2007 February 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Once you learn how to ride a bicycle, it doesn’t take long before you start to take more risks with your newfound two-wheeled mobility.
An experiment called HEX2 that consisted of four NASA suborbital sounding rockets, launched from Poker Flat Research Range during an aurora display over northern Alaska this morning. Each rocket emitted vapor trails in an experiment to learn more about winds associated with the aurora. Researchers saw the vapor trails from Poker Flat; about 30 miles north of Fairbanks, and aurora watchers at …
Take a look at any of the typical mixed games offered online or at your local casino and you’ll almost certainly find an acronym including the letter ‘E.’ That ‘E’ in H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E., and S.H.O.E. stands for eight-or-better stud…
Various Artists, “Ricky Jay Plays Poker” (Octone): “Ricky Jay Plays Poker” is a stacked deck, a royal flush, a full house heck, you pick the poker analogy and as long as it’s not about a losing hand, it will describe this utterly enjoyable box set.
It’s not often a poker room offers a “freeroll” tournament with a prize pool as large as $1 million. Yet players can qualify for such an event at the Palms from now through June 30, according to Palms poker manager Michael Vento.
The web site of pro player Tony G is saying goodbye to its crowd of US players, even though Tony doesn’t want to see them go. TonyGPoker has joined the gang of websites that will not allow US players, but its front man says if it was up to him, they could stay. Unfortunately for the Americans, Tony has to bow to the wishes of the company running the site, although he is working personally to help the US players get back any money they still have in their accounts.
February 14 - While many online poker fans in the United States are optimistic that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) passed into law last year could soon be amended to ‘exempt’ online poker from its reach, the reality is that this will probably never happen.
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