2008 June 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The 2008 World Series of Poker feted its latest pair of bracelet winners on Thursday on another busy day in the Amazon Room. Action in six different events again occurred. The bracelets were noteworthy, too, going to Kid Poker…

FAYETTEVILLE - The Washington County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 69 motorcycle poker run scheduled for today will benefit the Shop With A Cop program.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say the owner of 1 of North Carolina’s largest video poker vendors has been sentenced to prison for money laundering.

A first day’s action in Event #24 at the 2008 WSOP, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha Mixed, saw a starting field of 457 trimmed down to 85 through the first session’s opening eight levels of play, leaving the survivors in sight…

One hundred and thirty-three players started Day 2 of Event #22, $3,000 H.O.R.S.E., all aiming for spots at the final table. In what is becoming the norm for limit events at the 2008 World Series of Poker, the field thinned…

Event #21 started with 731 players, which had been sliced down to just 121 by the end of Day 1 play. On Day 2, the field would break the money bubble at 72 players and establish its final table line-up. Prior to this event, Scott…

At the end of each day of Event #19’s play, Vanessa Selbst had the most chips. This would include the final day, when she ended up with them all in winning the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet and $227,933. This was Selbst’s fourth…