2011 April 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Viktor Blom battled a challenger Sunday in the latest installment of the SuperStar Showdown. Did he win? You can find the answer, as well as where the WPT is headed in the Nightly Turbo.
Manassas will host a poker charity event that will support pediatric charity. Players can buy in for $50 to compete and have fun as well as raise money for charity. The Journey 4 A Cure Charity Poker Tournament will run Sunday May 1st. Poker players who wish to pay more to give more to the charity will get more in return, up to $10k in chips. All the money raised in this charity event will go to Journey 4 A Cure, which funds the support of finding a cure for Pediatric Cancer.
Manassas will host a poker charity event that will support pediatric charity. Players can buy in for $50 to compete and have fun as well as raise money for charity. The Journey 4 A Cure Charity Poker Tournament will run Sunday May 1st. Poker players
PND catches up with Lauren Kling, she mentions how her performance at the tables has improved and how much she enjoys playing live poker.
Over the Easter weekend, the inaugural running of the Everest Poker ONE took place, with Germany’s Julien Kabitzke emerging with the title in hand.
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The second session of this season’s High Stakes Poker is in the books. Mike Baxter has crushed, but Haralabos Voulgaris and Jason Mercier finished strong.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), a Federal agency that oversees credit unions, is under scrutiny about the way it failed to properly supervise an Arizona institution linked to the indictments of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker in the U.S this month.
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It’s been a hectic 10 days for the online poker community. On April 15th, the founders of PokerStars, Absolute Poker, and Full Tilt Poker were indicted, along with eight others, on charges that included money laundering, bank fraud, illegal gambling, and violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
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