2008 April 09 Poker News, Events and Happenings

MILTON — The second annual Poker Run Motorcycle Run to benefit the American Heart Association is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 12.

They’re not all in yet, but nine more of them are. The accused gamblers surrendered Wednesday night in the nearly year-long undercover poker investigation. Forty-five have been arrested, and there’s more to come. The probe involves more than 60 suspects wanted on nearly 200 charges. …

With the popularity of televised poker, it was probably inevitable that someone would seize on the phenomenon for film comedy. That someone is director Zak Penn (Incident at Loch Ness) who enlisted the aid of such funny folks as Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines and Ray Romano in a mockumentary of the quasi-sport, The Grand.

ORANGE PARK - Hundreds turned out for the noon opening Wednesday of the Orange Park Kennel Club’s Poker Room, a 40-table operation complete with sushi bar.

April 9 - BigBet247, a sleek and sophisticated online poker site, recently announced that it has joined the Merge Poker Network with a large customer base that is growing by the day.

PokerNews is delighted to announce $75,000 worth of World Series Freerolls coming up this week. The first freeroll kicks off on Sunday April 13 at 19:05 EST/20:05 EDT and is exclusive to PokerNews players…

888 Holdings PLC, owner of Pacific Poker, announced its preliminary 2007 year end results, which in many respects mirrored the performance of the industry as a whole. Like many of its competitors, 888 posted excellent gains from…