2006 November 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

All Things Considered , November 23, 2006 · James Bond has played poker, Borat has raised hackles, penguins have danced — and together, they’ve managed to help Hollywood bounce back from last year’s box-office slump. 2006 is unlikely to set records, but it’s on track to break the $9-billion mark for only the fourth time in history — that is, if the holiday films that open before the end of the Save

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Six amateur poker players have beat out thousands of online competitors to make the final table of the ActionPoker.com $500,000 Poker Shoot-Out. They will be representing their countries and their card rooms December 1st in London, England. This is the largest prize ActionPoker.com has awarded since it’s inception in 1999.

Bond is supposed to be the best poker player in the British secret service, but at least one poker pro thinks the game at MI6 is full of more fish than sharks, 007 included. In a recent article Vicky Coren puts Bond through his paces on his performance at the card table in the latest James Bond movie, remarking how some hands seem to play themselves and how luck plays more of a factor than perhaps poker fans would like to see. Over all, according to Ms…

Nearly everyone in poker has a take on how the government’s recent crackdown on Internet gambling will affect traditional casino cardrooms, or “brick-and-mortar” poker rooms, as they have come to be known.Will it chase online poker players away from their computers and into casino cardrooms, generating extra business for the brick-and-mortars?Or will the online players’ poker fever fade as some major Internet cardrooms continue to deny service to Americans, and the federal legislation makes it m

Any list of the strangest ‘non-poker’ poker stories in recent memory certainly includes the attempted December, 2004 robbery of 2004 WSOP Main Event champ Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer, who successfully fought off two assailants outside his Bellagio…

I decided, in the holiday spirit, to roll some things off the top of my head that I am thankful for in the world of poker on this day of thanks….