2006 February 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Paris Hilton and Phil Hellmuth are sitting at the breakfast table when Hilton offers to lay some lox Hellmuth’s bagels. Sounds unrealistic? Well, as of 2009, that could happen every morning. Hellmuth just won a poker tournament in which the top prize was a $700,000 condo at the future W Las Vegas hotel-casino and condominium complex, where Hilton has reserved a penthouse suite. The poker pro immediately added $1.3 million of his own to upgrade to a first-class penthouse pad of his own.

It has been a good New Year for Michael Mizrachi. Following a second place finish at the WPT Tunica event less than two weeks ago, “The Grinder” …

Stewart Reuben, an English author who penned “How Good Is Your Pot-Limit Hold’em” and “How Good is Your Pot-Limit Omaha,” has produced an interesting, and what might become quite a controversial work, in “Poker 24/7 (35 Years As a Poker Pro)” (256 pages, hardbound, $24.95). He apparently likes to “walk the edge of controversy,” which in this case means he hints at things people have done —

Atlantic City, NJ (PRWEB) February 3, 2006 — Full Tilt Poker pros John D’Agostino and Erick Lindgren each had very strong showings at the Borgata Winter Poker Open, finishing second and third respectively out of a field of 381. Additionally, Peter Feldman, who earned his $10,000 tournament entry by playing online at Full Tilt Poker, just missed the final table, finishing seventh.D’Agostino’s second-place finish earned him $591,312, the biggest payday of his professional career. D’Agostino’s pre

(PRESS RELEASE) — Online poker has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past couple of years. Some of the fuel powering this rapid expansion is the emergence of free roll tournaments sponsored by online poker rooms.

ATLANTIC CITY, — (PRESS RELEASE) — 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.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating professional poker player Doyle Brunson’s offer to buy WPT Enterprises Inc., said Thursday it has subpoenaed the man who operated Brunson’s personal Web site.