10th of October, 2008
Tiffany Michelle Wins Road 2 Recovery Charity Poker Tournament

The MGM Grand poker room in Las Vegas was packed with celebrities and well-known poker pros on Thursday night, all playing with one purpose in mind: to raise money for Road 2 Recovery. At the end of the day, about 75 players turned out.
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10th of October, 2008
Latin American Poker Tour Announces Season Two Schedule

The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour has recently announced its expanded season-two schedule, which will begin in early November.
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11th of September, 2008
Online Poker Provider, PokerTime's Sit 'n Go Leaderboard Announces Its Newest Winners

Online Poker Provider, PokerTime's Sit 'n Go Leaderboard Announces Its Newest Winners

Online poker provider, PokerTime's thrilling Sit 'n Go Leaderboard saw some big winnings at the end of August 2008 - with 30 players battling it out for a USD 3,000 guaranteed prize-pool.
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3rd of September, 2008
Sundin Signs With PokerStars

PokerStars, the world's largest online poker room, is pleased to announce another high profile recruitment to its team of international celebrity ambassadors. National Hockey League (NHL) icon and former Toronto Maple Leafs' captain Mats Sundin will play poker both live and online as part of his new brand ambassador role for PokerStars.
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3rd of September, 2008
PokerTek Installs First Fully Automated Poker Room in Indiana

PTEK 4.16, -0.11, -2.6%) , the industry pioneer and worldwide leader in automated poker tables and related software, is pleased to announce that it has installed PokerPro at French Lick Resort Casino in French Lick, Indiana. This is the first 100% PokerPro poker room in the state.
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3rd of September, 2008
No Withholding Taxes on Poker Tourneys

The IRS has decided that every poker operator in the United States will have to report anyone who wins more than $5,000 in a poker tournament.
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3rd of September, 2008
Dublin Named Europe's #1 Destination for Poker!

Dublin has been awarded the title of European Poker Capital 2008 by Bluff Europe Magazine.
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29th of August, 2008
GROWTH CONTINUES AT PARTY GAMING

Poker accounted for more than half of company revenues in H1 2008
 
Party Gaming plc's much anticipated half yearly results were released this week, showing revenue growth in all areas as the online gambling firm continues to rebuild following the depredations of UIGEA and its exit from the US market.
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29th of August, 2008
PARTY GAMING PLANS FRANCHISING

Expanded white label poker franchising and a Party Poker revamp in prospect
 
Party Gaming's half yearly report this week contained some interesting snippets of information about the online gambling group's plans for the immediate future.
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25th of August, 2008
WPT Legends of Poker Attendance Declines Significantly

Day 1B of the 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event kicked off on Sunday from the Bicycle Casino in sunny Los Angeles, California. When registration closed for the second of two starting days of the hallmark WPT tournament, just 373 entrants coughed up the $10,000 buy-in. Last year, the tournament attracted 485 players, which means that attendance dropped 23% in 2008.
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25th of August, 2008
Bwin's Poker Revenues Fluctuate as Costs Rise

Half Yearly Results Sees Bwin's Poker Revenues Rise, But So Do Costs
Bwin’s net poker revenues for the first half of 2008 have increased by 2.9 percent to €38.2 million from the same period in 2007.
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22nd of August, 2008
PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Announces Line Up of Champions for Launch Event in Macau

PokerStars ( www.PokerStars.net), the world's largest online poker site, today announced an unprecedented line-up of 20 top poker champions who will be hitting the felt for the launch of Season 2 of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) at Macau in the People's Republic of China. APPT Macau is expected to become the largest poker tournament in Asia, with over 500 participants competing for the top spot in the nine-day event, starting September 1, 2008.
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21st of August, 2008
Absolute Poker Threatens Legal Action Against Gambling911.com

Gambling911.com, whose founder Christopher Costigan won a landmark case against an online gambling establishment in 2002, disclosed on Wednesday that his website has been threatened with legal action by Absolute Poker.
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21st of August, 2008
U.S. Poker Players Ask GOP to Revamp Platform on Online Gambling

Poker Players along with the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) recently inundated the Republican Platform Committee's official message board asking them to protect individuals' rights to play poker online, and to revise their statement regarding online gambling in their upcoming party platform.
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19th of August, 2008
Excalibur makes the move to electronic poker tables

The days of live dealers and real poker chips at the Excalibur's poker room have come to an abrupt end.

