2007 September 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings
While still maintaining a strong presence in Florida, dog racing is slowly slipping away in the state, thanks to decreased demand and new laws allowing a different type of gambling. On July 1, new Florida laws allowed dog tracks to increase the limits on gambling in their poker rooms, which brought in bigger crowds more focused on cards rather than dogs and raised more revenue. Of the 16 dog …
Floridas economy may be slumping, but revenue from poker rooms is growing. The amount of money received at 18 state-regulated card rooms increased nearly 60 percent from June to July, hitting what is believed to be an all-time high of $7.7 million, according to preliminary state figures.
Florida’s economy may be slumping, but revenue from poker rooms is growing.
Day Three of the PokerStars EPT Barcelona event started off on a high note – all of the 56 remaining players were guaranteed cash, as the money bubble burst last night before the end of Day 2. The returning players, including Katja Thater…
While the name of the law is the 2005 Gambling Act, it actually did not come into effect until today, and the United Kingdom - as well as the rest of the world - are watching to see the effect on online gambling and online poker. Computing Which? magazine studied the upcoming implications of the Act and its impact on the very popular online gambling market and published the results in an article that starts with gambling addiction and then goes on to speak to the ineffectiveness of the Gambling Act, but does point out that one of the few exceptions to the “rule” that long time gamblers are long time losers in the game of poker, where skill gives a player the best odds at coming out ahead.
The man who many point at and say “he wrote the book on tournament poker” and mean it literally showed that he still knows his stuff by winning the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event. The final six players in the event were Dan Harrington, David “The Dragon” Pham, Thu Nguyen, Shi Jia “Jack” Liu, Tom Schneider and Michael McClain, all high profile, world class players. In the end it came down to Harrington and Pham, but it was Dan who won the event, as well as $1,634,865 in prize money.
The National Poker Challenge was warned not to open their poker room in Little Rock, Arkansas, but as they maintain that what they do is perfectly legal, they are going ahead with plans to open anyway. Billing themselves as the “only legal poker room of its kind” in the area, the NPC outfit charges members only to keep track of their seasonal score, and membership is voluntary. There is no cost to play…
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