2006 April 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings
If Representative Goodlatte has his way, all ISPs will be acting to effectively kill online poker. The legislation he recently introduced in Washington would have the Internet Service Providers hunting down and removing all links to poker sites, and to any sites that the US government declares a violator of the law.
Quick, who is the worst poker player ever to stumble his way to the World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet? If you answered "Chris Moneymaker" or "Noel Ferguson" you have a case, but come on, how can you top the 2002 WSOP champion, Robert Varkonyi? These days Robert is best known as a railbird for his mail order Russian bride…
Along the backdrop of frigid Finland, homeland of defending Extreme Poker champ Juha Helppi, a total of six risk-taking poker players braced the icy temperatures to play in the second installment of InterPoker’s Extreme Poker Challenge.
Ask any online casino poker fan and you’ll learn that Team Martin Poker is regarded as one of the most distinguished professional poker teams on the market. So for online casino fan and poker celebrity Liz Lieu, the chance to join the team in Las Vegas was a dream come true.
New York — The next big thing in sports programming is dominoes?To the occasional player, it is a stretch to even call this quiet game of straight-faced strategy a sport. But anyone who has spent time in a Latino neighborhood in New York City could testify that dominoes played there — with the slammed-down tiles, the verbal sparring, the bragging and bluffing — is no parlor game.From the opening bid, a simple sidewalk match will quickly escalate into a raucous, freewheeling spectacle: a mini-
TUSCALOOSA - On a break from international poker tournaments, Shannon Shorr plays four games of poker at once from the couch in his off-campus apartment, using a wireless keyboard to navigate the Internet games projected on his big-screen TV.After winning $100,000 from online games last year, the 20-year-old University of Alabama civil engineering major put his education on hold to play in live tournaments. He made almost $300,000 in his first couple of outings but has sputtered lately. In March
There is more than one way to make money playing online poker, and “Jeff from Tennessee” can prove it. The online poker player was playing video poker at Canbet.com when he won more than thirty thousand dollars, a nice payday by just about any standards.
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