2009 August 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings
This week, former Bluff Magazine Editor-in-Chief Matt Parvis transitioned to the same role with PokerNews. Former Bluff Magazine Online Editor Lance Bradley will now assume the role of Editor-in-Chief at Bluff Magazine.
You may have to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em, but poker is mostly a game of chance, a Greensburg jury ruled yesterday in the trial of a Derry Township man who ran Texas Hold ‘em tournaments.
Its that time of the evening when Moms washing the last load of laundry, Dad is taking the dog for a long walk and the teenagers are hanging out in the basement. Yep, it must be time for the weekly poker game. At many houses, mine included, its one of the summer rituals: A handful of popcorn-chomping teens sitting around a table wearing sunglasses and baseball caps, hoping to get lucky and …
It’s time again for The Nightly Turbo. We’ve found the day’s most interesting poker news so you don’t have to. Leaving you more time to work on your game.
David “Dragon” Pham is one of the fiercest tournament players the United States has ever seen, but he almost didn’t make it to America. Born in South Vietnam in 1967, Pham fled to the US at the age of 17 aboard a boat with 145 passengers; only 46 people would survive that voyage, and fortunately, David Pham was one of them. When he arrived in the States, Pham briefly worked for his cousin’s laundry business, but since his cousin was Men “The Master” Nguyen, he soon shifted his focus to poker.
A Westmoreland County today found a man who organized Texas Hold ‘em poker tournaments guilty of illegal gambling, rejecting his arguments that the game isn’t gambling because it requires a high degree of skill
With his runner up finish in the 2009 WSOP, Ivan Demidov may have cemented Russia’s place among the best pokering nations of the world, but Vitaly Lunkin is providing some staunch support to even further that claim. Getting his start in strategic games such as backgammon and Renju, Lunkin was introduced to poker by a friend and his never looked back. After dominating the competition on his home soil, Vitaly took his act on the road in 2006, cashing in the World Series of Poker Main Event for $15K. In 2008, Lunkin won his first bracelet in the $1500 No Limit Hold’em event for $630K.
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