2007 July 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The stakes are up in Florida as poker players in Jacksonville and anywhere else in the state can go all in thanks to a new law that went into effect this week.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif — A Bakersfield man will be in Las Vegas this weekend for the opening round of the World Series of poker. James Holbrook has been blind since he was injured in a car accident in 1991, but that hasn’t stopped him from playing cards.

Eight finalists were after their first WSOP bracelet on Wednesday in Event #52, $1,000 No Limit Hold ‘Em (w/ rebuys). They survived an original field of 1048 players and two days of intense action to make the final table. Michael Graves…

The $1,500 Limit Shootout started Day Two with 47 players remaining on eight tables, and ended with one man standing atop a field of 720 entrants to claim his first WSOP bracelet. Ram Vaswani of the Hendon Mob emerged victorious in an event…

The last preliminary WSOP tourney before the Main Event was one guaranteed to draw big bucks and big names. Event #54, $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw Lowball (w/ Rebuys), gathered players such as Tony G, Doyle and Todd Brunson…

Two of the final three preliminary tourneys before tomorrow’s WSOP Main Event concluded on a Fourth of July Wednesday at the Rio, while today’s concluding action in Event #54 $5,000, No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Single Draw (w/ Rebuys), will…

Spike TV, to promote it’s manliness, has tossed all manner of stereotypically manly imagery including fast cars, guns, fist fights, poker and water-drenched, bikini-clad, moaning women squeezing their breasts together into a promo which ends, of course, with an…