2008 January 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings

What do former MLB World Series MVP Orel Hershiser and poker player Sam Grizzle have in common? They are both among the 60 players invited to participate in the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship. Last week the final list of invitees…

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. today announced Greg O’Neill and Charles Chang as the winners of the MBA Poker Championship Tournaments.

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson made a special appearance as a guest on COMEDY CENTRAL’s The Colbert Report last night to talk about the virtues of poker as a teaching tool, call for legalizing poker games online, and to propose hosting a poker game for presidential candidates to test their skill and strategic acumen.

Area poker players can deal themselves in Saturday to help a Morrison woman in her fight against a rare bone cancer. Amber Huett, 19, a 2006 Morrison High School graduate, was diagnosed in September with Ewing’s sarcoma, said her cousin, Jamie Paxton.

We return this week with Part 2 of my review of the ‘Full Tilt Strategy Guide, Tournament Edition’, edited by Michael Craig. Part 1 of my review can be found here, and in this column we’ll look at the part of the book on non-NLHE…

Walking into a poker room and taking a seat at a table with nine other players can be unnerving if you are a beginner.

The news that Austria was looking for a solution for state run online poker room has turned to popular online poker provider and a leader in the field Boss Media. The new Win2Day online poker site will be supported by the network of Boss Media, which also supports many of the more popular online poker rooms today. The poker room in Austria will be limited in that players can only put up one thousand dollars per week in wagers…