2008 September 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The Snow Ride, an 80-plus mile motorcycle poker run, will take place Saturday at the Rock-A-Way Cafe at routes 16 and 149.
Tampa, Florida will be the spot where poker players will come to play in the third annual Vincent Lecavalier Texas Holdem Celebrity Poker Tournament. The event will be held in the popular Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, with a $10,000 top prize for the ultimate winner of the event. Celebrities such as Stacey Gardener and Michael Ian Black will be on hand, and the money raised from the charity event will go towards the All Children’s Hospital in St…
Candida Mumford will be instructing two upcoming classes at the College of Southern Idaho’s Community Education program on poker. The 36 year old coordinator of student disability services at the school has played in two World Series of Poker seasons in Las Vegas and knows a thing or two about Texas Holdem, which she has played for four years. Calling it her second job and her passion, Mumford will teach “Beginning Poker - Texas Holdem” and “Intermediate Poker Strategy”, classes starting at the end of September and mid October, and running for $85 each.
The land of wooden shoes wants to kick up some tax revenue from online poker and other online gambling sites, and has levied a tax to that effect starting September 9. In addition to Dutch players paying a 40.85% tax on online winnings (which is the same if they won in a casino in Holland) if they win on a foreign poker site, they are still subject to the tax. An interesting debate came out of the tax decision: whether or not illegal poker games should be subject to the tax; the answer came back yes.
Two hundred and three players returned to the Casino Barcelona for the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Barcelona Open, with Sebastian Ruthenberg leading all players entering play with over 100,000 in chips. Ruthenberg saw his stack…
The Cancer Road Challenge Poker Run and Show will start at 8:30 a.m. today Saturday at the Northwest Arkansas Community College parking garage in Bentonville. (Benton County Daily Record)
MansionCasino.com ( http://www.MansionCasino.com ), one of the world’s leading online gaming websites, proudly announces a $28,371.44 jackpot winner - from a bet of just $1.25. Lemmonjellied1 scooped his Jacks or Better Video Poker progressive jackpot prize with a Diamond Royal Flush on Wednesday, August 28 2008. (PRWeb Sep 13, 2008) Read the full story at …
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