2008 April 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings
There are many charity poker tournaments these days, but only a few of them would qualify as <i>events</i>. Friday at the Venetian, about 275 generous poker players saddled up to play some poker and help a great cause at the second…
I found the ideal way to make a Parisian vacation seem cheap: Start out by playing pot-limit poker at the Aviation Club. The Aviation Club is a fine private club located in the most prestigious part of Paris, on the Champs Elysees…
The hit NBC poker show Poker After Dark has just wrapped up its fourth season and is now in post production. The show, which pits six pro poker players against each other in a No Limit Holdem tournament, requires each player to buy in with $20k of their own money, all of which goes to the winner. There are a few new twists in season four, such as a double elimination heads-up competition with the four winners of NBC’s other poker show, the National Heads-Up Championship, from the last four seasons: Paul Wasicka, Ted Forrest, Chris Ferguson, and Phil Hellmuth.
She was a poker player of some renown, although it seemed more for her antics away from the table than her skill at it: Brandi Hawbaker was found dead at the age of 26 in a California residence. The autopsy ruled it a death by suicide and the chatrooms that typically would report on Hawbaker’s behavior were buzzing with the news and speculation. Bryan Micon at NeverWinPoker was one of the hardest on Hawbaker when she was alive, and he was the first to express sorrow at the news of her passing.
It seems that online poker is just a really big idea, the one that is impossible to ignore, and the US state of California unanimously passed a bill to study it recently. The Governmental Organization Committee forwarded the bill to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for approval under the tile of “The Gambling Control / California Intrastate Online Poker Act”. The purpose of the study is to determine whether or not to authorize online poker for CA residents…
By Steve Rosenbloom Poker is a game of mistakes. The object is to put your opponent in a position to make an error that gets you his chips. One of the spots in which mistakes are frequently made is on the river.
BENTONVILLE Bikers enjoy the freedom of the road, but Saturdays ride was about helping children. (Benton County Daily Record)
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