Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Unlockables (Xbox 360)
Softpedia – Apart from the main game there are several minigames including multiplayer sword dueling, the card games Hearts, Texas hold ‘em-style Poker and Liar’s dice, which features prominently in the second film. The Wii version of the game features sword

GigaMedia 1Q profit more than doubles
Boston Globe – NEW YORK — GigaMedia Ltd. , a Taiwan-based maker of gaming software, said Tuesday its first-quarter profit more-than doubled, driven by strong sales of “Everest Poker.” Net income for the quarter was $8.5 million, or 16 cents per share, up from $3.2

11th poker robbery in 4 months
Saipan Tribune – A poker arcade in Chalan Kanoa that was robbed on Sunday was robbed again early yesterday morning. A Chinese female cashier was hurt during the latest robbery at Shany Poker Game Room, Saipan Tribune learned. The suspects managed to run off with over

Poker: A pair can be hard to play
Los Angeles Daily News – Hard Poker Rule: Don’t go broke with one pair, especially when the big stack has position on you to your left. Aggressive pro Mark Seif was facing that problem at the $25,000-buy-in World Poker Tour Championship at Las Vegas’ Bellagio in April 2006

AH: Clooney, Ocean s pals laugh it up
MSNBC – Off camera, they’re known to play a friendly game of high-stakes poker. A little poker, according to Brad, who seems to think that George is the “kiss of death” when it comes to playing cards. “I gave up some cash,” he confessed, “when Clooney

Karma has more work to do. Trump may be fired, but there’s still that
San Francisco Gate – We were probably watching poker instead. Shameful. Oh, by the way, 6.1 million people watched “National Bingo Night.” In an effort to cull the herd, government forces backed by Nielsen research are now raiding those homes and locking away the

Classic win at Soaring Eagle
Detroit Free Press – Friday in conjunction with the show, and the casino’s new virtual casino with automated poker, roulette and blackjack, has just opened. The casino also hopes to have an upscale coffee shop open inside the main building before the show. Contact HEATHER

League figure in court
New Zealand Herald – Former rugby league boss Graham Carden pleaded not guilty in the Wellington District Court yesterday to more than 120 fraud and forgery charges relating to the misuse of poker machine money. The offending is alleged to involve $120,000 during 2003

Nice day for poker run
Memphis Commercial Appeal – “He didn’t have the cognitive ability for running plays, but he could shoot the lights out of a basket,” said Heun. “It was really neat to be involved in something like that, to see his eyes light up when he made a basket, when maybe he hadn’t had

Friday poker club plays out hand
Baltimore Sun – Forty-nine rare poker hands hang from the walls of Buzz Chalk’s North Baltimore basement. Each is framed and sealed under glass, splayed against white mats inscribed with names of the living and the dead. Some of the hands belong to Chalk. But most

Virtually Cannes: the festival fans out online
Baku Today – Among them was a French director/actress looking to ride on the coat-tails of the blogosphere by talking up her short movie, “Poker Hand,” to the bloggers and plugging her password-protected tie-in website (partie2poker.blogspot.com). “I discovered

PartyPoker.net Renews Product-Placement Pact with World Series of
Onlypunjab.com – Harrah’s License Company LLC, an affiliate of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:HET), announced that PartyPoker.net, the world s largest poker school and free-to-play educational poker website, has renewed its product-placement agreement for the

SJ Police Officer Allegedly Gave Minor Alcohol
KPIX – (CBS 5 / BCN) SAN JOSE A San Jose police officer was arrested for providing alcohol to an 18-year-old man while at a poker party at his home. At an April 21 poker party, Officer Michael H. Rose, 38, allegedly gave his 18-year-old friend Smirnoff

Faygo executive’s compassion popular with workers
Detroit News – He also was a Shriner who enjoyed playing poker and taking trips to Las Vegas. Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Evelyn; children Susan, Dan and Cheryl; and five grandchildren. Burial was at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Memorials may be made in

Manuel insists Phillies pen is all right
Patriot-News – The preceding bit of political correctness was brought to you by a manager who’s been dealt a pair of deuces in a high-stakes poker game and has been told he must not lose. Actually, the absence of a left-hander is not nearly as problematic as the

Frank s cards on the table: It s good deal to regulate online
Boston Herald – Law enforcement and financial institutions must redirect resources to monitor and then block poker wagers instead of focusing resources on tracking terrorist financing. And, because the ban funnels players underground and forces them to use less

Countdown to the WSOP – 18 Days and Counting
Poker News – In case you missed the announcement , PokerNews will have a big presence at the World Series of Poker this summer in Las Vegas. We have teamed with Bluff Media, the official media partner of the WSOP, so we will be bringing you all of the action from

Poker Run is for Chapel Hill House
Marion Star – PROSPECT A Poker Run to benefit Chapel Hill House will be held Saturday with the Verne I. Mounts American Legion Post as the starting and ending point. Sponsored by the Sons of the American Legion, registration begins at 9 a.m. Bikes will leave

