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News articles from June-01-2007 to June-30-2007

Aggressive Poker wins at WSOP for Fred Goldberg
28-Jun-2007

620 players plunked down $1,500 to play WSOP Event 40, a Mixed Hold'em (Limit / No-Limit) game with a $846,300 prize pool. Fred Goldberg's aggressive poker served him well during no limit rounds, and his control was evidenced as he got heads up opponent Rene Mouritsen to push in with an inferior flush on the last hand.

Bodogers Ride in Style at the WSOP on the Bodog Player's Lounge Bus
28-Jun-2007

If you are playing in the World Series of Poker this summer and are still around during the Main Event, you might want to skip the Rio's player's lounge, slip on a Bodog Poker hoodie, and hit the Bodog Player's Lounge Bus.

Steamroller Thirds in WSOP Event 37
26-Jun-2007

Event 37, the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event, could be the birth place of a new poker pro. Bodog regular Yuval Bronshtein, getting plenty of play from his supporting site, picked up a new nickname along with his $100k and third place finish. The Steamroller rolled over Joe Hachem and TJ Cloutier, and showed no mercy for table mate Shannon Elizabeth while on his way to the top.

Paddy Poker Magazine Showdown
26-Jun-2007

The readers of a number of UK poker magazines have been put on notice by Paddy Power Poker; it is time to step up and show their skills. From July to September these readers will have a chance to participate an exclusive online $5,000 No Limit Hold'em freeroll tournament, with the winning reader going on to play in an number of major European poker events.

Erick Lindgren Profile
23-Jun-2007

Forty thousand dollars. Without the proper perspective, that number is meaningless. Compared to the top heavy tournament prizes sought after by most poker pros, and the “biggest of all time” jackpots that are hitting around the hundred million mark, that figure is rather small. But to win one of those top prizes means playing hours and hours of poker, winning hand after hand after hand; what if you won $40,000 in a single hand of poker? If you are Erick Lindgren, you have, and for a single hand of poker that is a very large number indeed.

Chip Reese
22-Jun-2007

The winner of the first ever $50k HORSE event at the World Series of Poker is no fresh faced, internet suckled pro. When David “Chip” Reese defeated Andy Bloch heads up in 2006 in the event, he won what fellow veteran pros were calling the “true” championship, the game that would determine who the best poker player was in a more definitive fashion that the traditional $10k No Limit Hold’em Main Event. This was Chip’s third WSOP bracelet and the 17th time he had finished in the money.

WSOP Result Event 27
20-Jun-2007

Only one event report today, a table that started out pretty weak until things got four handed. Then Young Cho made an aggressive all in and called the clock on Michael Ium, who finaly called with a better hand. Cho’s luck was with him, however, and he started to push the table around quite a lot. In the end Cho managed a runner up spot behind Daid Stucke.

Irish Bookmakers Make Book
20-Jun-2007

If you couldn't make it to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker this year, you can still make money on the events. Paddy Power (the power behind Paddy Power Poker) is floating odds on who will make the final table at the main event.

Titan offers Omaha WSOPE Satellite
18-Jun-2007

Online poker room Titan Poker is offering players with some skill in Omaha a chance to prove it with a Pot Limit Omaha Super Satellite that could lead to World Series of Poker Gold.

The event, which will take place on June 27th, will award a $12,000 Prize Package which includes the buy-in at the World Series of Poker Europe Pot Limit Omaha Main Event.

WSOP Updates Event 19 to 24
18-Jun-2007

A lot of events to catch up on! Some notable TV tables I hope make it through the ESPN vetting process: Event 19 with Humberto Brenes (hey, it’s HUMBERTO BRENES! It won’t be boring!), Event 20 with Greg Raymer and super excited for Event 21, the shootout with both Daniel Negreanu and Erick Lindgren.

WSOP Update Events 17 and 18
14-Jun-2007

Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies World Championship No-Limit Hold'em built a $1,170,260 prize pool with a record breaking field of 1,286 players. Only one pro made it to the final table, German player and PokerStars team member Katja Thater. The winner, however, was Sally Boyer, who picked up $262,077 and a specially designed CORUM bracelet for her victory.

WSOP Heads Up at your Favorite Pub
14-Jun-2007

Want to play your mates in a little heads up Texas Hold’em, but too lazy to shuffle the cards? Looking for some World Series of Poker fun but to cheap go to Vegas? Me too! Now we can all enjoy some WSOP heads up play thanks to a new amusement game coming from PokerTek.

PKR Turns to Ads For Cash
13-Jun-2007

PKR.com to air ads during play money games online.

Phil Hellmuth Wins the Footrace
13-Jun-2007

Self described “Best Tournament No Limit Hold’em Player In the World” proves it by winning 11th World Series of Poker bracelet.

