2007 March 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings

March 18 - Every week the top ranked tournament player at Bodog.com gets a shot at an extra $1000 and the chance to play a poker pro in a heads up match. This week the online player, Alcarmo, came out on top by defeating Evelyn Ng…

The game gentlemen, if I can call you that – and scoundrels if I can’t – the game is seven card no peek. Since few of you have played this devious variation of 7-card stud I will explain it to you….

Ian Thorpe, the retired Australian, once described emulating Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics as “unattainable for me and unattainable for anyone”. Michael Phelps begs to differ.

If you have never been in a California card room then the first experience of the Commerce Casino might just overwhelm you. If there is one word that describes the Commerce that word would be - Huge! Is the Commerce bigger than, say Foxwoods?….

Cashing in on a popular pastime will be the champion of the Texas HoldEm poker tournament sponsored by the Village West Rotary Club, to be held at Dave and Busters in The Legends at Village West shopping center on Friday, March 30.

At 7:15 on an early-March evening, the lobby outside the ballroom at Greenvilles Marriott at the Parkway is electric. Women in cocktail dresses and men in sports jackets float in and out of the connecting room and the lobby, their chatter mingling with the clinking of ice in their glasses.