2009 June 24 Poker News, Events and Happenings
While the World Series of Poker has been broadcast to the world via television in some form or another since the early 1970s, it is really only…
Poker After Dark is a hit show on NBC airing six days per week at 2 a.m. I enjoy the broadcast because the producers show most of the hands that are played in any given session.
Thousand Oaks Bruins Hockey will host a poker tournament at 6 p.m. Fri., July 26 at the Paseo Marketplace, 3691 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Westlake Village. The event will include prizes and an auction. Cost is $65 in advance for players, $75 at the door and $20 for spectators.
Good poker players need both skill and luck. In his ongoing poker game with the markets, it looks as though the Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is blessed with both.
After collapsing at the table during the Day Two play at the $2500 Razz tournament at the World Series of Poker and being wheeled away on a stretcher, professional poker player “Miami” John Cernuto is reported to be in stable condition and undergoing tests at a Las Vegas hospital.
Fourteen players returned for the final day of play in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $2,500 buy-in Mixed Games event, but it took less than twelve hours for only one to be left standing as the latest bracelet winner. The final fourteen had several familiar faces including Kill Phil author Blair Rodman, The Mathematics of Poker co-author Jerrod Ankenman, Full Tilt Pro Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, online pros Jimmy “gobboboy” Fricke, recent WSOP bracelet winner Rami “arbianight” Boukai, Eric “jakz101” Crain and Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki as well as Dario Alioto and Layne Flack. In the end it was Ankenman who finally picked up his first bracelet after eight prior final table finishes, including two second places.
With the Bellagio Cup V only three weeks away, officials from the World Poker Tour (WPT) released the schedule for Season VIII. A dozen tournaments will be held, including the brand new Hollywood Poker Open, which will debut from the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
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