2006 March 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings
AlamoPoker.com — The Home of Texas Hold ‘Em is offering a series of six big money prize pool tournaments culminating with the Grand Tournament VII, a No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em poker game guaranteeing players $1,000,000 of prize pool money.
No, we’re not horsing around. Jim Switlyk, in the horse racing business for three years, actually named a one-year-old filly after Annie Duke, arguably
the world’s most well-known female poker player. Switlyk, a Jersey man, was inspired to saddle the horse with Duke’s name based on the horse’s lineage. Coming from a line of horses with names like "Annie’s Surprise" and "Cam’s Card Shark," "Annie Duke" seemed like a perfect fit for the filly.
HOLLYWOOD, California (PRESS RELEASE) — Hollywood Poker, where the stars come to play, is proud to roll out the red carpet to its members with the introduction of ClubHOLLYWOODPoker. ClubHOLLYWOODPoker is a special rewards program that provides rich and diverse rewards for player loyalty.
Young Services Club has applied for an extra helping of poker machines, and as a result has undergone a Social Impact Assessment (SIA), which is part of the application process. Looking at the demographics of the Young area, as well as the population, the SIA attempts to determine what sort of impact more gambling devices would have on the local area, and CMP Marketing, the Sydney based company which performed the review, has posted the results at the Services Club.
The report showed that the areas complement of poker machines is well below what the state average is, which supports what Dean Cafe, the CEO of the Young Services Club says about why they put in the application in the first place; because their patrons asked them to.. …
CURACAO (PRESS RELEASE) — Online poker room TouchStone Poker has just launched its Player Points program which rewards its players for their loyalty to the poker room.
Party Gaming has announced that it has launched a joint platform for their online casino and their online poker sites. Players will be able to hold joint accounts for the online casino and the poker room. This is not the first time the online casinos have been integrated together.
The style of poker known as “heads-up” - meaning one-on-one - has a long and rich history in Las Vegas.
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