2008 September 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings

This October expect to see the City of Sails set alight with poker fever, as the SKYCITY Festival of Poker kicks off.

It was a long day of slow, methodical play punctuated by frenzied spells of eliminations, but at the end of the night, Japan’s Yoshihiro Tasaka took down the top prize of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Seoul…

The Alee Temple Shriners held their annual Poker Run Sunday.

An online poker apparel store continues to show their support for US soldiers by donating goods to the free poker tournaments held every Sunday for soldiers, Marines, airmen and civilians. The idea was to have a poker tourney for the soldiers to have a little fun and take their mind of the stress of service, and has grown to incorporate other poker lovers along the way. The store, DonkeyGear, supports the tourney by donating prizes that the players can win, since there is no prize pool generated by entry fees…

The latest World Series of Poker Europe event is over, and Theo Jorgensen has captured the crown. The pro poker player from Denmark took the second event of the second WSOPE season with his victory in the £5000 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) event. Other pros were in the event, such as Chris “Jesus” Ferguson and Max Pescatori…

On GSN a new lineup has poker fans setting their digital boxes to record. On Sunday nights High Stakes Poker will run back to back with the World Poker Tour, all starting tonight. HSP will kick off at 7 pm (Eastern Time)…

The Eldorado Casino in Reno is home to a great poker room, particularly for cash games. Nearly all week long the casino spreads a small $1/2 no-limit hold’em game which has a $60 min and $300 max buy-in. The casino also runs…