2007 January 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings

When is bridge like poker? When bluffing is involved.

Video poker would return to South Carolina unrestricted, uncontrolled and unregulated if a lower court ruling involving the Catawba Indian Tribe is upheld, a state lawyer warned Wednesday.

Today the New York U.S Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint press release announcing Monday’s arrests of Stephen Eric Lawrence and John David Lefebvre…

The 20 players who will compete for a $10,000 seat in the 2007 World Series of Poker at the Pahrump Nugget have been determined. The championship event will be played Feb. 24, starting at noon, with each player tentatively scheduled to start with $10,000 in chips. That figure is to be confirmed.

The European Poker Tour Grand Final is coming up, and online poker rooms are trying to send some of their players to the event, to be held at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort in Monaco. The largest event on the very popular European Poker Tour, the WPT Final can be bought into directly, or players can win seats on sites like Everest Poker. A $7,500 prize package allows for the buy in and plenty of cash for travel and accommodations…

BARABOO, Wisconsin As reported by the Madison Capital Times: “More than 2 years after packing away the chips, Ho-Chunk Casino north of Baraboo reopened its poker tables at 10 a.m. Sunday with 40 players filling four tables and more excited gamblers waiting in the wings.

A poker club took a hit recently by a court ruling that says that poker games are licensed affairs if the club takes a cut. The chairman of the Gutshot Club was found guilty of running unlicensed poker games in a court case that has been closely watched by the poker community. The 1968 Gaming Act takes sway in this event according to the prosecution, and the jury agreed…