2007 December 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings

All of us in life have something in common…….we will all someday make our final journey. For Stu Ungar, his funeral services were held at the Palms Mortuary, located at 7600 S. Eastern in Las Vegas…

With big names like Cyndy Violette, Andy Black and Robert Williamson III in the field, the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in Atlantic City kicked off with plenty of star power…

A PENRITH PE teacher beat 561 poker players - including four former world champions - to win the inaugural final of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.

ASPEN The dining room of Jimmy’s Restaurant in Aspen was packed Sunday afternoon with folks playing poker. It was the first of two events designed to raise money for three women with spinal injuries seeking expensive stem cell treatment.

Many poker rooms and poker events will announce a guaranteed prize pool, sometimes as much as a million dollars. This money is split among the winners according to the payout schedule, but rarely is a million dollars paid out to a single player. That, however, is to be the case at the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic…

Luke Cahill credits his alertness as a key factor in winning the European Championship of Online Poker’s $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Main Event. The event, put on by Titan Poker, drew 992 players in the $1000+$60 Texas Holdem No Limit tourney, capping the ECOOP events that boasted over $2,500,000 in total prizes. In an admission that may drive a lot of players on tilt Cahill explained that he was a live cash game player exclusively before this win…

The latest thing when it comes to dealers in the world of poker is to not have them. PokerTek is the company that is making this happen with no-dealer machines that provide a live poker experience that is much like you would expect, just without dealers - and cards and chips. Everything is virtual, including in their Heads-Up version (branded as Heads-Up Challenge World Series of Poker)…