2007 November 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Online poker revenue is under threat with the emergence of unbeatable software.

The government doesn’t need to kill online poker. Bots will do it for them. Feel like chancing your money with an arithmetic machine? Neither does anybody else. I have my opinions about online gambling and gambling in general. I’m not a gambler because I learned my lesson fast: gambling equals less money. However, I don’t feel the government has the right to make a moral judgment for …

At a tribal casino in the Midwest, Kirk Warner stepped into poker history. Kirk, one of millions of US poker players, sat at a Tribal Poker Network touch screen, deposited $20 and participated in the first, live cross-casino network poker tournament.

November 12 - A recent bluff on top-rated online poker room, Full Tilt Poker, by Finnish player Patrik Antonius in a high-stakes $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha game cost the poker pro $75 000…

Have you ever thought about what a billion dollars looks like? It is a thousand piles of a million dollars each; $10 billion is 10,000 piles of a million dollars. If you added up the top ten poker-tournament money winners of all time…

Just as you can’t be sure of the age and gender of the person you’re IMing in a chat room, you can’t be sure that your opponent in an online poker game is human.

No, we’re not just talking about the broadcasts on the ESPNs. The World Series of Poker Circuit is at Lake Tahoe this week for 10 events, mostly No Limit Hold’em but with one H.O.R.S.E. thrown in. The first event drew…