2006 January 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

America Online is one of the oldest Internet companies in the world today, and one of the largest. AOL, as it is more commonly known, has a reputation for quality content and service that it provides to its membership world wide, and for cutting edge action on all things online. Why, one might wonder, are they just now getting around to the poker craze?
Sixteen years after the company launched, AOL has created a dedicated portion of its portal to blackjack, and struck up a deal with the World Series of Poker in order to help entice users to their site…

NEW YORK, NY JANUARY 17, 2006 2K Sports, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced that World Poker Tour ® (WPT) for the PSP TM (PlayStation ® Portable) system is slated for release this spring.

Having outlasted 361 other players, Joe Hachem’s run at the Aussie Millions has finally ended. The 2005 WSOP poker champion lasted until the middle of day three in the five-day tournament. Hachem, who lives in Australia, became the unofficial focus of the prestigious poker tournament due to his superstar status and Down Under residence.

It’s known that North Americans, Canadians in particular, have a passion for hockey. Recently, however, some of the game’s elite players have also gotten into poker as their second sport of choice. In the clearest evidence of this trend, players on one National Hockey League (NHL) team will be putting their skates and sticks on ice for the night and will instead be pulling up seats at poker tables to benefit charity.

Non-profit groups in New Brunswick are asking the province to legalize charitable poker tournaments. Unregulated gambling is a criminal offence, but poker players don’t have any trouble finding a game. At least two bars in Saint John are openly advertising poker tournaments.

CASSELBERRY - A poker game took a violent turn when an off-duty reserve police officer shot two men who refused to let him play, authorities said.Maitland Officer Daniel John Metevier shot player Francis Webster in the shoulder and Jason Granich in the stomach, Seminole County sheriff’s investigators said.Granich was listed in serious but not life-threatening condition, the Sheriff’s Office said. Webster’s wound was superficial.The trouble began when Metevier and another would-be player refused

From moms to millionaires, poker players are taking over Tunica Casinos. At the Grand you’ll find the World Series of Poker as seen on ESPN. Just up the river, at the Goldstrike it’s the World Poker Tour. Theresa Furr loves the game, “The excitement, the thrill, the adrenaline rush you get from it. The bluffing, the manipulation you can add to it.” Furr is from Miami, she follows the tournaments from city to city, “It’s like a dating service. Here I am, one woman out of nine guys and they’re all