2010 December 02 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day’s top poker news stories including UB and Absolute Poker’s Security Tokens, Titan.fr’s launch, and more.
Just in time for the holiday season is a brand new book from Drag the Bar instructor Dusty Schmidt called “Don’t Listen to Phil Hellmuth: Correcting the 50 Worst Pieces of Poker Advice You’ve Ever Heard.” The book, the first for Schmidt since “Treat Your Poker Like a Business,” will be available in e-book format on December 6th at DustySchmidt.net.
Leading the tournament nearly wire-to-wire, Germany’s Sebastian Homann emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) stop at the Casino de Marrakech in Morocco.
Poker has finally landed in the City of Brotherly Love and our own Rich Ryan had an opportunity to check it out first-hand last week.
On Saturday, the 18th Foxwoods MegaStack Challenge will kick off from the forests of Connecticut. This time around, 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon will serve as its host. The tournament series will shell out $375,000 in guaranteed prize money and offer a $1,100 buy-in Main Event.
In Part II of this article, PokerNews continues to look at the NAPT’s first season and focuses on how it compared to the first season of other tours in North America.
In an auction that closed on Wednesday, the 1999 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet won by Paul “Eskimo” Clark in a $1,500 Razz event fetched $4,050. The auction attracted 15 bids after a starting price of $1,000 was established. The lucky winner was “n***x,” whose identity is not known due to eBay privacy rules.
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