2007 August 24 Poker News, Events and Happenings

With over $175,000 worth of prizes remaining in our $5000 PokerNews Cup Australia Freeroll promotion, there is still time to compete for your chance to win a $5000 poker holiday down under.

255 players from 34 countries squared off in the opening event of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Manila, Philippines today. Team PokerStars players Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Negreanu and 2005 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem…

The Bicycle Casino wraps up a month-long series of tournaments this week as it prepares for the start of the World Poker Tour $10,000 Legends of Poker no-limit hold’em main event set to begin on Saturday, August 25.

Wednesday, MGM Mirage Inc. announced that it was selling half its interest in CityCenter, their newest Las Vegas strip project under development, to Dubai World, a Dubai government-owned holding company. For $5.1 billion, Dubai World…

Katja Thater is a femme fatale with a German accent. She stands out among poker professionals because she’s charming and talkative away from the table, but all business during the game. Her stare will end you….

SYS-CON Events is proud to announce the first ever ‘AJAXWorld Poker Tournament’ - Powered by Kaazing - making AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West in Santa Clara in September the world’s first AJAX conference to offer its delegates the chance to play for great prizes in a real-time poker tournament: using a state-of-the-art AJAX-powered solution with no downloads and no browser plug-ins required.

August 24 - Win a prestigious $10 000 prize package to the 2007 The Master Classics of Poker Tournament in Amsterdam in November this year with leading online poker room, Doyles Room…