2009 February 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings

Event #17 of the eleventh Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XI) was a $300+22 NL hold’em six-max (w/ rebuys) tourney guaranteeing $1,000,000. A field of 1,091 re-bought 2,100 times and added on another 737 times…

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ALBANY ? City police have arrested four young men and charged them in connection with a violent January robbery outside a social club once used as an underground poker den.Detectives believe the suspects, two of whom are college students, either conspired to or took part in the incident where a man was pistol-whipped and robbed of $5,500 in cash and $4,500 in cashiers checks. The mugging took …

Event #16 of the eleventh Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XI) was a $200+16 Omaha-8 (hi/lo) affair guaranteeing $150,000. A field of 818 created a total prize pool of $163,600. Notable finishers outside the final…

$23,400 in PokerNews Cup Alpine Packages from Carbon Poker – that’s a chance for three of you to head to ski heaven this March 21-28…

In the early 1980s, very few people outside of a small community of bridge and backgammon players in New York City had ever heard of the Mayfair Club. Founded in the 1940s by Harry "Fishy" Fishbein, winner of twelve national…

HARRISBURG — As he often does with legislation that he cares about, Gov. Ed Rendell is taking his video-poker-for-tuition-relief proposal on the road.