2007 October 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Electronics giant Sony recently announced the special edition of the Sony Memory Stick Micro as being available in both 1 GB and 2 GB models, and there’s a special surprise bundled with it. On the stick and ready to be downloaded for use on a Sony Ericsson mobile phone there is the Midnight Hold’em Poker game. The game is bundled in for free, giving Sony phone users a bonus gift for buying the stick…

The man they call the “Robin Hood of Poker” did his level best to convince the lawmakers in Washington, DC recently that the restrictions on online poker playing in the US should be lifted. Barry Greenstein isn’t a lawyer like 2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer, but he is well spoken and knows his topic. Greenstein pointed out the ease and advantage of playing poker online…

Online poker room Everest Poker announced recently that their popular European Cup tournament was won by a 19 year old Swedish poker player named Per Vennstrom. Per was in Portugal to play the event, which ran on the 21st of October, and was the last man standing out of 174. Players from all over Europe came to play in the event, hunting for the top prize of 21,000 Euros…

After a three-year winning streak, the sparkle seems to be off the diamonds in the casino poker industry. Revenues from poker rooms throughout Nevada were down about 6 percent in July and August compared with the same period a year earlier, according to figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

In my last column I explored some basic skills that would help players figure out what their opponents were likely to hold. These weren’t the giveaway tells that you see in the movies – but were skills of observation, typing opponents…

Canada’s largest casino will showcase some of poker’s greatest players this weekend, as the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ont., hosts the North American Poker Championship.

Kentucky State Police on Thursday seized $12,829 in cash, 44 video poker machines and various records and receipts from seven gas stations and rest stops in the region as part of a two-month investigation involving illegal payoffs from video poker machines. Five people have also been cited and charged with promoting gambling in the first degree. They are Heather Banks of Richmond, Carolyn Eland …