2009 May 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Friday’s Day 3 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Season 5 Grand Final in Monte Carlo ended with American Matthew Woodward…
A poker tournament scheduled for tonight at the Grand Sierra in Reno to raise money for the Washoe County Safe n Sober Foundation has been canceled due to low turnout, organizers reported.
In what had to be one of the biggest blunders in recent online poker history, popular online poker room Full Tilt Poker (currently ranked second in the world in terms of overall ring game traffic) conducted an “action update” with the idea that adding cash games with antes would create action tables. The update revealed that ante tables were only coming to the highest limits, with future expansion likely. Also included with this update are Ring Game Lobby Icons and Synchronized Breaks for multi-table tournaments, meaning that players can enter several tournaments at the same time and all would break simultaneously.
LAS VEGAS –The commissioner of the World Series of Poker said Tuesday that he thinks that cardplayer Annie Duke’s presence on reality show “Celebrity Apprentice'’ will be good for the game, despite repeated insults thrown at Duke and the profession by Joan Rivers.
A complete list of the 199 Internet domains ordered to be blocked by Internet service providers doing business in the state of Minnesota…
On May 17th during the Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera, the Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation and Sunflower Children Foundation will team up to offer a charity poker tournament featuring “Rounders” star Edward Norton and 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Jamie Gold.
Steve Schirripa, an actor on the popular “Sopranos” television series on HBO, will host “Face the Ace” on NBC. The grand prize on the poker meets reality television program is $1 million and airing begins on August 1st. The show represents NBC’s first venture into prime time poker programming.
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