10 July 2007
UK Open Fires up at Loose Cannon
The Loose Cannon Club in the City of London will host the National
Poker League (NPL) UK Open from August 12 - 18. Other cities
involved in the NPL World Circuit tour include Paris in France,
Monte Carlo in the principality of Monaco, Manila in the
09 July 2007
Ante Up Poker Event Brings Out The Stars
More than a dozen Hollywood celebrities and sports legends
including Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Ray Romano, Ben Affleck, Brad
Garret and Martin Sheen joined poker professionals such as Jennifer
Harman, Doyle Brunson and Annie Duke to raise public aware
WSOP Numbers Unaffected By UIGEA
The sponsors of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament,
Harrah’s Entertainment, has announced that player numbers have not
been affected by the passage of America’s Unlawful Internet
Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
Hellmuth and Enright Admitted to Poker Hall of Fame
Phil Hellmuth Jr and Barbara Enright have been admitted to the
Poker Hall Of Fame, joining 33 other stars of the game including
Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan and Thomas James ‘TJ’
Cloutier.
Rookie Graves Takes Home WSOP Bracelet
A member of Bodog.com’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) team triumphed
over 1,048 other players last week to take home a preliminary event
bracelet.
Preliminary event 55 was a $1,000 buy-in with re-buys and Team
Bodog’s Michael Graves had to start
PokerTek Releases Heads-Up Table
The company behind the PokerPro electronic poker table, PokerTek,
has announced that it will soon be distributing a ‘heads-up’
version of the table.
The machine, Heads-Up Challenge World Series of Poker Edition,
is to be branded with official W
05 July 2007
Electronic Poker Table Now At Aspers
The PokerPro® is an electronic poker table that shuffles, deals and
even calculates pots has had a month-long launch at Aspers casino
in Newcastle. Each player is seated in front of a screen which
discretely displays hole cards and provides them with
Mizrachi Wins WSOP Pot Limit Omaha Event
Robert Mizrachi has won $768,889 and taken the Pot Limit Omaha
(PLO) crown. The game is known in some circles as the PLO World
Championships, and like the main event has a $10,000 buy-in.
Michael Graves is $1000 NLH re-buy champ
Team Bodog player Michael Graves has won the No-Limit Hold’em with
re-buys tournament at the World Series of Poker. This is the first
World Series for the 23-year-old medical student, (Dr Graves?) but
much is being made of his talent and he is not ex
Wild Card Poker Auditions Open
The Calvin Ayre Wild Card poker reality show is holding open
auditions for contestants in its second series. Most of the twelve
contestants will be selected on the back of one minute video
submissions sent in to Bodog’s online poker site.