2005 November 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings
As I read Peter Costa’s column in the October 17 issue, for a moment I thought that he and Phil Hellmuth may be on to something to (again) change our poker world forever. The subject was bad beats in online poker. He eluded first jokingly to solutions (which all sounded great to me!) and then he teased us while saying it would be unfair to tease the readers and finally he left us with a riddle, “The key to the solution - can only be found - if you believe a solution is needed.”
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One of the most remarkable things about the rebirth of the game of poker in the 21st century has to be the wealth of information that is out on the market right now. Whereas there used to be only a few select tomes that even approached teaching the game at the highest levels, now it seems that they simply fall from the sky.
A Ridgewood lawyer is fighting a subpoena that commands him to testify before a Morris County grand jury about legal advice he gave two Roxbury police officers, who set up what police allege was an illegal poker casino that operated in Dover.
When Henry Orenstein first envisioned a miniature camera that could be installed in a poker table to show a player’s hidden, or “hole,” cards to the audience, televised poker games were little more than a novelty act. Sure, you could find poker on cable TV in the mid-1990s, but it was usually relegated to a time slot in the middle of the night, alongside wild turkey hunting or the lumberjack competition. With his invention - sometimes called a lipstick camera or a “pocket cam” - Orenstein cleare …
Non-profit organizations are raising millions of dollars by hosting Texas Hold ‘em poker tournaments in the aptly-named Golden State of California. Finding poker tournaments more easy to organize and more profitable than other typical fundraising schemes, such as carwashes, bake sales, and Chinese auctions, non-profit organizations in the state have followed suit in joining the poker mania that is sweeping across the United States.
In a major victory for poker player’s rights in Maryland, Baltimore prosecutors announced that they would throw out the gambling charges brought against the 80 poker players…
With the diversification that is seen on the Internet, there is little that can be done to organize and regulate what occurs in the online world. This has led many to believe that online casinos and online poker rooms…
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