Annie Duke, one of the top female poker players in the world, cemented her reputation by winning the Sixth Annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship. She defeated former World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Erik Seidel two matches to one in their best-of-three series for the title. Duke won the first prize of US$500,000, while Seidel earned US$250,000 for his second-place finish.
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A gang of four robbers disguised in black motorcycle masks robbed the Grand Hyatt Berlin hotel in a daring daylight robbery during the European Poker Tour poker tournament. The robbers pointed handguns and long knives at a cashier, escaping through a crowded shopping mall with over ‘
NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship is the poker equivalent to the NCAA college basketball tournament. Sixty-four players enter, and only one can be champion, which this year turned out to be Annie Duke.
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Hungarian Andras Koroknai outlasted a field of the top players in the game to win the World Poker Tour’s LA Poker Classic US$10,000 buy-in Main Event.
Koroknai went into the final table as the chip leader and went wire-to-wire to win the US$1.78 million first prize. Raymond Dolan, a Huntington Beach resident and regular on the Southern California poker scene, finished second and took home just over US$1 million.
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Another state may be working to legalize online poker within its boundaries. Following the announcement by Iowa legislators that they are working on a bill to tax and regulate online poker, officials in Florida are debating the state’s Internet Poker Consumer Protection and Revenue Generation Act.
Florida State Representative Joseph Abruzzo of Wellington, the bill’s sponsor, said that the measure could create US$200 million in taxes and other revenue after twelve months.
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When a World Series of Poker event reaches the final table, organizers dump piles of cash onto a table to display the tournament’
When a World Series of Poker event reaches the final table, organizers dump piles of cash onto a table to display the tournament’
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After a Day 5 field at the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic that looked like a “Who’s Who” of the game, the final table of the US$10,000 no-limit Texas Holdem event now looks like a “Who’s He?” list.
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Michael Olaf Schuett has been arrested in Naples, Florida, and is charged with laundering millions of dollars that was marked for online poker gambling winnings.
Former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Juan Carlos Morentsen is the chip leader after Day 4 of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino. Mortensen has nearly 1.67 million in chips, well ahead of Day 3 chip leader Mark “newhizzle” Newhouse’s 1.31 million. Another former Main Event winner, two-time champion Johnny Chan, is still in contention for his first WPT title; he is seventeenth out of the twenty-two remaining players with 406,000 chips.
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A German citizen is being held without bail in Florida for funneling payments to Internet poker players, with amounts reaching many millions of dollars.
Online poker pro Mark “newhizzle” Newhouse has the chip lead at the end of Day 3 of the US$10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic. Newhouse has a slim lead of only nine thousand chips over fellow online poker veteran Chris Moore. Newhouse is also going after his second career WPT title; he also won the Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2006.
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In the ongoing battle between online poker sites and government jurisdictions, lawmakers in the state of Iowa are working on a truce. Legislators in that Midwestern state are considering a proposal to legalize internet poker for its citizens. The idea also has the support of the state’s casino industry, since players would be required to deposit cash into an account with one of their gaming facilities in order to play online poker.
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