2008 May 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

May 24 - As a follow up to its successful Ultimate Home Game poker tournaments, 888 is giving one lucky player the chance to win the trip of a lifetime to the World Series of Poker, accompanying cricketer Shane Warne and the 888 Poker Team.

Don’t be fooled by the term “motorcycle madness” – the Grand Island YWCA’s first Motorcycle Madness Charity Poker Run is open to hot rods, convertibles, motorcycles and any other street-legal vehicle.

If you play your cards right you could win big money at a brand new dog track in Volusia County. The Daytona Beach Kennel Club and Poker Room used to sit in front of the Daytona International Speedway along International Parkway. Now it’s just two miles down the road along Williamson Road near I-95. The new facility that opened Friday is the nation’s first greyhound track to be built in sixteen …

Where were you five years ago today? I would love to tell you that I was in Benny’s Bullpen, soaking up what would become a watershed moment in the history of poker’s development. But, alas, I was sick. So, I was sleeping…

Bodog is bringing the excitement of the WSOP to your computer this summer in what is being billed as a "Mini-SOP." On the same day as the start of each 2008 World Series of Poker hold’em event, Bodog will conduct an identical…

Just ahead of this year’s World Series of Poker, poker player and historian Des Wilson provides an entertaining, insightful look into many of poker’s most enduring characters and tales in ‘Ghosts at the Table: Riverboat Gamblers…

A Fredericton-area service group will be holding a charity poker tournament under the new type of gambling licence provided by the government.