2006 February 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings
A settlement for $200 million. That’s what it looks like it will take to finally bring an end to the hostilities between online poker providers PartyGaming and Empire Online. PartyGaming is reportedly prepared to compensate Empire Online with this huge sum in light of having cut off its poker site, Empire Poker, from the millions-strong PartyGaming player base. As of last year’s severance of ties between the two organizations, Empire Poker was left with only a small percentage of active poker players on the site, causing "substantial damage" to Empire Online revenues.
Noble Poker is sponsoring a series of five freeroll tournaments, each with a shot at winning a fee seat at the 2006 World Series of Poker. This is a huge value, one that many poker players look for at most online poker rooms around the Internet and physical locations around the globe. In addition to paying the entry fee and buy in, the site will also cover travel costs and a choice spot on Team PokerNews, along with the poker pros.
New combers to Noble Poker are given a chance to play in all five freeroll events, which take place during the normal monthly tournaments…
Thursday, February 9, 2006, the Imperial House banquet center was raided by police. The center, located in Clinton Township, was supposed to be the location of an illegal no-limit Texas Holdem game, according to the tip off received by the police. When police arrived they indeed caught the game in action, with the force led by Clinton Township Police Captain Fred Posavetz stopping play and seizing poker chips, playing cards, nearly $50,000 in cash from the nearly 100 players.
A seating chart, cash bar and even a big prize for the eventual winner all pointed to a well organized event…
Poker is, and always has been, a global game. A game that crosses borders and language barriers to people of all nations and cultures; yet, primarily due to Hollywood but in no small part to the American ideal of doing thing in a big way, poker is often seen as an American game, at least one that Americans dominate in. This past year shows that times may be changing…
Tens of thousands of Nevadans routinely break state gaming laws by illegally playing online poker, but the state’s gaming cops don’t seem to care. Nevada is one of the few states to have enacted laws making it illegal to gamble online.
Deauville, France, was the scene of a major poker tournament this weekend, as 434 players took part in the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) French Open. The 4,000 buy-in main event took four days to complete, with an unknown Swede, Mats Iremark, taking home top prize money of 480,000 for his first place finish. In addition, Iremark won a seat at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, worth 10,000, as well as free socialized health care for the rest of his life.
Allison Brauer has figured out how to turn $340 into nearly $15,000. She can play and win at the immensely popular poker game Texas Hold ‘em.The 23-year-old from Milan placed second at the 2006 Jack Binion World Series of Poker No Limit Hold ‘em Ladies Event held Jan. 22 at the Grand Casino in Tunica.Her second-place win and earnings secured her decision to quit her four-year job working in the surgery center at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Her last day was Friday.She plans to gradua
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