2006 September 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings

This fact will continue to erode over time, but for now at least, it’s pretty safe to say that most people were first exposed to poker in the form of a five-card draw game at the kitchen table.

Poker is big business, and for one Duke University student, it’s apparently lucrative. Jason Strasser, 21, is making a name for himself in the world of online poker.

A Superior Court judge heard arguments privately Wednesday about whether to prevent the first phase of a law that will ban video poker machines next year from taking effect this weekend.

A Superior Court judge heard arguments privately Wednesday about the constitutionality of the state’s video poker ban.

The Carthage Chatterbox Chapter of the Red Hat Society and the Carthage Area Chamber of Commerce have invited area Red Hat Society chapters to Carthage Tuesday, Oct. 3, for the second annual poker run/ walk around the square.

When Willie Tann left Singapore over forty years ago, it was to pursue a law degree at the behest of his parents. When he arrived at school in London, he soon discovered a more compelling calling - playing poker. Picking up the card game that would have gotten him in trouble with the law back in Singapore, Tann became a pro, recently earning over a hundred thousand dollars at this year’s World Series of Poker, the most recent victory in his lifetime that has earned him over one million dollars…

Poker Stars’ record-setting World Championship of Online Poker continued on Tuesday with a return to pot-limit Omaha, this time in Event #12, which attracted large numbers with its affordable $300+20 entry fee….