2009 October 23 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Oftentimes at a poker table, a good player will suffer a bad beat at the hands of an inferior opponent for a stack of cash. If it’s one of those sessions, it might happen two or three times and even more if it’s really a doozy. What follows is that some players quit, while others stand firm until they recoup as much as they feel is possible. The same can happen in real life away from the virtual felts, as affiliates and players victimized by the sudden shutdown of Pitbull Poker can attest to. As the months have gone by covering the story, we’ve seen a small post on the TwoPlusTwo online poker forum lead us to witnessing the closure of a poker room with hundreds of thousands of dollars missing amid a superuser scandal.
In what looks like a big win for online poker The Australian Productivity commission, the Australian Federal Government’s independent advisory for the body on microeconomic reform today released a draft report supporting the managed liberalization…
Trial slated for next year for Ernest Scherer III, accused of Pleasanton slaying for inheritance.
It’s Friday. That means, the weekend is here. So we’ll just get right to it today. Here is the news. Read it, tell your friends where you found it, and go work on your game.
One of the accomplices in a poker game robbery that took place in February was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
Police charged three people on Friday morning for operating illegal video poker machines. The charges followed a late night raid of Lee Ann Lao Market, 3084 N.C. 18 S., where authorities found 10 of the machines in a backroom.
It was a light week in nosebleed-stakes action, as most of the action continued to center around the $2,000/4,000 7-Game tables on Full Tilt Poker. Everyone’s favorite Finnish ex-model Patrik Antonius came out on top, adding $346,000 to the till…
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