2008 June 30 Poker News, Events and Happenings

JOHNS ISLAND Charleston County Sheriff’s deputies said they confiscated nine arcade-style poker machines from a home where a man was shot with a rifle this weekend.

The $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, Event #50 on the schedule, drew 381 predictably well-known and arguably well-heeled players. And since the buy-in included one rebuy, it was a wild and raucous beginning as players pushed…

Event #51 at the 2008 World Series of Poker, $1,500 H.O.R.S.E., drew 803 entrants, making it possibly the largest live mixed-game event in history. The end of Day 1 eliminated more than three quarters of the field, and at night’s end…

Starting Day 2 of Event #49, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em., the 215 remaining players knew they were already in the money, so their focus was on making it to the final table where one of them will win $631,170 and the WSOP bracelet…

It took five days and an amazing final-table performance to do it, but Scotty Nguyen claimed his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet with his victory in Event #45, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship. He outlasted a final table…

Poughkeepsie native and Arlington High School graduate Michael DeMichele placed second at a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas, taking home a cool $1,243,200 after paying $50,000 to enter.

This summer, a fractured world is gathering in two locales Beijing and Las Vegas for one-of-a-kind competition. The Summer Olympics begin Aug. 8; the World Series of Poker Main Event begins July 3. Let me count the ways the WSOP is better than the Olympiad: