2006 October 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings

LADBROKES, the bookmaker and gaming operator, is to invest £3 million in its Poker Million tournament next year in an effort to turn the event into a European competitor to Las Vegas’s World Series of Poker….

Republican Jim Kasper is a different kind of republican. While his fellow party members promoted the anti online casino act in the Congress and the Senate, Kasper was trying to make North Dakota a licensing agency for online casino poker sites.

Evelyn Ng is one of the hottest young poker pros on the professional tournament circuit today, and like many of her compatriots she is often sought out for a bit of poker advice. Like many of her fellow pros, she is also one to provide advice and commentary in the form of articles posted online, such as a recent one published at www.theonlinewire.com entitled “Online Poker Strategies - How to Stay on Top”. In the article she discusses the importance of position in pokerl, an important concept that allows the player in the best position (the button, or dealer position) to gather the most information before making a decision - a key factor in successful poker…

For the last seven seasons the premier sports broadcasting network in the world has been showcasing a game played with cards at a table - not the traditional picture of a sport, as many see it. Yet ESPN has been broadcasting ever increasingly detailed and comprehensive coverage of the World Series of Poker for a long time now, and shows little signs of slowing down. As poker became more and more a game of the masses, even at the high level poker tournaments with prize packages that frequently hit one million dollars or more, more and more of the participants of this game began to call it a sport…

Poker and college campuses go back together a long ways; likely the first college campus in America closely coincided with the first open poker game in America, or a similar betting card game. With the advent of online poker and the popular win of the 2003 World Series of Poker by an unknown who got a seat via an online qualifier, the amount of poker being played on college campuses and by college students exploded exponentially. America is not alone in its obsession with poker, and not just by college students…

WATERLOO — They say the first time is always the hardest. Tell that to Joe Pelton, a former West High graduate who made it to his second million-dollar Texas Hold’em poker tournament in just over a month.

SYDNEY - Australias media moguls have made their first bets in a multi-billion dollar poker game where power, profits and press diversity are at stake under liberalised ownership laws, analysts said on Sunday.