2008 August 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Waukesha - A professional poker player from Las Vegas has to ante up for back child support or face time in prison.

A would-be candidate for mayor of Halifax aims to make Nova Scotia’s capital the Sin City of the East - putting the sin in Bedford Basin, the city’s inner harbour.

FTOPS IX Event #12 attracted a field of 1,405 players to the $1,000+60 six-max NLHE affair, generating a prize pool of $1,500,000 and a winner’s share of $300,000. With so much talent and skill in the field, there were several big…

Soon the Excalibur, the medieval themed casino on the Las Vegas strip, will take a step into the future by replacing all the human dealers in their poker room with computers. The poker room, closed as of Monday the 18th, will reopen on August 22nd with a dozen PokerPro tables in place. The tables, made by PokerTek, handle the dealing, shuffling, chip collecting and dispensing of cash duties, leaving the players at their touch screens only needing to worry about their poker game…

When a poker blogger put up an article titled “Will computer programs destroy online poker? Probably” and based his assumptions on the performance of Polaris II, the man who developed Polaris took exception. Andrew Smith published the article, where he pointed to the victory by poker AI Polaris recently over human players as an indication that poker bots are to be feared. In contrast Dr…

Texas Holdem? No problem. Omaha? Sure. Seven-Card Stud or Razz? It can be managed…

An action filed in an Isle of Man court by British citizen Natalie Teltscher against PokerStars, alleging a wrongful disqualification in PokerStars’ 2007 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event, has been dropped…