2006 February 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Are you getting in on the poker craze? If so, we want to hear from you.

Joining the ranks of notable online gaming companies such as 888.com, PartyGaming, and Empire Online, the Excapsa online poker network has just floated on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), part of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Boasting a per share value of £1.10, the stock raised over £26 million in its first day of trading and is poised to keep growing. Excapsa stock trades under the symbol XCP.

Poker was on people’s minds at the Main Event of the LA Poker Classic, but one topic was on everyone’s lips - Andy Beal versus ‘the Corporation.’….

The 4th Quarter results for World Poker Tour Enterprises were released and the company still continues to lose more money gambling on poker than they make, but their “fish” status could soon be revoked as they are making progress…

VINELAND — The owners of a local cigar store are accusing an Internet-based poker tournament operator of double-dealing.Lydia and Candido Rigo, owners of the Oro Cubano cigar shop on North Delsea Drive, are asking the civil law division of Cumberland County Superior Court to grant consumer fraud class-action status for their lawsuit against the Satellite Poker League, the league’s founder and a representative.Class action status would open the door for anyone with a grievance against the league

What kind of event could attract such diverse celebrities as Burt Reynolds, James Woods, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Mimi Rogers, Stephen Collins, Jennifer Tilly, Sara Rue, James Garner, Kevin Weisman, David Sutcliffe, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Schneider, Anne Heche, Ron Livingston, Adrian Young, Gavin Maloof, Jeremy Sisto, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Joshua Morrow, Rick Fox, Christopher Rich, and Cindy Margolis, the most downloaded woman on the internet? The World Poker Tour Invitational™, of cour

I’m sitting in the flat of Noah ‘Exclusive’ Boeken in Amsterdam, the night before I go home after 17 days on the road in Europe. Its about nine minutes until the PokerStars weekly $200 buy in…