2008 February 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Inside the social utility Facebook, it’s all about networking, and the company has now extended that networking to online poker. Last week it was announced that Facebook had teamed up with online game supplier Ujogo to provide online poker…
Texas doesn’t have the chips to make a major deal. The best pitcher in baseball was traded last week, and it’s being called the worst deal since Jack swapped the family cow.
I boarded the Showboat Casino Hotel In Atlantic City in the early evening after having played in each of the poker rooms on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. I was a little tired and, frankly, a little weary from all of the poker…
Online poker room Betfair was hit for more than £100,000 when a computer glitch started paying out 2nd place money to every player that busted out under 1st place, which still got 1st place money. The news hit the internet and players started to move up to super high stake games and started going in every hand to trigger the glitch. Betfair has contacted more than 20 players to demand the money back, accusing them of perpetrating a fraud by taking advantage of a known glitch and of using collusion to profit, which is against the rules.
Last year was the first for the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza, a live poker event at the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, and this year’s version kicks off on Monday. The first event is a $300 buy in No Limit Holdem tournament. The first season was a 19 event series, followed by a 31 event series…
A fifty percent upgrade to the guarantee of the Grand Tournament is coming from online poker room Hollywood Poker. A recent press release from Hollywood Poker announced that the Grand’s guarantee will be $750,000. This will likely draw in plenty of people to play in an already popular event, as seen in December when 846 entrants played and built up a $846,000 prize pool…
Michael ‘Timex’ McDonald started the final day of the PokerStars European Poker Tour German Open as the chip leader, and after a few hiccups along the route, finished the same way, claiming his first EPT title and the €933,600…
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