2010 April 06 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The Team USA roster for the inaugural World Team Poker event is now in place, as Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson selected their group of nine players for the one-day event, which takes place on May 19th at the Golden Nugget. The $50,000 buy-in event will feature 40 of the world’s top poker pros representing eight different countries.
We’ve got news on the Brazilian Series of Poker, the PartyPoker OCGC and another poker TV show in the works in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
It has been a roller-coaster week in Massachusetts where the Poker Players Alliance believes it has successfully lobbied for the removal from a casino bill of language that would have made playing Internet poker in the state a crime.
For Full Tilt Poker, when it rains, it pours. One day after word leaked that the industry’s second largest online poker site was the subject of a grand jury investigation for money laundering, the Commonwealth of Kentucky has filed suit against its owners in the Franklin Circuit Court.
In a Telegraph article by Ben Harrington from Saturday evening, Gaming Media Group, which owns the television outlet The Poker Channel and online poker site Poker Heaven, is looking into the possibility of selling both of the highly respected poker outlets. To further advance the sale of these outlets, Gaming Media Group has hired Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP to solicit bids and map out a strategy for the business plan of The Poker Channel and Poker Heaven. Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP is one of the top business advisors in England and has previously consulted in the gaming arena on the sale of Cecure Gaming to PokerStars.
While children around the world hunted for Easter eggs, the online cash-game elite were hunting for their own tasty treats. Tom “durrrr” Dwan savored six-figure wins over Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin, while Patri
Attorneys for the Commonwealth of Kentucky have fired back in the case involving the seizure and potential forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names. Kentucky counsel declared that the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) “cannot establish standing.”
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