2006 September 24 Poker News, Events and Happenings

A Guardian columnist is £500,000 richer after becoming the first woman to win the London leg of the European Poker Tour.

The Sci Fi Channel, in addition to airing movies and shows bent to the fantasy and science fiction loving public, also airs a wrestling program, and following this, it will air the Extreme Strip Poker show on October 10. The show will star lady wrestlers and personalities from a number of different wrestling organizat. …

Next year India will be hosting its very first major poker tournament at the InterContinental The Grand Resort Goa in early March. On the 1st of March the Asian Poker classic will kick off, running for four days in a No Limit Texas Holdem format. Players around the world are expected to make the trip to India in order to take part in this major event, which has a prize pool of one million dollars…

Pot-Limit Hold’em made its first appearance during Poker Stars’ World Championship of Online Poker on Saturday. Event #9, one of two WCOOP events running on the day, offered a $400,000 prize-pool guarantee….

No one knew quite what to expect when H.O.R.S.E. was added to the lineup for this year’s World Championship of Online Poker. Sure, the game had received a big boost from the recently completed WSOP, where Chip Reese won the debut of the event….

Much like Saturdays on the PGA Tour, today was ‘moving day’ for the 103 players left in the field at the ‘Vic’ in London. 95 of these players would move out, only 8 move on to the final table….

Reads. They seem like a very important part of a poker player’s repertoire, and they are! When they are right the player seems like a magician at times, especially as they present it on television where you can see the hole cards….