2009 May 20 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The Illinois Senate turns to sin taxes to pay for a huge public works program; $300 million a year would come from legalizing video poker. Higher liquor taxes and drivers fees would also provide smaller amounts. Is it a questionable bet on the future? CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery went looking for answers.
Jeff Madsen came oh-so-close to winning the main event at the 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championship…
The World Poker Tour kicked off last month with an event at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. 260 players anted up $10,000 each to create a prize pool worth $2.6 million with only the final 30 players finishing in the money.
A federal judge has ordered the Palm Beach Kennel Club to pay 18 poker dealers a total of $133,206 in back wages and damages after a jury ruled in March that the club illegally set their base pay below the minimum wage.
PlayerGPS.com, a website that offers the ability to add players to an alert list and receive notifications when they sit at a cash game table, announced a slew of updates as well as its final pricing model. The site has been under a fully functional beta period where players could set up an account and use the site for free. This free period will end on June 1st, when the new pricing model will take effect.
A smallish version of the Pokerstars Super Tuesday still brought out plenty of stars, including a 2008 WSOP…
The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will kick off in exactly one week on May 27th. The traditional $500 Casino Employees event is the first to play out, followed by the new $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament commemorating the 40th running of the WSOP. Poker News Daily sat down with WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack to gauge the mood at the Rio with just seven days remaining.
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