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While the end of May brings the general focus of the poker world to Las Vegas and the World Series of poker, not everyone the world over can make the pilgrimage. It's especially true in the Pacific Rim, which is undergoing...

*Poker player wins almost a millionA regular visitor to the Rotterdam casino won the club's highest ever jackpot of €980,000 playing a complicated version of poker known as Caribbean Stud, news ageny ANP reports.The man, who wants to remain anonymous, won the game with a royal flush. *

The poker Players Alliance (PPA) has had a stellar year thus far, reaching the one million member milestone, organizing an attorney referral service, launching a PAC, and assigning state directors to help mobilize the poker masses. Now, the PPA has launched an enhanced website and announced new membership benefits. read more in pokerworks.com

Nobody should be surprised that pre-registration for World Series of poker events is currently going on. What people should be surprised with is how smooth it is currently going. In the past pre-registration was not entirely unlike a mosh pit. This year, not only have people been getting in early at a pretty steady clip, but it has gone along with nary a hitch.

If you're on a good run and wouldn't mind storing away a little poker karma, PokerStars is giving you a chance to help earthquake victims in China. read more in pokerworks.com

When a poker player ends up with a bracelet from the World Series of poker it is a sign that he knows what he is doing at the poker table. On this particular week of the hit NBC show poker After Dark it was Battle of the Bracelets, with 45 braclets between the players.

During the Show 'Dancing with the Stars' Jerry Springer and Marie Osmond may have done well competing against other pampered Hollywood personalities whose most challenging moment in life involved a casting couch or a hangnail, but how would either have fared against Ginger Rogers? We think either would have looked about as graceful as the singer Meatloaf next to a real dancer like the lovely Ms. Rogers. While any gentleman with a healthy libido and an appreciation for Hollywood history would relish the opportunity to bring up the topic of Ginger, she is just an example of what happens when actors and actresses forget their place and believe their own hype.

The final table of the fifth annual Bayou poker Classic kicked off at a record pace, with seven players eliminated in less than 50 hands. Once heads-up play commenced, it took another two and half hours for Nick Ceci to put away...

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Everyone who has seen the majority of the Star Wars series of films has heard Yoda rail against how bad having attachments in your life can really be. One would think that life lessons from two and a half foot puppet would fall on deaf ears, but in England 'Jedi' came in just behind Muslim and Hindu in a survey of religions in Britain. So apparently somebody was listening to that little green freak. The painful part is admitting that he was right about attachments in regards to the game of poker.