2007 February 19 Poker News, Events and Happenings

With yet another guarantee busting night, Full Tilt Poker’s third year of their FTOPS series has wrapped up and been declared a success. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series $1.5 million final event - a No Limit Holdem affair hosted by Chris “Jesus” Ferguson - had over three thousand players, pushing the actual prize pool to over $1.6 million. Nearly 500 players hit the money, including four Full Tilt pro team members…

The winner of the second to last event of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series goes by the name LilCartel, but there was nothing “lil” about the win, with $41,850 coming out of the $167,400 prize pool for the winner. The event was the ninth in a row to not only avoid an overlay, unlike the last year’s series, but to bust the guarantee - this time by more than $17k. Full Tilt sponsored pro player Berry Johnston made bank, coming in 33rd place for $628…

Deaf people from Illinois and surrounding states are expected to compete in the area’s first Deaf Texas Hold’em poker tournament Sunday, February 25 at Hanging Gardens Banquets, 8301 W.

Organizers from Interactive Studio Management (ISM) and CMP Game Group (which also operates this website) have announced that a charity poker tournament will be held at the forthcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco on March 6th. The benefits of the tournament will be donated to the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, which helps seriously ill children and their …

Online casinos offer a solution to poker players of a surprising kind, namely those who cannot seem to get that smile off their faces. The key to poker, we have hear this many a time, is to keep a straight poker face through good and bad, winning hands and lousy combinations.

RIVER GROVE, Illinois (PRESS RELEASE) — Deaf people from Illinois and surrounding states are expected to compete in the area’s first Deaf Texas Hold’em poker tournament Sunday, February 25 at Hanging Gardens Banquets, 8301 W. Belmont Ave., River Grove.

February 19 - Yup, it’s that time of the year again, when intrepid poker lovers the world over attempt to qualify for the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, the most prestigious poker tournament in the world.