2008 August 10 Poker News, Events and Happenings

MARIETTA - On the lawn in front of the Influent in Reno, several dozen employees stood in a group holding balloons Saturday afternoon. On cue, they let go and the balloons flew into the sky. Several shouts of “I love you Amber” rose as the balloons flew away.

After three days of play and a grueling final table, Jose Miguel Espinar found himself atop the field at the end of the PokerStars.net Latin America Poker Tour Punte del Este championship, adding an LAPT win to his PokerStars Caribbean…

A Pike County man has pleaded guilty to paying winners at his video poker parlor.

Much like its namesake, the mythical underseas continent off in the Atlantic, the Atlantis is in its own little world. It’s removed from the well traveled streets of downtown Reno – and even a mile or two from the Peppermill…

The online poker pro known as Jennicide has finally found an online poker room willing to sponsor her, and in fact she is the first sponsored player at IronDuke.com. Leigh hasn’t been exclusively an online poker pro, although that is how she cut her teeth. She was a popular figure on Poker Royale, on GSN…

While the World Poker Tour got some good news when the Fox Sports Network bought the WPT’s seventh season, the numbers they have posted for the second quarter of 2008 don’t look very good. WPT revenues have dropped from $7.7 million last year to $5.1 million in 2008. Steve Lipscomb, the WPT president and CEO, is optimistic, however…

Celebrities don’t have to be good at poker to get attention playing it - they just have to show up. Some go a step or two further and have people come to them, such as the case of Eva Longoria, one of the Desperate Housewives crew, and her husband Tony and their night of charity poker. Eva’s Heroes is the name of the charity, and the name of the event is the First Annual Tony and Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night…