2007 October 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings

2007 has already been an enormous year for poker in Russia, but in a little less than a month it’s going to get even bigger. On November 24, the Russian Sports Poker Federation (RSPF) plans to launch their inaugural championship series

A world-champion player joined other poker hotshots lobbying on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade members of Congress that poker, like chess and mah-jongg, is a game of skill — and not, like roulette, a casino game that leaves players’ fortunes to chance.

Therell be no fire, but plenty of firefighters when the Santa Paula Fire Fighters Association (SPFFA) stages its first ever Poker Tournament, to be held October 26 at Logsdons Restaurant at the Airport.

Chris Moneymaker, along with the hole-card cam and the WPT, has always been one element of the perfect storm that brought poker to the masses in 2003. Moneymaker’s unlikely victory over Sam Farha showed the world that anyone could become…

The Poker Players’ Association took its fight to reform online gambling laws to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week when more than 100 poker players took to the capitol. Professional poker players including Vanessa Rousso, Howard Lederer and Victor Ramdin joined PPA executives in Washington, D.C., to drum up support for two bills currently moving through the legislative process.

America’s top poker players descended on Washington earlier this week to lobby politicians to rescind the controversial law prohibiting online gambling. By John Sterlicchi in Florida.

PLANS CHANGE IN the course of a poker tournament - each hand, each bet, each street - so the ability to adapt to new information becomes critical.