2010 April 19 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Today’s Daily Deal comes from the World Poker Tour Five-Diamond $25,000 Championship.
The World Poker Tour is expanding its reach into France, the New Zealand Poker Championship has a repeat offender, and Joe Cada is the next reality TV star - or is he? Find out in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
On April 5th, the Financial Times’ Joe Menn published an article outlining a potential grand jury investigation of Full Tilt Poker. The London news outlet is one of the few mainstream sites to have reported on the case, leaving many in the industry to question the future of the legal action.
Born on October 14, 1953 in Long Island, New York, Linda Johnson started her adult life working for the US Postal Service. After turning 21, she began traveling to Las Vegas numerous times a year to play blackjack. However, her father soon convinced her that poker was the game to master, since it wasn’t played against the house.
The latest episode of High Stakes Poker is unusually rich in oddball plays from the game’s biggest names. Doyle Brunson open-shoved 190 big blinds in a triple straddled pot - and got called! Mike Matusow knitted a whole wardrobe of sweaters, and…
The top story of the weekend from poker players and their Twitter accounts was the beginning of the 2010 World Poker Tour Championship. The crème of the poker world descended on the Bellagio in Las Vegas and many had a great Day One to tweet about.
Fresh off a final table appearance in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty Shootout, Shawn Buchanan leads the field of the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship after Day 1.
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