Lions hold key to draft
Detroit News – ALLEN PARK — The Detroit Lions are sitting on one of the NFL’s hottest seats in a high-stakes poker game as the countdown reaches the last 24 hours for the start of the 2007 draft Saturday afternoon. An air of uncertainty continued to surround the

Buyout fever weakening Capitol news?
Traverse City Record-Eagle – Kevin Elsenheimer, R-Bellaire, with a letter to Granholm contending that “it would appear that your office is engaging in a high stakes poker game to force the legislature to accede to additional taxes by refusing to release already budgeted, already

Poker junkie
Sun-Journal – Just because this column went away for a few weeks while some folks decided to go on a diet, it doesn’t mean the poker-playing stopped. I was a part of a friendly home game last week, a larger, 13-person affair set up with two tables until we lost

Put money on casino smoke ban
MSNBC – DENVER – Throw down the baby’s meal money and order another shot of whiskey – but whatever you do, don’t light up that cigarette at the poker table. Beginning Jan. 1, Colorado’s casinos likely will be home to one less vice. The House voted Thursday

Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip
New York Times – The director is a seasoned poker player himself. CERTAIN films are unimaginable anywhere but in the cities where they re set. Sweet Smell of Success in New York, for instance, or Breathless in Paris. Chinatown in noirish Los

Doug Moe: So long, mayor of State Street
Wisconsin State Journal – Waisman, who in his leisure time has been known to make a wager at a poker table or horse track, describes his age as “almost 62.” That would put him at about 18 when he started working with Capitol Square clothier Olson and Verhuesen in 1963. “It

Teams map out late draft strategy
Detroit News – If the Lions want to play poker at the highest level, they have to take Johnson, then wait for an offer from a team that is on the clock — as long as the player the Lions want still is on the board. Don’t be surprised if there are no bidders. 3

Income Access Announces Presence at CAC Amsterdam
PR.com – Now in its fifth year, the convention will cover advanced online affiliate marketing and advertising methods for the casino, poker, bingo, P2P and sports book industry, specifically to Europe. Income Access executives and affiliate directors will be

How picking TV’s next big hit can result in a miss
Observer – It is a world that Five’s former head of programming Dan Chambers described as ‘one part cattle auction, one part poker game and one part showbiz schmooze’. It works as follows: in late May each year the American networks show off their wares to

Putting foe on a hand critical
Wichita Eagle – Joseph Hachem, winner of $7.5 million as the 2005 World Series of Poker main event champion, showed one way to put the puzzle together. Hachem picked up aces under the gun in the World Poker Tour’s $15,000-buy-in Five Diamond World Poker Classic at

Table games not a personal issue
Journal & Sunday Journal – Those 75 tables would probably offer blackjack, craps, roulette and carnival games such as Caribbean stud and three-card poker. Finamore said 500 full-time, well-paying jobs would be created in that first phase: 300 to 350 dealer jobs, as well

The Poker Shrink, Vol 38 – Reading a Player with Clusters
Poker News – Everyone wants to be able to read an opponent at the table but what does it mean when he riffles his chips? Why did she smile when she made that bet on the turn? Is that nervous twitch really a tell and if it is does it mean he has a good hand or he

Little poker machine revenue given back: report
Australian Broadcasting Corp. – ELEANOR HALL: In Victoria hundreds of millions of dollars from poker machine revenue is supposed to be ploughed back into local communities. But a Monash University report has found that less than three per cent of the $376 million the venues said

Advocacy group holding a charity poker run
Times-News – With this weekend s temperatures in the high 70s, it s looking like a good time to get out and ride your motorcycle. For the first time, CrossRoads Sexual Assault Response and Resource Center of Burlington will be sponsoring a charity poker run

Luck of the random draw determines keno winners
Chicago Sun-Times – Q. My friends and I are relatively new to Texas Hold’em poker and we had a disagreement the other night. Here’s the situation: Player No. 1: 6, 6. Player No. 2: Q, 9. Board cards: 8, 8, J, J, 7. Who has the winning hand? Mike K. A. I double checked with

Global Casinos’ Affiliate Begins Marketing Effort for New Poker Game
Forbes – Global Casinos Inc. (OTCBB: GBCS) announced today that its affiliate, Global Gaming Technologies, LLC, has entered into a consultation agreement with Michelle Knoll Communications, Inc. to identify strategic opportunities to commercialize its

Pirates, Shrek, Spider-Man leap onto the screen
Zanesville Times Recorder – The number three looms large in any discussion of the spring movie season of 2007. Could it be because a handful of very popular film franchises show up in May with threes attached to their names? Yes, the zany, big-bucks summer movie season starts

Summer Poker Challenge Results – Week 2
Hutchinson Daily Leader – Summer Poker Challenge Tournament results for week 2. This is a 6 week tournament with the top 20% of point earners moving to regional and state competitions. Grand prize at state level is $10,000 cash. The Minnesota Hold’em league is open to anyone

Jeff Haney passes along tips from poker pro Fezzik on winning
Las Vegas Sun – Professional gambler Fezzik first likened his latest project to “The Karate Kid,” and later to “The Empire Strikes Back.” But after he described his plan in detail, and invited me to sit in on an early training session, I came away thinking “My Fair

