2007 June 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Poker clubs will today launch a High Court bid to reverse government plans to regulate the game, which they claim will force them out of business.

The nine competitors in Event #21, $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘Em Shootout, arrived at the Bluff Tent for Wednesday’s having survived two rounds of play and 891 other participants the day before. Each would begin the action with 300,000…

To a casual poker player, Dustin Dirksen is probably not a name one would recognize. However, to the thousands of poker fans who observe online high-stakes games, ‘Dustin_Dirksen’ or ‘John Smiley’, as Dirksen goes by on Full Tilt…

Wednesday’s action at the WSOP brought a scheduling oddity as three separate events played their final tables, together awarding millions of dollars in prize money. Each of the events had at least one well-known poker star, none of whom…

The final table of Event #19, $2,500 No Limit Hold ‘Em, began play early on Wednesday afternoon with a star-heavy lineup, chasing a $521,785 first-place prize and a coveted gold WSOP bracelet. The day began with Lars Bonding…

The first of the high-dollar no-limit events at this year’s WSOP arrived with the start of Event #22, $5,000 No Limit Hold’em. No-limit events always draw the largest fields, but the high buy-in and big field (640 players) had players…

PokerNews is proud to announce their first-ever live event – the PokerNews Cup – will be taking place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia from October 21-29, 2007. Even better, there’s over $350,000 in PokerNews Cup Australia freerolls!