2007 September 24 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The second weekend of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) came to a close with Event #14, $1,050 NL Hold Em. This event was the most expensive event thus far in the WCOOP schedule and boasted a $2,000,000 guaranteed…

A police report says a shot was fired just after three robbers ran out the back door of the Knights Of Columbus Hall on Lee Highway after a poker game heist.

Barack Obama’s triumph in the 2004 U.S. Senate race earned him a memorable send-off from his friends in the Illinois legislature - they emptied his wallet in a take-no-prisoners night of poker.   Slideshow: 2008 Presidential Hopefuls

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—-Poker Creations a wholly owned subsidiary of US-publicly traded Power Play Development proudly announced the public launch of Victory Lane Players Club, LLC, a free online game community found at www.vlpclub.net , using the company’s newly developed CUPID2.0 game platform.

We’ve all seen ballistic poker players go off like a helicopter occasionally and basically become a source of entertainment for the table. I’ve often thought that besides the rake and the $1.00 bad beat withheld by the dealer….

Spurred by the three-month success of high stakes poker, the Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track’s poker room will be getting bigger in October.

Lakewood’s so-called "gambling moratorium" - which the Lakewood City Council is likely to extend for another six months - is something of a con game. Under state law, the nearly 2-year-old moratorium really doesn’t exist, but the city has a big stake in convincing everybody concerned that it does.