Franks plots US Internet gambling ban repeal
The Register – The UIGEA galvanized gaming proponents of various stripes, and led to the creation of the Poker Player s Alliance, which has picked up 350,000 members in the few months since its inception and has been pushing Congress to exempt poker from the law

Kenny Rogers Launches The Gambler Poker Club
PR Inside – HOLLYWOOD, April 24 /PRNewswire/ — Kenny Rogers knows when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em, but with the launch of his THEGAMBLERPOKERCLUB.COM website, there’s no doubt the country music legend knows how to open ‘em as well. “It’s amazing how many

My Big Sundance Deal
Entertainment Weekly Online – I’ve been sitting at this table for three hours, playing Texas Hold ‘Em no-limit poker. I started with 10,000. I’ve still got 7,000 left, but the blinds are up to 500 and 1,000 unavoidable bets that rotate around the table and they’re coming

Irish await final pieces to puzzle
South Bend Tribune – It’s in Weis’ best interest to have a poker face — and some darn good and surprising cards. The one revelation that did come from the third-year head coach Saturday was hammering home the point that Quinn and his 36 school records are going to be

The Embattled Attorney General
US News and World Report – In this high-stakes game of political poker, Gonzales holds the most powerful card of all, his boss, who-at least on paper-continued to provide what one White House official described as “unwavering” support. “That says to me that the president’s

Earn United Ltd
PR.com – Bet Holdem Product Launched in 2005, quickly solidified its position in the Top 3 Prima Poker rooms and has set its goal to be one of the online gaming industry’s leading Hold ‘em Poker Rooms. As the name suggests, Bet Holdem

Interview: Zak Penn’s at The Grand
Coming Soon! – For his follow-up, Penn has taken on a subject that has the potential for a wider audience, that being the world of Tournament Poker in Vegas, and The Grand , is very likely to do for poker what Christopher Guest’s Best in Show did for dog shows

Tribeca offers something for everyone
Bryan-College Station Eagle – Predicting what will catch on this year is impossible, but among the eagerly awaited films are the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced “Gardener of Eden”; the poker mockumentary “The Grand”; and “Lady Chatterley,” an adaptation of the second version (of three

Gambling has grip on college campuses, young men
Wichita Falls Times Record News – MCT Mike Pickett is in a good mood as he smiles over his stack of chips on the first night of the $117,000 no-limit final tournament of the Fall Poker Classic tournament Jan. 4. MCT Quan Le faces friend, Bryan Devonshire, on an important hand at the

Hotels rorting pokie rules
News.com.au – SYDNEY hoteliers have rorted laws intended to slash poker machine numbers, adding another 181 machines as the State Government’s policies to protect problem gamblers falter. Publicans in the Sydney region, especially the inner city and southwest

Harrah s Selects PokerTek as Its Exclusive Supplier for Automated
dBusinessNews.com – CHARLOTTE — Harrah s Operating Company, Inc, a subsidiary of Harrah s Entertainment, Inc. , signed a multi-year agreement to make PokerTek its exclusive provider for live, player-banked, automated poker tables. Under the agreement, Harrah

10 things to do this weekend
Crain’s Chicago Business – LAUGH. The presidency of Warren G. Harding and the concept that anyone in America can grow up to hold the Oval Office are the subjects of “POKER NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE.” This Neo-Futurists’ show combines Roman comedy and puppetry. April 21, 8 p.m

Poker Book Review: NL Hold’em Theory and Practice by Sklansky and
Poker News – -If you read books to improve your game, you need to read this one. Sklansky is a tough read but this is a very good book that actually takes you beyond his classic Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players. Notice from the title that this is a No Limit

Browns eyeing Fab Five with No. 3 pick
ESPN.com – metaphorical vest. Seated at a poker table, Savage would be a tough guy to read. Preparing for his third — and most vital — draft as Cleveland’s GM, Savage revealed little about what he might do with the No. 3 overall pick. During a 1-hour, 20

Blue Knights sponsoring a breakfast, bike blessing and poker run
Citizen’s Voice – Do you enjoy riding your motorcycle for a good cause? The Rev. Do you enjoy riding your motorcycle for a good cause? The Rev. Mike Kloton of the parish community of Plains Township invites you to a bike blessing, sponsored by the Blue Knights

getting in touch with old friends
MSNBC – It was reported that I was playing $1500.00 a hand at the high stakes poker table in the Bahamas, the photographer wrote on his Web site. FALSE. I do not even know how to play poker and I wouldn t be playing with money like that in any event

Warwick couple cleans the deck in poker
Providence Journal – Charlotte Chabot displays the trophy she won at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. The providence Journal / Sandor Bodo WARWICK Some people need time to mature, to decide what they want to do in life. Then there are others like Charlotte Chabot. As she

Letter to the editor: Still baffled
Gloucester Daily Times – Colorama seemed to be popular among the kids while adults were playing video eight-liners that mimic slot machines and video poker. I glanced at the prizes that lined the floor to the ceiling: TV, George Foreman grill, iPods, Shop-Vac, to name a few