2006 January 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Benson could find herself getting plenty of face time on ESPN in the coming year. Not during baseball games, but more likely during one of the network’s ubiquitous poker broadcasts.

A state lawmaker intends to give the state comptroller’s office a wakeup call through proposed legislation over video poker machines.

Anna Benson could find herself getting plenty of face time on ESPN in the coming year. Not during baseball games, but more likely during one of the network’s ubiquitous poker broadcasts.

ANTHONY Gabitan outsmarted all comers to crown himself 2005 Poker King Challenge champion after a grueling six-hour finals at the Airport Casino Filipino Parañaque last Saturday.

The more than billion-strong nation of China is home to a huge poker fan in the form of pint-sized Zhang Xinyang. The 10-year-old student at Tianjin University of Technology and Education likes to play poker in his off time. Rather than play with kids his own age, the Doogie Howser-in-the-works chooses to shuffle up and deal with his "peers," some of whom are approaching their twenties.

The parties have collected themselves, the dust has cleared, and television poker fans have yet another show to watch. After much legal wrangling …

So much for a happy marriage. World Poker Tour Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE) filed suit against its television partner the Travel Channel and its …