2006 February 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2
Andy Beal, the self-made Texan billionaire who is infamous in the poker world for challenging the world’s best players to heads up play and losing a small fortune in the process, has apparently given up the game for good. This follows another thrashing at the hands of The Corporation…
TEXAS (PRESS RELEASE) — Looking to enter the explosive mobile game market? This is the fastest way to do it. Maui Texas Hold’em, a mobile multiplayer poker platform, and ChessEverywhere, a mobile multiplayer chess game, are currently being auctioned on eBay.
Televised poker and reality programming have irreversibly changed the face of broadcasting, with millions of people all over the world tuning in to these types of shows each week. Bodog CEO and founder Calvin Ayre is set to combine these two television genres into a new reality poker program. The poker show will be filmed at Ayre’s majestic mansion, also known as the Bodog Compound, in Costa Rica and will feature 40 hopefuls vying for the $500,000 grand prize.
Last year Texas bikers, poker players and charity workers all received bad news when the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated that poker runs, which involved bikers riding and collecting poker cards to raise money for charities, where effectively illegal. He pointed out that poker is a game of chance, which is illegal gambling in the states penal code, and that no one should profit from it, not even a charity. In response, some charitable organizations are seeking new venues to hold their poker related fund raising events, even crossing the border south into Juarez to do it.
I played baseball from the age of 6 to the age of 22. One of my last coaches had a term and a concept for nearly everything in the game….
Bodog Founder and CEO Calvin Ayre is out to discover the next reality TV star — and he will do it with the help of a major U.S. television network.
Poker has plenty of colorful characters in the game. From the legendary Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson to the latest Foxwoods’ World Poker Tour winner…
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