2009 January 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings

A woman attacked her partner with a machete and then a fire poker early today, Gisborne police said. The woman, 46, had allegedly swung the machete at her 48-year-old partner during a drunken dispute at their home, acting Senior Sergeant David Walker said.

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COLUMBIA The never dull and often controversial Sen. Robert Ford will run for governor in 2010 on a platform centered on bringing back video poker, the Charleston Democrat told The Post and Courier on Tuesday. Ford claims video poker would solve South Carolina’s woeful financial situation, generating $750 million by taxing the industry that was outlawed here nearly a decade ago. It’s the …

A woman attacked her partner with a machete and then a fire poker early today, Gisborne police said.

Longtime PokerNews honcho John Caldwell has called it quits after nearly five years at PokerNews. ‘I just felt it was time,’ said Caldwell. ‘I’m looking to change focus, and now felt right. It was, quite simply, time to go…

TORONTO - Like any good mother, Zahra Bahmani was concerned when she heard her son was staying up late most nights playing online poker when he could have been studying toward his biochemistry degree at McMaster University.