2008 March 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

The NBC Heads Up Poker Championship is underway and the first round of eliminations is done. Poker pros, online qualifiers and Hollywood invitees all matched up in player vs player competition, with only one player per match advancing to the next round. Players that did not advance include David Williams, Annie Duke, Dan Schreiber, Don Cheadle, David Singer, Alisha Kunze, Bill Edler and Chris Moneymaker…

The story of Round Three of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was the continuing success of former LA Dodgers great Orel Hershiser. The drama that usually surrounds the road to the finals kicked into a fever…

Tim Vance has been playing cards his whole life but has never gotten a payoff like he did last week.

When Orel Hershiser started this year’s NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, he brought a baseball. His plan was to get anyone he defeated to sign it. When he was defeated, he would sign it and present it to whoever took him…

Poker machines of Victorian AFL clubs increasingly target Melbourne’s most vulnerable communities.

Victorian AFL clubs gouged more than $110 million from poker machine players last financial year and are increasingly targeting Melbourne’s most vulnerable communities.

Again running his team like a well-played poker hand, the owner has Lakers back in the chips after three lean years and one stormy summer. The best owner in the history of professional sports is strolling through his sprawling hilltop home when he comes upon an ornate wooden door riddled with three gaping holes.