2006 June 08 Poker News, Events and Happenings

June 8 - The World Poker Tour’s latest event is the Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, and it’s hotting up as the particpiants at the final table have been determined. In fact when final table action starts later today (4 pm PST) we will be on our way to crowning a first-time WPT champion…

A little innocent Texas hold ‘em has lawmakers all a-twitter.

Ja Rule is getting in on the celebrity poker trend, recently unveiling his new online poker room StarsOnPoker.com, a member of the Action Poker Network. Visit SOHH.com for the complete story.

NEW JERSEY (PRESS RELEASE) — PokerXFactor.com, a leading online poker training center, announced today that two leading online poker professionals, Chris Savage and Eric Lynch, will produce videos for the site.

(PRESS RELEASE) — Like many of the major poker tournaments taking place in casinos and on television this summer online poker room CelebPoker.com has announced they will be hosting a $100k Poker Tournament online each month starting July 1st.

With the new Mansionpoker.com sponsored Poker Dome, airing on FSN in the States, a new breed of poker TV show has shown that there is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to showing poker to the masses. Poker, which has always drawn a crowd when it comes to high rollers and high stakes, was turned into a spectator sport thanks to the table cameras of the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. Both shows, however, are highly edited, cutting out the majority of dull hands to keep the intrerest of TV viewers…

The Tug McGraw Foundation, a California-based organization that seeks to improve the live-style of brain tumor survivors, recently announced that it was gathering a team of famous actors and sportsmen to participate in a Texas Hold’ em poker game at the Foundation’s annual event, "An Evening with Tim McGraw & Friends: Honoring Those Who Make a Difference."