2008 June 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Two more bracelets were awarded on Thursday in 2008 World Series of Poker action at the Rio, including one in an event where popular player Chris "Jesus" Ferguson fell just short of winning his sixth bracelet. That bracelet…

HUNTINGTON — The sixth annual Nichols Memorial Motorcycle Poker Run is scheduled for Saturday, July 5.

48 players returned for Day 2 of Event #34, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys at the Amazon Room on Wednesday. By the time play halted for the evening, only nine remained, with Kyle Kloeckner leading a field that includes some…

Nobody is surprised that a 23-year-old with limited Formula One experience leads the World Drivers’ Championship. It is just that most people thought his name would be Lewis Hamilton, not a poker-playing Pole called Robert Kubica.

Sebastian Ruthenberg came into the final table of Event #33, $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low World Championship, as the chip leader after taking down a huge pot at the end of Day 2. He ended the day the same way he began it, atop…

Most of the field in Event 36 No-Limit Hold’em at the World Series of Poker played as if they had somewhere else to be. Evidently, quite a few did, in fact, have other engagements, which led to play featuring constant confrontations…

With six events simultaneously at play, sometimes it’s hard to tell one event from another as one looks out across the vast expanse of the Amazon Room. But in the orange section today, the differences were starkly apparent…