2006 March 10 Poker News, Events and Happenings
World Championship Poker goes “All In” with Xbox 360, PS2, and PSP versions; new title features mixed games, 18 types of poker.
As most online poker players know, there are numerous ways to earn a seat in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) without having to shell out 10 grand. Well, a new way has just emerged, and you don’t even need to play one hand of poker to claim your seat. ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest energy, petroleum, and petrochemical companies, will be giving away a WSOP prize package to one lucky motor oil purchaser.
LONDON (PRESS RELEASE) — Just months after winning the first Extreme Poker Championship 30 feet underwater off the shores of St. Kitts in the Caribbean, Finnish Poker Pro was given the option to select the venue for the next Extreme event.
KIM BUTSUMYO became the first female player to qualify in the main event of the Philippine Poker Tour (PPT) Million Peso Holdem Philippine championship set April 8-9 at the Airport Casino Filipino Parañaque.
There are three kinds of online poker players who spend time at the Internet poker rooms; those who play for fun, those who play for money, and those who play for serious money. For the last two kinds of players, it is important to know which of the dozens of online poker rooms are the best money makers, and a recent poll at a poker forum placed Pacific Poker as the top spot for money making for those poker players using Mac software. Party Poker beat out Pacific Poker as a money maker, but as they don’t have Mac compatible software, they are not a real choice for Mac poker players.
Many poker fans would say that playing cards on a cruise ship in the Bahamas for a tournament prize package worth more than $250,000 would be the biggest event of their year, if not their lives.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, March 9 /CNW/ - What do you get when you mix over500 poker players, over 100 Black Jack masters, 200 poker dealers, 600 decksof cards, 180,000 chips, the luscious Caribbean sun, two exotic ports of calland over $5 million of prize money? The PartyPoker.com Million V, the world’s largest “limit” Texas Hold’emTournament, which this year also includes the $250,000 World BlackjackChampionships and a $50,000 slots tournament all staged aboard HollandAmerica’s ms Westerdam, dep
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