2006 March 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Double the fun, a shot at Ed for $100 bucks, $500 in prize money for a second time tonight!! Get on over to Absolute Poker , download the software if you haven’t already, and look in the Lobby under “Tourneys, Special, Eveready Ed’s Poker for tonight at 23:30 EST (thats 8:30 pm PST).

Newly minted poker millionaire Mike Schneider has one regret about how he spent his spring break: He didn’t get to see much of

Newly minted poker millionaire Mike Schneider has one regret about how he spent his spring break: He didn’t get to see much of the Caribbean.

This week in Atlantic City, over 400 poker players paid the $1,000 buy-in fee to enter the Borgata’s Ultimate Supersatellite Poker Tournament. What makes this supersatellite "ultimate," you might ask? As opposed to traditional supersatellites, where the winner earns a seat at a major tournament’s main event, this supersatellite awarded six players free seats at four major poker tournament main events. The six lucky winners also got $4,500 from the Borgata, as spending money to accompany their $55,500-valued main event seats.

Online poker room, InterPoker.com, will film a new “reality” television series in Birmingham, England June 12-19. The InterPoker.com University …

To date, Bravo has given more than $2 million to various charities through its series “Celebrity Poker Showdown.” The show will add another million to its pot this year — with all the money going to organizations helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Because what the internet needs is yet another online poker room, another poker pro has decided to start one up. This is time it’s the well-known …