2011 February 03 Poker News, Events and Happenings
It has been another busy 24 hours in the poker world. A seat in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has been claimed. A friend of poker has passed. Another tournament, this one in Italy, has begun. And two thieves of poker chips…
An Irish newspaper is reporting that a company associated with Full Tilt Poker, the second largest online poker operation in the industry, has shown tremendous expansion over the past two years and will add even more jobs in 2011.
An IT expert from England could face jail time after stealing an alleged $12 million in online poker chips from Zynga’s Texas Hold’em application on Facebook. Ashley Mitchell, 29, pled guilty to five charges on Wednesday and was told by Judge Philip Wassall that he faced a substantial jail term for performing the “sophisticated” offenses.
A look at the action from Day 3 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City where Or Abramov leads the field into Day 4.
UBOC 6 ended with Thiago Nishijima winning the Main Event, but was that enough to make him UBOC Champion? Which UB Pro outperformed their peers during the 28 events? All the answers are here in our UB Online Championship Awards.
How do you celebrate a $2.3 million cash windfall? Buy an island? Burn a couch? Dance a jig? For 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event winner Galen Hall, a party at a swank San Francisco hotel and trip for 20 friends on a party bus were just what the doctor ordered, according to an article that appeared on Thursday in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
The man who walked away with $1.5 million after an armed robbery of the Bellagio in Las Vegas was arrested on Wednesday night in Sin City, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. The mystery man is Anthony Michael Carleo, the 29 year old son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad.
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