2006 June 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings

North Carolina officials are poised to do what South Carolina did a few years ago: eliminate much of the competition for its state-sponsored gambling business.It was more than coincidence that South Carolina banned video poker at about the same time it legalized the lottery.

ASHEVILLE — Macon County sheriff’s deputies knew they had hit their own jackpot last month after seizing 19 video poker machines and $10,000 in illegal payouts.

For the entirety of the history of the World Series of Poker, the $10,000 Championship Event has been the pinnacle of success not only of that particular year’s tournament schedule but also of the poker world…

Monday, June 5, the long war against video poker machines may come to a close in the southern state of North Carolina. The state Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on a bill that, if passed, would ban video poker machines in North Carolina by the summer of 2007. Since 2000, the Senate has approved a ban five times but has been blocked from turning it into law…

Charles "Chuck" Taylor, the ex-commander of an American Legion post in Medford, Massachusetts, was recently accused of stealing as much as $23,000 from the facility’s video poker machines for over seven months in 2005.

Doyles Room has joined forces with Poker News to offer three seats to the World Series of Poker this summer. As is common for tournaments of this type, the winner of the tournament will win a World Series of Poker package sending them on their way to Las Vegas this summer to compete against the world’s best in poker in the main event. In addition, the second-place finisher will also win $12,000 Team Poker News World Series of Poker package…

Many Texas Hold’em experts believe you shouldn’t put all your money in on a drawing hand. While that’s true in many cases, it doesn’t apply to monster draws. A monster draw is one in with 14 outs or more — fourteen or more cards that will improve your hand after the flop.Let’s say, for example, that you put your opponent on pocket aces or pocket kings. You, on the other hand, hold 6h-7h, and the flop comes 3h-8h-9s. To improve to the best hand, you could hit one of the nine remaining hearts to m