2007 June 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings

It’s impossible to get hard numbers on the poker-playing population, but estimates have always been reported to be deep into the millions. Poker players are like spiders. Even though you may not know it, they’re everywhere â you just have to know where to look for them.

When the Poker Dome was created in Las Vegas the poker community was abuzz with the idea. A high tech stage with glass walls, the Poker Dome put the players under glass for the audience, which could see them but not be seen in return. In addition players were hooked up to heart monitors to display their stress, but apparently the stress of doing business in the poker world proved too much for the Dome…

A big name in online poker analysis is Poker Software Academy, which releases poker programs designed to help the poker player improve his or her game. The latest offering form Poker Software Academy is Poker Academy Prospector, a software package designed to provide deep analysis for the online poker player. Graphic representations of bankrolls and how hands are played are part of the software, which also points out holes in a player’s strategy and can hold up to one million hands in its memory…

Police in Iceland halted a poker tournament on Saturday and confiscated everything used in the event. The Reykjavik police picked up the poker tables, cards and chips an hour after the event began around 2 in the afternoon. Gambling for a living is illegal in Iceland, yet bridge and bingo games are held where the organizers take a cut of the buy in…

Online poker room CelebPoker will now be available to poker players in Sweden, thanks to a recent effort to obtain an European Union gaming license. The site, which counts Swedish among the eleven different languages it supports, obtained the Gibraltar registration to open the door for Swedish players, who will now be able to play the standard range of games. CelebPoker offers Holdem, Omaha, Stud and Draw poker, as well as the opportunity to win a spot on Team CelebPoker…

Shankar Pillai took the bracelet for Event 28, $3,000 No Limit Hold ‘Em, as well as $527,829 and a Corum watch for his first-place finish. Pillai stared the day mid-field but progressively built his stack, becoming a frontrunner 60…

Katja Thater became the first woman to win an open event at the WSOP this year by outlasting seven other top-flight competitors in a grueling 13-hour finale to Event #29, $1,500 Razz. Thater was one of the few players at this final…