2005 November 10 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3
San Jose, Costa Rica (PRWEB) November 10, 2005 — Week after week, more and more poker players around the World rise up to the challenge of playing in the $25,000 Bounty Tournament - held at DoylesRoom.com.
Poker may be everywhere on TV, but it doesn’t have a chance on the set in The Bridge Place, a Ft. Myers, Fla., club for card players. “Never,” said Val Covalciuc, who, with her husband, Rick, is co-owner.
The Comedy Festival is offering the ultimate Las Vegas experience with a Ticketmaster online auction to bid on a coveted player’s seat in the Comedy Cares First Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament scheduled for Nov. 18 at PURE Nightclub in Caesars Palace.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Whenever something is “in”, Hollywood is sure to be all over it like stink on a monkey. Take poker for example. Today, we’ve got announcements of two new movies that aren’t even about poker, but have just thrown poker into the title…The first movie, a thriller titled Poker Night, stars Hayden Christensen as a rookie detective who wakes to find himself strapped to a chair in a dim and filthy basement. The cop’s faceless abductor is a vicious serial kil
Bowlers have leagues. Dart throwers have leagues. And I have just discovered, much to my surprise and delight, that poker players also have leagues.This past Saturday night, Soboba Casino launched the Soboba Poker League. The game is no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. There are nine teams, each team consisting of 10 players. The prizes are awarded on both an individual and team basis. The players compete for cash, trophies, a gold bracelet, an entry into the 2006 Legends of Poker Tournament and bragging …
Pull up a chair at a friendly poker game in a buddy’s den and you probably know the other players and have some idea of their card-playing weaknesses like Big Al’s habit of fingering his chips when he’s itching to raise. But take a seat at a table in one of the rapidly multiplying online card rooms and there’s no telling who’s sitting to your right or if the player is even human. Concern is growing in online chat rooms and news groups devoted to poker that sophisticated card-playing robots …
The road to a $1 million Grand Prize and national TV coverage begins Nov. 11-13 as Fantasy Springs Resort Casino hosts the Southern California regional qualifying tournament for the Three-Card Poker National Championship. “This will be the largest Three-Card Poker event ever held in the Palm Springs area,” said Bob Jones, executive director of gaming at Fantasy Springs. This Palm Springs hotel and casino, the area’s premier gaming resort, is presenting the …
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