2008 March 15 Poker News, Events and Happenings
A poker advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., has named a Rochester public relations consultant as its Illinois state director.
Dan Hicks ended Day Two at Caesars Atlantic City WSOP Circuit event just as he ended Day One, as chip leader. When the final table begins today at 2:00 pm EST, Hicks will be attempting to take this tournament wire-to-wire against eight…
April 15 - Purple Lounge, which operates several online poker rooms, has signed up British model and professional poker player Michelle Orpe to be its new representative.
Atlanta poker pro Josh Arieh, representing online poker room Bodog Poker, recently showed that he knows his stuff by winning an event at the Wynn Poker Classic this year. It wasn’t the big final $10,000 event, but that does not mean it was a small deal when he won event number 14, the $1,000 buy in pot limit rebuy Omaha tournament. His victory beat 58 players plus 69 rebuys and 26 add ons, pushing the prize pool up to $150,000…
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian has made his presence known at a number of poker tables over the years, joining rock singer Sully Erna as representatives from the rock world in the poker world. Ian has shown he knows how to play the game, and after spending a week with Phil Hellmuth and other pros in Aruba playing poker, his game has ramped up. So much so that online poker room Ultimate Bet has signed on the rocker as one of their online poker pros…
When the news broke about the online poker scandal at Absolute Poker, it quickly spread across the Internet. It takes longer to produce a news special than it does to pop something on a blog, but it looks like the story has reached the big time with 60 Minutes. The news show is looking at airing the story as part of a special segment about online poker: this is according to the blog of Nat Arem, one of the bloggers who uncovered the AP scandal in the first place, who was interviewed by 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft.
It took less than 20 minutes for the first elimination to occur on Day 3 of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Polish Open, and the breakneck pace continued for the few scant hours of play at the Hyatt Regency in Warsaw. Overall…
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