2006 January 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Thirty-six of the world’s top poker players will try to conceal their nervous tension as the countdown to the final of the Aussie Millions poker championship begins.Day four of the tournament at Melbourne’s Crown Casino sees more than $660,000 separating the lowest trailing contestant from US chip leader Kenna James, who resumed play with $700,500.The players are competing for a share of more than $US4 million ($A5.32 million) in the main event prize pool and the $US1 million ($A1.33 million) ch

Monte Carlo Millions winner Phil Ivey has been recognized by Bluff Magazine and ESPN as the 2005 poker player of the year. The prestigious honor, bestowed by the world’s most widely distributed poker publication and the worldwide leader in sports, was received with humility by Ivey, who still considers himself to be "a regular guy." Regular? Hardly.

For the last ten years, whenever people have asked me to recommend them a poker book, I had one of two answers for them. If I felt they were serious, I would recommend ‘Theory of Poker’ by David Sklansky…

It is one of the things, honestly, that makes my day. Even with the plethora of poker materials that one can find in the bookstores, sometimes it can be just as fun to look over the Internet…

2K Games narrows release timing and confirms PS2 connectivity. January 17, 2006 - 2K Games today announced that the PlayStation Portable version of World Poker Tour is scheduled to arrive this spring, giving gamers on the go a chance at the card-shark action which hit consoles last year.

Poker players around the world debate the key issues of the game today. Most of the time, though, there is no solid consensus as to who (or what) is the best offered today….

Jeremy Warshauer, a Harvard University poker phenom, yesterday won a trip to play in the World Series of Poker, entirely for free from www.truepoker.com. [PRWEB Jan 18, 2006]