2011 October 10 Poker News, Events and Happenings
Groups that want California to make Internet poker legal are upping the ante in their efforts to convince lawmakers that online gambling is a good idea: They’re launching websites where users can play poker without betting any money.
Daniel Tzvetkoff is still missing following his arrest for laundering internet gambling revenue, and PokerStars is running the Sunday Million and Sunday Warmup twice on Sunday.
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) kicked off Friday with the first of seven official bracelet events as the Series moves to Cannes, France after four years in London, England. In another first, Guillaume Humbert became the first Swiss national to win a bracelet, taking the 2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event and its €215,999 ($288,899) first prize.
Badih Bounahra is the first player from Belize to ever make the WSOP final table. Find out how that has changed his life & what he’s been doing to prepare.
The Epic Poker League made its debut on CBS on Saturday with the final table of the inaugural six-max $20,000 event, which took place at The Palms Casino Resort in August. Previously, coverage of the tournament had aired on Velocity.
Eric Froehlich was the son of a chemical engineer and smart enough to win admission to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County and then the University of Virginia. And then he discovered online poker. Long identified with saloons, cigars and Mississippi riverboats, poker in recent years has found an unlikely home: in dormitory rooms, on the computer screens …
A recap from the PokerStars ANZPT Darwin where Jack Drake emerged victorious.
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