Irishman Wins First Majestic Poker Tour Event in Santo Domingo
CardPlayer.com - Feb 24, 2006Rory McHugh won the inaugural Majestic Poker Tour (MPG) event last week, winning $68,000 and a $15,000 package to the 2006 Word Series of Poker s main event. …

Poker Strategy IX – Stud Poker: Buying the Free Card
casinos.ch, Switzerland - 10 hours agoYou may have heard about players buying a free card. I know that I didn’t understand what this meant for quite a while. But it is …

Online Poker Site Hosts Charity Tournament for Ailing Player
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 26, 2006Online poker room FullTiltPoker.com is helping one of its players battle leukemia with a private charity tournament scheduled for today. …

In the cards
Shelby Star, NC - 3 hours agoThe battle cry for the short-stacked tournament poker player is, All you need is a chip and a chair to keep your hopes of winning alive and well. …

Risk of robbery raising stakes of poker nights
Newsweek - Feb 21, 2006WASHINGTON – The first time Doug Thomas looked up from his cards to see a gun pointed at him, the chips on the felt-topped poker table were piling up to about …

Trial Version of Poker Skill Game, All-Skill Poker Tour, Launched …
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 24, 2006(Press Release) ThwartPoker Inc., the company which brought the first all-skill poker game to market, today announced the availability of a PC downloadable …

Poker gets chance to go straight
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Feb 26, 2006AUSTIN, Texas – It’s no surprise Steve Lipscomb is too busy to play as much poker as he would like these days. … In 2001, Lipscomb said, poker was dying. …

Charlotte gets its IPO groove back
MSNBC - 22 hours ago… PokerTek’s fortunes are built around an electronic poker table that does everything from dealing the cards to laying bets on video screens. …

Sports wife – and rare high roller
Philadelphia Inquirer – To the public, she’s the Great One’s adoring spouse: a mother; an actress; a fit, stunning beauty. She was named one of the all-time greatest sports wives in a 2001 ESPN.com survey. But there is another side to Janet Jones: an extremely rare female

Texans owner downplays rift
Washington Times – Houston’s Bob McNair, an owner of one of the NFL’s high-revenue franchises, said yesterday the dispute between the owners over revenue-sharing pales in comparison to the chasm between the league and the NFL Players Association on talks to extend the

Casino: We’re ready to gamble on Allentown
Allentown Morning Call – Once or twice a month, Fred and Kathryn Oswald take the 21/2-hour trip from Whitehall Township to the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, where Kathryn plays video poker and Fred plays the role of ”coin bearer” by holding a plastic bucket

Betting on charity
Star-Banner – Ocala resident Albert Herrera found himself all in with a set of queens. On the second day of the World Series of Poker last year in Las Vegas, after about eight hours of play, whittling some 2,000 players down to 10, Herrera had bet, bluffed and won

Texas firm to return to Copper River Basin well
Alaska Journal of Commerce – A Texas exploration company already working with Ahtna Inc. on natural gas prospects in the Copper River Basin has acquired 36,000 acres of leases in the Cook Inlet Basin. Bill Rutter III, of Rutter and Wilbanks Corp. in Midland, Texas, said Feb. 16

Roll the dice
Everett Herald – The Final Table Casino in Everett attracted a line out the door for a poker tournament earlier this month, a sight that made Anna Bednersh smile. The owner of the minicasino, which opened in November, hopes it’s a sign that the business is developing

Newest Casino Ready To Roll
KWWL – The Diamond Jo Casino in Worth County is expected to open in April. It’s one of four casinos approved for a license last year. The other casinos are the Lost Island-Isle of Capri Casino in Black Hawk county, the Washington County Casino and Resort in

Wednesday’s Mailbag: ESPN2’s coverage and Bergman’s confession
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Raise your bet, raise your glass
Columbia Missourian – It s no secret poker has hit the big time. The first World Series of Poker in 1970 at Binion s Horseshoe in Las Vegas had seven players, and the winner, Johnny Moss, took home a trophy. The 2005 WSOP had 45 events and drew over 32,000 players