The casino shut down its poker room Sunday night at midnight and is in the process on installing 12 PokerPro electronic poker tables from PokerTek. When the room re-opens Friday at 6 p.m., it will become the first in Las Vegas to host a poker room with exclusively electronic tables.
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19th of August, 2008
Michael Phelps going all in at the World Series of Poker?

Got to spend a few minutes with Michael Phelps today after he did some promotional stuff for Visa. He was absolutely exhausted and could barely keep his eyes open, having done too many interviews on too little sleep.
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19th of August, 2008
The Canadian Poker Tour To Televise the River Cree Resort and Casino's Labor Day Open Poker Tourname

The Canadian Poker Tour, the poker brand of HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (the "Company") (PINK SHEETS: HDUP) is pleased to announce that it will be televising the Main Event of the Labor Day Open Poker Tournament from the River Cree Resort and Casino in Edmonton, Alberta.
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18th of August, 2008
Houston Man Turns Poker Win Into 21 Million Frequent Flyer Miles

It wasn't cash that poker players were fighting for last week at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, but frequent flyer miles. Twenty-one million of them to be exact. In the end, Bill Shiver of Houston, TX, was the last man standing in the four-day event, hosted by Continental Airlines.
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13th of August, 2008
Review: MotionX Poker for iPhone

Mix Yahtzee and Poker on the iPhone and what do you get? MotionX Poker, a clever and beguilingly addicting dice game for the iPhone and iPod touch that will only set you back $5.
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13th of August, 2008
Authorities raid poker game in Shelbyville

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities have raided what they called a Shelbyville gambling operation, arrested 33 people and seized $48,000 in cash.
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13th of August, 2008
UltimateBet to Host Star-Studded Charity Poker Event

UltimateBet to Host Star-Studded Charity Poker Event This Weekend
Don Cheadle, Phil Hellmuth and several other celebrities get set to stack their chips at UltimateBet this weekend in support of Ante Up For Africa .
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11th of August, 2008
Poker In The Park's Entertainment & Exhibitors Named

Poker in the Park (www.PokerInThePark.com) will fill London's Leicester Square's North and East quadrants with the biggest poker fair in Europe. The centre of attention is sure to be the PKR-sponsored 'Poker Dome', providing free play public tournaments each hour of the event. Every table will have professional dealers from Ace Poker Nights giving players the experience of professional play. Additionally, tournaments will be broadcast on the festival Jumbotron.
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11th of August, 2008
Automated poker tables featured at Trump Plaza

The usual scene of poker rooms full of tables with cards flying and chips splashing won’t be a thing of the past any time soon, but poker players will have a new alternative when they want to play some poker.
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8th of August, 2008
Grandad, 46, dies from heart attack as he plays poker

A YOUNG grandfather has died after suffering a heart attack while he played poker.
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8th of August, 2008
Banned Online Poker Players Finally Find a New Home

For the abandoned US poker players whose online poker accounts were closed by the gaming operators as a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

There is now a new way to stay in touch with what is happening in the poker world. www.PlayPing.com of Austria is a new Web 2.0 gaming community, bringing together poker players from all over the world including the US.
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7th of August, 2008
World Poker Tour posts weak results

The World Poker Tour has yet to see improvement in numbers despite a number of moves it has been making at the beginning of this year.

The WPT has released its numbers for the second quarter of 2008 and the results are weak, but the company seems to remain optimistic and confident that the moves they’ve been making will pay off in the end.
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7th of August, 2008
Card-playing bots could doom online poker

The premise underlying online poker is that all players are humans. But with the growing availability of free poker "bot" downloads, it is becoming difficult to detect whether a player is real or a possibly unbeatable bot.
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6th of August, 2008
Forget The Olympics: Russia Making Impact in the World of Poker

Russia may be listed among the countries likely to receive the most gold medals at the 2008 Olympics (+1400 or 14/1 odds at SBG Global), they have even better odds to win another big world even this coming November - The World Series of Poker.
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6th of August, 2008
21 Million Frequent Flyer Miles Up For Grabs in Las Vegas Poker Tournament

In what will be a record-setting event, one lucky poker player will win a Grand Prize of 21,000,000 frequent flyer miles this weekend as part of the Continental OnePass Poker Tournament.
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5th of August, 2008
Playing Poker by Daniel Negreanu : Omaha becoming hot in the poker world

Pot limit Omaha is catching on like wildfire in card rooms and casinos around the world, especially in high-stakes online cash games. The game is poker's newest fad.
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