2006 December 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

PJ Franklin is a droll writer for a city newspaper who, hunched over a laptop in a picturesque apartment, labors over analogies about romance. (”Love is like baseball.”) She’s the star pitcher and dogged narrator of “My Boys,” a new show about a clique of friends looking for love. It starts at 10 p.m. Tuesday on TBS.Save

JAMES BAKER almost smiled. When the poker-faced co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group heard a commentator, who had been invited to advise the group, say that America’s aim must be “victory,” Baker’s stony visage betrayed the bitter amusement that the word “victory” now occasions.Save

With five players left at the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the following hand came up between top pro Allen Cunningham and eventual winner Jamie Gold (Gold is now the reigning World Champion of poker). At the time, Gold was the chip leader with $44.7 million in chips and Cunningham was in third place with $13.7 million in chips.Save

If you got caught cheating at the World Series of Poker, there would be pretty stiff consequence; get caught cheating at the Tournament of Champions and it would mean your career as a pro poker player would be over. There is a way you can cheat at the WSOP: Tournament of Champions and get away with it, however - if the game you are playing is the video game of the same name. Playing on a PC gives you some advantage over Xbox, allowing you to manipulate save game files that provide help in difficult tournaments…

The Mavericks didn’t do ESPN’s ratings any favors Friday night. The World Series of Poker would have done a lot better.Save

Prior to my victory in the $5,000 No Limit event at Foxwoods Resort and Casino, I played in another preliminary tournament in the 2006 World Poker Finals - the $1,200 No Limit event. Beginning…Save

I played this bizarre poker game with a bunch of old men who smoked constantly, had a game in the basement of a Knights of Columbus, who never smiled, who barely talked…