2007 April 29 Poker News, Events and Happenings

PENNS GROVE You don’t have to be a motorcycle rider to enjoy the Elks Lodge Spring Poker Run next Sunday you just have to have the desire to donate and help the community.

The World Poker Tour was back to work Saturday, taping episode #101. The lineup was incredible, featuring three former WPT winners (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, and Antonio Esfandiari) and three former WSOP champions…

The Tri-State’s Chapter of Greyhound Pets of America hosted a poker run fundraiser Sunday afternoon. The organization helps find homes for greyhound dogs once they retire from the race track. The animals are first placed in foster care, so they can adjust to pet life before being placed in a permanent home.

LAUGHLIN - Bikers really like to enter poker runs, a mobile and long distance way to play a five-card hand of poker. And they really like the annual Laughlin River Run Poker Run.

Two of the most powerful companies in the gambling world have joined forces and signed a long-term contract that involves moving the gaming site of the World Poker Tour to one of the worlds largest gaming networks.

Shiver me timbers! There’s treasure to be found! But time’s a wastin’. With the special day rapidly approaching, members of local civic clubs are encouraged to walk the plank for a good cause in the fifth annual Poker Run, otherwise known as Pirates On The Tenn-Tom.

WASILLA - When Tennessee accountant Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker’s Main Event in 2003, he set off a tidal wave of poker popularity in the United States that has yet to crest.