2006 February 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Trust everyone, but cut the cards. The old saying is still good advice for new poker players.
PartyGaming has announced that its CEO, Richard Segal, would be vacating his position as the online poker company’s chief executive officer. Essentially, it was an issue of location that drove Segal to leave his post. His CEO duties frequently took Segal from his home in London to PartyGaming’s headquarters in Gibraltar, situated on the southern tip of Spain. As a result of increased growth for the online poker company, however, he and other board members agreed that it would be best for the CEO to be based in Gibraltar full-time, an arrangement which didn’t suit Segal for familial reasons.
Happy birthday to you, Alan Goehring. How does almost $2.4 million sound for a birthday present? Good? Good. I’m glad you like it.
PartyGaming, owner of Party Poker and Party Casino, announced today that CEO Richard Segal will be leaving the company, despite a successful year. …
THE PHILIPPINE Poker Tour hopes to hold more satellite tournaments in Casino Filipino sites to enable more poker aficionados to qualify for the main event of the Million Peso Hold-Em Philippine Championship set April 8-9 at the Airport Casino Filipino Parañaque.
When a dedicated sports player takes an injury, he usually curses his luck at being put out of the game. Roberto Romanello likely did the same, but in retrospect figures his broken leg turned out to be a lucky thing. His tibia and femur bones were broken playing football, and that left him laid up with little to do…
LAS VEGAS—-Feb. 28, 2006–Poker Pro Magazine, one of the largest selling poker lifestyle publications in the country, has tapped John “Johnny Quads” Wenzel as its new Editor-in-Chief.
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