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Oct 27 2004, 08:13pm
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 27 /PRNewswire/ -- From November 6 until 13, 2004, the Holland Casino Amsterdam will host the biggest poker tournament in Europe - The Master Classics of Europe - for the thirteenth time. Over eight days, the best poker players from all over the world (including the US, France, Great Britain, Austria, and Germany) will try to outplay each other at the tournament. Compared to previous years, this year's tournament is even bigger. For one, 270 players will compete compared to 220. Also, the final rounds will be held the next day at 5 p.m., except on Tuesday. The prize money has increased as well: Last year's prize fund was already more than EUR 1.4 million and this year another EUR 63,000 has been added.
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Oct 27 2004, 08:11pm
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. expects to host an estimated 5,000 players during the final no-limit Texas hold 'em championship game of the World Series of Poker next year -- about double the number that competed this year.
The World Series of Poker is scheduled to begin June 2 and will run through July 15.
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Oct 21 2004, 10:47am
CHICAGO _ To get his fledgling Chicago poker league off the ground, Gary Hazan bought 15 sets of chips from PokerChipMart.com and a dozen decks of cards from Costco Wholesale Corp.
"We had 45 people sign up in the spring," said Hazan, the owner of Players Sports Group, a social club. "In October we'll get more, and winter will be gangbusters."
It is hardly the only game in town.
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Oct 20 2004, 09:04am
Nearly 50 students fought bitter rain to take part in Jaguar Productions' first-ever Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament Thursday night in the Student Center ballroom.
The tournament, which Jaguar Productions will put on every month, included prizes for first, second and third place, as well as food and beverages for sale.
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Oct 20 2004, 09:02am
TOLEDO, Ohio -- With poker's popularity growing because of televised tournaments, retailers are betting that playing cards and chips will be among the must-have items during the holiday shopping season.
Stores are showcasing displays of casino-quality chips and gaming tables with holders for drinks and betting chips.
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Oct 19 2004, 09:18am
Jack's back.
Jack Binion, who hosted the first World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas in 1970, has agreed to host the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit. Binion says his new gig is purely honorary, a residual from selling Horseshoe Gaming Holdings Corporation to Harrah's Entertainment.
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Oct 19 2004, 09:17am
POKER isn't allowed in school, so eighth-grade would-be card sharks ditch telltale chips, gather at lunch and use push-ups as currency: "I see your five push-ups and raise you 15." Faced with the same dilemma, high schoolers bet bags of potato chips and cookies from their lunches, or toothpicks that they can quickly stuff into their pockets if the principal happens along.
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Oct 7 2004, 10:36am
A new trend being noticed as a by-product of the global poker explosion, is the increasing number of keen players now quitting their jobs to play the game instead. It seems many a professional is replacing their annual employed income with the proceeds earned from poker, and finding themselves better off for it. The expansion of the online poker industry is providing more opportunities for keen and skilled players to earn good money from the game, with many now confident enough to abandon their monthly salary to live a life as a professional online poker player.
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Oct 7 2004, 10:35am
Enterprising Ohio retailers, who noticed the growing popularity of gambling, are offering a set of obligatory goods. According to Casinocitytimes.com, referring to the Associated Press, that they found playing cards and chips to be very successful products due to the popularity of televised poker tournaments.
So far, many stores are offering displays of casino-quality chips and gaming tables with holders for drinks and betting chips.
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Sep 30 2004, 09:21am
The Fresh Poker Faces league, to be launched in October, will offer bi-weekly tournaments where players will learn various strategies and be able to ask a more experienced players of WPC questions on their tournament play. This will be a very fun and informative way for women to learn the basics of poker. The tournament leaders each month are awarded prizes for their placement with a goal to be graduated into the mainstream tournament events of the Womens Poker Club.
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