2006 March 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Four years ago, Mike Schneider started playing poker with high school friends for nickels and dimes. On spring break last week, the University of Minnesota senior won $1 million in a cruise ship poker tournament. It’s all a bit much for the quiet journalism major from Eagan, who wore down two older professionals with doggedness and a face masked by mirrored sunglasses and a backwards baseball

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 21 (UPI) — A University of Minnesota student returned from spring break tired but happy after winning $1 million in a poker tournament.

continues to reward its customers play by shelling out millions of dollars in tournament prize money. The latest offering, the record breaking Poker Classic with a $5 million Tournament prize pool. The winner of this historic tournament will take home a staggering $1 Million. The $5 million finals will be played on the green felt in Barcelona, Spain at the Casino de Barcelona September 30th - Oct

(RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK) - The State Board of Elections began hearing testimony on Tuesday about donations from the video poker industry to the campaign of House Speaker Jim Black.

Three people with ties to video poker operators testified to the State Board of Elections this morning that they each wrote $1,000 checks with the payee name blank that eventually went to the campaign of House Speaker Jim Black in 2002.

There can be no confusion as to which version of online poker room Pacific Poker’s game software to use, Windows based or Macintosh based. The new software that is part of the game system automatically detects whether or not the user is on a PC or a Mac, and directs them to the appropriate site to get them playing online poker. Mac users have been having an easier time of playing poker on the Internet lately, with plenty of new sites cropping up tailored to their system of choice…

Online gambling is already illegal in the United States. Proprietors of gaming sites are all incorporated overseas. Yet Internet wagering is still a $12 billion industry.History has shown us that prohibiting private, consensual behavior has never made that behavior go away. Because consensual crimes take no victims, vice laws are difficult to enforce. Police have to use informers and undercover work and sometimes need to break the very laws they’re trying to enforce.Consequently, America’s vario