2006 January 15 Poker News, Events and Happenings
WOULDN’T it be great to have an invisible mini-mentor sitting on your shoulder to advise when to take a specific action?”See that mistake you’re about to make,” your mentor would whisper just before you plunged into some disastrous situation, “I made the same one back in 1925. Let me show you how to avoid it…”Unfortunately life isn’t like that. We must learn from our errors although judging by the questions I’ve been asked since this column first appeared there is definitely room for a little
Stars turn out for Lidle’s poker tournament
Poker pro Annie Duke, the winner of the 2004 Tournament of Champions, will be starring in her own television show. The poker show, dubbed "Annie Duke Takes on the World," will be broadcast on GSN, the Network for Games, beginning on May 1st. Duke’s show will feature four amateur poker players competing against one another while she provides viewers with expert commentary and insight into their gameplay.
Like several of the WSOP main event winners, the winner of this ferocious battle at the Atlantis Casino Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, is what many would consider your average poker player…
The World Series of Poker has been around for thirty-six years, and they have decided it is time to hire a commissioner. They did not have to look far, adding the role and duties of commissioner of the World Series of Poker to the plate of Jeffery Pollack, the vice president of Sports and Entertainment for Harrahs Operating Company, Inc, which is a subsidiary of Harrahs Entertainment. Harrahs owns the WSOP.
Barring an regulatory approval problems, Pollack will be the new commissioner of the WSOP, a step deemed necessary by the unique sports, gaming, and entertainment challenges presented by the WSOP…
GSN, the Game Show Network, has long been the place for games and television to meet in an interactive format, and it looks as if they are continuing the tradition with Annie Duke Takes On The World. The show will pit poker pro Annie Duke against amateur players, who will fight it out to play one on one with Duke.
During the event Duke and co host Regan Burns, from Oblivious and Titus, will give players tips as well as taunts as they play, getting them ready for the showdown with the woman poker champion. Monday, May 1st will be the day to catch the show, which will run for one hour from 9 to 10 PM Easter Time…
With some places cracking down on poker in all its forms, the activity in other places suggests that 2006 will still see plenty of No Limit Texas Holdem and other poker tournaments and events used to raise money for charity. A recent ruling in Texas stated that Poker Runs were considered gambling and thus illegal in that state, keeping the traditional charity runs from occurring.On Sunday, January 29th the Sinai Mens Associates will be hosting a No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament to raise money for the Men’s Associates Patient Activity Fund. The fund is designed to help cover the costs of entertainment programs for Sinai patients and their families, as well as social and recreational events…
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