Jul 12 2007
Pennsville Fire Dept. will host poker run (Today’s Sunbeam)
PENNSVILLE TWP. The Pennsville Township Fire Department will hold its 7th annual motorcycle poker run on July 28 with registration running from 9 to 11 a.m.
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Archive for July 12th, 2007Jul 12 2007 Asia-Pacific joins world stage as poker destination (Philstar.com)PokerStars, (www.PokerStars.com), the world’s largest online poker site, announced Wednesday the launch of Asia-Pacific’s first poker tour, the PokerStars APPT. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 World Series of Poker: Canton Twp. man playing for big bucks (The Canton Repository)If you see Ryan Elson, feel free to pinch him as hard as you like. The Canton Township resident is living the dream of a lifetime. “It’s pretty surreal,” Elson said Wednesday from Las Vegas, where he is taking part in the World Series of Poker Main Event. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Shannon Noll’s poker face a problem (News Interactive)A PROBLEM gambling expert has dealt singer Shannon Noll a rebuke for agreeing to become the “face” of the Australian Poker League. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Poker players gamble for good in top tournament (Las Vegas Sun)LAS VEGAS (AP) - The tactics may be cut throat but the results can be downright sweet. An increasing number of poker players are donating portions of their winnings to good causes. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Chuck Blount: Online legislation puts pinch on World Series of Poker (San Antonio Express-News)The party is far from over, but the number of entrants in the 2007 Main Event of the World Series of Poker is down for the first time in 15 years. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 World Series of Poker, Day 5: Will another unknown win the World Series of Poker? (Daily Bulletin)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson is known famously to have regretted writing his landmark poker instruction manual “Super/System,” because it allowed average Joes to get into the minds of the masters. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Poker players gamble for good causes at WSOP (ESPN)An increasing number of poker players are donating portions of their winnings to good causes. Six days into this year’s World Series of Poker main event, bluffing, stealing and sandbagging already have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Parking a hurdle in poker hall plan (The Nashua Telegraph)NASHUA – Main Street may not turn into the Las Vegas strip, but a gaming company remains invested in a proposed charitable poker house in downtown Nashua. … - By EILEEN HYNES Telegraph Staff More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Sportsbet Site Launches Poker RoomA well established online sportsbook and casino operation from Costa Rica has announced a Flash based poker room that will run on Windows, Mac and Linux. The company, betEd.com, will be using the ThrillX Systems software supplier to run the site. The site will offer tournament play in multi table format, as well as heads up and sit and go events… More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Poker in the Park a SuccessIn London the World Series of Poker Europe is going to kick off for the first time in September, bringing a global poker brand to the UK, but the World Poker Tour beat the WSOP to the punch. The World Poker Tour’s “Poker in the Park” at Leicester Square drew hundreds of the curious and poker fans for mini tournaments and a chance to meet and greet WPT board members such as Steve Lipscomb and celebrities like Mimi Rogers. The city of London is often referred to as Europe’s number one poker destination.Related BonusWPT event underway in VegasWorld Series of Poker numbers are in… More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Overcarding the FlopIt’s pretty much over when you don’t develop anything on the flop. Someone at the table is bound to have at least a pair, right? Even if you have an overcard, there’s no way you can win the pot, right? Wrong. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 2007 WSOP - Are Repeat Victories a Thing of the Past?Any champion of the main event of the World Series of Poker deserves the accolades given to them. Take a look back ten years or more and you’ll see that even though the fields were much, much smaller than they are today, they were almost 100% pro, meaning that at no time was winning the WSOP main event ever easy. However there is one thing that would happen from time to time that seems not to be possible these days - the repeat victory. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 2007 WSOP - Day Three and CountingToday, July 12th, Day 3 will begin, with all the surviving players from the four Day 1’s and the two Day 2’s coming together and starting the serious hunt for the money. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 2007 WSOP Diary: Day 40, July 10thIf Day 1d of the World Series of Poker Main Event was like the movie Fight Club, then Day 2a bore a bit of a resemblance to the classic television series, The Twilight Zone. The day started with Montel Williams wondering where 5000 of his chips had wandered off to. The number of chips that were in his bag simply didn’t match the number that was written on the bag. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Apples and OrangesThat’s like the oldest cliche in the cliched book of cliches. Everyone knows you don’t compare apples and oranges, except for when you’re making a diet plan, but you should also never, ever compare the metaphorical apples and oranges. But people still do it. They do it a lot. They do it a lot in poker. More: continued here Jul 12 2007 Tom Schneider Wins WSOP Player of the YearThe race is over, and the only player to win multiple bracelets at the 2007 World Series of Poker has been named the WSOP Player of the Year. Tom Schneider picked up 255 points with his two victories and one other cash, keeping him ahead of runner up Jeffrey Lisandro by a scant 30 points. In terms of cashes Lisandro led the felid (tied with POY 5th place finisher Phil Hellmuth) with 6, but he won only one bracelet… More: continued here |
