2006 March 09 Poker News, Events and Happenings

March 9, 2006 - Riding the trendy wave of online poker, Crave Entertainment today dealt the world its ace hand, World Championship Poker: Featuring Howard Lederer “All In” for Xbox 360, PSP, and PS2.

The rumors have proven to be true. As previously reported here on OPN, a new poker room, if you can call it that, has debuted at O’ Shea’s. Why the hesitation to call it a poker room? Well, essentially the tiny O’ Shea’s installed two, that’s right, two, poker tables on the casino floor. Furthermore, unlike most other poker rooms in the world, the poker "area" isn’t roped or cordoned off, but rather positioned right at the street-side entrance to the casino. This essentially means that potential poker players can take a seat at one of the two tables by taking about two steps "indoors" from the Las Vegas Strip.

PartyPoker.com and Lavalife are teaming up to offer a free 11-week long No Limit Texas Hold’Em tournament series that offers single poker players a chance to meet new people while playing cards online.

WCP: All In features some of the most recognizable and successful poker stars in the world, including Howard Lederer, his sister Annie Duke, Greg Raymer, Amir Vahidi, Paul Darden, and Robert Williamson III. Joining the roster for this year’s edition are noted international poker superstars Marcel Luske, Thomas Bihl, and Erin Ness, who parlayed a victory at a Maxim Magazine office tournament into

Pokerroom.com’s incredibly successful promotion, whereby one lucky online poker pro becomes a sponsored poker pro for an entire year, has come to an end with Jim Davenport declared the winner! Davenport can now spend the year playing in no limit poker tournaments around the world courtesy of Pokeroom!

With three players left in the Camp Hellmuth finale — which played out onstage in front of 200 people, with the hands being shown on a big screen, and with me announcing the hands to the audience — Gordon Higgins of Kansas City was getting low on chips. But after what he’s been through this past year, it didn’t bother him at all.You see, Higgins’ girlfriend had given him a Camp Hellmuth ticket as a present, and they planned to turn the two-day camp into a real Vegas vacation by adding two days

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 8, 2006–ALL IN Media, the publisher of ALL IN magazine, announced the launch of its new Web site allinmag.com today.”We’ve taken the next step in making ALL IN a truly integrated media brand,” said Bhu Srinivasan, president of ALL IN Media. “We’re very excited to launch allinmag.com with video coverage, Podcasts, the complete issue archives, and my personal favorite, the Blog Monitor where I can scan my must-read poker blogs. We also launched our Daily Freeroll