2007 December 07 Poker News, Events and Happenings

LAS VEGAS — David “Chip'’ Reese, a standout player who anchored one of the biggest cash games in the world and won three World Series of Poker bracelets, has died. He was 56.

The second annual UltimateBet Online Championship (UBOC) series, hosted by UltimateBet pros Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth Jr., kicks off tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST with a $200+15 six-handed no-limit hold’em tournament, featuring a $100,000 guarantee…

A flurry of cards and poker chips flew around the table as the players in the final table competed to win an iPod touch in the final Student Union Programming Board Poker Night of the semester.

Howard Lederer never seems to tire of saying that poker is a game of imperfect information - and I have to agree with him. We live in an information age, so why can’t players just throw their hands away and go on to the next…

A series of raids aimed at illegal gambling culminated Wednesday night with the seizure of about three dozen video poker machines and more than $5,200 in cash from numerous west and south suburban businesses.

December 7 - One of the nicest guys in poker, David ‘Chip’ Reese, died this week in his sleep as his Las Vegas home as a result of a heart attack, and will be sorely missed by the professional poker world…

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