April 13th, 2008 by Tom L
The exclusive and glitzy Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles will be the venue of a poker tournament with a difference on the 20th of this month.
Brad Garrett will be hosting a tournament, the net proceeds of which will be donated to the 1736 Family Crisis Center.
The charity poker tournament is scheduled to start at [...]
April 8th, 2008 by Renee K
If there ever was a win-win partnership in the world of poker then this is it.
The latest buzz is that the celebrated poker agency, Poker Royalty, has been signed by the undisputed poker emperor, Gavin Griffin, to manage and market his celebrity status.
The announcement was made by Poker Royalty in Las Vegas last week and [...]
April 8th, 2008 by Roger S
It was not that Jennifer ‘Jennicide’ Leigh had not done enough to achieve celebrity status playing online poker. She had.
But then for celebrities there are no full stops. Jennicide now features in the April 2008 issue of Playboy Magazine.
A preview of the cover is can be seen at Jennicide’s official website. Aptly described as the [...]
April 4th, 2008 by Matt W
The San Remo event of Season 4 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) started on April 1st, 2008.
Poker fans will recall that Season 4 had kicked off on August 28, 2007, at Casino Barcelona in Spain.
After a seven-month journey through some of the best casinos in Europe, including the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the [...]
April 4th, 2008 by Tom L
The Philippines is the starting point for this year’s Asian Poker Tour which is set to kick off on the 27th of May.
The planners of the event have not held back and have jammed packed the 2008 tournament’s calendar with four exciting and challenging events.
This year’s tournament hopes to be the biggest and best [...]
April 4th, 2008 by Tom L
South Africa is the new happening place in the world of poker and Bluff magazine is acknowledging this fact by launching an exclusive South African edition from April 2008.
This magazine will be known as Bluff SA and will be published by the Maverick Publishing Company under license from Bluff Media.
This sudden mass interest in poker [...]
March 31st, 2008 by Renee K
The online casino and poker industry have been waiting for several months for the final status of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGEA), and it seems that they will have an answer sooner than later.
A very important and overdue Congressional hearing dealing with the implementation of UIGEA has been set for the 2nd of April.
It [...]
March 28th, 2008 by Matt W
In a bid to crack down on potential problem gaming and to make the industry more regulated, new measures have been determined for all poker machines in Victoria, Australia, from 2010.
The new measures would include placing time and spending limitations on the machines.
The new features would be installed on all new generation poker machines which [...]
