November 11th, 2008 by Roger S
The names of this years entries into the Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Dewey Tomko and Henry Orenstein were honored with this distinction on November 9 at the Rio All-Suites in Las Vegas.
Poker Hall of Fame
Just like the WSOP final table this year, the induction of beneficiaries to the poker Hall of Fame [...]
November 9th, 2008 by Renee K
Ever since the Ultimate Bet (UB) scandal broke out almost two years ago, the popular poker blog site Wicked Chops Poker (WCP) has been asking the question “Why is Annie Duke still sticking on as one of the leading brand ambassadors for Ultimate Bet?”
Given the high reputation that Annie enjoys in the poker fraternity [...]
November 6th, 2008 by Matt W
Barack Obama was not the only person to win an election on November 4. Half of the seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the seats in the Senate were also up for grabs, what does this mean for poker?
The politicians who will now be occupying these seats who will be affecting [...]
November 6th, 2008 by Tom L
PKR has announced the “Lovestruck Evenings” freeroll tournament.
This tournament is a partnership between the Lovestruck dating network and PKR Poker. The premier event is to be held November 17, 2008 at 8pm.
The online weekly singles poker nights will be played at the PKR Poker online poker room. These online events are very appropriately being called [...]
November 5th, 2008 by Roger S
As you can see in the pictures, we got all jazzed up for Halloween. Yeah, not really. The only one of use to dress up was Sarah. She was originally going as the “Queen of Hearts” but the costume got sold out so she went as a pirate.
It was pretty cold and everybody was in [...]
November 2nd, 2008 by Matt W
Just after the final tables for the WSOP 2008 Main Event was set South Florida’s Sun Sentinel broke the news that one of the finalists, David “Chino” Rheem had been convicted for felonies (dealing in stolen property and burglary) and larceny and possession of marijuana and had done time in jail.
The news item also reported [...]
November 2nd, 2008 by Roger S
In September “patatino” had set the record for the largest pot in the history of online poker at $610,000.
That record is history many times over. In the high stakes, $500/$1,000 No Limit Hold’em RailHeaven and GusHeaven tables at Full Tilt Poker the record for the highest pot was shattered four times in 24 hours.
The [...]
November 2nd, 2008 by Roger S
Despite all said about women’s equality, whenever a woman wins a mixed event in poker it does make big news. And when that woman is as beautiful as Clonie Gowen the news is gigantic.
So when Clonie won the World Poker Open $5,000 buy-in at the Gold Strike Casino last week the poker world went down [...]
