2009 March 18 Poker News, Events and Happenings
A daily double at PokerStars by Daniel "Allanon85" Drescher headlined online poker action early in the week. Drescher started his great day by taking down the difficult daily $100+rebuy NLHE at Stars, then topped off a great…
Tim Mepham has beaten out the best poker players in Glen Innes to win a weekend at Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast along with $1,000 in chips.
The first things anyone will notice upon entering the Amazon Room during the World Series of Poker are the giant, twenty-foot-high posters depicting the winners of each year’s Main Event. Moss. Brunson. Ungar. Ferguson…
With the legality of poker in the news in South Carolina, the President Pro Tem of the Senate, Glenn McConnell, has called for hearings over the next couple of weeks to examine the possibility of legalizing friendly home poker games and charity raffles.
CaesarCardClub, a site on the Everleaf Gaming Network, recently re-launched with a brand new look and feel. The online poker room has also announced a special World Series of Poker (WSOP) Mini-League to send players to the festivities in Las Vegas in just a few short weeks. First place takes home a $10,000 Main Event entry plus $2,000 in spending money. Second place grabs a $2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament buy-in plus $2,000 in spending money. The third place finishers will have CaesarCardClub foot the bill for a $1,500 buy-in No Limit event in Las Vegas and receive $2,000 in cash.
Attendance was up at the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the seventh season of the World Poker Tour (WPT). This time around, a total of 391 players turned out (up from 376 last year), helped in part by a 256 player showing on Day 1B. The tournament’s champion, who will be crowned on Friday, takes home $1.02 million.
PokerStars has announced the grand opening, on Thursday, March 19, 2009, of the new "PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa" live poker room. The room will be located on the second floor of the Grand Lisboa Casino in central…
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