2009 July 16 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The World Series of Poker has thrust nine millionaire winners into the spotlight as they wait 116 days to get back to the final table for the rest of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event in Las Vegas.

Only a few days after Illinois legalized video poker, casino and bar owners in the Quad-Cities are still trying to figure out the potential impact.

HARRISBURG — In a surprising outcome, House Democrats failed yesterday to pass a bill that would legalize video poker machines in up to 14,000 Pennsylvania bars, clubs and taverns, but they will try again today.

University of Kentucky student Billy Kopp, 23, made $896,730 by finishing 12th on Thursday in the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Rio casino in Las Vegas. But he figures to be haunted by it as “the one that got away.”

As part of its ongoing ‘Five’ fifth anniversary celebration, Full Tilt Poker will host a special tournament this Sunday that it hopes will be…

DUBLIN, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — - Poker Superstar Reinforces His Status as the Greatest Player of All Time Team Full Tilt’s Phil Ivey has made the final table of the most prestigious live poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

AP Photo | LAURA RAUCHPlayers who made the final table of the World Series of Poker are, from left, James Akenhead, Jeff Shulman, Phil Ivey, Antoine Saout, Darvin Moon, Joseph Cada, Steven Begleiter, Kevin Schaffel and Eric Buchman.The World Series…