2006 October 11 Poker News, Events and Happenings

College students playing a poker game were dealt a bad hand when a knock on the door turned into a home invasion.

Since the unexpected passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act two weeks ago by the U.S. Senate, online poker players and the Web sites that depend upon them for business angrily continue to wait for the dust to settle.

There’s an old expression in sports, ‘Nobody remembers who finished second’. Paul Wasicka is determined to change that. The 2006 World Series Main Event runner-up has the largest second place prize in poker history…

NBC is continuing to bet on the poker craze; the network will launch Poker After Dark on weekdays Monday-Friday at 2:05 a.m. beginning Jan. 2.

NBC is getting into the late-night poker show business with its new Monday-through-Saturday series “Poker After Dark,” a Las Vegas-based series that features six poker professionals vying for a winner-take-all $120,000 first place prize.

NEW YORK — (PRESS RELEASE) — NBC invites viewers into the exclusive Las Vegas poker scene with its new late night show, “Poker After Dark,” debuting Jan. 2 at 2:05 a.m. ET/PT, it was announced today by Marc Graboff, President, NBC Universal Television, West Coast.

SINGAPORE (PRESS RELEASE) — One of the world’s best poker players, Gus Hansen, will challenge for the Betfair Asian Poker Tour’s inaugural event in Singapore.