2008 October 04 Poker News, Events and Happenings

New Zealands biggest ever poker tournament, the SKYCITY Festival of Poker, is underway in Auckland.

The second annual World Series of Poker Europe has come to a close, and the winner of the coveted main event is an American poker pro, John Juanda. The buy in was £10,000 and 362 players took part, creating a prize pool of £3,620,000. Juanda, the first American to win a WSOP main event outside of the United States, took home £868,800 ($1,598,587) as his first place prize…

Online poker room Mansion Poker, established in 2004, recently announced they have switched networks, moving their operation over to the iPoker network. The move will be mostly transparent as far as their poker players are concerned, although it has been timed with a revamped poker loyalty points system. Those players with existing loyalty poker points will have their balance converted to the new system of Mansion Club Points…

While the specific evidence has yet to be forthcoming, Russ Hamilton has been named as a party in the cheating scandal that has involved online poker room UltimateBet. Hamilton won the 1994 World Series of Poker main event, which paid him a prize of $1 million. In addition that was the only year the WSOP paid the winner his weight in silver…

Everyone has a poker face. Property marketer Kevin Clark’s is introspective, verging on brooding. Publisher Martin Cardno’s is stony, half-hidden by mirror-glasses.

Only a couple of hours after John Juanda took down the WSOP Europe Main Event at the Empire Casino in a marathon final-table battle, 158 competitors returned to action across the city at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in the…

Jeff Hwang is an expert blackjack player, a semi-professional poker player, a columnist for Card Player magazine, and the best-selling author of Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy. (PRWeb Oct 4, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/omaha_poker/poker_books/prweb1426134.htm