2008 March 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

FENTON - How did the city of Fenton and Leroy Street get their names - and why do we care? Legend has it that in 1837, business partners Robert LeRoy and William Fenton - who owned all the land in what was then “Dibbleville” - played a high-stakes poker game.

PurePlay, the first and largest U.S.-compliant play-for-cash online poker destination, today announced the kick-off of its World Series Tournament. The tournament winner will be awarded a coveted seat at the World Series of Poker* Main Event to be held in Las Vegas in July 2008.

PROFESSIONAL Edinburgh poker player Rory Mathews won £20,500 at the Maybury Casino at the weekend.

Party Poker provides a good example for the motions an online gambling site goes through to reach the top of the competition. The poker room in question has recently declared a new promotional campaign for new members.

A Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament will be held as a fundraiser for the High Sierra Diamonds 95 girls fast-pitch softball team on March 21.

Two more European Union member nations have drawn unwanted attention to themselves regarding restricted access to the online-gambling market, a practice counter to the trade mandates of the EU. On Thursday, the EU issued…

PokerHandReplays.com turns words into pictures so poker players can recreate poker hands and hand histories into animated flash videos. (PRWeb Mar 4, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb723553.htm