2007 December 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Christmas has come early for an Ulster poker ace who netted more than a quarter of a million pounds in a top tournament in London.

Professional poker players are checking their mailboxes now that NBC has officially begun the invitation process for NBC’s 4th Annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The first twenty invitations for the 64-player event have…

DURHAM - Durham’s trendy American Tobacco warehouse complex might be home base for Square 1 Bank, the state’s most specialized lender, but it’s at far-flung places - like beside the poker tables at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca district - that the so-called “venture bank” has been making a name for itself.

April in poker was a month dominated by events on the business and legal scene, with one important exception: Gavin Griffin collected over $2.4 million by taking down the PokerStars.net EPT Season 3 Grand Finale. Elsewhere, the acquisition…

Players can now extend their skills and trump the competition in Omaha, Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple, 5 Card Draw and 7 Card Stud

I drove down to Atlantic City, New Jersey from my home in Boston, Massachusetts to see how the poker scene was playing out in this East Coast gambling mecca. I left at 3:00 AM on a Saturday morning, stopped only briefly for coffee…

Christmas will be a lot sweeter for hundreds of area families because of Jamie LaGrow’s poker skills.