2006 January 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Tampa Bay pari-mutual facilities have suspended poker tournaments again, in response to a ruling Wednesday from the Division of Pari-Mutual Wagering.

Cindy Margolis, a vapid model best known for self-promotion, infomercials, and an Internet institution for many years, has opened her “own” online poker room and cleverly called it CindysPoker.com…

Take Two Interactive announces they are bringing a video game based on the popular poker television series to Sony’s portable gaming device.

Flushed? Feeling Ace? Heart racing? Then you must have already clicked on to online poker, the new passion thats sweeping the nation. Millions of people from all walks of life are discovering the buzz of Texas Holdem.

According to Chad Flood, a junior at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, it took patience and a level head to out play more than 25,000 students from 2,400 schools around the world to win the 2005 College Poker Championship and earn the $41,000 grand-prize scholarship.

2K Games is offering gambling-hungry gamers a little comfort today with the confirmation that World Poker Tour is definitely slotted in for a spring release on the PSP. No definite release date has been announced so far though, which means you’ll just have to continue to practicing that poker face in the privacy of your own home throughout the last gloomy remnants of winter.

MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 17, 2006–On Saturday, January 21, 2006, Alex Rodriguez, Dewar’s 12 and Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami will host the 2nd Annual Dewar’s 12 Texas Hold ‘em Poker Tournament. Over 300 revelers will spend the evening with an elite group of guests and one hundred of South Florida’s poker champs will battle it out in a single elimination Texas Hold ‘em tournament to take home the grand prize of a one year lease on a Mercedes-Benz C230WZ courtesy of Alex Rodriguez Mercedes-Ben