Pakistani told to surrender teen daughter as bride to settle poker debt 
USA Today - Feb 27 6:35 AM
Police are seeking 10 men accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt, officials said Tuesday.Save

Poker Gets Serious. Loses Sex, Bootie, Streakers, Cows, Lingerie 
adrants - Feb 26 8:40 AM
Here’s a refreshingly new approach to online poker advertising. Rather than strangely dressed booth babes, sex-laced silliness, strippers with surprise endings, politically stylized bootie, potentially removed fingers, branded streakers (1, 2), lingerie-clad pillow fighters and painted cows, we have…Save

Commerce Casino Attracts Largest World Poker Tour(TM) Field Ever in Continental U.S.: 791 Turn Out For L.A. Poker … 
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Feb 24 8:40 PM
The L.A. Poker Classic Championship event at Commerce Casino smashed records for largest field and largest prize money ever for a $10,000-buy-in World Poker Tour event and for a WPT event in the continental U.S.Save

Bar owner pleads not guilty to gambling 
Daily Herald - 2 hours, 38 minutes ago
The owner of a Round Lake tavern charged with allowing gambling in the establishment pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Lake County Circuit Court. Scott Coyne, 39, was arrested Jan. 24 when police raided the Four Coynes Inn at 302 Nippersink Road.Save

Harrah’s to bring poker tournament to Europe 
KTVN Reno - Feb 27 8:35 AM
LAS VEGAS Harrah’s Entertainment says it’s bringing the World Series of Poker to Europe.Save

Daughter Demanded Over Pakistan Poker Debt 
CBS News - Feb 27 9:30 AM
Pakistani police are seeking 10 men who allegedly tried to force a woman to hand over her 17-year-old daughter for marriage to settle a poker debt incurred by her father when she was just a baby. Forced marriage is now illegal in Pakistan.Save

Big Ben plays villain to perfection 
Fox Sports - Feb 26 6:01 AM
Given that the Academy Awards were Sunday, it’s fitting that Ben Wallace would put on a command performance. The guys at Dime say he played the role of villain to perfection, but when it came to winning, he got snubbed. Save

The NFL’s silly season is about to begin 
Greensboro News & Record - Feb 27 12:15 AM
INDIANAPOLIS — This year’s NFL Scouting Combine ends today, and by 6 p.m. a packet of updated numbers — 40-yard dash times and bench-press repetitions, to name two –will be delivered to all 32 teams.Save

AUSTRALIA: PBL profits fall 12pc on casino losses and drop in TV viewers 
AsiaMedia - Feb 26 12:11 PM
Publishing & Broadcasting Limited (PBL), Australia’s biggest media and casino company, said profit fell 12 per cent in the first half after its Nine television network lost viewers and gamblers had a winning streak at its poker, blackjack and roulette tables.Save

FlopTurnRiver.org.uk Launches its 5th Season of the FTR Gauntlet Online Poker League 
[Press Release] PR Web - Feb 23 12:17 AM
FlopTurnRiver.org.uk, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 11,000 registered members and over 450,000 poker forum articles, begins Season 5 of the FTR Gauntlet Online Poker League. (PRWeb Feb 23, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/WmV0YS1TaW5nLVpldGEtSG9yci1NYWduLVplcm8=Save

Absolute Poker’s Online Poker Tournament Set to Divide Europe in Country Face Off 
SYS-CON Media - Feb 22 2:29 PM
National pride is on the line in the next big poker tournament to hit Europe. Absolute Poker, http://www.absolutepoker.com/, today announced the European FreeRoll Showdown, a free online poker tournament that aims to find out which country is home to Europe’s best poker players.Save

Were four- of-a-kind 
Harrison Daily Times - Feb 26 11:00 AM
A straight flush might be the top hand in poker, but when it comes to my family, you cant beat four-of-a-kind. Back in the old days when I was a kid, five wasnt an unusual number of children for a family to have.Save

MLive.com: Newstalk Forum 
MLive.com - Feb 26 6:36 AM
262922. what a wonderful father! gambles away his daughter. HYDERABAD (Reuters) – A teenage girl in southern Pakistan, whose late father lost her in a poker game when she was 2 years old, has asked authorities to save her from being handed over to a middle-aged relative.Save

UltimateBet.tv Takes Center Stage Alongside VH1 Classic Rock N’Roll Celebrity Poker Tournament 
SYS-CON Media - Feb 26 4:08 PM
Two lucky UltimateBet http://www.ultimatebet.tv/ free online poker players will challenge the likes of Godsmack’s Sully Erna, Damageplan and Pantera’s Vinnie Paul and even ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill to a not-so-friendly game of poker during VH1 Classic Rock n’ Roll Celebrity Poker Tournament. The televised debut in Las Vegas will premiere on VH1 Classic on Wednesday, March 14 at 10:00 PM EDT.Save

Short Attention Span Gaming
Slate – When I bought a muscular, $400 gaming machine, I wouldn’t have predicted that I would use it to play an unseemly amount of $5 video poker. That’s not $5 a hand, mind you. It’s $5 to download the game. And I’m not the only gamer using next-generation

Girl Lost in Poker Game Pleads for Help
ABC News – Feb 26, 2007 HYDERABAD (Reuters) – A teenage girl in southern Pakistan, whose late father lost her in a poker game when she was 2 years old, has asked authorities to save her from being handed over to a middle-aged relative. Rasheeda, 17, said she

