2006 September 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The Florence County Sheriffs Office will hold its Seventh Annual Bikes and Badges Poker Run on Saturday, as well as its 11th Annual Deer Hunts, which will take place throughout the deer season.

HILLSBOROUGH — Time is running out for people who like to play video poker games. As of today, businesses that have the electronic devices are allowed to have only two of them, and by March 1, another one will have to go. The final blow comes July 1, and those who haven’t weaned themselves off the machines by then may be in serious withdrawal because that’s the day when all the machines must be

When blonde bombshell and former Baywatch Babe Pam Anderson announced she was going to launch her very own branded poker site online, not everyone took her seriously. When the site actually launched, however, it was hard not to check out this first class poker site, with well put together graphics and content to please both poker players and her fans. With the support of poker legend and online poker guru Doyle Brunson, Anderson’s site has gotten off to a great start, with plenty of players taking their seats at the virtual felt…

In a Congressional back room deal, opponents of Internet gambling have added language to port security legislation that would prohibit online wagering. The port security bill with the Internet gambling prohibition language included was approved by the U.S. House and Senate late on Friday evening and will be sent to the President to be signed into law.

The bill we in the poker business have all been talking about, or at least a form of it, passed Congress yesterday after a last minute ‘hail mary’ action by it’s sponsor got the bill through….

Poker Stars’ record-setting fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker made its final venture into the realm of pot-limit Omaha (high-hand only, not hi/lo) on Friday, with its $500+30 Event #15….

A man is dead today after police say he was shot during a fight over a video poker machine.