2005 November 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

KAMLOOPS, Canada — As reported by the Canadian Press: “A Salt Spring Island man has won the largest legal poker prize in Canada at the B.C. poker championships in Richmond, B.C.”The four-day Texas hold’em event at River Rock Casino went into the early hours of this morning before James Hawkins took the grand prize of $382,000. He said he’s been playing poker for a couple of years and this was only his second tournament.”The championship consisted of three Texas hold’em events over a four-day…

Commerce City police are investigating today whether a 20-year-old man accidentally shot himself during a poker game early Tuesday morning. The victim, whose name was not released, is in grave condition at St. Joseph’s Medical Cente, police said.

With only minor changes to the playing rules, poker tournaments returned to Derby Lane on Tuesday — and so did the crowds that frequent the track’s card room.

Casino developer Lakes Entertainment Inc. of Minnetonka said Wednesday that it is considering selling all or part of its majority stake in World Poker Tour operator WPT Enterprises Inc. to raise cash.

In more criminal poker news, an off-duty policewoman is the victim of a recent Baltimore police raid on a high-stakes poker game in the Northeast section of Baltimore….

Fox Sports, the first network to have broadcast a live poker tournament, will join forces with Full Tilt to broadcast the FullTiltPoker.net Invitational Live from Monaco on Thanksgiving. Fox Sports has also brought other tournaments to television.

They were the first network to ever televise a poker tournament live and, come Thanksgiving, Fox Sports Network will do it again…