Poker Items

This category is all about the stuff you can buy in the world of poker. Whether its book reviews, or news on the latest poker related product, you'll find everything for sale in the world of poker in this category.

• 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...

   

• The Year in Poker: February, 2007

  December 21, 2007,

  February marks the heart of winter in northern climes, a time of deep chill when the snow shoveling becomes onerous and windshields can crack from the cold. The days are short and cabin fever builds. Perhaps that's why much...

   

• The Year in Poker: January, 2007

  December 20, 2007,

  PokerNews begins its annual recounting of the year in poker with the best from January, a month that started slow but finished with a flourish of major tourneys and important news and legal events. While the 'Great Dane,' Gus Hansen...

   

• Poker News Bytes — December 14, 2007

  December 14, 2007,

  PokerTek, Inc. came to a settlement with Texas-based TELLIS Software, Inc. recently, resolving a dispute over royalty payments. According to the suit, filed in February of 2007, TELLIS designed the software for PokerTek's growing line of...

   

• Poker News Bytes, 11/28/07

  November 28, 2007,

  Mitch Garber, CEO of PartyGaming, has announced that he is not going forward with plans to sell a block of Party stock late next month. Instead, Garber will retain the stock block, and with the addition of another 3.5 million in stock...

   

• Don't Eat That Chip: AZ Warns of High Lead Content

  November 11, 2007,

  The Arizona Department of Health Services issued an alert on November 8, 2007 warning that poker chips may contain dangerous levels of lead. The alert was issued after independent lab testing commissioned by ABC affiliate KNXV-TV found high...

   

• Poker News Bytes — October 14, 2007

  October 14, 2007,

  It's official – the Las Vegas Hilton's poker room is closing its doors to the public on Wednesday, October 17. The 11-table room has been open since August of 2005, a little more than two years, according to poker room manager Mark Nelson...

   

• Johnny Chan Academy Classes Bounced from U. of Buffalo Vocational Program

  October 13, 2007,

  One day after Gatlin Educational Services (GES) announced a partnership with the University of Buffalo (UB) to offer online career training in casino gaming, the University backed out of the arrangement, citing a disagreement...

   

• Poker News Bytes — October 8, 2007

  October 08, 2007,

  Christopher Steelman, one of two men arrested in a bizarre murder/extortion plot against former Amateur Poker Tour owner Matthew Sowash involving rattlesnakes inside a box with a trap door designed to capture Sowash's legs...

   

• 'Bluffbot 2.0' Wins No-Limit Computer Poker Showdown at AI Seminar

  September 06, 2007,

  The recent, much-hyped 'Man-Machine Poker Championship' match-up pitting pros Phil Laak and Ali Eslami against a software program named Polaris might have drawn plenty of poker-media coverage, but it wasn't the only result from this year's

   

• Poker News Bytes: August 23, 2007

  August 23, 2007,

  Officers from the Sweetwater Police Department responded to a complaint of loud noise coming from Room 129 at the Best Value Inn, but it wasn't noise they found. Instead, a card table, between 50-100 decks of cards, almost $25,000 in cash...

   

• Daniel Negreanu Launches Instructional Mobile Phone Video Series

  August 22, 2007,

  Top poker player Daniel Negreanu has teamed up with mobile entertainment company I-play to create a series of instructional 'made for mobile' poker videos. These videos can be downloaded and viewed from almost any type of phone...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight, August 16, 2007: The Future of the Ladies Event

  August 16, 2007,

  After the WSOP Poker Academy sessions for the WSOP Ladies Event, many attendees came out very disillusioned about why they were going to go play the WSOP Ladies Event at all. The Academy was designed to give ladies the encouragement...

   

• Poker News Bytes, August 14, 2007

  August 14, 2007,

  The United States Department of Justice has filed for a two-week extension in the case brought against it by the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA). The originally hearing was slated for September 4...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight, August 10, 2007

  August 10, 2007,

  So many events and not enough time to play in them all! We had several ladies' events going on in different parts of the country this past week. Cherokee Casino in Tulsa, Okalahoma and the LPA Tour (Ladies Poker Association) played...

   

• World Poker Association Releases Ethics Code

  July 29, 2007,

  The World Poker Association [WPA] has announced the release of an Ethics Code designed to create baseline standards for poker tournaments. Adherence to the code is mandatory both for admission into and continued membership...

   

• Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom by Anthony Holden

  May 06, 2007,

  Bigger Deal is a sequel to Anthony Holden's Big Deal published in 1990. I remember that first book; there are literally thousands of poker players who credit Big Deal with first getting them into the game. Now 17 years later....

   

• Poker Book Review: NL Hold'em Theory and Practice by Sklansky and Miller

  April 18, 2007,

  No Limit Hold'em Theory and Practice is David Sklansky's 10th poker book. This time around he is joined by co-author Ed Miller, who last wrote with Sklansky and Mason Malmuth back in 2004 when they published Small Stakes...

   

• 'Learn To Win At Texas Hold 'Em' Provides Valuable Tips

  April 17, 2007,

  In the history of poker, there has never been a better time than now for newcomers to learn the game. Some players, however, don't have time to sit through a three, four or five hundred page book to glean the information...

   

• 'The Portable Poker Pro' Delivers At Less Cost

  March 27, 2007,

  There are many ways to obtain the information regarding the skill of the game of poker. From high cost methods, such as poker camps and tutorial training from accomplished players, to less costly measures, such as DVDs or other poker books...

   

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