2006 September 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings

There will soon be new games offered at Madison’s DeJope Gaming Center — and it appears poker might be one of them.

PENNS GROVE — The Penns Grove Elks Lodge No. 1358, located on Main Street across from the Penns Grove Post Office, will be hosting its annual Poker Run and Pig Roast on Sunday. Motorcycle Run registration be held from 10 am until noon.

The English Amateur Poker Championship was held in Birmingham over the weekend at the Broadway Casino, the first in a number of events on the docket for the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT). The English Amateur Poker Championship was the first live event, taking place on the 23rd and 24th of September, and was filled to capacity - 120 players in deep stack poker with about one fifth of the players participating in their very first live event. Each player got 10,000 starting chips for a £75 buy in, each seeking to land in the money and possibly score a seat to a European Poker Tour event, paid for by Poker Stars…

Monday at the fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker saw the return of fixed-limit poker to the fore at Poker Stars. Event #11 was on tap, a $300+20 buy-in 7-card stud tourney…

Twelve players were left starting off the last day at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino at 3pm, each hoping to be the final player left and the winner of the London installment of the European Poker Tour, the second stop on said tour this year. Chad Brown started the night off in the chip lead, but Peter Hedlund was not far behind. Jonas Molander, who started near the bottom of the chip stack, was out in the first five minutes of play when Michael Muldoon’s 99 held up…

With just over 100 days remaining in 2006, the Bluff Magazine Poker Player of the Year race is heating up. Ten poker pros are still in the hunt including John Juanda, David Williams, Gavin Smith and Barry Greenstein.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WPT Enterprises, Inc.(Nasdaq: WPTE) today announced that Scott A. Friedman, its Vice Presidentof Finance and Corporate Controller, has been named Chief Financial Officerreplacing W. Todd Steele, who has accepted a position with a private equityfirm. Mr. Friedman joined WPTE in 2004 from Sony Pictures Entertainmentwhere he served as Controller of Sony Pictures Digital. He previously spentfive years in finance positions of increasing responsibility a