2006 October 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

In the world of prestigious poker tournaments, there are two major competitors, two tournament series that battle for pole position among the world’s poker players: the World Series of Poker, and the World Poker Tour. In a fitting turn of events, both brands continue to battle for supremacy among the poker playing populace, but this time in the world of mobile poker. Games for use on mobile phones and other mobile devices that focus on poker are not new - they have been riding the wave of poker popularity for some time now…

Entering into the late stages of 2006, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi continues to hold steady at the head of the pack in the 2006 Poker Player of the Year race. His once monstrous lead, however, has begun to shrink some.

It may be unorthodox, but Western Province captain Luke Watson went on a blind-date this week, while also playing poker and watching his second favourite sport, American gridiron, on television to relax in the build-up to Saturday’s Currie Cup semi-final against the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld.

The Olympic Games has long been a drawing point for the greatest athletes in the world to gather. From around the world, competitors come together once every four years for the glory of the Games and to challenge each other…

Xing Interactive are pleased to announce the release of Xing Texas Hold’em Poker for PC. Poker is becoming increasingly popular in Europe as well as in North America with “play-for-money” tournaments and recognizeable faces for the world’s top players.

According to The Motley Fool, a well known investor information website, there are a number lessons investors could stand to learn from playing the game of poker. Investing and poker have long been linked as distant cousins, both requiring discipline and timing to make a return on investments. The Motley Fool article pointed out that being selective is one major rule that applies to both investing and poker, choosing wisely which hands or which stocks to put your money behind…

Just a month ago the word on the poker street was that poker was the hottest thing ever, and that investing in the companies that were making all the money in the industry, the online poker rooms, was the right way to go. Now that the US Congress has finally passed the bill that the poker world was worried about, one that enforces a ban on online gambling through pressure on financial institutions, that investor confidence has taken a nose dive. So much has turned that even the companies themselves are losing confidence, as is shown by Poker Stars recent decision to cancel a planned float on the London Stock Exchange…