2008 January 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings

155137. I give up the farm. And that includes FMart. However, if we can get the deal done, without giving FMart, isn’t that better? I don’t think we are blowing the deal by playing poker here. So is everybody else.

A debate triggered by comments made by the director of the Copyright Law Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization at least temporarily raised the question of whether Antigua and Barbuda would be able to collect on its annual…

In Canada, the Century Casino & Hotel in Edmonton has recently reported via press release that their new non-stop, 24-hour poker room has been a success. With more people coming to play and more money flowing into the casino’s coffers it looks like the all poker, all day, every day concept is a good one that will continue. Texas Holdem poker tournaments are held weekly on Thursdays and Sundays while cash games – sometimes called ring games – run all the time…

The Maine Snowmobile Association was all set to support as many as 30 snowmobile clubs to host fundraising poker runs this winter, but those plans have changed. The events had to be canceled when the clubs got the word that they would have to buy a gambling license to run them. What was to be a fun event became bogged down with paperwork and regulations, and these non profit events would have to shell out money to take place…

This Wednesday a special charity poker fundraiser is set to take place at The Venue of Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Hearts and Helmets poker tournament – and the accompanying party – will be presided over by Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson and NBA star Shawn Marion. The event will raise money for several charities…

Mohegan Sun has poker for the first time in over four years. But there still is no Mohegan Sun poker room. Mohegan Sun used to have a great poker room, but that room closed on Labor Day, 2004, with the announced reason that there wasn’t…

Sometimes a hand plays out and you think you are making the right moves based on such things as an opponent’s betting and the texture of the board. And sometimes those right moves still bring the wrong result.