2006 April 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Google has started selling chocolate poker chips. We love chocolate, and occasionally we’re known to play a game of poker or two. Why not combine the two and offer this fun-but-odd treat, the Google Milk Chocolate Poker Chip. Sold individually.
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — With an ace-high straight, George Austin was sitting pretty, a poker rookie with the best hand at a table full of veterans in a $1.3 million tournament.
Pokernomics,” the title of the fifth chapter of this extraordinary and tantalizing tour de force on high finance and gambling, would have been a more fitting title for the entire tome. The one given it by Morgan Stanley executive and poker adept Aaron Brown, The Poker Face of Wall Street , risks suggesting to potential readers that it is just a rhapsody on the same ‘’law of the jungle'’ theme
Over the last number of months in the online poker world there have been plenty of new approaches to the industry, the latest of which puts the emphasis on socialization over dollars and cents. Partypoker.com, one of the largest online poker rooms are already known for focusing on fun as well as money, has put together a poker tournament for online dating site Lavalife.com, giving their members a unique and fun opportunity to meet and mingle online.
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP)- With an ace-high straight, George Austin was sitting pretty, a poker rookie with the best hand at a table full of veterans in a $1.3 million tournament.One hour into a four-day event, a made-for-TV story line was developing: Retired electrician stuns the pros and winds up playing for big money.But instead of betting aggressively with an unbeatable hand, the 61-year-old Massachusetts man pretended to be weak in hopes of tricking his opponent into placing a fatally big be
GIBRALTAR, April 21 /PRNewswire/ — PartyPoker.com, the world’s largest online poker room, are offering Paris Hilton the chance to win her $178,000 (GBP100,000) Bentley back after reports she lost it in a game of poker at her family’s casino in Las Vegas.Party Poker spokesman Warren Lush said: “It is a simple deal for the Simple Life star. If she goes heads-up online in a no limit Texas Hold’em challenge against poker legend Mike Sexton and wins we’ll hand her the keys to a brand spanking new Be
Paris Hilton has been given the opportunity to win back her Bentley GT. The hotel heiress was devastated after losing the car during a Las Vegas tournament, however online poker site PartyPoker.com now want her to take part in a challenge against professional player Mike Sexton.
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