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$10M Hold 'em tourney starting from scratch
Published: 2005-03-01
 $10M Hold 'em tourney starting from scratch
Boston Herald, March, 2005 by SCOTT VAN VOORHIS
Hold'Em Poker, meet the Massachusetts State Lottery.
State lottery officials today will unveil a new scratch ticket - one that aims to capitalize on the Texas-sized-and-styled poker craze sweeping the country.
This $10 scratch ticket comes with a big twist - a Hold'Em Poker tournament in which hundreds of players will take to the felt for the chance to win prizes ranging up to $10 million.
While other states have rolled out poker-themed scratch tickets, the Bay State is the first to offer a full-fledged card tournament as well.
Lottery officials will detail plans for the new game - and the card contest - at a press conference today at the Sports Depot in Allston. Howard Lederer, a champion poker player and New Hampshire native who is best known as the "professor of poker," will offer his blessing of the new lottery ticketand contest.
The crown jewel of the new Hold'Em Poker game will be a $10 million prize - the largest instant ticket jackpot ever offered in the country, lottery officials said.
"When this game is finished, one lucky player will win $10 million, and make lottery history," said Joseph Sullivan, the state's lottery chief.
The move comes as lotteries across the country are forced to spruce up their offerings, said Clyde Barrow, a gaming industry expert and public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
"One of the things lotteries have (found) all over the country is that games do go stale," Barrow said.
"You have to start churning games," he said.
The new game will have two tracks.
Ticket buyers can win a range of prizes - from $1,000 to $4 million - by scratching off the poker hands on their card in hopes of beating the house (lottery) hand.
But the grand, $10 million prize is reserved for players who take part in a giant Hold'Em Poker tournament to be overseen by the lottery.
All told, more than 68,000 players who scratch a box on the bottom of the ticket and get a WPT symbol, qualifying them to collect a World Poker Tour merchandise package. Of those, 560 will be selected to take part in the grand prize tournament.
Caption: POKER FACE: Howard Lederer places a bet during the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas last year. AP FILE PHOTO
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Anthony Coussa Invents New Version Of 'Hold'Em'
Published: 2005-03-21
 Anthony Coussa Invents New Version Of 'Hold'Em'; New 'Triple-Flop Hold'Em' Has Potential to Supplant Current 'Hold'Em' Game
PR Newswire, March 21, 2005
NEW YORK, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A new version of "Hold'Em" has been invented. It has the potential of supplanting the existing game that's being played today. The status of the game is patent pending, US60/654,786.
The new version of "Texas Hold'Em" should be of great interest to the public in general, and especially to the many millions watching the "Hold'Em" Tournaments on several National Networks, virtually every day of the week. Obviously, the invention has to be of even greater interest, specifically, to all the "Hold'Em" players as well as to the estimated fifty- to sixty-million poker players in the US alone. The interest is so intense that it is rumored that a major network may be coming out with their own Poker Tournament Show.
This version of "Hold'Em", named "Triple-Flop Hold'Em", could potentially revolutionize the "Hold'Em World", or at the very least, co-exist with the present game, which has been around since the 1920's. The new version is more beneficial to the players, and more profitable to the Gaming Establishments, because their total "rake" from each hand could double, at least. This is possible because of a "buy" option. It is an option and not an integral part of the game, per se.
In "Triple-Flop Hold'Em", a maximum of three cards may be used from the board and, two cards (or 1) from the hand. Therefore, making the face-down cards more valuable. This reduces time consuming pot splitting dramatically, thus allowing more hands to be dealt.
Furthermore, in the new version, the board consists of six cards, dealt in three flops of two cards each. This means the chance of improving the hand doubles, because the third flop (or exposure) consists of two cards, as compared to one card in the existing game. Additionally, the "buy-a-card" option, a new and fresh element in the game, could come into play, giving the players one LAST chance to make a winning hand out of a possible losing one. The price of the "buy" is to be determined by the Casino. However, the author suggests, double the highest bet allowed, in a limit game. It is noteworthy that the total number of bets is four, with or without the "buy".
CONTACT: Anthony Coussa, Inventor, +1-718-816-5727, or htna.assuoc@verizon.net
Web site: http://www.holdemtripleflop.com/ http://tripleflopholdem.com/
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