2008 September 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings

CANTON The Fire Department will host a poker run to benefit burn survivors today, starting at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The event will start at 9 a.m., with the last bike going out at 11 a.m. Bikes will return by 5 p.m. Music and activities will begin around the McKinley monument at 2 p.m. All festivities are open to the public.

Jessica Arosemana took home first place and a cash prize of $400 in the first-ever boating poker run conducted on Holiday Lake. With a winning poker hand of an ace-high straight, Arosemana beat out more than 100 other participants in the fundraiser conducted last Saturday at Lakeside Marina.

If there is a lessoned to be learned from the recent decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, it is simply: show up to court. On September 8th, the United State Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit…

When poker players’ hole cards were finally put on television and then beamed into living rooms around the world, the game changed forever. The modern poker boom began and many of today’s top poker pros entered the game. Televised tournaments and cash games are now a staple of broadcasting. Joining the PocketFives.com Podcast this week to talk about the challenges of creating innovative poker …

If there was one final table that stood out from the pack at this summer’s World Series of Poker, it was the one that concluded in Vanessa Selbst’s first bracelet. Though Daniel Negreanu was closing in on his fourth on the ESPN Main Stage…

If you watch enough poker shows or sporting events on television, there is a good chance you’ll run into a variety of ads for online […]

A poker package is to be introduced into 200 pubs after a successful trial saw beer and cider sales soar. Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) is rolling the scheme out to 200 of its community pubs after sales of the drinks went up by an average of three per cent on poker nights.