2006 December 24 Poker News, Events and Happenings
At 24 years old, tournament poker player Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has already won more than $5 million, including 10 final tables and seven tournament wins in 2006. The winnings have allowed him to buy a luxury tour bus to travel the country with his wife and son.
The Euro Finals of Poker took place last weekend in Paris, and online poker room Everest Poker had a fair share of representatives placed in the event. Coming at 14th was one Everest Poker player from Germany, and twelve other Everest Poker players made it to the event by qualifying through online satellites. It wasn’t just a night of amatures, however, as Pascal Perrault, Jan Boubli, Thomas Fougeron and Vikash Dhorasoo were in attendance, as were Dave Colclough, Michel Abecassis, John Duthie and Mats Iremark…
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The only sign of Christmas on the casino floor is the poker dealer in the Santa hat, and Darren White is glad for that: the subcontractor from Georgia didn’t come here to be reminded of the holidays, or anything, for that matter, outside these flashy, noisy walls.
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The poker world waited in anticipation for the latter stages of June and the start of the 2006 World Series of Poker. Pokernews.com ran a series of buildup articles to the WSOP, even as a few other major developments occurred: Michael Mizrachi cemented h
Online poker players in the US may have noticed a trend recently as their poker rooms start sending out emails with offers designed to get players to use multiple forms of depositing. With the UIGEA still making the atmosphere uncertain regarding online poker play in the USA, poker rooms are encouraging players to use various means of depositing via eWallets, just in case steadfast Neteller caves to pressures and blocks such transactions. In the event that leading poker room deposit company Neteller takes a powder, rooms are hoping that players will be comfortable using other means to keep the money coming in.
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