2008 March 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

The very first World Poker Challenge was the first World Poker Tour event back in 2003, and this year it will be the last time it is held. The World Poker Challenge has been running since 2001, but it did not make it on to the 2009 WPT schedule. Next year will be the seventh season for the WPT, which is credited for bringing about the poker boom…

The winner of the latest Irish Poker Open is one Neil Channing, closing out this year’s poker festivities in the Emerald Isle with a €801,400 payday. Channing is the latest champion in a long line, as the Irish Open is the longest running pro poker event in Europe, and comes second globally only behind the event that inspired it, the World Series of Poker. The rest of the 2008 Irish Open final table finishers are: Donal Norton - €420,000, Thomas Dunwoodie - €275,000, Tim Blake - €220,000, Kai Danilo Paulsen - €175,000, Edwin Tournier - €135,000, Carsten Joh – €100,000, Eric Larcheveque - €75,000 and John Keown - €50,000.

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Before marrying pro poker player Rick Salomon, her only tie to the world of poker was an aborted attempt to launch a poker room online, but Pamela Anderson has learned all she needs to know about folding. The former Playboy model is divorcing her latest husband, who forgave her poker debt to him by going on a date, and both parties have agreed to an annulment. Both also stated fraud as the reason, but neither party came up with any details…

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MELBOURNE, March 25 - The Australian state government of Victoria has set new time and spending limits on poker gaming machines in a bid to reduce problem gambling.

Patrick Kellett’s poker-playing pals say he has as good a shot as anybody in today’s opening round of the World Poker Challenge in Reno, Nev., and if the 83-year-old Camarillo man advances, he’ll undoubtedly do it his way: with a wry grin, a fine sport coat and a glass of scotch.