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WPTE 0.87, +0.01, +0.6%) and ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited announced that the World Poker Tour(R) (WPT) television series will air on Zee Sports, India’s first private sports channel, this September. Zee Sports is the flagship sports channel of Zee Network, the largest media franchise serving the South Asian Diaspora and the largest producer of Hindi programming in the world.
“Zee Sports and WPTE together create a powerful partnership as the most trusted vehicles to introduce poker to India,” said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO. “We are delighted to be making history together.”
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Jul 31 2008
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Titan Poker’s top poker players are choosing from four different British venues as they prepare to play in the UK’s largest poker tour.
(PRWEB) July 31, 2008 — Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, is giving its players the chance to choose from one of four major poker events on the route of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT). The GUKPT will pass through various Grosvenor casino locations in the UK, including Luton, Bolton, Thanet and Blackpool - and Titan Poker is giving its players the freedom to choose which of these casinos to compete in.
Two players from opposite sides of the globe have already qualified for this exciting event by winning $4,000 prize packages to the GUKPT at Titan Poker’s weekly online Super Satellites. Sean Allen from Canada and British player Garry Cargill were the first players to claim their seats to this prestigious and thrilling poker event. Now the decision is in their hands. Thirty-nine year old Sean Allen is still deliberating over his options. Garry Cargill, however, wasted no time and has already opted to get straight into the action at Luton’s G Casino next month.
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Jul 31 2008
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An overweight, angry gambler is kicking up a stink after being thrown out of a casino for his bad body odour.
Michael Wax admits he brought a bad smell to the Atlantic City casino where he spent 17 hours playing poker - but claimed he did not have enough time to clean up.
The 200kg punter was eventually asked to leave after complaints by other gamblers.
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Jul 31 2008
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WPTE 0.87, +0.04, +4.8%) and ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited announced that the World Poker Tour(R) (WPT) television series will air on Zee Sports, India’s first private sports channel, this September. Zee Sports is the flagship sports channel of Zee Network, the largest media franchise serving the South Asian Diaspora and the largest producer of Hindi programming in the world.
“Zee Sports and WPTE together create a powerful partnership as the most trusted vehicles to introduce poker to India,” said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO. “We are delighted to be making history together.”
Zee Sports will exclusively broadcast nineteen two-hour WPT Season IV episodes in India. Zee Sports will promote the WPT series on-air and online through its website www.zeesports.co.in. It will broadcast the episodes alongside current sports programming such as football, cricket, tennis, motor sports and golf. The series is scheduled to begin airing in September.
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Jul 30 2008
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Kansas City’s Grant Hinkle won $831,462 in a regional World Series tournament in Vegas last month, more money than you or I will make in, well, let’s not even go there.
You can watch how Grant did it tonight on ESPN at 7 p.m. You can also see the promo for the event right below. Grant is in the green button-down shirt.
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Jul 30 2008
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The state attorney general wants a rural Westmoreland County fire department to surrender more than $40,000 it raised from poker tournaments it held last year as fundraisers.
The tournaments were organized by Greensburg attorney Larry Burns, who faces misdemeanor gambling charges for allegedly running Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments in Seward.
A petition was filed this week in Cambria County seeking $40,814 the department earned from gambling.
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Jul 30 2008
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Sunday was a really big day for PokerStars, as the online poker site made its million dollar guarantee for its Sunday Tournament – Twice, actually. The Sunday Million had its usual massive field, with over 8,000 players putting up the money to play, making the prizepool over $1.6 Million. Meanwhile, the Sunday Warm up, thanks to a ‘one rebuy’ format taking place during PokerStars ‘2x’ promotion also topped the one million dollar mark, thanks to over 1,500 rebuys in that event.
Meanwhile, over at Full Tilt, Erica Schoenberg outlasted over 4,000 players in that event to make the Final table of the Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee.
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Jul 29 2008
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In response to a massive user demand for past statistical play information on online poker room internet players game play style behaviors, Poker Sharks Radar now released a new free texas hold em poker players stats seeking, searching and game historic strategy usages statistics info discovery freeware software for the internet poker rooms online players.
Statistical data accumulated about poker players from internet poker room sites point out that for most online poker players, the stats can accurately predict their next moves based on their past poker game play trends. The PokerSharks Radar freeware software give a real edge to its users while playing in online poker tournament matches over the internet for real cash money or just for the fun with fake poker money, by being able to seek, search, locate and explore their online poker opponent playing stat information at no cost at all .
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Jul 29 2008
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If police raids are any indication the poker scene is still booming in Canada.
Police raided four gambling dens in Toronto and Pickering, according to a story with the Toronto Sun. Approximately 40 police officers raided the alleged illegal gambling dens on Dufferin St., Chesswood Dr., Brock Rd. and Steeles Ave.
A total of 47 people are now facing charges related to the busts. Nine are charged with keeping a common gaming house while 36 people including two minors are being charged with being found in a common gaming house.
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Jul 29 2008
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At the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, Michael Binger burst onto the poker scene with a third-place finish that earned him more than $4.1 million.
In 2007, Binger proved he was no fluke by cashing eight times, tying the WSOP record for cashes in a single year. (He shared the record with poker pros Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown and Phil Hellmuth Jr., but the mark was broken at the 2008 WSOP by Nikolay Evdakov with 10 cashes.)
This year, Binger continues to impress the poker world. Through July, he has captured two tournament titles, made eight final tables and is currently ranked in the top five in all the major Player of the Year standings.
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Jul 28 2008
