2009 October 31 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The gig: Getting poker players to risk hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars to enter Commerce Casino’s tournaments can present a marketing challenge in this economy. But that’s nothing compared with the organizational skill it takes to feed thousands of players, staff their games with competent dealers and keep participants from tearing at one another’s throats.
ARSENE WENGER believes it is becoming almost impossible to keep footballers out of trouble.
In more than 2,000 hands played in the Tom “Durrrr” Dwan Million Dollar Challenge on October 27th and October 28th, Dwan earned $82,000, pushing his lead to nearly $780,000 overall after 27,185 hands.
A recent change to the tournament schedules at CEREUS Network sites Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet has online grinders rejoicing at the fact that it will now be even easier to bolt to the bathroom during a long session of online tournament play. The two rooms are the latest to adopt the practice of synchronizing breaks.
Earlier this decade, when poker wasn’t the behemoth that it is today, a noted writer by the name of James McManus accepted a job from Harper’s Magazine to cover the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
The schedule for Season 3 of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) was announced this week and headlining the list was the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, formerly a staple of the European Poker Tour (EPT).
Although the attention may be focused on other bigger-name players, Eric Buchman has positioned himself to steal poker’s biggest prize. Having made two World Series of Poker final tables, a WSOP Circuit final table, several near misses at the WSOP…
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