2006 September 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings

A Greenwood man charged with shooting another man at a poker game last year was found guilty of murder Thursday night.

Imagine a high-stakes poker game with two players who each hold a similar number of chips. One player is a trash-talker fond of posturing and berating. The other sits in Zen-like silence. The former player is upset yet boastful of a win. The latter is inscrutable, with a perfect poker face.

When the 37th annual World Series of Poker’s Main Event came to an end, the Hollywood agent Jamie Gold was the sole survivor - the man who claimed the biggest prize in poker history, $12 million. It wasn’t long, however, before drama surfaced surrounding Gold, who had apparently made a deal that would cost him half of his winnings. With the money on hold by court order until the details could be worked out, rumors began to fly on the Internet about Jamie Gold’s story…

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) - A night of poker. For a good cause. With Dan Marino.

Santa’s trading in his sleigh for a motorcycle next month as Bob and Mona Colyer plan to host the first Shop with a Cop Poker Run at the Colyer’s 212 in downtown West Frankfort.

DUBLIN, Ireland (PRESS RELEASE) — The paddypowerpoker.com Irish Poker Open, taking place in Dublin over Easter weekend 2007, has a guaranteed prize pool of 2 million. Regardless of how many players enter, paddypowerpoker.com will guarantee this prize pool for 2 million.

For months the Xbox Live arcade game “Texas Holdem Poker” was one of the most discussed and highly anticipated games for the Xbox 360. When Microsoft offered the game to be downloaded for free for the first 48 hours that it was available, download records were broken as Texas Holdem and video game fans hurried to get in the game. Around 100 downloads per minute took place, and well 140,000…