01 Aug 07
Michael Mizrachi is Planet Hollywood's In-House Grinder
bodogbeat.com - Planet Hollywood has signed Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi on to play in their poker room, and have done so for an event accessible to the average poker player, a $480 buy-in no limit hold'em tournament. The Grinder will be there every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to play in the 7pm tourney. Any player who knocks him out gets their buy-in as a bounty.
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01 Aug 07
New Report: More Brits Playing Online
bodogbeat.com - The body that oversees gaming activities in the UK, The Gambling Commission, released a report that the number of adults in Brits who gamble online has increased by over one percent, or roughly 700,000 people, over the last year. Online poker has become one of the most popular forms of gaming in the UK, exceeded only by The National Lottery
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01 Aug 07
Harrah's Expands 2007-08 WSOP Circuit
cnn.com - Harrah's License Company, LLC, an affiliate of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. , will launch the fourth season of its popular World Series of Poker Circuit with an expanded schedule of 12 tournament stops that will bring high-stakes poker action and excitement to players at nine Harrah's casinos around the country.
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31 Jul 07
Bluff Opens Voting For Second Reader's Awards
bodogbeat.com - "The first Bluff Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards were a tremendous success and gave the readers clout and a say in shaping the future of poker. We’ve expanded the categories this year based on readers’ input including ”Best Poker Blog” which will make this year’s voting that much more compelling for the poker fan,” said Eric Morris, Co-President of Bluff Magazine.
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31 Jul 07
Weekend Players Set Online Poker Record
online-casinos.com - Initial reports on the weekend's online poker tournament activity at Poker Stars.com indicate a full and action-packed weekend attended by over 20 000 entrants to popular events such as the Sunday Hundred Grand, the Sunday Warm-up, the Sunday Million and the High-Stakes Showdown.
Poker Stars still accepts American poker players in tourneys that build significant prize-pools and therefore big winner payouts.
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31 Jul 07
Gambling Banned in Second Life
foxnews.com - In a sign of real-life authorities' increasing interest in the activities in virtual worlds, all forms of gambling in Second Life have been banned.
Linden Labs, the company that runs Second Life, said that as of this week, its policy on 'in-world money wagering' was changing, and that casino games such as black jack, poker, roulette and slot machines would no longer be permitted.
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30 Jul 07
NETELLER Now Allowing Withdrawal Requests
cardplayer.com - Starting today, U.S NETELLER customers whose accounts were frozen since January have access to their accounts and can request withdrawals.
U.S. customers can access their accounts until Jan. 26, 2008. No fees will be charged for withdrawing funds. Customers will receive their money either through electronic transfer — if they have registered their bank — or by check. Customers can request withdrawals only for the full amount of their accounts.
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30 Jul 07
WPA Code Of Ethics For Poker Players
online-casinos.com - The growing membership of the World Poker Association, founded two years ago by poker professional and successful businessman Jesse Jones has a practical Code of Ethics to guide them in standards and behaviour in tournament play following the publication of the Code last week.
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30 Jul 07
WSOP '07: Be Worried, Be Very Worried
gambling911.com - World Series of Poker organizers seem content that they have attracted 6358 players in the 2007 event. ...
[T]here was actually more than a 25% decline in actual attendance this year over last year.
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27 Jul 07
World Poker Congress: November Gathering
pokernews.com - Following in the success of last year's inaugural World Poker Congress gathering, the WPC has once again scheduled Jeffrey Pollack and Steve Lipscomb as speakers for the keynote address for the second annual WPC event in late November.
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27 Jul 07
AOL Enters UK Online Sports Betting
From next month, AOL UK customers will be able to place bets on international horse races and other sporting events using the betting platform of JAXX UK Ltd, the British subsidiary of FLUXX.
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27 Jul 07
Party Poker Dutch Open to be filmed in UK
uk.pokernews.com - The first Party Poker Dutch Open will be filmed in London between 11th and 14th August under the guiding hand of TV poker regulars Matchroom Sport.
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27 Jul 07
Shannon Elizabeth denied access to Aussie casino
pokerlistings.com - Actress and aspiring poker-pro Shannon Elizabeth is in Australia to play the 2007 Victorian Poker Championship. ...
But she found out the hard way that being a celebrity won't always help you, especially if you are not recognized. She was denied access to the Victorian Poker Championship because she had forgotten her id.
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26 Jul 07
Will Poker Playing Prisoners Help Crack Cold Cases
vegaspopular.com - [T]he poker boom has infiltrated even the Florida prison system, where inmates are receiving 100,000 decks of cards. But, instead of trying to train them to win the next World Series of Poker, Florida officials are hoping the card-playing prisoners will help them solve several cold cases.
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26 Jul 07
U.S. Internet Gaming Opinions On The Slide
Market investigators Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research have announced that approval of online casinos could be slipping after a recent study of American public opinion.
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25 Jul 07
Humans narrowly beat computer in poker battle
metimes.com - Two professional poker players narrowly beat a computer late Tuesday after four tense rounds that scientists called the world's first man-versus-machine poker championship.
Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, two poker players from Los Angeles ranked as the world's best, prevailed against a program named Polaris by just 570 points in the fourth and final game in the match.
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25 Jul 07
High-tech casino poker scam busted
newsday.com - In arrests carried out June 7, but made public Wednesday, police charged Steve Forte, 51, of Las Vegas, with using a computer and cheating devices to commit theft, attempted theft by deception and conspiracy.
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25 Jul 07
ESPN Airing 2007 WSOP
cardplayer.com - Although the 2007 World Series of Poker just recently came to an end, ESPN has already begun airing episodes of the first few preliminary events.
All new episodes premiere on ESPN at 5 p.m. PDT on Tuesdays.
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24 Jul 07
WSOP: More Events Equals More Players
cardplayer.com - The dust stirred up by the thousands of players who traipsed through the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino the last two months has cleared, and now it’s time to look at some of the figures that came out of the 38th World Series of Poker. With 55 events, the 2007 version was the most ambitious one yet, attracting more entrants than ever before.
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24 Jul 07
WSOP Europe Attracts Poker’s Elite
onlinecasinonews.com - Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Roland De Wolfe, John Juanda, Allen Cunningham, Todd Brunson, Eli Elezra, Howard Lederer, Humberto Brenes and Jennifer Harman are just some of the famous names that have already secured their seats.
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