2007 January 15 Poker News, Events and Happenings

POKER cheats who used James Bond-style spy equipment to pocket an estimated £250,000 from casinos were caught only after staff could not explain their extraordinary run of luck.

It was one of the most dramatic runs of luck casino staff had ever seen. Poker player Bit Wong, 39, won 34 hands out of 44 in just 40 minutes. But that was as far as her good fortune went. Police and security experts swooped to arrest Wong - and two accomplices who had been using James Bond - style equipment to cheat casinos out of an estimated £250,000

A southside man was arrested Saturday for running an illegal poker room out of his home.

Two men and a woman cheated casinos out of nearly $638,500 in a high-tech poker scam using hidden miniature cameras.

In the world of poker Barry Greenstein may be known as the Robin Hood of poker due to his charitable donations, but Phil Gordon is no slouch when it comes to philanthropy. The former host of Celebrity Poker Showdown partnered with Cisco Systems at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently in order to raise funds for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team…

Two men and a woman cheated casinos in Britain out of nearly half a million dollars in a high-tech poker scam using hidden miniature cameras and earpieces, police said on Tuesday.

Kenny Rogers’ famous song isn’t about poker dealers. If it were, he might have preached “know your arithmetic” after knowing when to hold ‘em and fold ‘em.