2007 January 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings
STATE COLLEGE AP Ryan Daut didn’t expect to come back to college this semester as a millionaire. Daut, a 22-year-old doctoral candidate in mathematics at Penn State, went to the Bahamas to play in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which started Jan. 4 at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in Nassau.
The allure of gambling calls out to Matthew Bowles-Roth wherever he goes. When he drives on the freeway, casino billboards entice him with riches. When he buys cigarettes at the convenience store, lottery tickets shine under the glass counter. When he flips through TV channels, guys his age appear in high-stakes poker tournaments, beaming like movie stars. Each time, Matthew pauses. He can’t take …
Details have been released for the third live event in the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) line up - the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship. The event will be held at Grosvenor Casino in Cardiff in mid February, and players will start with ten thousand in chips and standard APAT rules. As many as 180 players will take place in the event that will run February 24th & 25th, and entry to the Welsh event will only be available to card carrying members of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour - although ten seats will be up for grabs online via PokerStars.com
Online gambling software provider Cryptologic Inc, recently announced a venture that will bring online poker into the “high-growth, high-potential Chinese market.” The venture will run three ways, joining Cryptologic with 568 Network Inc and Brilliance Software. Friday the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was announced with Brilliance, based out of Beijing, and 568 Network, a Canadian game designer. IT skills and game development will come from Cryptologic, while Brilliance will deliver games in play for fun and play for money versions.
The Las Vegas logo is, “What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas,” but the producers of RawVegas.tv might have other ideas. This site hosts the first ever online TV channel that is dedicated to covering the Las Vegas scene exclusively, and will be showcasing poker pro talents on upcoming episodes. Player of the Year Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi will be on RawVegas, as will Joe Sebok, Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, and Gavin Smith…
Long known as a bastion of poker on the East Coast, the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa opened up action for the 2nd Annual Borgata Winter Poker Open on January 17th. The tournament, which was added last year as a World Poker Tour…
The long-rumored acquisition by British gaming giant Ladbrokes of 888 Holdings Plc, the parent company of Pacific Poker, has experienced another wrinkle. According to several British websites…
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