THE TEXTBOOK play with pocket aces is to raise preflop in hopes of getting heads-up against a good hand that's not good enough. But established and aggressive pros such as Mark Seif work from their own texts, developing a style that runs counter to conventional thinking.
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IF YOU PLAY poker online, you find many different games and tables, each of which emphasizes different skill sets. Cash games are different from tournaments, and nine-player tables generally call for strategies that might not work as well in heads-up matches.
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HARRISBURG - Democrats and Republicans split sharply yesterday on legislation linking college tuition aid to the legalization of video poker machines in Pennsylvania, clashing over what to do about the spiraling cost of education in the bill's first public airing.
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In a decision he said was "based on facts, not reputation or innuendo," a Superior Court judge in Atlantic County yesterday gave reputed mob soldier Anthony Nicodemo a four-year suspended sentence and fined him $10,000 for his role in an illegal bookmaking operation run out of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.
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Reputed mob soldier Anthony Nicodemo was sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence and fined $10,000 Friday for his role in a mob-linked sports betting ring illegally run out of the poker lounge at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Atlantic City may have the beach, but this Lehigh Valley city will soon have the Sands. A month from today, the first phase of the Sands Casino-Resort is scheduled to open on the site of the long-shuttered Bethlehem Steel Works. With $743 million already invested by its owner, Las Vegas Sands Corp. (whose holdings include the ultra-luxe Venetian and Palazzo properties on the Vegas Strip), it is far and away the most expensive slots parlor Pennsylvania has yet seen.
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