2006 April 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Michael Simon considers himself a pretty regular guy, but he said what happened to him last week was surreal. Simon won a little more than $1 million at the World Poker Challenge in Reno, Nevada. Watch The Video More Local News

America’s 70 million poker players say they aren’t bluffing in their resistance to the latest congressional efforts to ban online casino gambling. To dramatize that determination, their leader, San Franciscan Michael Bolcerek — president of the…

It seems that every week, another poker title comes to mobile gaming. And, in light of recent data, it seems that there’s indeed the demand to match such a proliferation of mobile poker games. Telephia, a mobile research company, reported that poker games have taken up over 20 percent of the top deck slots among the major U.S. mobile carriers.

World Poker Exchange announced a bold move today to become the first established online poker room to completely eliminate rake. All forms of …

WASHINGTON — (PRESS RELEASE) — At a roundtable panel discussion today, The Poker Players Alliance, a grassroots organization of more than 20,000 American poker players, renewed its objection to online gambling prohibition, highlighting a new survey by ICR market research that finds nearly 75 percent of Americans oppose moves by Congress to ban Internet poker.

ST. JOHNS, Antigua (PRESS RELEASE) — World Poker Exchange announced today a major pricing initiative that threatens to radically transform the $5.5-billion online poker industry.

Evelyn Ng, the stunning female poker pro who is fast making a name for herself in on the tournament poker circuit, has joined fellow high-profile poker players, Josh Arieh and David Williams, as the newest member of the Bodog Poker team…