2006 October 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Poker columnist Ken Adams recounts his play, and sudden demise, at the World Series of Poker.

The 2007 World Series of Poker will begin June 1 at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino Harrah’s Entertainment officials announced Monday. The Main Event final table will begin on July 17th, Harrah’s spokesman Gary Thompson said.

Three-for-three in the Poker Stars record-setting column — that’s the count on how many consecutive weeks Poker Stars has shattered its own prize-pool mark for an event held on a weekly basis. Last night’s edition of the Stars Sunday Million…

Party Poker is just one of many big time online poker rooms that lost a big pot to the US government when President Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) into being on October 13th. Not all poker rooms took a hit, however; in fact, many have seen a huge upswing in business by declaring themselves for US poker players, such as Doyles Room poker room. Poker Stars still has them beat as the leading poker room, but Doyles Room is growing in popularity every day, mainly due to player bounties and other player friendly offerings…

Both the game of poker and the poker industry revolve around money, but sometimes the play is the thing, even for free. Freerolls, play money games online, and buddies playing for favors instead of cash are all common, and one online audio book publisher from Britain wants to add to the free party. Offering up free audiobooks for download is what AudioBooksForFree.Com PLC (ABFF) is doing, although they are for sale as well as part of a gigabulk group, a compilation of many audiobooks…

BILOXI - Dave Gafford of Denham Springs, La., bet aggressively to come from behind and win the IP Casino Poker Classic on Sunday night.Josh McCallie of Dallas had a 6-to-1 chip advantage over Gafford when third-place finisher Brad Isbill of Foley, Ala., was eliminated from the final table around 6 p.m. It took Gafford about 40 minutes to take McCallie’s chips.Gafford hugged his wife, Rebecca, lifted his little girl into the air and traded high-fives with his young sons upon winning Biloxi’s firs

October 30 - There are fears that the recent crackdown on online gambling, including online poker, in the United States may have a negative impact on the number of entrants in the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP).