2007 August 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings

SINGAPORE: Poker should be seen as an educational tool that can build strategic thinking skills, a Harvard law professor said Tuesday (Aug 20th)), announcing a plan to offer poker workshops to schools and universities worldwide.

The seizure of over $11,000 in cash and property connected to the running of Texas Hold’em tournaments by Pennsylvania defense attorney Lawrence Burns is likely to bring the ’skill-vs.-chance’ debate over poker to a head in that…

Little Rock - A Little Rock poker establishment is postponing its opening after the city said the venue would go against Arkansas gambling laws. The National Poker Challenge has already set up shop in Little Rock, and was set to hold its first poker tournament last weekend.

In a crime that harkens back to Colorado’s rowdy frontier past, two men have been accused of plotting to kill a man with rattlesnakes to recover a poker debt, authorities said on Tuesday.

Two men accused of plotting to kill a man with rattlesnakes to recover a poker debt.

Professors at Harvard believe that Poker is the way to the future and that teaching it in schools is the way to diminish crime and poverty. Is it?

Two Lakewood Colorado men have been arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a man who owed them money using rattlesnakes as their weapon of choice. The men have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping…