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• Poker Player Shot During San Antonio Game Robbery

  February 27, 2008,

  Three masked men fired shots and then burst into the back door of a San Antonio Texas home where a poker game was being held. In the course of robbing the game of approximately $3000 and the players' wallets, a player was shot twice...

   

• Poker Professor Offers Players Bonus to Learn

  February 07, 2008,

  Learning how to play poker has never been easier or less expensive than with Poker Professor, the new online teaching school. How inexpensive? Just this: Read Poker Professor's 'Getting Started' section, pass a quiz, and you'll...

   

• Sweden's Tax Spider Nets Poker Players

  February 06, 2008,

  Last summer, Sweden's tax board Skatteverket announced that it was going to start targeting online poker sites and affiliates for tax evasion. At the time, Dag Hardyson, national project leader for the tax board's Internet unit...

   

• Opinion: Coke's Super Bowl Ad Irks Online Poker Players

  February 05, 2008,

  Who could forget that magical Super Bowl XV commercial moment when Mean Joe Greene tosses his jersey to the kid who gives him a Coke? And what about those playful Coke-drinking polar bears that romp across our television screens...

   

• Facebook Forges New Online Poker Alliance

  February 03, 2008,

  Inside the social utility Facebook, it's all about networking, and the company has now extended that networking to online poker. Last week it was announced that Facebook had teamed up with online game supplier Ujogo to provide online poker...

   

• Betfair Seeks Return of Ill-Gotten Winnings from SNG Software Glitch

  February 02, 2008,

  In hopes of recovering funds won in an ill-gotten manner after the discovery of a programming error, the Euro-facing site Betfair has sent emails to approximately 20 online poker players in an attempt to recover money that was quickly...

   

• Potter Robbed of $30,000 After Deep Aussie Millions Run

  January 21, 2008,

  22-year-old American Jason Potter saw his first-ever trip to an overseas tournament take a major turn to the worse when he was robbed at knife point while walking back from a McDonald's in the early morning hours of Monday...

   

• Cricket Star Shane Warne Joins 888.com Poker Team

  January 15, 2008,

  Online casino 888.com has announced a new celebrity face at their poker tables, that of famous Australian cricketer Shane 'Warney' Warne. Warne has signed an exclusive sponsorship to be captain of the 888.com Australian Poker Team, and...

   

• MANSION Announces Sponsorship Deal with Shannon Elizabeth

  January 14, 2008,

  MANSION Poker has officially announced a sponsorship deal with professional player Shannon Elizabeth, the actress ('American Pie') whose attention in recent years has been focused on the poker world. Elizabeth joined with MANSION's...

   

• Poker News Bytes, Jan. 1st, 2008

  January 01, 2008,

  The World Series of Poker has announced a change in dates for this spring's Circuit stop at Caesars Indiana. Formerly scheduled as April 2-16, 2008, the stop has now been shifted slightly to run from March 30 to April 13, 2008...

   

• The Year in Poker: December, 2007

  December 31, 2007,

  Several important poker stories jumped into the public eye in early December, from another full slate of major poker tourneys to landmark decisions in the World Trade Organization battle over access to the U.S. online-gambling market...

   

• The Year in Poker: November, 2007

  December 30, 2007,

  Another heavy month of tournament action saw major results come in from the United States, Europe and the Asian Pacific Rim. Annette Obrestad and Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson were two of the biggest names to go very deep in November events...

   

• The Year in Poker: October, 2007

  December 29, 2007,

  October was one of the most diverse months of 2007 when it came to important stories in poker. Major tourneys spanned the globe, a prominent online room made its return to the U.S. market, legislative and legal news made regular...

   

• The Year in Poker: September, 2007

  December 28, 2007,

  News from the poker world in September came primarily from the felt itself. The month brought numerous major events, both online and live, capped by the history-making, inaugural World Series of Poker Europe festivities in London...

   

• The Year in Poker: August, 2007

  December 27, 2007,

  Following a few weeks of slow news following the conclusion of the 2007 WSOP, August returned to a normal poker pace with major tourneys both live and online, plus a scattering of business news. Mergers and acquisitions were...

   

• The Year in Poker: July, 2007

  December 26, 2007,

  July in poker means just one thing: Main Event time at the World Series of Poker. While much of the pre-tourney speculation centered on the number of entrants (which turned out to be 6,358, slightly higher than most predictions)...

   

• The Year in Poker: June, 2007

  December 25, 2007,

  June saw the 38th World Series of Poker being its record-setting run at the Rio in Las Vegas, with throngs of would-be poker champions stretching the facilities to its limits, if not beyond. Every day brought one or two new champs...

   

• The Year in Poker: May, 2007

  December 24, 2007,

  With the summer's excitement at the World Series of Poker in Vegas just around the corner, a couple of winners in the seasons final pre-WSOP Circuit event grabbed headlines of their own, Lou Esposito and Cory Carroll. The spring edition...

   

• The Year in Poker: April, 2007

  December 23, 2007,

  April in poker was a month dominated by events on the business and legal scene, with one important exception: Gavin Griffin collected over $2.4 million by taking down the PokerStars.net EPT Season 3 Grand Finale. Elsewhere, the acquisition...

   

• The Year in Poker: March, 2007

  December 22, 2007,

  The poker world rebounded in March from a tough February when several negative or downbeat news stories broke. Equilibrium was soon reached, however, and as spring neared, brighter stories began to appear. The month also saw...

   

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