2009 January 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings

January 13 - Poorya Nazari, from Richmond Hills, Canada, beat over 1000 other contestants in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure that had a total stake of $12.5 million up for grabs.

A healthy turnout of more than 8,200 players again made the PokerStars Sunday Million the weekend’s largest online poker event. Honors went to ‘livelikunger’ in the Sunday Million after a two-way chop, while over in the Full…

Bill Richardson was widely touted here as the perfect man to sell the incoming President’s economic plan and now, poof… he’s gone. So, like the fish who have spent much of the Pixar film ‘Finding Nemo’ trying to escape…

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. today announced the 4th annual MBA Poker Championship, which will take place January 16-18, 2009, over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

Attorneys representing several of the entities associated with Full Tilt Poker have filed their first formal response to a lawsuit filed by Cycalona "Clonie" Gowen in November, 2008, that alleged several forms of wrongdoing…

Poorya Nazari invested only $700 to win his trip to the Caribbean and a seat in the PCA Festival of Poker main event held at the Atlantis Hotel.

( University of Alaska Fairbanks ) A total of eight National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets will launch from Poker Flat Research Range in 2009. The rocket season is split into two launch windows. The first launch window opens Jan. 10, and will remain open until Feb. 5, 2009.