2006 November 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Perhaps it is a sign of things to come in the entertainment world, or perhaps it is because poker has been recently welcomed into the land of China, but the notoriously tough Chinese censors have done something that runs counter to what they have done dozens of times before - they approved a James Bond film. The British Superspy has not always been pitted against the Chinese as enemies, but the authorities in the People’s Republic had nevertheless banned the previous movies. The latest Bond movie, Casino Royale, has been approved for showing in China.
Betfair and their Singapore partners got almost their dream result yesterday when two local Singaporean players made the Final Table of the $5000 Main Event. Only 11 out of the 313 players were local…
CORUNNA - The Corunna Fourth of July Celebration Commission will hold a No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament Jan. 13, 2007, in the Corunna Community Center at McCurdy Park.Save
Author and high-stakes poker player James McManus talks about the parallels he sees between the political posturing of Iran’s president and a game of poker.Save
A million dollars is up for grabs in one online poker room’s richest Sit and Go style tournament, the “Tournament Titan”. For Titan Poker players there are 13 seats available from the original twenty, and all indications are that the remaining seats will be going fast. The only way to win a spot at the table is to make the final table three times in a row in any of a number of qualifying tournaments, so the odds of making the Tournament Titian are heavily in favor of those who play a lot of online poker at the site.
When the inaugural Betfair Asian Poker Tour Main Event began, it was anyone’s game. The Mandarin Ballroom was converted into a poker room for around 400 players in the luxurious Meritus Mandarin Hotel in Singapore. For three days the Main Event players battled it out until only Samuel Lehtonen, Tony G, Ang Pang Leng, Lee Nelson, Hans Vogl, Jeff Kimber, Brendan Walls, Mark Whent, Neil Yong and Henrik Dahlgaard remained to battle it out…
MASHANTUCKET, Conn., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nenad “The Serb” Medic of Niagara Falls, Ont., upset some of poker’s most notable professionals yesterday to take home a first prize of $1.7 million, a seat in the WORLD POKER TOUR (WPT) World Championship(TM) worth $25,000, and the Season V WPT World Poker Finals(TM) champion title. The World Poker Finals tournament at Foxwoods Casino Resort drew 609 entrants and generated a prize pool of over $5 million. Also, for the first time in WPT his
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