2008 October 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings

ENTRY to Europes biggest poker event may have been 500 a head but that didnt stop 800 players turning up and a further 50 queuing for reserve tickets outside the door.

Some of world’s best poker players are betting and sometimes bluffing their way through the Festival of Poker at Sky City Casino in Auckland. Hundreds are expected to take part in the event which is underway today, including 2004 World Series champion Greg Raymer.

Some of world’s best poker players are betting and sometimes bluffing their way through the Festival of Poker at Sky City Casino in Auckland.

Methodical would be an understatement in describing the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. Clocking in at a record 22 hours, the finale was as much an endurance test as a poker tournament, as John Juanda…

All bets are off. That was the news organizers of Erath County United Ways benefit poker tournament received just days before the charitable game was set to get rolling.

Erica Schoenberg is one of those rare women who could stack you at no-limit hold’em in one moment and school you in beer pong the next. Equally at home in Manolo Blahnik stilettos or her beloved Cleveland Cavaliers jersey, Schoenberg…

Online poker provider, PokerTime has launched two of its newest Tournaments set to take the world of online poker by storm. The ‘Master Classics of Poker’ and the ‘World Poker Tour Battle for the Season Pass III Bootcamp’ tourney promise players great fun and greater competition with the possibility of winning some really big prizes.