2007 July 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Starting Sunday, poker players are able to go all in at casinos and card rooms throughout Florida, thanks to a new law that went into effect as of July 1st.

Las Vegas-style gambling exploded on Southwest Florida on Sunday, and the result was a bigger, younger crowd in the areas poker room.

Tom Schneider became the first double bracelet winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker as he won his second event Saturday, the $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo tournament, Event #46. Schneider outlasted a field of 668 players to take home…

RALEIGH, N.C. Although North Carolina’s 14-year experiment with video poker officially ended over the weekend, that doesn’t mean every machine in the state has gone dark.

Florida has upped the ante for Florida’s poker players. A new state law that went into effect Sunday raises the maximum allowed bet from $2 to $5 on tables and allows for no limit Texas Hold’em games with a maximum required buy-in of $100 at state license gaming rooms.

The final table is set for Event #47, $2,000 No Limit Hold ‘Em. In quest of the bracelet and first prize of $707,898, four of the final nine players start Sunday with stacks of more than a million. Stan Crawford leads the pack at…

World Heads-Up Poker Championship director and co-founder Jon Shoreman lists 2-7 ("Deuce-to-Seven") Triple Draw and Badugi as two of his favorite games, and with good reason. Shoreman started Day Two of the $1,000 2-7 Triple Draw w/Rebuys…