2006 September 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Bikers took the roads this Labor Day weekend to help out the family of two bikers killed in an accident in July. Dennis and Garry Clark were killed in an accident on Route 22 while on a poker run to …

Ed Boehler knew the odds were long and he knows a lot about odds. Just over a month ago, the North Lebanon Township man found himself sitting at a poker table in Las Vegas with all of his chips in the pot. When the final card was dealt, Boehler lost.

460 players took place in the four-day tournament that was the 2006 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, but only one could be named the champion. That honor went to Newport Beach, California poker player Joe Pelton, as did the first place prize money of $1,577,170 and a $25,000 free ticket to the World Poker Tour Championship. Pelton entered the final table with $1.1 million in chips, placing him in third position out of six…

Perhaps gearing up for the potential devastating ban on poker looming in America’s future, one of the largest poker outfits online has recently launched a Spanish-language version of its web site and its gains. All of the games are represented, including Seven-Card Stud, Omaha, and ever popular Texas Holdem. Mike Herea, the promotions manager for 888.com, the Gibraltar-based owner of Pacific Poker, said that this Spanish version of their website was a “much needed edition” in order to cater to their growing Spanish-speaking online poker players…

Throughout history, great leaders have delivered inspirational speeches that have rallied people around a cause. “Four score and seven years ago . . . ” “I have a dream . . . ” “Ask not what your country can do for you . . . ” Stirring words, all. But at the poker table, great speeches are often great tells - they reveal more about the speaker and the hand he’s holding than anything else. Let me show you: I was playing in a live tournament at Foxwoods Resort and Casino. Near th

LOS ANGELES – Former Hollywood talent agent Jamie Gold lies poolside at the hip, star-trodden Mondrian Hotel as he delves into a bowl of “brain food” – blueberries garnished with an orchid.The amateur poker player also gobbled the fruit at the table in Las Vegas, where he did some dramatic acting andbluffed his way to become the new World Series of Poker champ.“People in Hollywood are bluffing all the time,” says the 37-year-old Gold. He swears he’s not one of them. No bluff.The poker shark from

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Congressman Jim Leach approached the public to reopen discussions of the online poker ban which he cosponsored in the House of Representatives. Calling it a “field hearing”, Leach is getting the buzz going on the bill that passed the House in a vote of 317 to 93, and Leach was joined by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in order to build support for the bill. Reconvening on Tuesday for the fall session, the Senate will have to take a look at the Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act, something that the Independent Community Bankers of America came out in opposition to - primarily because the human and economic costs that banks would have to undergo in order to enforce the ban would be prohibitive…