2007 July 06 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The Seminole Tribe of Florida sent the state’s poker community into a frenzy this week by briefly offering high-stakes games akin to Las Vegas.

BIG NEWS: Only 1,287 players registered for the first of four starting days of play in the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event. That put the tournament on track to enter about 5,150 players, far fewer than the 8,773 that took part last year.

LAS VEGAS â The main event of the World Series of Poker is on pace to undershoot last yearâs total significantly and trim several million dollars off the top place prize.

Life can deal a lousy hand, but Dave Williams got a really lousy deal. He won a $10,000 seat to play at the World Series Of Poker, but never got his ticket.

A Renton lawyer and poker player has sued to overturn the state’s ban on Internet poker.

Erik Seidel grabbed his last opportunity for WSOP gold before the Main Event, outlasting a field of 78 top pros in the No Limit 2-7 Single Draw Lowball World Championship. There weren’t many tougher fields in the entire series, with…

Ultra high-stakes poker at Florida casinos enjoyed a short-lived, five-day run before authorities stepped in and applied a stricter interpretation of that state’s new law allowing for an increase in legal poker stakes…