2008 March 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Online poker room Bodog Poker has wrapped up their very first online poker series with a three hundred thousand dollar prize pool. The Main Event drew 596 players competing for the cash, along with $25k of added cash from the room itself. The final victory went to online player Shawn “phatcat” Luman…

36-year-old Andreas Jörbeck is the winner of PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008! The online qualifier from Stockholm overcome an otherwise all pro final table that featured serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder ‘The Cobra’ Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, 2008 Premier League winner Andy Black, …

Absolute Poker holds lucrative Easter Egg Hunt this weekend in addition to over $225,000 in guaranteed tournaments. (PRWeb Mar 20, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb789394.htm

The World Poker Tour is trying to make up lost ground in the online poker world, despite being a trend setter when it comes to poker in general. WPT Enterprises has entered into an expanded, extended deal with software developer CryptoLogic for the WPT brand. While no financial details were provided, it was announced that the WPT will add German language poker room, as well as Spanish, to its suite of offerings…

A salty old lawyer, whos now arguing before that appellate court in the sky, once bragged of his favorite trial tool. We were unwinding after court (as I’ve disclosed in this column before, I used to practice law) and the war stories, along with my beer and his scotch, flowed freely. He called his favorite trial tool the hot poker. You ask a question you know is entirely objectionable, …