2007 December 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The inaugural Moscow Millions is in the books, and the winner of the event is none other than PokerNews’ own Tony ‘G’ Guoga. Guoga triumphed over a small but top-flight field in a two-day event at the Kosmos Casino and Hotel in Moscow…

Stroll in a Taipei shopping district, and you’ll get flyers by the dozens forced into your hands by part-timers. All they want is to get you into their stores to buy whatever discounted goodies they advertise.

If the Georgia-Alabama-Florida water wars were a poker game, Georgia’s high card might be an agreement it secured in 2003 for rights to about a quarter of the water in Lake Lanier, a huge federal reservoir outside Atlanta.

It’s well known that Missouri has major casinos at each end of the state – in St. Louis on the eastern border and in Kansas City on the west. There are a few poker rooms in these casinos making it easy to find a game. But what I didn’t know…

In Orlando, Florida, players are testing their skills at poker every night of the week, playing for points and a shot at a seat in the World Series of Poker, and they never have to risk a dime. They are playing in an amateur poker league called Orlando Holdem, which arranges with the owners of various bars and restaurants to host a night of Texas Holdem tournament poker. The outfit provides the tables, chips, cards and dealers, and the organization…

In Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey an apartment, being called a “poker den” was raided when it was discovered that this location was holding illegal poker games six nights a week, running from ten at night till the next morning. The three residents were charged with a fourth degree crime, maintaining a gambling resort. A fourth man was charged with possession of drugs…

The Peppermill’s 2007 Fall Poker Tournament paid out over half a million dollars and has been declared a success. The event, which ran in the months of October and November, paid out $529,000 to those of the 2,500 people attending who wound up “in the money”, which is poker means winning a cash prize. Some wound up earning more than thirty thousand dollars, and one player won a cruise…