2008 March 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

Online Poker players will be competing over the next 7 days for huge cash prizes and major bragging rights in the inaugural Bodog Poker Open. (PRWeb Mar 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb740734.htm

Two men known as professional poker players have been caught with hundreds of thousands of pounds stolen from cash machines. The men, who are brothers, are Mohammed Imran and Mohammed Irfan, and they have had the funds since 2005, when they stole them from ATMs using a system loophole and an expired bank card. The Bank of Scotland and Halifax, upon their merger three years ago, updated their ATM system but left the loophole that was exploited by the two men, who reportedly stole the funds to bankroll a Las Vegas gambling trip…

A raid on an illegal poker game led to three arrests early Tuesday at a strip mall in southeast Colorado Springs, authorities said.

PALM SPRINGS - Poker players went all in recently to keep the card room open at Spa Resort Casino after they learned it might close.