2006 August 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

LAS VEGAS - Jamie Gold’s win at the World Series of Poker might be only half as sweet. A Nevada judge has frozen half of the $12 million top prize after a Gold acquaintance sued, saying the two men agreed to split the winnings.

Blind Bet Poker, one of the leading poker strategy and discussion sites on the Internet, joins forces with Titan Poker to present its third season of the Blind Bet Poker League. This league features new qualification rules, tournament point structures, and a great prize pool, as well as point incentives for active forum posters. (PRWEB Aug 25, 2006) Trackback URI:

What a difference a few weeks can make. Earlier this month, Paramus native Jamie Gold was on top of the world, earning a $12 million pot by winning the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

When Perdue School of Business Management student David Wood found out that he would be a member of the final table in Absolute Poker’s Win Your Tuition event, he knew he would win it. He had such a commanding chip lead that he figured he had it all in the bank - until the organizers of the tournament told him they were leveling the playing field. They gave everyone the same amount of starting chips in order to prevent the televised tournament from looking too lopsided…

LAS VEGAS — Jamie Gold’s win at the World Series of Poker might be only half as sweet.

Video poker, in spite of being founded on Random Number Generator (RNG) principles, i.e. luck, is actually a game of skill on the secondary level. Once a player sees the results of the luck of the deal there’s an element of skill and decision making prior to the luck of the draw.

Poker players at the Hollywood Park land casino in California will soon be able to try out a cutting edge way to play their fave game at the new ePoker Room now under construction.