2006 July 11 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The Department of Labor has found a company liable to pay $10,200 in unpaid wages to its security guard who was shot and injured during an attempted robbery at a poker arcade in Sadog Tasi two years ago.

LAS VEGAS A Nevada woman whose home game poker stakes have included doing the dishes and washing the car beat out more than eleven-hundred women to win a World Series of Poker event early this morning.

NEW YORK Seeking to capitalize on the growing popularity of poker, the Borgata Hotel and Casino has opened a new, 85-table poker room, the company said.

It looked like it would be a difficult day for everyone involved when the World Series of Poker got off to a start on Monday afternoon. There was the potential for three final tables…

Morgan Hill - Robert Collins stared down some of the world’s best poker players in Las Vegas last week, winning $61,000 in the vaunted World Series of Poker.

According to a recent study ordered by the Poker Players Alliance, a group supporting the regulation of online gambling, the U.S. government could potentially collect approximately $3.3 billion in taxes on a yearly basis by regulating the Internet poker industry.

When Gyla Whitlow talks about high stakes, she isnt referring to her Johnson Space Center job as an event coordinator. Whitlow competed in the World Series of Poker ladies event during the weekend.