All Hail the Satellite King
12-Jun-2007

The latest winner of the Absolute Dream Package Online Poker Tournament is a real gentleman, and royalty to boot, if you follow the nicknames given to 26-year-old student Jannick W, who plays on Absolute Poker under the name “Gentleman8” and is hailed as the Satellite King in his native Copenhagen.Jannick joins Scott C. from Pekin, Illinois and Daniel B. from Toronto, Canada as winners of the Dream Package, which certainly is a dream come true for a poker player.

Congratulations to Allen Cunningham on Fifth WSOP Bracelet
12-Jun-2007

The World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em event is over and done, and four time World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Allen Cunningham becomes a five time winner as the champ.

Fast Deal Tables Eliminate Dealer Abuse
11-Jun-2007

The latest offering in preventing dealer abuse is; no dealers! Of course, that also prevents Employment and Paycheck Acquisition for dealers, but some casinos are happy enough with that concept to install computer run game tables like the new FastDeal. This AI controlled table puts computer screens in front of the players and handles all the dealing and chips counting as well as payouts.

WSOP Winner Update Events 12 and 14
11-Jun-2007

Two more bracelet winners join the WSOP club.

WSOP Winners Events Ten and Eleven
10-Jun-2007

Here is a quick look at the winners and payouts for two of the latest WSOP events.

Mobile Poker Million
10-Jun-2007

Poker is everywhere, as you know, and one area that seems to be catching the poker bug faster than a hypochondriac can say “a-choo” is the mobile gaming industry.

WSOP has the Nuts
09-Jun-2007

Planters joins Hershey’s and Bicycle to join the “official” World Series of Poker family.

WSOP Update Event 8 and Event 9
09-Jun-2007

Event 8 and Event 9 quick looks - still no pro winners.

New Poker Show Coming to UK
08-Jun-2007

Rhowena Colclough and Jonny Gould are set to host a new poker show coming to the UK via SkyTV. The new program, titled Poker Week, will bring UK poker players tourney coverage (as well as juicy gossip and news) from around the world and all the major poker events. Sky Sports 2 and Sky Poker channels will air the new show.

Live Broadcasts and Time Travel
08-Jun-2007

The only way the new broadcasts coming from the World Series of Poker website are live is if you have a time machine and move forward one hour into the future—but “One Hour Delayed!” isn’t as shiny as “Live!” so I guess we have to give them that. Event Six ($1,500 Limit Holdem) was the first live simulcast event this season, delayed to avoid anyone with a laptop and wifi connection in the audience feeding info to final table players about the hole cards.

Poker After Dark is Still Poker
07-Jun-2007

Last season Phil “They Call Me Poker Brat” Hellmuth lived up to his namesake when he got pissy at the table after five other pros took turns dumping on him. At least he would say they did, and you may have caught the action yourself in one of the more interesting episodes of NBC’s Poker After Dark.

The Pros Don’t Have it at the WSOP
07-Jun-2007

So far so good for those rooting for the pros to fail in “WSOP Getting” this year, as in five events the Pro Team has scored an egg in the “win” column. They came close in Event Four when Canadian pro Gavin Smith made it to heads up play and then lost it to amateur Mike Spegal. Annie Duke almost picked up her second bracelet in Event Five but was felted into third position.

New WSOP Bracelets
06-Jun-2007

Update! Found the pics...

Last year Jamie Gold got a little something extra when he won the World Series of Poker (cause, you know, $12 million wasn’t enough)- a specially designed CORUM watch to cover the tan line on his wrist when he wasn’t wearing the WSOP Championship Bracelet. This year every winner gets a CORUM, but it won’t be ticking.

Absolute Poker Offers Swan Gazing
06-Jun-2007

Attention all you poker playing ornithologists out there: Absolute Poker wants to give you a chance to observe a unique moment in nature photography, the shooting of a Swan wearing a bikini. The bird in question is actually Absolute’s pretty poker face, Serinda Swan, who will be taking place in an Aruba tourney as well as a private bikini photo shoot.

The GBPT Hits Bournemouth in June
05-Jun-2007

The Gala Casino sponsored Great British Poker Tour Festival will be playing in Bournemouth this June, continuing the GBPT events of the season. Top prize finishers will get bonus prizes, including a buy in worth £2500 + £50, plus travel and accommodation expenses to the GBPT Grand Final.

WSOP This Week
05-Jun-2007

This week is the first full week of World Series of Poker action, with the 38th WSOP running an average of six events every day. From Monday, 4 June to Sunday, 10 June the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, will be hopping with players chasing gold.

Poker Cards Flop at WSOP
04-Jun-2007

The scuttlebutt from the poker room floor at Harrah’s Rio is that the new poker cards are a flop. In an effort to make things easier for their poker players, WSOP organizers decided to use the new Bicycle Pro "PokerPeek" playing card, but their efforts may go unrewarded.

Poker Playing Author Deals Out Parenting Advice
04-Jun-2007

Father of two Mark Borowski says you shouldn’t try to bluff your kids, as empty threats are not an effective deterrent. I don’t know… while I guess I knew all along that my dad never really intended to break my fingers if he caught me smoking, it sure kept me from lighting up a kid.