2008 December 29 Poker News, Events and Happenings

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The record-setting activites as part of "World Record Week" at PokerStars dominated Sunday’s online poker world, including a special edition of the Stars Sunday Million that guaranteed $2.5 million in prizes, but shattered…

December 30 - WSOP bracelet winner and poker room founder, Doyle Brunson, slams Party Gaming founder, Anurag Dikshit for settling with the US Department of Justice.

Drayton Valley card lovers will soon have no excuse to not play cards. Starting Jan. 5 Barb and Terrance MacDonald will be hosting a weekly Texas Holdem tournament at the legion every Monday night.

Still, to exclude bluffing from poker would result in an uninteresting game: If you never bluff you become too predicable and will not be able to maximize your winnings, much less win at all.

In our first Aussie Millions Flashback, we covered the early years of the event, wherein the Crown Casino worked hard to solidify poker in Australia. In some ways, they picked a difficult era to start their quest. The late 1990…

(Corrects RPM company name in 12th paragraph.) Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — Managing your financial affairs in this season of political transition is like being in a poker game when a stranger shows up. Its hard to know how to play a hand until you get a sense of the new guys strategy.