2007 June 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings

On the basketball court, the popular game HORSE determines the best shooter. On felt, H.O.R.S.E. determines the best poker player. “It should be the championship event,” poker legend and 10-time bracelet winner Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson says of the $50,000, five-day H.O.R.S.E. event beginning Sunday at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The tournament alternates play among pot-limit and …

It may not have been the best timing, but for the most part, it was successful. Chico Hamilton and a group of bikers participated in the Bishops Castle Poker Run and campout Saturday.

Those who have found the stakes in the poker room at the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track to be child’s play are about to have their dreams come true.

The Shelby County Rescue Squad is hosting their Fourth Annual Rescue Ride Poker Run this Saturday, June 23 featuring a live band, auction and dinner.

one of the largest to date in the 2007 Summer Poker Open. The competition remained fierce, but in the end it was Kalpeshkumar Patel from Elmhurst, NY, who outlasted the field to win the championship and $57,645 in first place prize money.

Hoyt ‘The Alabama Cowboy’ Corkins snapped a 15-year dry spell on Wednesday by taking down the first-place cash of $515,065 and the highly coveted bracelet in Event #30, $2,500 No Limit Hold ‘Em Six-Handed. Corkins, who held…

Day Two of the $2,000 Seven Card Stud Event #32 provided plenty of excitement as the field continued to chase toward a World Series of Poker bracelet and the first-place cash of $118,426. Having started Tuesday afternoon with 213…