2007 December 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings
24-Year-Old Wunderkind Marketer and Semi-Professional Poker Player Dimitry Rappoport Unleashes Massively Popular Poker Tournament Series Geared Towards WebMasters Concerned with Search Engine Optimization — All in a Bid to Keep a Promise Made to His Grandmother — Issues Personal Challenge to Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow, Tyler Cruz and Jeremy Enk
CBC News reported this week that Cyber World Group, parent of GoldenPalace.com, has pled guilty to two charges of illegal gambling and has been levied a $2 million fine by the Quebec provincial government. While unfortunate…
Bluff Magazine employee Chris Vaughn recently won a $1 Million Guaranteed online tournament and astounded everyone by winning a different $1 Million Guaranteed the next weekend at another online poker room. The runner up to the former event, European poker pro Soren Kongsgaard, was notified that he was moved up to 1st place because BluffMagCV had been caught passing his play off to another player. Having someone else sit at your account and play your cards breaks a cardinal rule in poker, and the accused is allegedly Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, a well known online pro…
TASER is a foundation that raises money to support the families of fallen police officers in the United States, and most say they do a great job of it, but an upcoming poker fundraiser is raising concerns by some who feel that it is mixing “virtues and vices”. The tournament, which will be hosted by poker pro Phil Hellmuth, is a Vegas style event to be held at the Palms Casino Resort under the name Beauty and the Bet, and the beauty part comes from several Playboy Bunnies appearing at the event. This, plus the “Vegas” atmosphere, are concerns to some, but TASER staff point out that they have had three previous poker themed fundraisers with no complaints.
The company that owns and operates the World Series of Poker brand, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc, may soon be sold off to private investors, as the lights keep turning green on the game plan. Recently Harrah’s announced that the Missouri Gaming Commission had granted approval regarding the company’s proposed acquisition by Apollo Management and TPG Capital. This is just one step of a long journey, but many other steps have been taken prior to this, with approval coming from many sources, including various states and the European Union…
I’m the opposite of a wild man at the table. I pretty much play by the book. On third street, when I have a premium pair, I raise nearly all the time. If I think someone has a better pair and I have a better kicker, I call…
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — A raid of an illegal poker den early Friday resulted in the arrest of four people for gambling and drug offenses, authorities said.
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