2006 February 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Richard Douglas “Doug” Thomas, 43, held poker games in his loft apartment at 9003 Opera Alley, said Manassas City Police Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Neumann.

Last week, we started discussing how Texas Hold’em Poker is played. If you’ll recall, the following are steps in playing one hand of hold’em.

Day Four and the final table of the inaugural Borgata Winter Poker Open came and went Wednesday with more than just a big bang as three of the game’s top players took on three unknowns in a massive chip battle that will go down in the record books of Borgata’s growing poker legend.

Hela, a "corporate wellbeing solutions" company, is beginning a new marketing campaign for a specially-constructed ergonomic computer mouse. The freshly-billed "Poker Mouse" has actually been on the market for over 18 months, but only recently has Hela’s marketing team focused its efforts on trying to sell it to the millions-strong pool of online poker players.

Just as Scotty Nguyen did a couple weeks ago, Daniel Negreanu ended a year-long winless streak last week, winning the $10,000 Main Event of the …

There’s one thing that trying to create a poker video game has in common with learning the game of poker: both tasks are a lot harder than they look.

LONDON As reported by Reuters: “Online gamblers flocked into 888 poker rooms in the fourth quarter, sending poker revenues up 22 percent from the previous three months, the company said on Thursday.