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Jul 29 2004, 08:57am
DETROIT — Poker-playing enthusiasts have turned out in steady crowds to MotorCity Casino’s new eight-table poker room, with a waiting list needed daily during 16-hour peak periods as customers vie for a chance to play, officials say.
And card players seem happy with the new poker room’s no-smoking policy with some favoring the ban on the heavy cigar and cigarette smoke that’s often associated with the game.
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Jul 28 2004, 09:08am
THE sky's the limit to no-limit Texas Hold 'em poker on TV.
The fad started by the Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour" in 2002 is just getting started, say some of the game's biggest stars.
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Jul 28 2004, 09:07am
DEADWOOD - Poker players still will ply their trade in Deadwood in October, but it won't be on national television, promoters said.
Last week, Bill Walsh, owner of the Franklin Hotel on Deadwood's Main Street, said ESPN had confirmed that the northern Black Hills gambling town would be a backdrop for two days of videotaping the ''World Series of Poker.
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Jul 28 2004, 09:06am
Several months ago, I wrote : “Anybody who says poker is a sport is an idiot.” At the time, I might have been on top, or perhaps even ahead, of the curve with my condemnation. After all, with the exception of weekday afternoons on ESPN2, you could toss the figurative brick through both the television schedule and pop culture as a whole without hitting poker. I figured the phenomenon would peter out, like swing-dancing and Kurt Warner’s deal with the devil.
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Jul 28 2004, 09:05am
OFF THEY GO again with their chips and their cards hanging in bags from their bikes, off again to another day of, uh, frenzied activity.
Off they go to their midafternoon poker game, off they go, rain or shine. Max, the guy they call "Facecard," he brings the chips. Xavier, "Sir Bluffington," he brings the cards.
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Jul 28 2004, 09:05am
BOULDER COUNTY, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/28/2004 -- CreekPath Systems®, an award winning, independent software vendor empowering organizations to obtain the maximum value from their storage operations, today announced the local and national charities that received donations from the first annual "CreekPath Storage World Series of Poker" held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The charities include: American Heart Association, Happy Hill Farm, Humane Society, Life Out Reach International, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Our Savior's Shelter, Salvation Army, Shades Valley Community Church, Tomorrows Children's Fund and UNICEF.
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Jul 27 2004, 01:21pm
It is now commonly known and widely reported that poker is enjoying a revival of fortune after years of being relegated as an unfashionable relic of the gambling industry. Casinos are adding poker rooms, tournaments have become hugely populated, and celebrities are providing the icing on the cake by joining in on the new trend.
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Jul 26 2004, 09:12am
MANSFIELD -- The weekend was everything but relaxing for Jeff Smith. He spent Friday through Sunday in a stuffy room engaged in fierce mental competition. But he's not complaining -- he won $40,000.
Smith, of Mansfield, was one of more than 550 players in the weekend-long Las Vegas Night No Limit Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The event raised $16,000 for the Butler Adult Center and divided $73,000 among the first- through sixth-place winners.
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Jul 25 2004, 04:11pm
Six men playing poker in an East Toledo garage were robbed Thursday night by two men armed with handguns, police said.
The victims were playing cards in the garage behind a house on Kingston Avenue when the two suspects entered and ordered the poker players onto the floor.
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Jul 22 2004, 08:59am
Poker aficionados claim their sport is getting a raw deal from the Olympics and are campaigning for a place at the table at the Athens Games.
A group calling itself "Poker in Athens" have said they will not take the exclusion sitting down and have upped the stakes with an online petition calling the bluff of the sporting world.
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