2007 September 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) saw yet another successful day on Thursday with Event #18, $530 7-Card Stud H/L. This year’s event had 598 entries which saw the smallest amount of participants for any WCOOP…

On this cable TV channel, there are no political pundits, no reality shows, no poker games.

A benefit poker run for a Sterling woman who recently underwent brain and heart surgeries is being held Saturday. Tina Popejoy, 48, “had a non-cancerous tumor on the brain,” organizer Rosa Barb said. “It was causing massive headaches. She also had some kind of blockage in her heart.

Coming off a 26th-place finish at the World Series of Poker, Rancho Mirage’s Roy Winston won the Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, taking home a $1.5 million prize in front of his parents.

The host of online casino, PlayersOnly.com, Carrie Stroup, is celebrating her Babe of the Month spread in the September issue of Playboy Magazine

It would be hard, if not altogether incorrect, to say that Jordan Morgan’s career as a professional poker player got off to a slow start. With over $800,000 in live tournament winnings in just two years of professional play, Morgan…

It is customary for the winner of a major poker event to take home a piece of jewelry as a trophy. Sometimes it is a ring, more often it is a bracelet, and in the case of an October poker championship taking place in Atlantic City, a local Ridgewood jeweler was chosen to make the trophy. The $7,500 bracelet will be awarded to the winner of the 2007 U.S…