Nov 17 2007
Man accused of cheating in poker game at Mohegan Sun Casino (Boston Globe)
State police have arrested a New York man accused of cheating while playing Texas hold ‘em poker at the Mohegan Sun Casino.
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Archive for November 17th, 2007Nov 17 2007 Pittsburgh Man Takes 1st At World Series Of Poker Event (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh)A Pittsburgh man who went into a casino with $500 walked out with more than $65,000 in less than 24 hours, which isn’t bad for his first time playing big-time poker. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Man accused of cheating in poker game at Mohegan Sun Casino (Greenwich Time)UNCASVILLE, Conn. — State police have arrested a New York man accused of cheating while playing Texas hold ‘em poker at the Mohegan Sun Casino. State police say 26-year-old Sholem Weisner of Brooklyn was found with about $55,000 in his hotel room at the casino Thursday. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Poker Guy | Big bids sink reckless players (Philadelphia Daily News)Hard poker rule: Against reckless players, build big pots with big hands. That’s how Blair Rodman did it at the final table of a $2,000-buy-in, no-limit hold ‘em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker, at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. With blinds at $30,000- More: continued here Nov 17 2007 MANSION.com Announces Sponsorship of the 3rd Annual B.C. Poker Championships (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)MANSIONPOKER.COM announces sponsorship of the 3rd Annual B.C. Poker Championships, to be held in Canada’s largest Poker Room at the River Rock Casino Resort in British Columbia, between November 18 and 25, 2007. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Learning to deal: Poker course offered at Edison (Naples Daily News)Inside room J-133 at the Edison College campus in East Naples, four Southwest Floridians are shuffling cards and raising imaginary bets on a red-felt topped card table. But they aren’t playing just for fun. The four dealers-in-training are enrolled in a new five-week continuing education course titled “Learn How to Deal Poker” at Edison’s Collier County campus. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 UK Online Poker from Harrah’s PossibleThe owners of the World Series of Poker brand have already taken a step towards Europe this year with their World Series of Poker Europe event, and now it looks like they may follow it up with a cyberspace equivalent. Harrah’s Entertainment Inc has said that they may open a WSOPE online poker room. The announcement came from Gary Loveman during the Global Gaming Expo on Wednesday, which is North America’s largest casino industry trade show… More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Poker After Dark - Poker Brat LuckPoker After Dark is a very popular late night poker show (hence the name) on NBC, hosted by Shana Hiatt, the former, and first, World Poker Tour hostess. In this epidose the six players were down to four. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 December Online Poker Tourney Promises $1 MillionIn early December online poker room Titan Poker is staging an online poker tournament that will offer a guaranteed prize pool of one million dollars. This $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament will be held on December 9th and will be part of the upcoming and much anticipated European Championship of Online Poker 2007 (ECOOP). Titan Poker, which is the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, will also be guaranteeing $8 million in prize pools each and every month as part of an ongoing promotion, with different events running each night of the week.Related Articles:Titan Poker offers $3 shot at ECOOP seatsTitan Poker and LaunchPoker EXCLUSIVE $1,500 Freeroll - open now… More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Poker Room Sports Betters Busted in Atlantic CityThere is no legal sports book in Atlantic City, unlike Las Vegas, but that didn’t stop a few enterprising people from trying to run one anyway. The end result is 23 arrests at a high stakes poker room in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Four of those arrested supposedly have ties to the mob, and the others include poker room supervisors, dealers, and even a bartender… More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Poker After Dark - Knowing, But Still CallingIt was down to three players in this episode of the hit NBC poker show Poker After Dark, hosted by Shana Hiatt. Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth had just been felted, a term coined by one of the players left in the game, Phil Laak. Laak’s pal, Antonio Esfandiari was the one who busted Phil. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 HypocrisyOne of the stories around last year’s World Series of Poker was the fact that Harrah’s had basically banned online qualifiers from playing in the tournament. Despite the fact that there were numerous loopholes in the WSOP edict and the whole thing was taken about as seriously as Debra LeFave took statutory rape laws, the public face of the world’s biggest poker tournament was set clearly against online poker. Now they are looking to profit from an industry they made a conscious effort to exclude from their event. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Big Money at Low LimitsMany beginner poker players cut their teeth at Holdem by playing at low limits. They feel it affords them a great deal of protection against their inevitable mistakes and messups. They need to learn their fundamentals, and they don’t want to lose a lot of money in the process. Low limit Holdem keeps them protected and allows them to do this. More: continued here Nov 17 2007 Killing the Need to be RightThere seemed to be a little kid at the featured table on ESPN the other night when airing the World Series of Poker coverage, but there wasn’t - despite the Harry Potter like scarf and oversized sunglasses. It was Dario Minieri, young indeed, but over the legal limit to be playing poker in Las Vegas. Dario, who started the day as the chip leader, was swiftly bluffing off rack after rack of chips, and he couldn’t seem to help himself. More: continued here |
