2008 May 05 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

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The River Rock Casino Resort is the location of the Coast to Coast Poker Championship, which kicks off today. The first of seven events will be a $500 No Limit Holdem event. The main event will be a $3,000 buy in freezeout, and it will be filmed for broadcast by the WPT (World Poker Tour) Canada…

Poker players are persistent in breaking the law in New York as yet another underground illegal poker game is shut down by the police this past weekend. In Long Island, NY, police officials arrested the poker game organizer, a 29 year old who was picked up at the William Paca Lodge. Some 10,000 in cash was seized as well as a surveillance system and poker chips and poker tables…

Online poker room PKR got in the mix to throw an after party as part of the Professional Footballer’s Awards celebrations. The players involved in the awards got a chance to hit Albannach restaurant in Trafalgar Square, London, and there were players form the Fulham first team, as well as Carlton Cole, Micah Richards and Jermain Defoe. Poker games were the theme of the night, in addition to other casino games such as blackjack and roulette…

SpadeClub announces the WSOP 40K Giveaway which will award four World Series of Poker* main event seats to its Exclusive members between June and July. SpadeClub members can compete during the June and July $40,000 mega monthly events, on June 1 and June 29 respectively, for a World Series of Poker Main Event prize package consisting of a $10,000 buy- in and $2,000 in travel expenses.

HIGHLAND - Poker pro Annie Duke and Academy award-nominated actor Don Cheadle will host a celebrity poker tournament at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino on Thursday to raise money for the Darfur crisis in Africa.

Everest Poker welcomed the new November World Series of Poker final table scheduling today, where it has already secured exclusive felt-top, and table-side branding rights.