2012 February 07 Poker News, Events and Happenings

This year, 155 players entered the WPT Venice Grand Prix, but with just 27 remaining, Marcel Bjerkmann is chip leader with 436,300.

Online gambling legislation has been repealed in the District of Columbia.

The federal government’s criminal online poker case was dealt a winning hand on Tuesday when a federal judge in Manhattan denied motions to dismiss the April indictment.

Russian poker pro Nikolay Evdakov passed away on Monday, Feb. 6 at the young age of 47.

Video poker king Casey Szaflarski may be a nice guy, but that doesn’t make him a good guy, a federal judge ruled Tuesday before sentencing him to more than three years behind bars.Szaflarski may have been a gentleman to people, including the bar owners where he placed the Chicago mob’s video poker machines, but only because he could afford to be, U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman determined …

Neither borrowing, loaning, or lending are going anywhere soon, but they’re the primary reasons why Full Tilt Poker may never pay back its players.

Team PKR’s Jake Cody relives his adventures at the World Poker Tour Ireland in this blog for PokerNews.