2006 August 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Inside the quiet San Francisco headquarters of the Poker Players Alliance, a political group that boasts 100,000 members, a laminated poster hangs above the desk of executive director Michael Bolcerek that reads “The Threat is Real.” In this case, the…
The current state of poker in the state of North Carolina is that it is an illegal gambling activity, but a recent ruling by a Durham judge that locks in poker as a game of chance is being challenged by those who say it is skill, not chance, that defines the game. Howard Fierman, a Durham businessman, is leading the charge, and as a result the case is now at the State Court of Appeals. Should the case establish poker as a game of skill, as Fierman intends, he would then be able to open a poker hall in Durham.
It seems a lot of the news in the poker world lately has been people or entities responding to lawsuits. Today, 2006 World Series of Poker Champion Jamie Gold issued a statement responding to the lawsuit…
Jamie Dean, a professional online poker player, has been convicted of cannabis possession and the intent to supply it to others. Dean, who had told a jury that he had smoked cannabis from the age of 14, began to grow his own in order to ensure he had access to it, and to control the quality. He bailed pending sentence at Warrington Crown Court after a conviction.
Today The Reporter debuts “Chip Chat,” an online poker blog written by SpiritWalker, a professional comedian and host of a Sacramento radio talk show on poker. SpiritWalker, a Suisun City resident and part-time copy editor for The Reporter, has been playing poker since the early 1980s and has won tournaments across the nation.
The special-needs children of Horseplay Therapeutic Riding Center will find plenty of reasons to smile come Sept. 16. A Poker Run fundraiser, sponsored by the Vacaville STAR Chapter No. 315, a local nonprofit motorcycle association, will run through Solano County, ending up at the Horseplay facility at 7778 Nunes Road in Dixon.
He has been dubbed Poker’s Bad Boy, but can a guy this good be all that bad? Life can be tough when youre an international superstar poker brat. Bluff recently caught up with Phil Hellmuth to find out about the man behind the tantrums.Phil, is it true that a mysterious English clairvoyant predicted your rise to superstardom?Yes. This womans name was Rose Gladden. She was a very famous old psychic; I think I remember something about how she could see angels and auras. She attended a conferenc
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