2006 August 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

Defending champion Joseph Hachem of Australia turned the poker table into his bully pulpit Monday, aggressively raising players he considered…

They come from all around the world chasing a poker dream. From Europe, from Asia, from Canada, from Mexico, from the East Coast and from the central US poker players have descended upon Las Vegas this summer to take part in the 37th annual World Series of Poker. But mixed in among the melting pot of players are the locals, both professional and everyday folk they just like to play poker and happen to live in Sin City…

With the World Series of Poker going on in Las Vegas this summer, interest in poker is at an all-time high. Poker on college campuses is more prevalent than ever and one online poker company encourages that with their “win your tuition” overturned. Absolute Poker offers to pay the winner’s tuition if they win in their college student only tournament…

Even perfection isn’t perfect. In the later stages of play on the last of the four Main Event opening days, a player discovered an oddity in his stack…

It’s 9:00pm on the last of four opening days at the WSOP Main Event, and The Flying Dutchman, Marcel Luske, is on a roll. He’s perhaps not quite as resplendent as he was at the start of play…

Randy Holland insists he’s not a gambler. But Holland, a 1980 Florida State law-school graduate, didn’t think twice about spending the $10,000 entry fee to participate in the 2006 World Series of Poker.

Sam Farha called to ask if we could do our interview a little later than planned. Was Houston’s most famous, winningest, certainly most televised (that’s him with a cigarette dangling from his lip and jewelry poking out his unbuttoned shirt) poker player stewing because he was knocked out in the first round of the 2006 World Series of Poker?