2006 August 07 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

LAS VEGAS (CP) - The last of the Canadians has been knocked out of the main event at the World Series of Poker.

The Main Event of the WSOP was scheduled to give players plenty of play. Day four was designed to see 600 players play down to 300. Instead, day four saw 480 players start, and only 135 finish….

The Main Event of the 37th annual World Series of Poker is still going on at the Rio All-Suite Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, but it’s never too early to start preparing for the next year. A large percentage of the players who participated in the $10,000 buy-in Main Event had their way in paid by an online poker site, typically by winning a seat through an online tournament qualifying event. The same poker rooms want you to know the 38th annual World Series of Poker is only 12 months away and there is no time like the present to start trying to win a seat to the next year’s Main Event…

Hawaii is known for many things, from pristine beaches to ocean breezes and tropical fruits, but poker is it normally not one of them. On the island of Kaua’i the island’s best poker players came together to play in a Texas Holdem poker fundraiser to raise money for the Special Olympics. The first prize at the fundraiser was two night stay at the Princeville Resort, the carrot before the horse that was not really necessary, as poker players showed up to support the Special Olympics…

Milwaukee’s Best Light, presenting sponsor of the World Series of Poker Main Event and host of the Main Event’s inaugural “Bubble Playoff,” awarded a seat to the 2007 World Series of Poker to Hoa Manh Nguyen from Sunnyvale, Calif.

High-profile poker pro Joseph Hachem was recently eliminated from the World Series of Poker main event. Hachem got kicked out after going all-in with a pair of Aces and losing to a player’s three of a kind.

For most of America, legal gambling is a relatively late arrival. But the current poker craze shows that public gambling is becoming more than a revenue generator or job farm — it is becoming a lifestyle.