Playing poker: Pros know how to play with fire
Los Angeles Daily News – Playing 5-6 under the gun, suited or otherwise, is not necessarily the recommended play. But wild pro Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi has his own book, such as when playing the $25,000-buy-in World Poker Tour Championship at Las Vegas’ Bellagio in

Hispanic chamber holds poker tourney
Bakersfield Californian – The Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will host a casino night and silent auction on May 18 at Golden West Casino. The event will run from 7 to 11 p.m. at the casino, 1001 S. Union Ave. Tickets are $25 per person. Tickets include dinner, poker

Cashless pokies to curb robberies
Nine MSN – Cashless poker machines will be rolled out in every NSW club to curb armed robberies but critics challenge the move to reduce gambling addiction. The machines, which are used overseas, will still require cash to operate but their winnings will be

Stolen Tanker Leads to ‘Mini Vegas’
First Coast News – ATLANTA, GA — The search for a stolen tanker truck led DeKalb County Police to a gambling operation. Poker tables, gaming machines, and even a stage and poles for strippers were all found in an old warehouse near I-675 and I-285 in Conley. One

Slightly Early Birth May Still Spell Trouble at School, Say Packard
Onlypunjab.com – Everest Poker Adds Finnish Language Support to Poker Software Publish Date : 5/9/2007 9:56:00 PM As part of the online poker room’s continuing localization efforts, Everest Poker has added Finnish to the dozen-plus languages supported by their

Construction, poker room to be top priorities after table games vote
Charleston Daily Mail – Visitors to Tri-State Racetrack likely won’t get to enjoy the full gamut of poker, blackjack, craps and roulette until next year, if Kanawha County voters approve the games at a June 9 special election. Tri-State officials said they’d need to spend

Yellow-bellied behavior could get you locked up in the hoosegow
AZCentral.com – It comes from an old variety of poker that had a complicated system of betting that was used if no player could open with jacks or better. I don’t quite understand how it worked. In criminal slang, it used to mean “trouble,” especially getting arrested

Agents Bust Illegal Video Poker Businesses
WECT – Click here to read all the recent local news that matters most. Sixteen machines were taken out of homes and businesses, including one on South 13th Street. Authorities also seized $20,000 in cash and arrested four people. A few players we spoke to

‘Lucky You’ not lucky for viewers
Redlands Daily Facts – The story follows Huck Cheever, played by Eric Bana, as he tries to win at a high-powered poker tournament in Las Vegas. Drew Barrymore plays the new girl in town, Billy Offer, who supposedly falls for Bana, but there is little chemistry between the

Penske saves talking for Saturday
Crescent-News – And on Saturday, Horinsh and the Penske crew showed just how good of poker players they are. Penske’s boys let the Target cars rush out in an early effort to grab the pole and then waited knowing they had the ace they needed. They wouldn’t say it but

Canterbury slides on weather, Internet betting in Q1
MSN MoneyCentral – Canterbury’s card club revenue also dropped 6.2 percent, a decline the company blamed partly on a “waning interest nationwide” in poker. Competition from area casinos also contributed to declines, the company said. Canterbury said it has responded to

SOE Strips, Hustles, and EverQuests?
Gamespot News – Poker Edition will bring together five different variations of poker for up to six players online. It also supports PC Web cameras (as well as the PlayStation 2 EyeToy) so that players can judge their bluffing opponents’ poker faces and hear their

Scottish Poker
Times Online – A Bank Holiday is a strange time to start what may prove a prolonged game of political poker. Yet the coalition negotiations in Scotland which will begin in earnest today are just such an exercise. The results of the elections last Thursday are about

World Series of Poker in the Big Easy
Pensacola News Journal – If you’ve got game, drive over to New Orleans this week and register for the Harrah’s New Orleans’ World Series of Poker Circuit Tournament. Professional and amateur poker players are welcome to the 2007 Bayou Poker Challenge. Tournament players can

Your future isn’t necessarily in the cards
Los Angeles Daily News – Hard poker truth: If you have chips, you don’t need cards. And if you can read people and understand what their bets mean, then you can amass chips and wield a stack to put pressure on opponents to make them believe you have a big hand. Jeff Madsen

Smoke ban could use case of stage fright
Chicago Sun-Times – The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently ruled that poker is a game of chance — and so a poker club would be a gambling establishment. On one level, I’m inclined to agree — especially when my pocket aces get cracked by a Q-5, as happened in a

Stockpickr: Win Big With Top 5 Poker Stocks
Street.Com – Check out our latest feature, Stockpickr Answers . Last week, Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics blog had an excellent post about the debate over whether poker should be considered a game of skill or chance. This discussion is important not only for

WPT Enterprises swings to 1Q loss
Boston Globe – LOS ANGELES — WPT Enterprises Inc. on Tuesday reported a first-quarter loss after selling fewer episodes of tis World Poker Tour television series. WPT posted a loss of $2.3 million, or 11 cents per share, versus income of $3.6 million, or 18 cents

Marist Poll Numbers: 2008 Race For The White House
wnbc.com – Election Day is still more than a year away, but Hillary Clinton has new reason to smile right now. Marist & WNBC are working together on the Trend Breakers show, where people are polled about everything from politics to poker. Senator Hillary