2008 February 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Early qualifiers have just started for a major new event on 888.com, the World Poker Crown, with a $3 million prize pool. The final eight players in a series of online events which began on February 20th and will run into late April…

Much of the poker that you see on television involves big stacks and big bets. But those hands are only a small percentage of the thousands of pots played in a tournament.

The Atlantic Lottery Corporation has chosen P.E.I. for a pilot project to test the popularity of multi-player video poker tables.

Tim Vance, 46, a Millstadt contractor, won $1.2 million and the title at the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open at the Casino Copenhagen in Denmark on Sunday.

The Poker Players Alliance spent $900,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal government on online- gambling legislation.

In the most World Poker Tour events a similar format is followed. Players buy in and play at events over a period of time, sometimes as long as a month, leading up to a final event. Such was the case for the WPT L.A…

February 25 - According to Assemblyman, Lloyd Levine, US federal law may contain a loophole that would allow online poker to be legally played in the state of California…