2010 April 27 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Harrah’s has put the Rio on the chopping block, we’ve got an update on a Full Tilt Poker court case, and more, and it’s all in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
On the Daily Deal, we will recap two major hands on High Stakes Poker, find out more about the Safe Gaming System, and preview the upcoming Derby Poker Championship.
Originally hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tom McEvoy learned poker from his grandmother at the age of 5, and regularly got in trouble for playing with his friends at school. He studied to be an accountant, but when he got laid off from his first job in 1978 he decided to turn his full attention to poker.
Born on April 16, 1986 in Toronto, Canada, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi learned to play poker in his teens by frequenting home games with his friends. After Chris Moneymaker’s victory at the World Series of Poker in 2003, Mizzi started playing online, where he became fast friends with online star Josh ‘JJProdigy’ Fields.
If you’ve ever seen the film Searching for Bobby Fischer, you may already know a bit of Jeff Sarwer’s story as portrayed by the character Jonathan Poe. Born in May 1978, the Canadian took to chess at an incredibly young age, teaching himself…
In 2007, Norwegian poker superstar Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad famously won a tournament on PokerStars without looking at her hole cards. Now she plans to attempt the unthinkable feat again at the upcoming Bluff Europe Poker Academy at the Victoria Casino in London.
In two key court decisions over the past week in California and Kentucky, the sponsored professional poker players of Full Tilt Poker and their alleged ownership companies won dismissal of the cases. One keeps the possibility of being resubmitted and the other has an unclear future.
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