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Master Classics Of Poker
The Master Classics of Poker is one of the longest-standing poker festivals not only in Europe but around the world. The festival began with humble beginnings in 1992 with a small Seven-card stud event won by a local poker player Eng Angh for ƒ18,600 (€8,749). History The year was 1991, at that time poker was not so well known in Amsterdam or almost all of Europe, that was when Ron Pool working for the Headquarter asked Jan Rodrigo, at the time of Holland Casino, Amsterdam City centre, and Peter Voolstra, Duty Manager at Holland Casino and who later he would become Tournament Director of the Master Classics of Poker (MCOP), he wanted to know more about what this game was that they talked about so much. In the same year they went to Las Vegas (US) and got in touch with Doug Dalton, who at the time worked at The Mirage casino, to understand a little more about poker tournaments. Doug agreed to show what the tournaments were like and even traveled to Amsterdam with his wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Casino
Holland Casino is a Dutch state-owned company and has the legal monopoly on gambling in the Netherlands, and has thirteen casinos located throughout the country. Profits from Holland Casino go directly to the Dutch treasury. In 2007, profit was around 267 million euros and in 2006 some 263 million euros. Casinos The headquarters of Holland Casino is located in Hoofddorp. The first casino opened in Zandvoort on October 1, 1976. Since 2008, the Amsterdam casino is the largest branch. Other branches can be found at: * Breda * Eindhoven * Enschede * Groningen * Leeuwarden * Nijmegen * Rotterdam * Scheveningen * Amsterdam Sloterdijk * Utrecht * Valkenburg * Venlo Games In the branches of Holland Casino the following casino games can be played (not all branches offer all of these games): * French roulette * American roulette * Blackjack * Caribbean Stud Poker * Bingo * Poker * Sic Bo * Punto Banco Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game. It is now mainly played at casinos, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Guilder
The guilder (, ) or florin was the currency of the Netherlands from 1434 until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro. The Dutch name was a Middle Dutch adjective meaning 'golden', and reflects the fact that, when first introduced in 1434, its value was about equal to (i.e., it was on par with) the Italian gold florin. The Dutch guilder was a reserve currency in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Between 1999 and 2002, the guilder was officially a "national subunit" of the euro. However, physical payments could only be made in guilders, as no euro coins or banknotes were available. The exact exchange rate, still relevant for old contracts and for exchange of the old currency for euros at the central bank, is exactly 2.20371 Dutch guilders for 1 euro. Inverted, this gives approximately 0.453780 euros for 1 guilder. Derived from the Dutch guilder are the Netherlands Antillean guilder (still in use in Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and the Surinamese guilder (replaced in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryn Kenney
Bryn Kenney (born November 1, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Long Beach, New York. Poker career Kenney played '' Magic: The Gathering'' competitively before transitioning to poker. His first major live cash was in 2007 at the East Coast Poker Championships in Verona. In the 2010 WSOP, Kenney recorded his first major cash in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed event, finishing 8th for $141,168. He followed that up with a 28th place finish in the Main Event In sports, a card lists the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event. Cards include a main event match and the undercard listing the rest of the matches. The undercard may be divided into a midcard and a lower card, according to ... for $255,242. In January 2011, he recorded his largest cash at the time with a 3rd place finish in the $100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $643,000. Kenney won his first WSOP bracelet in 2014 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Vaswani
Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani (born 1 September 1970, from Finchley, Greater London) a former professional poker player and the youngest member of The Hendon Mob, a group of professional poker players. He resides in Finchley with his wife Jackie and daughter Hollie. Vaswani became a regular on the poker circuit, and due to his involvement in Late Night Poker, he also became one of the pioneers of poker on television. He is the first (and to date only) person to reach 4 European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables. The latest being at Monte Carlo 2007 (eliminated first, on the first hand) one of those final tables bought a win, the Dublin Season 2 (2004) event. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007, in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event. His other televised appearances include a win in the Poker Nations Cup, and runner-up in finishes in two more televised events. Poker career Early years Vaswani, of Indian origin, began playing cards from the age of 9, and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mizrachi
