2008 July 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 4
When he was 18, Michael DeMichele began his professional poker career at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, Oneida County.
Flop2River.com launches poker table video series to help poker aficionados find their next table without leaving their couch. The video series allows potential buyers to have an ownership experience beyond simple pictures, similar to what they would get from a retail shopping experience.
The prize was $1.9 million and the respect of his peers - respect that he already had. The game was the $50,000 buy in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship at the 2008 World Series of Poker, and the victor was Scotty Nguyen…
In what is being called a freak accident a 20 year old poker player, participating in a prop bet that had him hurtling down a hotel hallway clad in only socks and underwear, crashed through a fifth floor window and fell 40 feet to his death. Mark Day had just come back to the hotel after busting out of a poker game when he was dared to make the dash. His friends, Marc Smart and Steve Kimberly, are working with police at the Majorca Beach Hotel in Magalluf to determine the full extent of the incident.
Online poker room PokerStars yanked the $1.2 million payoff to online poker player Void, real name Natalie Teltscher, because a third part helped her play her hands, which is against tournament rules. Now Teltscher has file a law suit against PokerStars in order to reclaim her tourney winnings. The judge in charge of the case has said that the first thing to determine is whether or not there is a contractual obligation to pay the tournament winnings to Teltshcer before they can move forward in the Isle of Man case.
This summer, a fractured world is gathering in two distinct locales Beijing and Las Vegas for one-in-a-kind global competition. The Sum- mer Olympics begin Aug. 8; the World Series of Poker Main Event begins Thursday. Let me count the ways the WSOP is better than the Olympiad:
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