2010 February 21 Poker News, Events and Happenings
KABUL — Afghanistan’s biggest private bank — founded by the Islamic nation’s only world-class poker player — celebrated its fifth year in business last summer with a lottery for depositors at Paris Palace, a Kabul wedding hall.
The busy weekend of poker includes the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational, which is emanating from the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. Day 1 of the invite-only event took place on Saturday.
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Playing poker and helping kids sounded like a winning combination for Overland Park firefighter Andrew Grove . After being chosen for the Leadership Forum for the city of Overland Park, he was required to do eight hours of community service, and he hit upon a poker tournament.
The launch of the latest PokerStars.net land-based poker tour – the North American Poker Tour – was years in the making. It finally kicked off yesterday with a $5,000 no-limit hold’em tournament at Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Judging…
A total of 872 players entered the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event on Saturday and, when the smoke cleared, 476 remained in the hunt for the $827,000 top prize.
Some lottery corporations across Canada are starting to place their bets on the once-underground world of online gambling, hoping that government-endorsed games will provide some credibility to the unregulated industry.
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