Rookie Seon Hwa Lee takes 2-shot lead
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Seon Hwa Lee, of South Korea, watches her drive off the 10th tee during the second round of the Fields Open’s golf tournament, at the Ko Olina Golf Club, in Kapole, Hawaii, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman) KAPOLEI, Hawaii — Rookies

U.S. panel: Kids under 5 should get flu shot
MSNBC – Q&A: All about bed-wetting Researchers say a shocking number of kids are gambling, whether they re doing it online with credit cards, sneaking into casinos with fake IDs, holding their own Texas Hold ‘Em poker games or betting on sports events

Cowher: Steelers-Bengals ‘big-time rivalry’
Dayton Daily News – The Steelers’ Super Bowl championship run began with a 31-17 victory at Cincinnati a game in which Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer wrecked his left knee on a hit by Kimo von Oelhoffen. Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis exonerated von Oelhoffen

Williams has reason to smile
Orlando Sentinel – It’d be nice to see more people treat the combine with the upbeat attitude that Memphis RB Deangelo Williams exuded in meeting the media here. “I always have a smile on my face, and I love meeting new people,” said Williams, who rushed for 1,959

The Stars Come Out for the LA Poker Classic Invitational
CardPlayer.com - Feb 23, 2006The Commerce Casino in Los Angeles rolled out the red carpet tonight for their LA Poker Classic Invitational. Hollywood stars and …

Fundamentals of Poker (Fundamentals)
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 23, 2006… Fundamentals of Poker: A hard-hitting guide to the best strategies for the most popular casino poker games seven-card study and Texas hold’em – plus insights …

Poker Tables Are A Winner For One Local Business
PokerMag.com - Feb 24, 2006… sometimes made the best money selling mules and shovels to gold-rush prospectors, Eric Nordstrom is betting that he can make a profit from poker tables, rather …

Newcomer Takes $2.4 Million In LA Poker Classic
Online-Casinos.com, Denmark - Feb 23, 2006Six tough days of playing poker, 700 opponents including famous names in the world of poker… Alan Goehring, a relative newcomer …

Inside the Poker Mind: Essays on Hold ‘em and General Poker …
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 23, 2006By John Feeney, Ph.D. Poker is a game of many skills, and to become an expert poker player you need to master them all. This includes …

Burke’s peerless at Ibrox
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 19 hours ago… It wasn’t pool we were playing but poker and the same principles applied. Let’s just say I was cured. Stephen Hendry first switched me on to Texas Hold ‘Em. …

PokeronaMac.com Offers a Guide to Mac Online Poker Rooms
PR Web (press release), WA - 12 hours agoNewYork, NY (PRWEB) February 26, 2006 — For a while Mac poker players have been left in the dust during the online poker boom. …

New Online Casino Software for Interactive Poker
Online Casino News, CT - Feb 22, 2006By Andrew B. Zone4Play s new poker game is soon to be available to 10 million households in the UK. The game, Face-Up Hold’em …

Poker on the Internet
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 23, 2006Over the past five years Internet poker has gone from an industry very much in its infancy, enjoyed by a few hundred regular ‘play money’ players, to a multi …

Poker : The Real Deal
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 23, 2006Like a secret society, poker has its own language and customs – its own governing logic and rules of etiquette that the uninitiated may find intimidating. …

vnunet.com feature: Smart money backs online poker
VNUNet.com, Netherlands - Feb 23, 2006The potential profits offered by online gambling are phenomenal and, over the past few years, the smart money has turned to poker. …

Caro’s Fundamental Secrets of Winning Poker
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 24, 2006The classic guide to winning at poker just got better! … “There are more insights on winning at poker in this book than any I’ve ever ready. …

If you’re always losing at poker, don’t blame it on bad luck
DetNews.com, MI - Feb 22, 2006There’s a quote I once heard that I thought was genius: “Poker is a lot like sex. … Like all poker players, you have to ride out bad luck streaks. …

Poker Aces
Poker 777, Australia - Feb 23, 2006When Ron Rose began playing tournament poker in 2000, he knew the names of all of the pros but nothing more. … That book is Poker Aces. …

Learning From the Pros (Real Pros): The World Poker Tour Boot Camp
CardPlayer.com - Feb 22, 2006It s Sunday morning at The Mirage, and I m sitting at a poker table with nine people. The game is no-limit Texas hold em, the …