2005 November 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings

ATLANTA — ESPN.com announced today that Bluff Magazine, America’s largest poker magazine, which will bring a wide range of the popular magazine’s …

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET - News) said today casinos in Europe, Latin America and Australia are awarding tournament winners seats in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, whose prize pool is expected to exceed $70 million.The most recent operator to sign an agreement with Harrah’s Licensing Company, LLC, is Holland Casino for their Master Classics of Poker. In Holland Casino Amsterdam the winner of the euro 5,000 ($6,000 US) Texas Hold ‘Em …

LOS ANGELES - (PRESS RELEASE) — WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPTE) announced today that it has inked an agreement for its WORLD POKER TOUR(R) television series to be featured programming when the UK’s much-anticipated ITV4 network kicks off on November 1. ITV4 is the latest addition to the powerful ITV family of networks broadcasting in the United Kingdom. The new network is an “entertainment channel providing quality programming to a discerning, up-market audience with a male bias.”This is …

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Jeremy Olisar, a 21 year-old Carnegie Mellon University student has won Absolute Poker’s free “Win Your Tuition” tournament. To compete in the online tournament, which ended mid October, students only needed proof of enrollment for fall 2005 semester, be in good standing with their school, and have access to a computer. The next free “Win Your Tuition” tournament begins in May 2006 and registration is now open at www.absolutepoker.com/college.Competi

Kirill Gerasimov alternately wiped his sunglasses and checked his watch as midnight approached, fidgety behavior for a guy who makes his living by staying cool. Finally, Gerasimov, who bears an uncanny resemblance to U.S. actor Matt Damon, pushed the remainder of his dwindling chips to the center of the table, sliding them past his pair of 10s resting face up on the red felt.nOnlookers began muttering “all in,” a reference to Gerasimov’s do-or-die bet, prompting players from neighboring tables to …

New British TV station ITV4 has acquired licensing rights to broadcast series I and II of the World Poker Tour (WPT). ITV4 will begin airing the WPT on Friday evening, November 4th, marking the first time a poker show has received a prime time TV slot in the UK.

Joe Hachem, the 2005 World Series of Poker champion, who beat a record field and scooped the Main Event first prize of $7.5 million, has signed on with PokerStars. It was well known in the online poker industry that a number of poker rooms were interested in signing Joseph Hachem to an endorsement deal. They had a shot because Hachem actually paid the $10,000 entry fee out of his own pocket, and was not previously linked to any online poker room.