World Series of Poker Launches European Tournament
Gambling 911 – In an effort to compete with other world poker tournaments, The World Series of Poker announced it will be launching the World Series of Poker Europe, Harrah s Entertainment, Inc.. The inaugural WSOP Europe is scheduled to debut in London September

Lawmakers Raise the Ante in the State s Budget Process
New York Times – ALBANY, Feb. 26 Legislative leaders put a few more cards on the table on Monday in the high-stakes poker game that is the state budget process, insisting that the state will have nearly a billion dollars more to spend than Gov. Eliot Spitzer has

He’s the man with the Midas touch
Northampton News – A POKER millionaire from Northampton might just be the luckiest man in the world after hitting three massive jackpots in one week beating odds of 8,000,000,000 to 1. Rajesh Modha, who won Europe’s biggest poker tournament last year, scooped 113

In Midwest, few regrets in casinos wake
Charleston Gazette – MORGANTOWN Adding poker, blackjack and other games to its four slot casinos could give West Virginia a competitive edge of five to 15 years, some experts say, at a time when its traditional customers are finding more options closer to home

Three Rivers Snapshots 
The Montana Standard - Feb 24 12:01 AM
DILLON Anne Millbrooke, professor of history at MSU, will present Will Rogers in Montana to Dillons Rotarians and guests on Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Guild Hall of St. James Episcopal Church on Glendale Street Programs begin at 12:30. The public is warmly welcomed.Save

Is his dream in the cards? 
Canandaigua Daily Messenger - Feb 22 10:52 AM
A Prattsburg man wants to run a poker club in Canandaigua but he had to fold his first plan.Save

Pahrump Valley Times – Nye County’s Largest Newspaper Circulation 
Pahrump Valley Times - Feb 23 4:41 PM
Trojans deserve respect HENDERSON — The Pahrump Valley boys are the Rodney Dangerfields of Nevada high school basketball. $10,000 AT STAKE: Nugget to host WSOP qualifier The World Series of Poker Free Roll No-Limit Hold’em tournament will be contested Saturday in the Pahrump Nugget, starting at noon.Save

More Sabers to Rattle, Perhaps Fewer to Thrust 
New York Times - 17 minutes ago
Are we really too stretched for other wars? It?s unclear, but the risks are greater.Save

Absolute Poker’s Online Poker Tournament Set to Divide Europe in Country Face Off 
SYS-CON Media - Feb 22 2:29 PM
National pride is on the line in the next big poker tournament to hit Europe. Absolute Poker, http://www.absolutepoker.com/, today announced the European FreeRoll Showdown, a free online poker tournament that aims to find out which country is home to Europe’s best poker players.Save

Exclusive $5,000 Cash Freerolls Roll in at Pacific Poker for PokerListings.com Players 
[Press Release] PR Web - Feb 20 12:25 AM
As the world’s largest online poker guide, PokerListings.com negotiates unrivaled bonus packages for their players at the world’s best poker rooms. Their latest bonus package gets players to the loosest action online, at Pacific Poker, with two big perks: a nice sign-up bonus and an exclusive freeroll series with guaranteed cash for PokerListings.com players only. (PRWeb Feb 20, 2007) Post …Save

Questions linger over legality of poker tournament 
The Post and Courier - Feb 23 5:11 AM
Tickets for a local radio station’s charity poker tournament go on sale today, while questions linger over whether the event endorsed by the city of North Charleston is legal.Save

FBI agents pose as mobsters, sting Florida cops 
CNN.com - Feb 23 11:36 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Four veteran police officers were accused in federal court of taking thousands of dollars to protect what they thought were mob shipments of drugs, stolen art and jewelry.Save

Things to Do
Leaf Chronicle – 6:30 and 9 p.m. University Poker Tour Free Texas Hold ‘Em at the River’s Edge, 808 S. Riverside Drive. 645-4100. 7 p.m. “The Red Badge of Courage” at the Roxy Regional Theatre, 100 Franklin St. www.roxyregionaltheatre.org . $10-$15. 645-7699. 8 p

Party Poker Sponsors New U.K. ‘Premier League Poker’ Offering
Poker News – Phil Hellmuth headlines a 12-player ensemble converging on Kent, England for the late February filming of “Premier League Poker.” The series will be produced by Matchroom Poker at Kent’s Maidstone Studios and is scheduled to air on the popular

Fatal shootings bring homicide total to 41
Baltimore Sun – Jones, 27, was playing video poker about 11 p.m. at the Jusgo delicatessen in the 1800 block of Clifton Ave. when two gunmen entered the West Baltimore shop, shot him and fled. Jones, who lived in the 3300 block of Glyndon Ave., died about 40 minutes

The Echelon Club Reaches Oscar’s Stature
Forbes – WPT Celebrity Poker Tournament; and the Fox Searchlight Official Oscar Party along with a Cirque Du Soleil performance. During these three days, the nominees will be treated to luxury services and an assortment of delectable goodies that only

World Series of Poker Results- Week 7
Hutchinson Daily Leader – World Series of Poker Tournament results for week 7. This is a 12 week tournament with the top 20% of point earners moving to regional and state competitions. Grand prize at state level is a trip to Las Vegas with a buy in to the WSOP main event. The

Doyles Room US Accounts May Transfer to Full Tilt Poker
Gambling 911 – Doyles Room US online poker account holders may either cash out or they were provided with an option to transfer monies and points to Full Tilt Poker. In what turned into a confusing afternoon here at Gambling911.com, Doyles Room eventually confirmed