Poker News

2011 Poker Player Cruises are Set. Poker Player Cruises has scheduled the three cruises for 2011: The first is an eight night eastern Caribbean cruise, February 5-13 on Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas. The ship sails from Miami for Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Labadee, Haiti; and returns to Miami.
 

We’re Playing In Pennsylvania. Are we ever! Finally, the anticipated fun and games in the Keystone state exploded as sure as the July fireworks. Every casino poker room in the state opened to large crowds. Waiting lists deterred no one.

Make Plans Today for Peppermill’s Deep Stack Poker Tournament. This event begins August 25-29, with three events daily and buy-ins ranging from $120-$330. The action begins with a $120 no-limit tournament at noon, followed by a HORSE at 4 p.m., and another $120 no-limit event at 7 p.m. All noon and 7 p.m. events will be nolimit and the 4 p.m. events are as follows: August 26: Omaha; August 27: razz; August 27: 7-stud/8 and August 29: six-handed limit hold’em. Players receive 8,000 tournament chips for the $100 buy-in events, 10,000 chips for the $200 events, and 12,000 tournament chips for the $300 buy-in. The 4 p.m. events will start with 4,000 chips.

Just because the World Series of Poker is on hiatus until November and the Bicycle Casino’s Legends of Poker event didn’t kick-off until the end of July doesn’t mean there was a lack of available tournaments in mid- July. There were plenty, and they were spread out across the country. Results from these events that are referenced below are avaliable in the issue now on stands (Vol. 14 Number 4 August 16, 2010).
 

Several cardrooms are offering players a chance to win a Poker Player Cruise and the list continues to grow. See the list of participating cardrooms with complete details of how you can win a cruise on page 12.
 

Casino Arizona’s sixth annual Arizona State Poker Tournament is slated for August 13-16. This popular event expects to attract 900 men and women to the new state-of-the art poker room at Talking Stick Resort.

Poker has been accepted as a mind sport by the International Mind Sport Association (IMSA). The decision came April 29, the first anniversary of the International Federation of Poker’s founding in Lausanne, Switzerland. According to IFP president and well known player and author Tony Holden, “This is a vital step towards having poker recognized worldwide as a respectable and legal game of skill.

The Bicycle Casino’s annual Stars and Stripes poker series commemorates Independence Day and kicks off every year on or around the Fourth of July. This year’s Stars and Stripes event began July 1 and ran through July 14. Now there’s only a short, two-week break in the action until the start of the Legends of Poker, the Bike’s signature event, which runs from July 28 - August 30.

It took two weeks, but the WSOP’s main event has finally been whittled down to nine remaining players: the November Nine, the Novembrists, the final nine, the final table—call them what you will—but just nine remain from a field of 7,319 starters, and one of them will be world champ this November.

LAS VEGAS (July 16, 2010)– When the dust settled at the World Poker Tour® (WPT) Bellagio Cup VI, German poker pro Moritz Kranich prevailed, defeating a deep and talented field of top young guns and well-known veterans to earn the prestigious title of WPT Champion and a seat into the Season IX WPT World Championship. Flanked by WPT Royal Flush Girls™ as he received his prize money, the Hamburg resident took home $875,150 for the win.