2008 March 17 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

March 17 - Ultimate Bet, the popular online poker room, has signed up Anthrax guitarist, Scott Ian as its latest professional player. Ian joins other pros such as Shawn Rice to provide poker players with hours of entertainment.

LOS ANGELES—-WPT Enterprises, Inc. and its new network partner, GSN, are collaborating on an innovative business model where networks and production companies team up to reach fans together.

The Columbus Police Department is sponsoring a Dart Throw Poker Run to benefit Georgia Special Olympics.

The Poker Players Alliance has furthered its intentions to continue growing as a "grass roots" organization with the announcement that 50 PPA members have now been selected as State Directors, one for each state. The PPA’s…

The 2002’s World Series of Poker was directed by one Steve Morrow, who also was instrumental in heading online poker room PokerStars. This experience makes him a natural fit to lead poker consultation business Paradigm Poker Consultants, Inc. This outfit will focus on helping organizations set up customer service and tournament direction…

In the state of New Mexico they have a tradition that a game of chance will be used to serve as a tie breaker in elections. Over the last decade this has been done three times, with the latest happening just recently in Estancia, New Mexico. The candidates for Town Trustee, Josie Richards and Michelle Dunlap, played a game of poker that lasted one hand to decide who would win the seat…

Patrik Antonius is perhaps the most famous poker pro to come out of Finland, and he is set to add a bit more to his exposure now that he has signed up with poker agency Poker Royalty. He has remained one of the biggest poker pros unrepresented before now, and now he joins a whole slew of other poker pros as part of the one and only poker talent agency. Patrik is 27 years old and has shown his skill in many TV formats, including Poker After Dark, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker…