2005 November 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Morgan Stanley has started to cover the online poker industry, and they began with a very positive forecast for Party Gaming, which had lost over 3 billion pounds in market value following a revised assessment of the sustainable growth of online poker.

With all of the money being made with online poker, it seems only right that a group would finally developed a site that would focus specifically on raising money for worthy causes.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is announcing their “Alamo Poker Tour Texas Hold’em Poker Challenge,” a two-day, celebrity-studded poker tournament and fundraising event December 8-9, 2005 at the Morongo Casino Resort in Cabazon, CA.

You read that right. TEAM poker. What has always been one of the most individual of individual contests has now been made into a team …

TORONTO, ONTARIO - Internet poker growth, strong customer relationship extend European reach for CryptoLogic software. CryptoLogic Inc. …

Guess you can say that Phil Ivey helped himself to seconds this Thanksgiving. Not second places, but a second tournament win in a row.

TUNICA, Mississippi - The World Poker Open returns to Tunica for its seventh year and will be held exclusively at Gold Strike Casino Resort. Attended by both nationally and internationally renowned poker players, the Gold Strike World Poker Open begins Jan. 9 and culminates with the World Poker Tour’s championship event January 19-23. Considered one of the biggest and most successful poker tournaments in the world, Gold Strike is now the exclusive site for the World Poker Tour…