2008 April 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Two-time Main Event champion Johnny Chan welcomes the World Series of Poker’s move to delay the final table to facilitate a Nov. 11 ESPN telecast within hours of the tournament’s finish.

One day last November, Ron Finnerman was playing Texas Hold’em poker at his Calabasas home. After a while, he switched to blackjack. In that moment, a new game was born. “I got bored of playing Hold’em and started to play blackjack, but I lost focus,” said Finnerman. “I kept playing and then started to wonder, ‘Who’s favored here?

May 1 - In a radio interview this week, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Dino Rossi expressed his support for online poker in Washington and called for the abolishment of tough legislation.

Dozens of big-name pros gathered in the Caesars Palace poker room to kick off the World Series of Poker Las Vegas Championship, offering perhaps the most star-studded field of recent Circuit events. Among the 334 entrants were multiple…

There’s a misconception about tournament poker that goes like this: Players need to try frequent sophisticated bluffs and make lots of risky moves to maintain an unpredictable image and to win.

The World Series of Golf® , today announced that online poker giant, Full Tilt Poker, will become the title sponsor of the Las Vegas-based sports and entertainment event that has been described as the most innovative golf tournament format since the Skins Game.

A concept for new legislation supported by the Treasury Department of the Isle of Man, home to several online gambling companies, seeks to streamline existing gambling laws and put into place a regulatory and supervisory framework…