2008 September 06 Poker News, Events and Happenings
One person is dead after a boat accident Saturday afternoon during the biggest event of the year on Lake Cumberland.
PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker is now underway and for the next 15 days, over $30,000,000 will be on the line in various events. Two events kicked off the excitement on Friday afternoon, the first of 33 on the 2008 WCOOP…
Online poker room PKR has recently signed up their two millionth user, a hallmark not easily hit and not made by many other poker rooms. PKR is well known in the online poker community thanks to their amazing 3D graphics and video game style interface, one of the big draws that likely contributed to the two million user milestone. PKR is also to be commended for reaching this milestone without the help of players from the United States.
Online poker room PokerStars has recently announced a new version of their poker client for the Apple Macintosh crowd. Other poker rooms that have advertised software for the Mac in reality are offering a browser based version of their poker room, but PokerStars has come out with a software specifically designed for the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS X. World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem is quoted in the PokerStars press release as saying the creative community will be happy with this announcement as they gravitate towards Macs.
The opening day of the 2008 Borgata Poker Open broke some records with a registration of 1,192 players and a $5 million guaranteed prize pool. The sixth annual Borgata Poker Open boasts plenty of Atlantic City regulars among the poker pros that travel in to play. Local players include Tony Salerno, Davidson Matthew and Dale Pinchot…
221 players from around the world returned to the Palm Beach Club in Cannes, France for Day 2 of the Partouche Poker Tour Cannes Main Event. Among the survivors from the two flights of Day 1 were Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, Scotty…
Reno, billed as the ‘Biggest Little City in the World,’ will be the site of an upcoming big poker event, the First Annual State of Nevada Championship Poker event, scheduled for September 25 – October 5, 2008. Held at the Grand Sierra…
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