entertainment - "international poker"

A Mobile County jury took the case under consideration and came out with a not guilty verdict. The case was one of first-degree burglary, the charge leveled against Sean Lamont Hawthorne, who was charged with stealing $40,000 from a high stakes poker game. The game had a dozen players when two armed men burst into the Mobile apartment when it was underway in August of 2006...

This certainly is becoming the year of the pros at the 2008 World Series of poker, where it will be Day 23 today. On the day's docket there is only one start up game, Event 39, an ubiquitous No limit Holdem event with a $1,500 buy in; ironically, starting up when the last $1,500 No limit Hold'em event, Event 36, ends. Also ending today is the real exciting topic, the final table of the $10,000 World Championship Omaha High-Low Split 8 or Better, Event 37. Last night around dinner time there were some 60 players left.

Every poker room is going to offer its players some type of tournament selection. Some sites offer people a decent number of tourneys weekly while others focus mostly on their cash games and promotions. But very few poker rooms come anywhere close to offering the amount of tournaments that Duplicate poker does. read more in pokerworks.com

Las Vegas is the scene for the 39th annual World Series of poker currently running but there are more reasons to play poker in Sin City than gambling. The Ante Up for Africa event is organized by poker pro Annie Duke and Hollywood star Don Cheadle, and is drawing plenty of attention to the crisis in Darfur. One player who is signed up to participate some think should not is Charles Barkley, former NBA star who pledged to end his gambling ways...

Former World Series of poker champion Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson very nearly added yet another WSOP bracelet to his collection, thanks to his second place finish in Event 33 - World Championship Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split 8 or Better. He fell short thanks to Sebastian Ruthenberg, who swept the victory and more than $300,000. In the top ten players there were a number of well known pros, including the brother and sister pros Annie Duke and Howard Lederer, David Benyamine, and Marcel Luske...

There's plenty of World Series of poker experience at the final table for Event 36 No-Limit Hold'em, including several rising stars, a former Main Event final table participant, and one of the chip leaders who has shown he has plenty of gamble in him.

There were ten World Series of poker bracelets among the nine players that began the final table of Event #34, $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys. By the end of the fast-paced final table....

A TELEVISION commercial for Schweppes has been named one of the best ads in the world at the Cannes international Advertising Festival in France.

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