2008 July 26 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Participation in the World Series of Poker Main Event has escalated to such previously unfathomable heights that there has been strong speculation as to whether a top-name pro will ever win it again. A professional has not won…
Online poker room Bodog Poker offers its players a chance to travel to Macau to play in the Asian Poker Tour, if they can win the APT Macau Seat Giveaway Finale, set to play on August 2nd. To get into the Finale players can play in a direct qualifier for $320 that runs on Sundays, or they can play in one of the four times a day freerolls running to the end of the month. Players who win the Finale will get a $8,000 prize package that includes the APT Macau buy-in of $5,300, airfare, spending money, and a six night stay at the Galaxy Star World Hotel and Casino.
The next big thing for the World Series of Poker is the WSOPE set to start on September 19th, and online poker room Full Tilt Poker is offering their players a chance to qualify. The World Series of Poker Europe will play in London like it did last year, so part of the prize package to the WSOPE will include airfare and hotel accommodations, as well as the full buy in for the WSOPE main event. Players can buy in to qualifiers for $500 or satellite in for as little as $1.
Candywriter brings voices to their fun and popular poker game for the Mac, Imagine Poker 3.6. The concept behind the game is a poker game that transcends time and space, brining together players from out of the history pages as well as fiction. Playing poker with Robin Hood, Dracula and Abraham Lincoln is possible with Imagine Poker, and now Candywriter has given their game voice…
Another wave of police raids targeting private poker games occurred in Toronto this past week, with at least four raids into ’suspected gaming houses’ resulting in charges against nearly 50 participants. All four locations were described…
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