2007 November 14 Poker News, Events and Happenings

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Casino giant Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.’s chief executive said Wednesday he’s looking at taking the World Series of Poker brand into the realm of Internet poker in the U.K. and continental Europe.

Associated Press - November 14, 2007 9:04 PM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) - Casino giant Harrah’s Entertainment says it is looking at taking its World Series of Poker brand into the realm of Internet…

Last Friday, New York City police made their first arrest to date in the death of 55-year-old Frank DeSena, who was shot and killed during the armed robbery of an underground NYC poker club on November 2. The suspect, 35-year-old…

ATLANTIC CITY — An illegal sports gambling ring run out of a high-stakes poker room in an Atlantic City casino was busted Wednesday and 23 people were charged, including four with mob ties.

A recent column in an Australian newspaper once again brought up a topic that has alternatively been dealt with scorn and worry, that of the poker bot. A poker bot is a software program that could potentially play poker better than humans, making playing online poker a “suckers game” if too many were in force. Poker bots would work in concert with human operators, who already use versions of poker bots - software that calculates odds based on the information at hand - to help them win…

If there was ever any doubt that High Stakes Poker means just that, a recent episode of the GSN poker TV show put former World Series of Poker champ Jamie Gold in a hand with Patrik Antonius with some $700,000 on the line. Gold, who wound up with a set of Kings, was all in to Antonius, who had caught an ace high straight. As it was a cash game the players “ran it three times”, meaning they played with three river cards, each for a third of the pot…

In New York the poker world was shocked at the shooting death of a poker player in a private game in an underground poker club. One of the four gun toting robbers had dropped his shotgun and when he bent to pick it up it was discharged, shooting Frank Desena, 55, of Wayne, New Jersey. Desena later died at the hospital…