2006 August 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Beginning September 6 and taking place every Wednesday night running through December 13, league poker has come to Casino Morongo. The Casino Morongo Tag Team Poker League will consist of two player teams with each player taking turns alternating play during any tournament. Each player will play for a 20 minute stretch and then take a 20 minute break while his partner plays…

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 27 (UPI) — This year’s “World Series of Poker” winner Jamie Gold’s $12 million prize has been placed on hold by a Las Vegas judge after a lawsuit was filed against him.

When the World Series of Poker came to an end on August 10 at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada, it seemed like the biggest prize in poker history, $12 million, had finally found a home with Jamie Gold - however it wasn’t to be so, at least not yet. It seems that there is a misunderstanding about an agreement that Jamie Gold made with Bruce Crispin Leyser, who has filed court proceedings against Gold on the claim that he is owed half of the money. It seems that Gold had his way paid to the Main Event by Bodog in exchange for finding celebrities to wear Bodog apparel, and Leyser claims that Jamie agreed to pay him half of whatever he won if Leyser would help find celebrities…

A game of poker between those charged with offloading $8 billion worth of Telstra shares for the Federal Government and the investors they are targeting will now be played out in the sharemarket. -

When people think of poker games, they no longer think of backroom hideouts filled with smoke and rough characters, but they rather they think of TV Tables filled with slick pros and Young Guns, playing for millions of dollars. They might not think of something else that happens a lot with poker, and that is benefiting charities. From the local poker runs held by motorcycle clubs to the donations from shows like Celebrity Poker Showdown to the players like Barry Greenstien, who plays tournament poker strictly for charity, poker players are giving folk…

The Golden Nugget has had an interesting recent history as far as poker is concerned. A couple years ago, The Nugget took some of the space from its pool area, and opened a nice, big poker ‘tent’ that had plenty of room, and usually housed plenty of

California online news source The Reporter recently added a poker blog to its suite of blog topics, bringing in a professional comedian and host of a Sacramento radio talk show on poker who goes by the name of Spirit Walker. Also a part-time copy editor for The Reporter, Spirit Walker has been playing poker since the 80s and has won his fair share of tournaments. The new poker blog, called Chip Chat, will draw on Spirit Walker’s experiences in playing at the poker tables himself and also the experiences of those professional poker players he has interviewed for his radio show, Poker Room Radio…