2008 April 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings
April 14 - As ePassporte reported "technical issues" for most of the weekend, online poker fans, especially in the United States, are fearing the worst that this may be the demise of yet another online payment processing company.
For Greg Scallan, poker is more than a game, it’s a job
The River is a new, beautifully appointed and bright mid-sized poker room in Milford, New Hampshire. They have 25 tables with new, crisp, clean felt, with spanking new chips and cards. The room is ringed with TVs, floored with fresh…
The fourth annual PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final got underway in Monte Carlo on Saturday. Nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern Alps, 392 players took the field Day 1a, with an even larger field…
In South Carolina, more than fifty people were arrested when police raided a home poker game, and of those people the seven identified as the poker dealers as opposed to poker players are to face more serious charges. While dealing is considered a misdemeanor, each dealer convicted will face a $2,000 fine for each count and a year in jail. According to the police investigators the operation was a high stakes one which paid dealers $1,300 a night to deal cards in games such as poker and other casino games.
Online poker is officially illegal in Germany, but a lack of persecution against the law breakers leaves the market wide open, a position that many players and companies have been taking advantage of. According to a recent Deutsche Welle report nearly three hundred thousand Germans regularly play online poker, and the very famous German tennis star Boris Becker is a spokesperson for one of the biggest names in online poker, Poker Stars. Also according to the report, Germans spent more than $1.5 million on online gambling in 2006 alone.
A new host has been chosen for the fourth season of Poker After Dark, replacing the host that replaced the first host of the show, Shana Hiatt, after only one season. The new host is Leeann Tweeden, a model and TV personality that has some familiarity with her new role. Tweeden was on the Mansion Poker Dome Challenge in 2006…
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