2008 March 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings
About 300 people paid $10, rode their motorcycles 70 miles and played poker Saturday to raise money for an anemic 3-year-old girl. Palace City Wings, a New Bern biker group, organized the “Ride for Rachel Poker Run” as the final fund-raising event for Rachel Lynn Smith of Farmville.
Rarely does a week pass by without news of a big score by a formerly unknown poker player. Brandon Cantu was once one of those names, most of which are rarely heard from again. Vancouver native Cantu emerged from nowhere to win…
The return of Late Night Poker has been called a big success, and an online poker player beat out the pros to win the whole final event. The PartyPoker Late Night Poker event was broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as 36-year-old Andreas Jorbeck claimed victory. The Swedish player beat out Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Ian Frazer, Maria Demetriou, Eddy Scharf and Surinder Sunar to win…
The UltimateBet player to win a seat to WrestleMania XXIV in a poker contest hails from Pickering, Ontario, and he will get a chance to visit Orlando, Florida at the end of the month to check out wrestling superstars in action. The player, who goes by the nickname of youngg17, will be traveling with companion to Orlando with hotel accommodations, seats to WrestleMania XXIV at the Florida Citrus Bowl, and $500 in cash. He will also get access to a number of special events, such as a Bagels & Biceps Brunch and a meet with stars at the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The charity poker tournament slated to be played on site at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was canceled recently by university officials. The stated reason for shutting down the event, which was expected to bring in more than $25k for charity, was its questionable legality. Holdem for Hunger 2008 (HEFH) was going to kick off on April 20th and raise money for the local college chapter of Nourish International…
A man, considered by police as armed and dangerous, staged a broad daylight robbery at a poker arcade in Sadog Tasi on Good Friday.
In April the Small Town Poker Tour’s “Gator Flop Series” will commence at various venues throughout the state of Louisiana. (PRWeb Mar 22, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb791784.htm
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