12 Dec 06
Pots Of Weekend Poker Action
online-casinos.com - The weekend's poker tournaments showed once again that the politicians can try to stifle poker, but its devotees are not easily stopped.
On the benchmark Poker Stars Sunday Million, 6680 poker players turned out to generate another million dollar plus prize pool at $1 336 000, producing a top prize of $187 040 00. With 975 players in the money the atmosphere was electric and the playing fast and furious.
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11 Dec 06
Purple Lounge Launches Poker Tour
onlinecasino.org - After launching their successful Norwegian Poker Tour, world favorite online casino, Purple Lounge, is pleased to be re-creating the event in Sweden.
The exciting poker tour is scheduled to begin in June 2007, and will run until August. Purple Lounge will be showcasing the event in Moore Magazine, which is the [fastest] growing men's magazine in the country.
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11 Dec 06
Harrah's Weighs Buyout Offers
pokerpages.com - The board of Harrah's Entertainment Inc., host to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) plans to meet this Wednesday to consider buyout offers presented to the firm, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, confirming a Wall Street Journal story.
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08 Dec 06
Bodog pulls US ads, but continues Poker
pokerpages.com - Bodog.com Entertainment, owner of Bodogpoker.com, announced plans to pull all of its U.S.-facing gaming-related advertising yesterday, mostly for its free-play and educational site Bodog.net.
However it confirmed its real money online poker site will still accept U.S. players.
The Digital entertainment powerhouse described the advertising pullback as "quite extensive". The pullback will include advertising on television, radio, magazine and newspapers in the U.S. market.
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08 Dec 06
Approval of poker, blackjack "inevitable"?
readingeagle.com - Pennsylvania,USA: No one should be surprised that legislation has been drafted to legalize poker, blackjack and other table games in Pennsylvania. It was inevitable.
What’s surprising is that table games weren’t part of the 2005 law that legalized slot machines. The 11 states that allow slot machines and table games legalized both at the same time.
But Rep. H. William DeWeese, a Greene County Democrat, said he hopes to correct that oversight. DeWeese, who drafted the table-game legislation, said he plans to introduce the bill in January.
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07 Dec 06
Celeb to sponsor players in Showdown Poker Tour
onlinecasinonews.com - Online poker room CelebPoker.com has announced that it will be sending its online tournament winners to the televised Showdown Poker Tour Montreux (Switzerland) Main Event, which takes place between January 31 and February 4 2007. ...
CelebPoker.com is currently running satellite tournaments over the next five weeks, with the winners going through to a $380 online final on January 7 to determine the Showdown Poker Tour qualifiers.
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07 Dec 06
PEI approves Texas hold ’em poker tables
theguardian.pe.ca - The Prince Edward Island government knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em and Wednesday it decided to hold ’em — Texas style.
Provincial Treasurer Mitch Murphy confirmed the province has given the Atlantic Lottery Corporation approval to add four Texas hold ’em poker tables at the Charlottetown Driving Park Entertainment Centre.
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07 Dec 06
WPT Inks Party to International Deal
pokernews.com - Two poker entities sharing a stated goal of aggressively expanding into non-U.S. markets have joined forces, as WPT Enterprises, Inc., has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with PartyGaming Plc.
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06 Dec 06
Big Paycheck For Brit Stuart Fox at Ongame Classic
online-casinos.com - After a total of 23 hours of gruelling competitive poker over 2 days, the Ongame Network Poker Classic was won by Englishman Stuart Fox this week, giving the Birmingham, UK pro a bank balance boost of $239 383 and a gold and ruby card protector trophy.
Fox, who has an impressive string of finishes in major UK, USA and Ireland tournaments, beat 44 other finalists to the main prize in the tournament, which took place at the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona, Spain.
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06 Dec 06
UK's "Devilfish" Takes Five Diamond Classic
online-casinos.com - Brit poker pro David "Devilfish" Ulliot, who owns the online poker room Devilfish Poker.com was in the money big time this week with a $266 000 prize win in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic held in Las Vegas.
The $2 000 No-Limit Hold'em event rewarded the English player with the big cheque and a World Poker Classic gold bracelet, together with a seat at the $25 000 World Poker Tour finals in April next year.
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05 Dec 06
UltimateBet Experiences Sharp Rise
digital50.com - UltimateBet.com's Online Championship has drawn attention from poker players around the world since its start on December 1. ...
This massive event, coupled with a drastic increase in players since the Black Friday shopping holiday, and the onset of the winter season have sent numbers sky-rocketing by close to 60%. Numbers are on the increase daily and show no signs of slowing down.
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05 Dec 06
Legislative Update for US Poker Players
pocketfives.com - Congress is currently in a lame duck session, which is set to expire by Friday. After the New Year, a new Congress with new leaders will take charge of the United States: “We’ve been focused on finding champions for an online poker exemption and educating new congressional members about online poker,” said Poker Players Alliance President Michael Bolcerek. “There’s a great opportunity there.”
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05 Dec 06
VP Candidate?: An Interview with Greg Raymer
pokernews.com - "I am currently talking to some people who run the Libertarian Party about the possibility of running to be the party's official candidate for Vice President of the United States. With a few exceptions, I would support the official planks of the Libertarian Party."
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04 Dec 06
Paddy Power UK Poker Tour a Huge Success
uk.pokernews.com - An affordable range of tournaments, all £100+£10 freezeouts or rebuys, made for a great festival of poker for the masses. Famous faces and amateurs alike took their chances up and down the UK, but it was the lesser known players who grabbed the headlines.
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04 Dec 06
Frist not to run for President
pokerpages.com - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who snuck the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) into the Safe Port Bill in the final moments before the Senate recessed, announced Wednesday that he will quit public life and will not run for President of the USA. ... Frist would have had to deal with several ethics controversies in his quest for president.
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01 Dec 06
Last days of the Caribbean Poker Classic
pokerpages.com - We have gotten into the last two days of the Caribbean Poker Classic here at St. Kitts. Today we will have two tournaments: One that will start in a few moments, the $500+50 no-limit hold'em with one optional rebuy. And then in six hours from now, we had initially planned the $200+20 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys + add-on. But, that one has been skipped in favor of a $400+40 pot-limit Omaha freeze-out.
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01 Dec 06
Fallout: Jobs Cut at Card Player and WPT
"In the last 24 hours, I discovered that Card Player Magazine and the World Poker Tour axed several employees, a trend that's been too common in the poker industry over the last few weeks. Many jobs in the once thriving poker industry have been lost due to the UIGEA and it seems that the two big giants in the poker world were not exempt from the fallout."
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01 Dec 06
World of Poker: Hungary
pokerplayernewspaper.com - Live poker has reached the furthest corners of Europe - including a place that seems unlikely to be a gambling haven at first - Hungary. ...
Online gamblers in the country will have a tougher time, though, as payments from Hungarian banks are blocked to most online poker sites, as of June.
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30 Nov 06
New Bond Villain Wins With Hooks
mi6.co.uk - According to national media and the Danish poker magazine "Ace", Mads Mikkelsen participated in a real-life poker tournament in Denmark on Friday night.
Apparently the new Bond villain learned something from playing Le Chiffre because he won the BET24 tournament after beating everyone, including the Danish poker pro Theo Jørgensen by calling his "all in".
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30 Nov 06
Pennsylvania Gov: No Rush To Legalise Poker
online-casinos.com - The governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell dampened hopes of a legalisation of poker in the state anytime soon when he reacted sharply to reports that a member of the state legislature was framing such a Bill.
The governor says that he would reject any legislation seeking to legalise table games before the state has a chance to gauge the success and impact of slot machines, according to an Associated Press report.
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