2006 August 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Here are some updates from the first level today. Gareth Edwards, PokerNews Marketing Director, and member of Team PokerNews began the day with 75K and was a rock for the first two hours….

OCEAN’S ELEVEN producer JERRY WEINTRAUB has built an exclusive on-set poker lounge for the cast and crew of sequel OCEAN’S 13. Stars like GEORGE CLOO

BIG NEWS: Daniel Negreanu, the affable Canadian known as “Kid Poker,” made a big move late Wednesday to amass 154,200 in chips. Moments earlier he had just 71,000. “I’ve got these guys set up,” Negreanu said. “I just need the right situation and I’m going to bust like three of them.”

Tournament supervisor Charles Ciresi was just trying to drum up morale. What he got was an answer that was more of the same the relentless shuffling of chips and a dispassionate smattering of applause.

As the second Day Two for the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked into action on Wednesday, the remaining 1600 players are battling to join the 500 or so survivors from yesterday’s warfare….

Two valley residents will advance to the third round of the 2006 World Series of Poker this week. Dawna Wilson and Paul Shoquist are among the 550 people who made it through the first day of round two at the Las Vegas, Nev. competition Tuesday.

Last night, the players of World Series of Poker Main Event Day 2 ‘A’ played all the way down to 570 players, even stopping early as it was clear they could get a little too close to the money to make it fair for the other day two. Day 1 ‘C’, and