2006 August 09 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

LAS VEGAS - Nine players - four pros, a former talent agent, an insurance broker, an ad salesman, a recent college grad and a retired businessman - were all that remained from a field of more than 8,700 hopefuls vying for poker’s biggest prize of $12 million early Wednesday.

GSN is set to announce the third-season renewal of “High Stakes Poker,” sources said. The series has averaged about 360,000 viewers, which is significantly above GSN’s average prime-time viewership.

Hands-On Mobile, a leading global publisher of mobile games and lifestyle products, today announced a national sweepstakes to coincide with Season One of the World Poker Tour’s(R) “Professional Poker Tour” episodes, which air each Wednesday on the Travel Channel.

As the first winner of the World Series of Poker 36 years ago, poker legend Johnny Moss won a silver cup. Back then, a vote among the players decided the winner. No cash exchanged hands.”When the tournament was over, we gave the cup to Moss and then had a few drinks and started playing poker again,” poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson says. “Those were the days. Boy, have times changed.”No longer shunned to the dark, back rooms of casinos, poker is sizzling in the mainstream, having ridden

The 37th World Series of Poker is winding down after six exciting and dramatic weeks.Tomorrow, the Final Table of the Main Event is being staged. The lucky nine will grind it out for the television cameras, and poker history. Each of them is guaranteed over a million dollars. That’s pretty good for a few days of play, but of course, these finalists have vanquished 8,764 of the world’s best.Speaking of the world’s best, Phil Hellmuth won his tenth WSOP bracelet in the $1000 No Limit Hold ’Em Even

The players for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) final have now been decided with Fred Goldberg being the unlucky player not to make the grade.Kevin Aaronson was eliminated in 15th by Erik Friberg who had four Queens - I guess he can’t argue with that and Luke Chungs two pair (A, 5) were beaten by Jamie Golds two pair (A, J) for him to be eliminated in 14th.William Thorsson was knocked out in 13th place and was the highest placed player not to become a millionaire. His pocket Jacks were beaten

This week a number of “second chance” events have been running in the Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. These events have all been one or two day tournaments, following the traditional freezeout style of tournament play, and have all been No-Limit Texas Holdem. All but one have been $1,500 buy in, and one only $1,000…