2006 October 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Behold the new poker wunderkind. Jeff Madsen, a 21-year-old college student, had been old enough to play in a regular casino for just five weeks when he turned up at the World Series and obliterated everything in his path.

LAS VEGAS — Observers say the recently enacted U.S. law that bans gambling online could cut into the number of entrants to the planet’s richest card game — the World Series of Poker.

The National League of Poker (NLOP) will now operate under the name Power Play Development Corporation after merging with the publicly traded company Wednesday.

October 27 - With only 20 seats available for Titan Poker’s lucrative $1 000 0000 guaranteed Tournament Titan poker tournament, online poker fans are trying their luck from all over the world and a Spaniard nicknamed ‘rubeo’ has claimed the fourth seat.

Vancouver, BC, October 27, 2006–(T-Net)–Las Vegas from Home.com Entertainment announced the sale of its Action Poker Network business to Playsafe Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Playsafe Holding AS, a public company listed in Norway.

The World Series of Poker is well known as the biggest pro poker circuit in the world, but one European poker company is hoping to challenge that. One of the biggest sportsbooks in the United Kingdom, which also runs an online poker room, is Ladbrokes, which is investing heavily into Europe’s Poker Million tournament. Three million dollars is going into the coffers of the Poker Million, thanks to Ladbrokes, and Americans are not going to get a shot at any of it…

Poker Creations is poker software marketing division of the National League of Poker, a Delaware corporation, and it has recently been acquired by Power Play Development Corporation. The NLOP, a Framingham based and privately held corporation, has entered into a Share Exchange & Acquisition Agreement, but will continue to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary. The move to join forces in this manner with Power Play was inspired by the hopes to gain greater exposure as a publicly traded company…