2007 December 06 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Back in 1974, David Reese was planning to attend the prestigious Stanford University Business School. But he went to Las Vegas with a friend for a weekend of poker. The $400 he had with him had turned into more than $60,000 by the time he had finished a session of seven-card stud at the Flamingo ? and a weekend turned into a lifetime.

Almost three-dozen illegal video poker machines and more than $5,000 cash were seized during raids of 11 establishments in the Southland Wednesday night, police said.

The number of poker machines in NSW will fall by about 3,000 in the next five years, on top of the 5,000 cut in the poker machine cap, the NSW government says.

In Part One of our interview with Sorel and Chris, we learned about the facts concerning the sale of Vaughn’s account the night he won the Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed….

The World Series of Poker Circuit series descended upon the historic city of New Orleans this past week, attracting smaller poker playing crowds than usual. This is a result, perhaps, of the overlapping of events that keeps happening…

David “Chip” Reese, who took on all comers in Las Vegas’ biggest cash poker games for more than 30 years, was remembered this week as a gentleman gambler who attained universal respect from his peers even as he reached the top of his cutthroat profession.

After two days in which Josh Arieh claimed all the attention as the chip leader, it was Andy Philachack who hung around the top of the leaderboard to capture the victory at the World Series of Poker New Orleans Circuit Main Event…