2006 January 29 Poker News, Events and Happenings
There’ was a Full House of law enforcement officers at the Reno Cal-Neva Casino. It’s called the Police Unity Poker Tournament. The rules, to spend as much cash as possible and the prize was raising enough money to send four Washoe County Sheriff’s Deputies across country.
It was a star-studded final table in Tunica as poker players from around the globe gathered to compete in the World Poker Open, with total prize money of $3,171,900. Gaving Smith, Michael Mizrachi, and An Tran made it to the final nine but it was Scotty Nguyen who ultimately won it all…
With a gaming portfolio that already includes blackjack, Caribbean Stud poker, and roulette, among other casino game offerings, Aces.com has added a new option for its players in three-card poker. The poker game is more luck-based than the wildly popular Texas Hold ‘em.
Last year Party Poker, the online poker room that is among the largest and most popular on the Internet today, signed up nearly 850,000 new poker players, nearly three quarters of which came from the United States, according to the fourth quarter trading update released by Party Pokers owners, Party Gaming. The outfit is listed in London as a public company.
World Crave Entertainment’s World Championship Poker 2 featuring Howard Lederer is one of the latest crop of video game consol offerings that allow game fans and poker fans alike to turn on their TV and consol and begin raising, betting, calling and folding with virtual representations of actual poker pros. The featured game is, naturally, Texas Holdem, but WCP2 also has 14 poker game variants, with Triple Draw and Five-Card Stud being two.
Pastor John Van Sloten has preached about finding God in many items of pop culture, ranging form the heavy metal rock and roll band icon Mettalica to the every popular, long running animated show, The Simpsons. Now it seems that Van Sloten is ready to show his congregation, as well as those looking on via Internet live feeds, of the virtues of poker, specifically the Cadillac of poker known as Texas Holdem. Part of his sermon will explain that the Bible says very little about games of chance, which many might find surprising.
The Almaden Business Association in San Jose, Calif., wanted to raise money to furnish a children’s “story time” room at a local library. So Rich De La Rosa dreamed up an event he thought was a surefire winner.Hoping to cash in on the national poker craze, he planned a $100-per-person Texas Hold’Em tournament at a San Jose equestrian center last year. The winners were to earn televisions and other prizes, but the cash _ about $10,000 _ was to go to the library.But then De La Rosa, a local insura
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