2011 April 28 Poker News, Events and Happenings
This week, the Poker News Daily web series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes Kathy Liebert. As you might expect, Black Friday takes center stage, as Liebert and Friedberg tackle a variety of topics, including what’s next for the online poker industry, whether we’ll see more indictments down the road, and the extent to which Howard Lederer is in command of the Full Tilt Poker ship.
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Time is running out to play in the risk-free $5,000 Monthly Masters this Saturday on Freeroller.com.
Has Jon Kyl changed his tune on Internet gambling? We’ll tell you that, as well as how one poker player is getting his voice out there, and more in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
On Thursday, the World Series of Poker Circuit kicks off its latest $1,600 Main Event, this time right in poker’s backyard at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. PokerNews takes a look at the nine WSOP-Circuit gold ring events leading from that stop.
Greyhound racetracks have always been the way in for legalizing poker games in Florida, but a new law may make them irrelevant. In the past poker tournaments and cash games at these locations had to coincide with live dog races, but that may soon change. A new bill put before the Florida House would allow the racetracks to hold poker games without the races, something that will be good news for the establishments and poker players alike. Dog breeders are the major opposition to the measure, stating that such a change would put thousands of people out of work.
Greyhound racetracks have always been the way in for legalizing poker games in Florida, but a new law may make them irrelevant. In the past poker tournaments and cash games at these locations had to coincide with live dog races, but that may soon cha
Online poker room PokerStars has announced they will be lowering the guaranteed prize pools of their upcoming SCOOP events. The poker games of the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker have prize pools that reflect the new online poker environment now that the poker room has blocked US players. The poker room has slated $45 million in guarantees when they first announced the 2011 SCOOP schedule, but now are advertising $25 million. Another change are the event start times, which now fall in European time zones.
Online poker room PokerStars has announced they will be lowering the guaranteed prize pools of their upcoming SCOOP events. The poker games of the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker have prize pools that reflect the new online poker environment
Ever since online poker became popular the idea of using poker cameras has been floated around, and now one online poker room has done it. 888Poker has announced the launch of their new poker cam tables. The PokerCam Tables allow you to play virtually face to face with your opponents, as long as they have webcams. With webams poker players have a chance of reading opponents for tells, something that was virtually impossible to do before, although for the most part poker players will likely try this poker game for the novelty.
Ever since online poker became popular the idea of using poker cameras has been floated around, and now one online poker room has done it. 888Poker has announced the launch of their new poker cam tables. The PokerCam Tables allow you to play virtuall
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