Archive for July 4th, 2007Jul 04 2007 MR. CHIPS IS KING OF POKER (New York Post)A Long Island college student majoring in finance has moved to the head of the class after winning more than half a million dollars at a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas. First-time competitor Shankar Pillai, 22, of Commack was one of more… More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot Soars To $250,000+ Over Weekend (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)Absolute Poker today announced that the prize pool of its new Bad Beat Jackpot game has grown to over $250,000 - a new record for the one-week old Texas Hold’em addition. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 United Way poker run Sunday (The Steubenville Herald-Star)Planning for the eighth-annual Cliff Brewer Memorial Poker Run/Pledge Ride to benefit the United Way of Jefferson County is near completion. The run begins at 11 a.m. Sunday with registration beginning at Jefferson Community College. First bikes will be out at noon and the last bikes at 12:30 p.m. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Mayo poker players in Vegas (Western People)THREE of the top poker players in Claremorris are this week packing their bags and gathering their dollars and passports, as they prepare to jet off to Los Vegas on Thursday (July 5) to take part in the World Series of Poker. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Commack poker ace leaves Vegas with more than $500G (Newsday)Poker enthusiast Shankar Pillai of Commack decided to roll the dice — so to speak — in Las Vegas. By the time he was done, the 22-year-old finance major at Baruch College had won $527,829. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Poker players stay in, reach out (Las Vegas Sun)The town’s commercial poker rooms shouldn’t feel threatened, but Clyde Ernaga is thinking about going up against them in his own small way. Already, his dining room is the preferred gambling spot for a handful of his neighbors, friends and co-workers. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot Soars To $250,000+ Over Weekend (PRWeb)Absolute Poker today announced that the prize pool of its new Bad Beat Jackpot game has grown to over $250,000 - a new record for the one-week old Texas Hold’em addition. (PRWeb Jul 4, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1GYWx1LUNvdXAtUGlnZy1UaGlyLVplcm8= More: continued here Jul 04 2007 New Orleans Video Poker Proceeds Rise (AP via Yahoo! Finance)Closely mirroring a post-storm jump in Louisiana casino gambling, players are shoving more money into fewer video poker machines at fewer locations in Louisiana than before Hurricane Katrina — and leaving more cash behind. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 World Poker Tour at Gaming Life ExpoPoker pro fans should get their autograph books and digital cameras at the ready if they plan on attending the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino’s Gaming Life Expo. For the first time the World Poker Tour will host a booth at what has nearly always been a WSOP dominated event, and poker pros will be on hand to meet and greet the fans. Clonie Gowen, Tom McEvoy, Vanessa Rousso & Chad Brown, Layla Kayleigh, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Tilly & Phil Laak, Mike Sexton, Gavin Smith and Kathy Liebert are among those who will be on hand during the four day expo.Related Articles:New table structure for World Poker TourJoe Hachem new board member on WPA… More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP Event 47 - No Limit Holdem $2,000Winner - Blair RodmanPrize - $707,898 Following his bracelet winning performance at Event 47, Blair Rodman was both exhausted and elated. He spent the last part of the heads up struggle against Amato Galasso playing very aggressively. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP Diary: Day 32, July 2ndIf looked at from one perspective, those who were short stacked in Event 49 played with all the dogged determination and aggression of a mother Wolverine who is defending her family during the crabbiest time of her month. Looked at from another view, it seems like this is a bracelet that nobody wanted to win. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP WinnersThe updated list of 2007 World Series of Poker winners More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP Event 48 - 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball w/Rebuys $1,000Winner - Rafi AmitPrize - $227,005Event 48 may have ended with one guy wearing the bracelet, but both players who participated in the heads up match came away from the tournament with personal milestones in their poker careers. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 An Overview of Table Selection for BeginnersAlong with everything else you are expected to learn as a beginner - you should have some general “best practices” in mind for learning table selection. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 Season 5 WPT Fathers and Sons Event - An Interesting BetIt was the Father and Son Event during season five of the World Poker Tour, and WPT announcer Vince Van Patten was going to get a chance to show off his poker skills, if his dad didn’t call off all their chips first. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP - Jeff Madsen, WSOP POY 2006With the 2007 Worlds Series of Poker’s Player of the Year race quickly coming to an end, now would be a good time to look back at the winner of the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year award, an amazing young man with an amazing run at poker. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 2007 WSOP - Poker Independence DayToday, July 4th, the last preliminary event before the Main Event will begin, Event 54 - World Championship No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, with a $5,000 buy in. This is a last shot for those in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year race to score some points - the main event is exempt from the scoring. More: continued here Jul 04 2007 WSOP Europe Picks Up SponsorThe online poker room Betfair.com has become the sponsor of the new World Series of Poker franchise, the WSOP Europe. The WSOPE will begin in September in London in casinos owned by London Clubs International (which is in turn owned by WSOP owner Harrah’s) and Betfair is the presenting sponsor. Betfair and Harrah’s inked a deal that will have Beftair in this position through 2011; Betfair will be responsible for promoting the WSOP during the course of the year, each year… More: continued here Jul 04 2007 ESPN WSOP Set for July 10For the first time the ESPN Coverage of the World Series of Poker is going to start before the WSOP finishes. The coverage will kick off on July 10th at 8 pm Eastern Time, while the actual WSOP will continue to run through July 17th, the date of the final table of the Main Event. ESPN will be on hand for that as well, and will be offering a live Pay Per View package for around twenty bucks… More: continued here Jul 04 2007 WSOP POY Race IntensifiesThe 38th World Series of Poker has a few weeks yet to go, but the Player of the Year race within the WSOP is almost over. The POY does not include the Main Event, so when the last card is dealt in the last preliminary event the WSOP POY will be chosen. At the moment Tom “DonkeyBomber” Schneider is out in front as the only player to win two bracelets so far this year, but there are some close runners… More: continued here |
