2008 October 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

The €250,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament at online poker room CelebPoker will start in just two days, and online qualifiers are still running. The buy in is €200+15, but qualifiers can get players in for less. There are rebuy tourneys and sit and go’s as well as feeder satellites, where you start for a very little and work your way up through a number of events to get into the main €250,000 Guaranteed…

The World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continues apace and the pro poker players continue to knock each other out of the running for the top prize. The biggest pro killer was John Juanda, who knocked out fellow pros Erick Seidel, Andy Bloch and Mel Judah on his way to accumulating chips. In the end the chip leaders, and the players at the final table, are Robin Keston, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Elliott, Bengt Sonnert, John Juanda, Ivan Demidov, Toni Hiltunen, Scott Fischman and Stanislav Alekhin, ending the hopes of Annette Obrestad fans that the young pro would pull off back to back wins.

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*The Give a Kid a Backpack Foundation in Clermont will have a Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament Saturday to raise money for the foundation. It begins at 6 p.m. at the Days Inn & Suites on U.S. Highway 27 near State Road 19 north of Clermont.

October 3 - The Poker Players Alliance applauds Senator Menendez’s S 3616 bill that will license and regulate online poker playing, and other games of skill.