2007 July 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

It was a huge night for the big Sunday online tourneys, with players competing for nearly $2.7 million across the four major sites. After a successful 2007 WSOP that included four cashes and one final table, Jordan ‘iMsoLucky0′ Morgan made…

Commerce, California — (PRESS RELEASE) — Maybe it’s something in California’s water or perhaps its just the great calibre of poker played in the state, but the two most recent World Series of Poker Champions were from California…

Online money handler and payment processor Neteller ran afoul of the US government last year, and as a result millions of dollars of poker players’ funds were frozen in their accounts. Thanks to a new agreement reached with the US prosecutors, Neteller will begin distributing those funds back to their rightful owners on Monday. The company will be retuning “$94 million to hundreds of thousands of U.S…

July 30 - Danish poker pro Gus Hansen, representing top online poker room, Full Tilt Poker, won $1 million last week in Australia after winning a lucrative Full Tilt Pot-Limit Omaha event…

Las Vegas visionary Steve Wynn has had one sign on his desk for many years, a quote by Jonathan Swift that says: "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." My brother, Mike Sexton, was the creator and founder of the original Tournament…

The last experiment using artificial intelligence has shown that Man is still the top dog at poker! Hurray for us!

Linda Johnson said she can’t sing, can’t dance and has no artistic ability. But she can “put the puzzle pieces together” in a poker game. And that’s what she’s been doing for 33 years.