2008 October 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — CryptoLogic Ltd. is in discussions with PartyGaming Plc to cut costs by pooling their poker businesses, the Financial Times reported, citing no one.

After four days of tough poker featuring some of the biggest names in the world, the final nine players returned to the poker room at the Crown Casino in Melbourne for the final table of the 2008 PokerNews Cup Australia Championships…

A CUMBRIAN pub landlord wants customers to be able to play poker on his premises. The request from Gary Kirby, of the Kings Head Hotel at Ravenstonedale, near Kirkby Stephen, goes before Eden councillors tomorrow.

Synopsis: Casino Royale tells the origin story for British super-spy James Bond (Daniel Craig). For his first assignment, Bond is dispatched to a Montenegro poker tournament in his pursuit of a ne’er-do-well known as Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson).

Sunday’s two biggest online tournaments again continued their recent trends of approaching but ending up just shy of their guarantees, though the PokerStars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $1,000,000 Guarantee still drew nearly…

Tue 21 Oct, 2008 00:27

‘Put Charles Darwin, Claude Monet and J.R.R. Tolkein in a room with six bottles of vodka and a party pack of recreational drugs and, combined, they could not come close to the concept of New Zealand. If nature had a design studio…