Southern California Poker

Southern California Poker: "How to be a Poker Dealer?" San Diego County casinos are expanding their poker rooms as fast as they can to accommodate the recent surge in the poker business. So where do you go to learn how to deal poker? Casino Dealers Academy is located in North County and can have you ready to "audition" for a poker dealing job in as little as 4 weeks. What? Audition? That's right! Poker Dealers are hired through an audition process in the casinos where they deal on a live game to real players and real money. Wow, talk about trial by fire. Casino Dealers Academy is a state registered vocational school and can get you started on a profitable career in a growing industry. For further information about their programs go to www.deal21.com

Online poker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Online poker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Online poker" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Poker played online has been responsible for the dramatic increase in the number of poker players. Traditional (or "bricks and mortar", B&M ) venues for playing poker, such as casinos and poker rooms, are intimidating for novice players and located in geographically disparate locations. Brick and mortar casinos are also reticent to promote poker because it is very difficult for them to profit from the activity. Though the rake or time charge of traditional casinos is often very high, the economic costs of running a poker room are also very high. Brick and mortar casinos often make much more money by removing poker rooms and adding more slot machines. Online venues, by contrast, are dramatically cheaper, due to the online venue having much cheaper maintenance costs. For example, adding another table does not take up valuable space like it would for a brick and mortar casinos. Online poker rooms tend to be viewed as more user-friendly. The software prompts the player when it is there turn to act for example. Online poker rooms also allow the players to play for very low stakes, which attracts beginners. While online venues may be more vulnerable to certain types of fraud, especially collusion between players, at the same time, online sites have collusion detection abilities that do not exist in brick and mortar casinos. For example, online poker room security employees can literally look at the "hand history" of the cards previously played by any player on the site, making patterns of behavior more easy to detect than in a casino, where colluding players can simply fold their hands without anyone ever knowing the strength of their holding. The major online poker sites offer varying features to entice new players. One common feature is offer tournaments where the winners gain entry to real-life poker tournaments. It was through one such tournament that Chris Moneymaker won his entry to the 2003 World Series of Poker. He went on to win the event, causing shock in the poker world. The 2004 World Series featured triple the number of players over the 2003 turnout. Like Moneymaker, the 2004 winner, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, also won his entry at the Poker Stars (http://www.pokerstars.com) online cardroom. In December 2003 it was reported that online poker revenues stood at around $34m per month, and were growing by 27% per month. At peak times over 40,000 people are playing for real money at the various cardrooms, with a like number playing free games.

Southern California Poker

Southern California Poker: "Southern California Poker Tour SCPT will now be seen on FOX and UPN in the San Diego television market, while a television schedule for the Los Angeles market is still pending approval. The first SCPT event will be held at Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino on September 18, 2004. The event will be No-Limit Hold 'Em with a $25,000 Guaranteed prize pool. "

Southern California Poker

Southern California Poker: "Southern California Poker News " Southern California Poker Tour on TV The Southern California Poker Tour will begin airing events on XETV (Fox Channel 6) and XUPN (UPN Channel 13) on October 2, 2004 in the San Diego television market. The first airing will be seen at midnight Saturday October 2, 2004 on UPN and at 11:00pm Sunday October 3, 2004 on Fox. For all of the latest information on the SCPT and upcomining events, please see the "poker tour" page on this site. Once the events begin, you will also be able to access complete SCPT tournament results and information about future events and television airing schedules. The first SCPT event will be held at Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino on September 18, 2004. Registration will begin at 10:00am and the tournament will begin at Noon. See you at the final table!