2007 November 19 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Sigma Tau Delta will hold its second annual Texas Hold Em Poker Tournament at 7 p.m. Tuesday in University Center Rio Grande Ballroom. The tournament is a fundraiser for the International English Honor Society organization that was established in 1924.

One essential tool for your mafia toolbox: the poker face Mobsters are the quintessential social misfits. They flout all social rules and live by a code of their own.

At last, the main event of this season’s FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) at Full Tilt. This $500+$35 event boasted a stunning $2,000,000 guarantee, and, true to form, topped it. With 4,371 entrants, the top 585 places paid…

Like last week, the presence of the FTOPS series had little effect on attendance numbers at rival poker sites. The big events at FTOPS may have drawn many of the biggest names, however, leaving newer players to shine in Sunday’s majors…

Though 89 players would return for the two-day FTOPS Event #13 at Full Tilt Poker, with its $1,745,000 prize pool and $418,800 for first place, there would be a few more bustouts before the cash was reached. That’s because only 72 places paid…

After three days of top-flight poker play, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson triumphed over local favorite Dustin Fox to capture the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event Championship at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe, making him the first player…

An alleged gambling house is raided over the weekend by Little Rock police. It was a business called National Poker Challenge. It just opened in September. It’s based out of Memphis and the owners maintain they were not breaking any of Arkansas’ gambling laws.