2008 March 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

MTR Gaming Group Inc. plans to complete the sale of Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas this week. TLC Casino Enterprises is buying the former home of the World Series of Poker for $32 million.

Supporters of the Douglas Alley family will sponsor another Benefit Poker Run on March 8 to help the boy born with several severe medical conditions. Money raised by the event will help the family pay for another operation on March 14 in New York.

Of the elite eight players in the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, two had advanced from the quarterfinal round in previous years: former WSOP champions Huck Seed and Chris Ferguson. Orel Hershiser and Jonathan ‘FieryJustice’…

The Weekly Edition, an OCR Live! production in which Kate brings you the headlines for the past week, including a contentious arrest of poker players, a lawsuit filed against a bookie for one bettor’s losses, and prop bets at the Oscars.

The following companies joined the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce in February: A-CWR - Windshield Repair and Replacement, American Baptist Church, Blazing Lawn Care, Bonded Adjusting Service, Discovery Marketing Group, LLC, Emergent Fitness, HR Design, IM = X Pilates Studio, Integrated Computer Consulting, Iron Mountain Records Management, JABS Poker Tour, Lamar Valley Craftsman, Land …

HeadsUp Entertainment Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. is pleased to announce that 2005 World Series of Poker Champion Joe Hachem is now confirmed and will be playing in the main event of the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championships in Calgary Alberta at The Deerfoot Inn and Casino March 5-9.

March 3rd is day one for the first ever Bodog Poker Open, that online poker room’s answer to the online poker tournament craze started with Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS. Bodog will be putting up six days of online poker craziness, starting with today’s $250 buy in event that has $10k of added cash to the prize pool. That means that whatever the prize pool is based on the number of players in the event, a further $10k will be added on top…