Archive for July 7th, 2007Jul 07 2007 World Series of Poker on pace for 3,500 fewer entrants (The Pantagraph)LAS VEGAS — The main event of the World Series of Poker is on pace to undershoot last year’s total significantly and trim several million dollars off the top place prize. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 World Series of Poker on pace to see 5,200 entrants (Covers.com)LAS VEGAS — The main event of the World Series of Poker is on pace to undershoot last year’s total significantly and trim several million dollars off the top place prize. Organizers said the event kicked off the first of four opening days with 1,3… More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Opening day of the main event of the World Series of Poker (Las Vegas Sun)BIG NEWS: Only 1,287 players registered for the first of four starting days of play in the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event. That put the tournament on track to enter about 5,150 players, far fewer than the 8,773 that took part last year. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Local Poker Player Gets ‘A Lousy Deal’ (NBC 6 Miami)Life can deal a lousy hand, but Dave Williams got a really lousy deal. He won a $10,000 seat to play at the World Series Of Poker, but never got his ticket. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Poker World Series (The Canton Repository)What 38th annual World Series of Poker main event, with a $10,000 buy-in. Where Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. Who Thousands of players, including defending champion Jamie Gold. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 World Series of Poker main event: Day 1(A) (USA Today)At the World Series of Poker, so many people sign up for the $10,000 buy-in Texas hold-em main event that they split Day 1 into several days. We’re underway. Notable names entering the fray this afternoon in Vegas: Doyle Brunson,… More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Lawyer raises stakes against state’s Internet poker ban (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)A Renton lawyer and poker player has sued to overturn the state’s ban on Internet poker. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Seminoles shut down high-stakes poker games (Sun-Sentinel)The Seminole Tribe of Florida sent the state’s poker community into a frenzy this week by briefly offering high-stakes games akin to Las Vegas. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Damon, Affleck's poker charity to help genocide victims in Darfur (ANI via Yahoo! India News)Washington, July 7 (ANI): Oscar-winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck showed up at a charity poker tournament in Las Vegas on Thursday, in order to raise money for the victims of the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Entitled 'Ante Up for Africa', the event was organised at the Rio Hotel. The money raised by the event went to the Enough Project and the International Rescue Committee, which are … More: continued here Jul 07 2007 Entries way down as World Series of Poker heats up (Houston Chronicle)The main event of the World Series of Poker is on pace to undershoot last year’s total significantly and trim several million dollars off the top place prize. Organizers said the event kicked off the first of four opening days with 1,301 players in Las Vegas. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 2007 WSOP Event 49 - No Limit Holdem $1,500Winner - Chandrasekhar BillavaraPrize - $722,914Just like in the free for all when anyone can be splattered at any point in time by a random paintball to the head, the body count of this No Limit Holdem championship rose at an aggressive clip. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 2007 WSOP Diary: Day 35, July 5thMaybe many people would be impressed with someone who can stuff 66 hotdogs (and buns) into their body in less than twelve minutes, but the fifty-four events that lead up to the Superbowl of the poker world has to take center stage. More: continued here Jul 07 2007 WSOP Main Event Starts TodayThe 55th Event of the 38th World Series of Poker will begin today, starting eleven days of poker that will determine who is the nextworld champion, and create not a few new millionaires. Last year’sevent paid $12 million to the winner, Jamie Gold, and this year’s event is projected to be at least as high. Extra days were recently added to the schedule to handle the projected swarm of poker players, which is currently around nine to twelve thousand… More: continued here |
