2006 August 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

After 450 hours of artistic labor Bryan Berg completed a 400 pound replica of the famous sign that welcomes gamblers and vacationers to Sin City. It took 1800 poker chips, 800 dice, and 500 decks of playing cards to build the replica which reads “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” and used quite a few tubes of super glue. Berg, best known for a 25-foot castle built of playing cards, had to break his no adhesive rule in order to build this sign…

The famed real estate mantra is rarely more true than it is at the WSOP, with everything from the cramped play area to the vendor displays turning into topics for debate…

If you know your fourth street from a flop or your Royal flush from a full house, then keep reading, because thanks to those generous chaps at PokerRoom.com were giving you the chance to play real time poker on a spanking new Nokia N80 handset.

Playboy Enterprises, Inc., a brand-driven, international entertainment company, and Cryptologic Inc., a prominent provider of online gaming software solutions, recently signed an agreement under which the two companies will develop a new online poker website.

IT IS going on 10.30pm in the city without clocks, and after nearly 12 hours of poker, Paul Azinger is a deep-down, someone’s-just-starched-my-hamstrings tired. His eyes are glassier than a mounted marlin’s.

LAS VEGAS It is going on 10:30 p.m. in the city without clocks, and after nearly 12 hours of poker, Paul Azinger is a deep-down, someone-has-just-starched-my-hamstrings tired. His eyes are glassier than a mounted marlin’s.

By Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune Aug. 1–Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Monday that it will jump into the burgeoning online poker business–though not in the United States. That’s not surprising, given the U.S.