2009 November 22 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The final day of the first-ever PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Vilamoura is in the books after a thrilling and successful Main Event. Fittingly, it was a local amateur from Portugal that rose through the field of 322 runners to claim the title…
First, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso signs up to be a judge on the E! reality competition show “Bank of Hollywood.” Now, Absolute Poker Pro Matt Vengrin is following suit and branching out, serving as a judge in the upcoming Miss California Teen USA pageant. The event, which wraps up Sunday, will determine who will succeed reigning Miss California Teen USA Chelsea Gilligan of Beaumont.
The PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge returned on Sunday to Fox following NFL coverage and saw Brian Barboza take down a celebrity, a poker pro, and show front man Daniel Negreanu en route to a $100,000 payday and a trip to the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
“The shark is hunnnnnnnnnnnngry!”
Recently, two high-powered, longtime opponents of internet gambling issued a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner calling for the compliance date of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) regulations (December 1st) to be enforced.
With all due respect to our neighbors up north, the last place you’d expect more than half of the finalists in the PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Costa Rica Main Event final table to call home would be Canada. Forgive me if I’m missing…
For the second time in less than five days, Patrik Antonius and Isildur1 broke the record for the largest pot in online poker history. At just before 9:30 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday night, Antonius and Isildur1 were in the middle of a…
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