2005 November 08 Poker News, Events and Happenings
You’ve heard about blinds in poker, but this is something else: blind people are playing poker and you may get a real blind man’s bluff…
CryptoLogic, one of the online poker industry’s leading software developer, recently announced that it saw and 80 percent rise in third-quarter profit, making a profit gain of $5.1 million (US).
Players from the southern United States dominated big-time poker, as well as the World Series of Poker, in the 1970’s. Of the first nine main-event champions, only Puggy Pearson and Bobby Baldwin….
Despite an ongoing legal dispute with the U.S.-based Travel Channel about domestic broadcasting rights, WPT Enterprises has announced that it is looking for sponsors to distribute its new poker series, the Professional Poker Tour (PPT), internationally. According to Steven Lipscomb, President and CEO of WPTE, this new venture falls in line with the company’s goal of driving people in overseas markets to our international online gaming business.
The World Poker Tour is now up to 17 events in its fourth season with the recent announcement that the Borgata Winter Poker Open will be an officially sanctioned WPT event next January. In fact, the tournament will start on January 20th and end on February 1st with the typical $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event.
The popular online poker room PartyPoker recently announced that they have added another game to their site; BlackJack. Adding the popular game, sometimes known as “21″ to the huge Internet poker spot is no real surprise, as it is known to be a lucrative, as well as popular, gambling game.
In news that will surely warm the heart of poker fans around the world, the World Poker Tour is adding yet anther event to the 2005-2006 fourth season schedule. The Borgata Winter Poker Open will make event number seventeen.
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