2008 December 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings

RENO, Nev. — A Reno man and former casino company executive is among 19 people granted pardons on Tuesday by President Bush.

For principals in the online card room Full Tilt Poker — who include some of the world’s top poker players — luck may not be a lady.

Action. What most poker players crave. The more they play, the more they need. Understanding this principle, one sees how poker’s recent history — particularly the evolution of players’ preferences for various forms of online…

A Tucson couple is facing charges after authorities raided a Midtown poker room and two homes Tuesday. This past summer Club Royale opened on Campbell Avenue. In August, police and the Arizona Gaming

April brought a pair of huge European poker events to the forefront of the poker world, though in both instances North American players ventured across the pond to snare life-changing wins. American Jason Mercier and Canadian Glen…

The state has dropped all charges against a man accused in the theft at gunpoint of about $4,000 from players at an illegal poker game in Hagerstown.

Senate President Pete P. Reyes expressed support yesterday to the Governor’s Strategic Economic Development Council’s resolution that seeks to eliminate all poker machines, except those at licensed casinos, in the CNMI by June 30, 2009.