friday, Oct. 28, Loveman made a 15-minute pitch to the members of the Integrated Resort Diet Members Association, a cross-party confab of politicians keen to bring destination casinos to Japan’s shores.

Among the 120-odd people at Friday’s meeting were 20 Diet members (out of a total 722 representatives in Japan’s legislature). Sakihito Ozama, a member of the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) suggested the ETA for passage of Japan’s draft legislation on casinos could be reduced from two years to one due to (a) the need for economic stimulus in the wake of the country’s recent ecological disasters, and (b) the desire to avoid getting scooped by South Korean politicians, who are contemplating climbing aboard the integrated resort money train themselves.

All party reps in attendance voiced the opinion that the casino bill needed to come up for debate during the Diet’s current extraordinary session, i.e. before January. If/when that bill meets with a favorable vote, Toshihiko Satake, policy secretary for the DPJ’s Issei Koga, predicted “casino operations will be ready in three years.” Assuming that all transpires according to plan, and Loveman manages to avoid being outmaneuvered (again) by the wily Adelson for a Japanese gaming license, Gary might yet find his name on the AGA’s Hall of Fame ballot. Perhaps even before Céline Dion gets inducted.

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Are you confident in your ability to win at Blackjack?

If you play blackjack you need to know that confidence is essential to your overwall level of success. You need to play and get some experience to built your confident in your blackjack skills.
With many casino games, confidence is essential to your overall level of success. This can definitely be said about blackjack. Although there is some luck involved, you need to have enough confidence to pull through in the clutch. There are some players who get involved with blackjack just for the fun – they don’t expect to win. Then there are others who know they are good, and will in turn do whatever they can to take home the cash.

Being confident in your blackjack skills is not something that comes overnight. Instead, you have to build on this hand after hand. You may find yourself in the midst of a losing streak and thinking that you are never going to make your way out. But if you stick with what you know, you will find yourself in a better place soon enough. When you are winning you will want to continue feeling good about yourself. Just make sure you don’t get so confident that it spills over into being arrogant.

Most players who are not confident in their blackjack skills feel this way due to a lack of experience. You must feel good about the past, the present, and where you are headed in the future. If you don’t know a lot about the game, for instance, continue to play until you know exactly what is going on. Experience is the best way to find increased confidence.

In closing, confident blackjack players are more likely to stick with the game until it begins to payoff. How do you feel about your skills?

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