2008 May 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The downtown Las Vegas landmark Binion’s, long the home of the World Series of Poker (when it was known as Binion’s Horseshoe), will join a crowded poker summer scene in Vegas with the announced return of the Binion’s Poker Classic…

Full Tilt’s first-ever $25,000 Heads-up Championship, featuring the largest buy-in ever for an online heads-up tourney, saw a familiar name take the title on Sunday. Full Tilt pro David Singer claimed the title after defeating Emil…

MANILA, PhilippinesIf morality were a poker game, then organizers of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) have just gone all in with their chips, whipping up a cash-rich tournament with a total pot of $1 million.

When Grant Erwin started his poker club in 1962, there was no such thing as a personal computer, an online accounting tool or an Excel worksheet. The eight or nine men who met monthly around kitchen tables in Seattle and Bellevue to play low-stakes poker kept track of their winnings with tokens in old baby-food jars, labeled with their names.

Television in the poker world has been the driving force behind poker’s popularity. Today there are so many TV shows featuring poker, that if you record them all on your DVRs each week, you’ll run out of room! The expansion…

When Grant Erwin started his poker club in 1962, there was no such thing as a personal computer, an online accounting tool or an Excel worksheet…

Las Vegas is known for many things – gambling, entertainment, and some of the greatest food in the country. There are a number of wonderful dishes to try and it’s hard to find a bad meal if you’re on the Strip, but here are five…