2006 February 19 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Bobby Neary is an online poker player at Party Poker. The 21-year-old recently scored a major success in winning a berth at the Aussie Millions poker tournament through a Party Poker online satellite qualifier. Neary made the most of his opportunity, turning it into a 2nd-place finish at the Australian poker tournament, worth a whopping $520,000. Unbeknownst to him, however, the terms he agreed to in receiving Party Poker’s prize obligated him to allegedly violate NCAA sponsorship rules, thus jeopardizing his golf scholarship.
On a cool early winter evening in Las Vegas, many people were arranged on the balcony overlooking the Bellagio’s famous dancing fountains….
The first ever poker awards show, produced by online poker operator Bodog and bearing the prestigious brand name of Card Player Magazine, saw Phil Ivey walk away with three major poker awards. Nominated for poker awards in an astounding five categories, Ivey won awards for being the "Best No-Limit Player," "Best Heads-Up Player," and "Most Feared Player" on the poker circuit. Ivey is truly on a roll, racking up the three awards in addition to his honor of being named ESPN and Bluff Magazine’s 2005 Player of The Year.
Los Angeles, CA (February 17, 2006) - Full Tilt Poker strikes again with one of the richest World Series of Poker promotions in history! Announcing three unprecedented ways for players to participate in the world’s biggest poker event, Full Tilt Poker is once again ahead of the curve.With an estimated $75 Million prize pool, the 2006 WSOP is the richest sporting event in the world, and Full Tilt Poker is offering three, groundbreaking ways to take the green.FullTiltPoker.com kicks off their 2006
Joseph Rolle has always been about a good gamble.When he was a kid he would give odds on which falling leaf would hit the ground first.So it was no surprise to friends back in 1981 that as soon as Rolle turned 18, he left his Freeport, Bahamas, home and applied for and landed his first real job as a cashier in the Princess Casino (formerly known as El Casino) on Grand Bahama Island.And it was even less of a surprise just under a year ago when Rolle, now a seasoned professional poker player and d
In Sonoma, California, one junior from Sonoma State University had a bit of luck last month when he won half a million dollars halfway around the world. Bobby Neary, 21, was at the Aussie Millions poker tournament in Melbourne, Australia; when he took second place, he got an approximately $520,000 prize check, which seems pretty lucky. However in a related incident, his golf career suffered a bit of bad luck…
The topic of Internet gambling has always been a hot one in the United States, with the online poker fans holding their breath and hoping that one day it isnt banned all together. If Virginia Representative Republican Bob Goodlatte has its way, it soon will be. The representative has reintroduced a bill that he tried to get through Congress before this week, a bill that would outright outlaw Internet gambling, an industry that some estimates put at a $12 billion value…
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