2006 March 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings
ATHENS, Ga. - Some University of Georgia students returned from spring break Monday with tanned skin and tawdry tales. Jeff Williams came back with $1 million, as the winner of the European Poker Tour in Monaco.
Poker’s growing popularity means that the game is making inroads into mainstream products as well. Poker is prevalent in Diet Pepsi commercials, on men’s and women’s apparel, and even bobblehead designs. And now, poker is extending its reach into condoms. That’s right, condoms. Aiming to provide titillating sensations to fun-loving card players, the poker condoms look like your typical poker chips, and can even be used in actual poker play according to pokercondoms.com, the Internet site marketing the product for AEM Enterprises.
A 19-year old University of Georgia student just won the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, and now, a 21-year old University of Minnesota student …
Venue: Reno Hilton — Reno, Nevada
Dates: March 9 - March 30
Main Event: $5000 March 27 - 30
Number of Events: 40
March 9 - No-Limit …
Ken Adams explains that it’s always nice to win big at a poker tournament, but some times it’s alright to lose your stake. He went to Maryland to play in a charity tournament with some interesting rules.
Across the felt sat The Brat.But not for too much longer.That’s because poker’s famous whiner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., ran into Larry Elliott, arguably Pueblo’s most successful Texas Hold ‘em player.Elliott, 41, has twice devastated Hellmuth, a nine-time World Series of Poker winner, at poker tournaments in recent years.Last year, at a tournament at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Elliott knocked out Hellmuth, who is known, not with affection, as The Brat.”I don’t like (Hellmuth),” Elliott said recently.
GIBRALTAR, March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Proving once again that the youth movement is on the march in poker, a quiet 22-year-old college student from Minneapolis became the youngest winner in the five-year history of the prestigious PartyPoker.com Million, claiming the $1 million first prize amidst his wildly cheering group of 15 supporters from his home state-all poker players themselves.For a moment in the big amphitheatre aboard the ms. Westerdam, it seemed more like a frat party than a
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