2006 May 19 Poker News, Events and Happenings
In December, I heard something I found hard to believe. There was going to be a $10 million dollar buy in poker tournament. Ten Million Dollars. The first question that came to mind was ‘what is the juice on that tournament?….
The Las Vegas-based educational media company Expert Insight has, in the past year, presented two of the most comprehensive DVD looks at both blackjack and poker…
The World Series Of Poker Circuit moved to Caesars Palace for the first time last week. The famous casino recently reopened their poker room after an absence of fifteen years. The final table of this WSOPC event was dominated by old pros, and John Spadavecchia ultimately took down the first prize of $648,000…
The news that the online poker growth explosion may soon fizzle came recently from an unsuspected source: the CEO of one of the larger online poker rooms. John Anderson, the CEO of 888Holdings, owner of the online poker room Pacific Poker, recently spoke in an interview on the subject, and said that the exponential rates simply can’t continue or soon everyone in the world will be playing online poker.
A motorcycle poker run to benefit Lake County resident Karen Beard will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday at Beard Pippin Properties, 2755 S. Bay St., Suite A, Eustis. The run starts and ends at this location.
Online casinos must unite to ban cheaters, restrict underage gamblers and ensure fair gaming if it wants to lose its shady reputation, a champion of industry standards said yesterday.Only then will the Internet gaming world gain the respect of gamblers who stay away, Andrew Beveridge, chief executive of watchdog eCOGRA argued at the online gambling convention at the Palais des congres.”The entire industry is not pulling together to address these issues,” Beveridge said. Only76 websites among hun
When video poker kingpin John “Duffy” Conley, 42, of Pittsburg was sentenced to prison in 1995 for a multi-million dollar, illegal video poker ring, he spent nine years repaying his debt to society behind bars. Conley was arrested again when he broke parole by placing millions of dollars of wagers on sporting events via telephone over the last year.
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