2005 November 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Bravo, PartyGaming. Bravo. You have successfully manipulated the system so that you can afford to buy out a competitor. PartyGaming, …

According to a front page article published in the New York Daily News, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has been spoken to by team officials about his visits to illegal poker clubs in Manhattan. While Rodriguez’s poker playing is not illegal, as New York law only prohibits the house from making a profit, Yankees management has made it clear to their star player that they feel he is endangering himself and ruining his otherwise solid reputation.

The biggest poker game of all is taking place on the London Stock Exchange, and there can be little doubt that PartyGaming, the oldest online poker player has taken Empire Online, their former partner and current rival, to school. In fact, PartyGaming have run rings round them, and are now considering a buy-out of Empire - the coup de grace after hacking away at their share value in the past two months…

ESPN.com announced today that Bluff Magazine, America’s largest poker magazine, which will bring a wide range of the popular magazine’s poker-related content and information to the ESPN Poker Club section of the leading sports site. The combined collection of content will join with ESPN.com’s free online poker game to offer poker fans a complete online destination.”This agreement will allow ESPN.com to build on the hugely successful launch of ESPN Poker Club this past February and offer poker fans …

LAS VEGAS — (PRESS RELEASE) — Many of the biggest names in poker will descend on Caesars Palace next week to compete for $2 million in total prize money at the 2005 World Series of Poker® Tournament of Champions, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) said. The free-roll tournament is expected to feature, among others, the nine millionaires from the 36th annual World Series of Poker’s Main Event final table as they go for another seven-figure payday. A free-roll is an event in which none of the …