2006 August 08 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

August 10 is getting closer, and that will be the day that the 37th annual World Series of Poker will draw to a close as nine poker players, all of whom will be taking home at the very least $1 million, will battle it out for 12 times that amount. Today will be a day of protracted warfare as the two dozen or so players vie desperately for position, trying not to get knocked out before they can get to the final table. But even those who finish in 10th, 11th, and 12th places will be millionaires and the others pretty close to it….

In order to capitalize on poker fever still running high, and before any United States anti-online poker laws are passed, online poker room Titan Poker has increased the number of their freeroll tournaments that are offered daily, also providing plenty of Omaha and Texas Holdem games to choose from. According to recent press release the online poker site sports “amazing sound effects, advanced avatar selection and realistic viewing options” as well as superb graphics. Currently Titan Poker is offering satellite events where they will be sending a few winners to the Crown Australian Poker Championships, also known as the Aussie Millions…

MUSCATINE, Iowa Brian Curry headed to the bank Monday afternoon after returning from Las Vegas. The Muscatine native brought home $26,389 after placing 497th in the World Series of Poker last week. A record 8,773 contestants took part in the tournament.

GigaMedia Ltd., an online entertainment software company, on Tuesday said its second-quarter profit rose more than eight-fold on strength in its poker software products and the sale of one its business units.

LAS VEGAS First came the American Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution, then somewhere between the birth of Amarillo Slim and the death of disco the poker revolution.

The World Series of Poker wraps up later this week in Las Vegas, but a team of researchers from the University of Alberta has already won the de facto world poker championship for computers at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. The event was held recently in Boston, Massachusetts.

As the World Series of Poker reaches its finale on Thursday, here is a look at how much Hollywood likes a good poker game, too.From old westerns to Laurel and Hardy’s “We Faw Down” and all the way to “Rounders,” poker has occupied a special place in American cinema. Three more movies where poker plays a central theme are coming to theaters soon:Sept. 8: “Lucky You,” a drama starring Robert Duvall, Drew Barrymore, Debra Messing and Eric Bana.January 2007: “Smokin’ Aces,” an action comedy with Ben