2006 December 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Maryann Morrison is author of “Women’s Poker Night” (Kensing ton Publishing, $15.95). When and how did you start playing poker? I started playing poker originally (after) I was asked to do some marketing for a new poker room.

ALMOST 80 per cent of respondents to The Standard’s Talking Point survey believed Warrnambool’s poker machine numbers should be cut. The overwhelming response supported the State Government’s push to remove 543 machines as part of a pledge to reduce problem gambling.

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Alabama football players in town for the Independence Bowl didn’t waste time getting into one of the prime attractions in Shreveport: casinos.

In the November election cycle the voters in Ohio said no to gambling, and Ohio’s Governor-elect Ted Strickland says that’s okay. While West Virginia and Pennsylvania have made choices that are pro gambling and pro poker, Ohio remains poker free, and Strickland says that is what is best for Ohio. It is not that the Buckeye State couldn’t benefit from it financially, but that there are better routes to benefit the state government, according to Strickland…

P.J. Franklin is a twentysomething gal who’s one of the guys. But not as a poor substitute for romance. Instead, the go-her-own-way heroine of the TBS sitcom “My Boys” is just respecting her druthers.

August at the World Series of Poker was all about the Main Event, the largest poker tournament the world had ever seen. Pokernews.com shared multiple updates from the scene on a daily, if not hourly basis, with its team of writers…