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Players Network's 'WORLD SERIES OF POKER® LIFESTYLE SHOW' Special Programming to Reach 100 Million Potential Viewers Worldwide

Players Network Marty Corwin, Emmy-Award Winning Director to Direct the Broadcasts Vegas Media Group to Provide Production Services First-Ever Live Programming Begins Today.

LAS VEGAS, The world's leading media company focused on gaming lifestyle programming, Players Network (OTC Bulletin Board: PNTV - News ) announced today that its lineup of special programs will be digitally broadcast from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and available On Demand to a worldwide audience of 100 million broadband and digital media viewing subscribers, beginning today, through July 9th. In addition, Emmy-award winning director Marty Corwin has been hired as Director of Original Programming for the company's productions during the "WORLD SERIES OF POKER® LIFESTYLE SHOW." Corwin joins Executive Producers Michael Berk and Mark Bradley who will oversee the company's programming from the Show, as announced last Friday. Vegas Media Group, under the leadership of Ed Winfield, will provide production services.

On Friday, July 8, Players Network will present "The Player" Awards Show bestowing awards in 10 Poker categories, including the Lifetime Achievement Award to Doyle Brunson. "The Player" glass awards have been designed by renowned Las Vegas sculptor Tony Milici.

Usually raise when you hold the best hand and it is bet to you.

When you hold the best hand and someone else has bet, you are giving your opponents a free card if you merely call. There is little difference between checking the best hand if no one has yet bet, and calling with it once someone has wagered. So, once again, you must focus both on extracting the maximum from your opponents, and on how potentially catastrophic granting a free card might be.
As a general policy, you should raise a bettor whenever you hold a fragile hand that nevertheless figures to be the best at this point, especially if other players remain to act in the hand. For example, you hold J-J and the board is 4-6-9-T. Raise if someone bets and you are next, for two reasons.

You don't want to give players holding overcards or other draws a cheap shot at the pot.
You are very likely getting more money into the pot with the best hand, which is a good thing.

Inside The Poker Mind

by John Feeney

Poker is a game of many skills and to become an expert poker player you need to master them all. This includes concepts such as hand selection, position, proper image projection, and reading hands. However, there are many players who have mastered most of these skills yet they still do poorly in the games - at best they are only small winners. And when they step up in limit and challenge the better players, they almost always fail. You see, knowing the concept is one thing, putting it all together is another.

As the text will show, winning poker is a process that requires a lot of thinking as well as a thorough and systematic approach to the game, and that is what this book is about. Topics include "Playing Too Many Hands," "Self-Weighting Cold Calls," "Short-Handed Play: Don't Miss Out," "The Strategic Moment in Hold 'em," "Countering a Good Reader," "A Poker Player in Therapy," and "Thoughts on the Effects of the Poker Literature." Those of you who are serious about your game should find much of this material to be extremely valuable.

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