2007 September 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings
About $2 million was seized in an undercover bust of illegal video poker machines at local area bars, police say.
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued its run on Monday with Event #15, $320 7-Card Stud. This event exceeded the number of entrants from last year’s counterpart, and even though it had a guaranteed prize…
The Montgomery County District Attorneys Office and Pennsylvania State Police have targeted six places in an investigation of video poker and racketeering, the District Attorneys Office said today.
Swedish online gambling software developer and turnkey provider Net Entertainment has announced a deal with one of Scandinavia’s fastest growing gaming portals, Betsafe.com, for its popular online casino gambling product CasinoModule.
The word of the weekend was overlay, as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, being in full swing, sucked away players from the big competing tournaments. Both PartyPoker and Bodog had to pay an overlay. However, Full Tilt…
The Butler Volunteer Fire Department in Butler will hold a benefit “Poker Run” beginning at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30. Entry fee is $10 for a single rider and $15 for a rider and passenger. Prize will be half of the total entry fee collected.
A new dimension to online poker tournament play has come to the Ongame Network and some of their sites, called the “Heat Tournaments”. The recently released game type borrows something from major live tournament events where the participation is sometimes too much for the venue - multiple starting heats, or “flights.” Each heat starts at a specified time and ends at a specified time - those players still in the game will then join the next heat, merging with players who also survived their starting flight. One of the biggest advantages to the Heat Tourneys is splitting up the time it would take to play in a one event, keeping it down despite huge starting fields.
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