2008 June 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3
Doron Malinasky of Hollywood won the state’s first officially sanctioned high-stakes poker tournament Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Marc Alan Levy, of Boynton Beach , finished seventh in the state’s first poker tournament with officially sanctioned higher stakes. The event ended Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. Levy won $26,500.
One of the most interesting and popular European poker players in the world today is David Ulliott of the UK, better known as the Devilfish. Recently his company, Devilfish Gaming Plc, put out a press release about the success of its online poker room, DevilfishPoker.com. The announcement had to do with a relaunch of the room on a new network, the Entraction network, on May 19, as well as a new step for the room, signing up affiliates…
The 2008 World Series of Poker is just getting underway and already new records are being set in attendance, which is good news for the organizers of the event and the players themselves. Two years ago the poker boom was at its zenith, and then last year the attendance dropped off. With Event number 2, the first No Limit Texas Holdem event, the first day had more than two thousand players, and the second day close to the same number…
The biggest poker tournament ever to be held in the state of Florida will was held over the weekend, adding to the poker fever sweeping the USA while the World Series of Poker ramps up across the country in Las Vegas, Nevada. The poker tourney in Florida was a $3k buy in No Limit Texas Holdem event held at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The tourney is unique in other ways as well: instead of the typical three to eight percent of the entry fee going to the house, a whopping twenty percent, or $600, of the buy in went to the Casino.
Patrik Antonius, who will be playing at the first final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker later today, was announced as the most recent member of the prestigious Team Full Tilt during a private press conference…
Asian Gaming Ventures (AGV), a leading Asia focused gaming company and owners of the World Mahjong Tour announced today a new documentary film entitled “Holdem China”, which investigates the Texas Holdem Poker phenomenon spreading across China.
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