2007 November 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

A mathematician and former professor was shot and killed when masked men with guns broke into a floating poker game on Fifth Avenue late Friday night, the police said.

Detectives hunted yesterday for a trio of brazen robbers who killed a New Jersey man in a Flatiron poker room during a $100,000-plus heist that went down like a scene from a Hollywood flick and left seasoned gamblers cowering for their lives, cops…

Masked robbers stormed into an illicit poker game in a midtown Manhattan office building, shooting a New Jersey man dead in a violent stickup.

This is one of the most profitable tells I’ve recognized at the table (after being introduced to the concept by Mike Caro in his excellent book on poker tells). It can happen on any street but is most noticeable on the river, right…

NEW YORK — Masked robbers stormed into an illicit poker game in a midtown Manhattan office building, shooting a New Jersey man dead in a violent stickup, police said.

The last players of the North American Poker Championship will take their seats to compete for the first place prize of $1,361,724. While those are Canadian dollars, the Canadian dollar recently passed the US dollar, making the prize even more enticing. Playing will be Kofi Farkye, Jonathan Little, Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza, David Cloutier, the Robin Hood of Poker, Barry Greenstein, and Scott Clements…

In poker, when a Deep Stack event is announced, you can expect a lot of players - especially pros. The deeper a player’s stack - or the more chips he has - the more options he has, and the longer he can play. The longer a game goes on, the better more skilled opponents do, and that will be the order of the day at the new 2008 Deep Stack Extravaganza series announced recently at the Venetian casino…