Robert Mizrachi (born November 24, 1978, in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida) is an American professional poker player. Robert Mizrachi was a poker dealer at a South Miami casino. He introduced the game of poker to his younger brother, World Poker Tour champion Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi. Robert also has two other younger brothers, Michael's twin Eric Mizrachi who is also a poker player and his youngest brother Donnie Mizrachi, who is a professional magician. Mizrachi won his first bracelet in the 2007 World Series of Poker in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event Event may refer to: Gatherings of people * Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest * Event management, the organization of eve ..., winning $768,889. At the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Mizrachi finished in 116th place, winning $57,102. He was one of four brothers who each cashed at the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Vang Sørensen
Jan Vang SørensenJonas Hüttel, "Verdensmesteren", ''Ekstra Bladet article'' 19 January 2006, (born Jan Vang Hansen, ) is a retired Danish football player, turned professional poker player from Odense. He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker. He legally changed his name from Hansen (his father's surname) to Sørensen (his mother's maiden name) between 2002 and 2005. Football career Sørensen played for Odense BK among other clubs. Poker career Sørensen first cashed at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 1995 with a 16th place finish in a Seven-Card Stud tournament. He went on to win a limit seven-card stud tournament in Dortmund in 1998, winning DM125,000. At the 2002 WSOP, Sørensen won his first WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 pot limit omaha event, defeating Brent Carter in the final heads-up confrontation to take home the $185,000 first prize. At the 2004 WSOP, Sørensen made his first money finish in the $10,000 no limit hold'em main event, finishing 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Schemion
Ole Schemion (born 12 September 1992) is a German professional poker player from Berlin, Germany. Schemion primarily plays in Europe. Poker In 2011, Schemion won his first tournament at the age of 19, in one of the events during the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin. He has since won over 10 titles including the EPT Sanremo High Roller for $366,124. His largest cash winning was the 2016 € Super High Roller #16 in Monaco. Success during the period of 2013-2015 earned Schemion the #1 position on the Global Poker Index (GPI), with 4083.21 points, in the January 2015 rankings. Schemion was the highest ranked player in open events for both 2013 and 2014. , he is ranked 49th on the GPI, and he is in 6th place on the Germany All-Time Money List. In 13 October 2019, Ole Schemion won the $1,050 Sunday Supersonic and $215 Sunday Warm-Up tournaments on the same evening. He has had multiple success in online multi-table tournaments, under the alias “wizowizo”. Schemion has live tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Boeken
Noah Boeken (; born 6 January 1981) is a Dutch professional poker and '' Magic: The Gathering'' player. ''Magic: The Gathering'' career In the late 1990s, Boeken was an accomplished player of ''Magic: The Gathering'' who competed internationally. He won the ''Magic: The Gathering'' 2000 European Championship. After his success in his ''Magic: The Gathering'' career, he focused on playing poker. Poker career Early career Boeken's first major finish in the money was at the 2003 Master Classics of Poker, where he finished 4th in the €200 no-limit hold'em event. Eight months later, he played in the $10,000 no-limit hold'em championship of Festa al Lago II in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he cashed in 22nd place. European Poker Tour In October 2004, Boeken made the final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in London won by professional John Shipley. Boeken made a second EPT final table in January 2005 at the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen where he defeated professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covid-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euro
The euro (currency symbol, symbol: euro sign, €; ISO 4217, currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the Member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union. This group of states is officially known as the euro area or, more commonly, the eurozone. The euro is divided into 100 1 euro cent coin, euro cents. The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the European Union, by International status and usage of the euro, four European microstates that are not EU members, the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, as well as unilaterally by Montenegro and Kosovo. Outside Europe, a number of special territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency. The euro is used by 350 million people in Europe and additionally, over 200 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro. It is the second-largest reserve currency as well as the second-most traded currency in the world after the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Hold 'em
Texas hold 'em (also known as Texas holdem, hold 'em, and holdem) is the most popular variant of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five Community card poker, community cards are dealt face up in three stages. The stages consist of a series of three cards ("the flop"), later an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth street"), and a final card ("the river" or "fifth street"). Each player seeks the best List of poker hands, five-card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards: the five community cards and their two hole cards. Players have Betting in poker, betting options to check, call, raise, or fold. Rounds of betting take place before the flop is dealt and after each subsequent deal. The player who has the best hand and has not folded by the end of all betting rounds wins all of the money bet for the hand, known as the pot. In certain situations, a "split pot" or "tie" can occur when two player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
