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Jul 22 2004, 08:58am
For Andrew Georgine, the obsession with poker started with the televised World Poker Tour.
While he had watched poker on TV before, a spiffed-up tour broadcast of high stakes games of Texas Hold ’em that displays players’ cards and success probability rates allowed him to play along with pros.
Soon enough, Georgine, 17, began playing with his friends every week. Now, rarely a day goes by that he doesn’t play.
“It just like exploded,” said Georgine, a Lahser High School graduate headed to the University of Tennessee. “Every single person in school was playing.”
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Jul 22 2004, 08:56am
While a St. Cloud legislator plans to make sure Texas Hold 'em won't land card players in court, prosecutors and law enforcement officers continue to sort through possible charges from a poker raid.
Sen. Dave Kleis said Wednesday that he will introduce a bill next legislative session to make poker tournaments legal, like golf or pool tournaments. He plans to start researching the legislation.
Source: St Cloud Times
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Jul 21 2004, 04:20pm
St. Cloud, Minn. (AP) Charges could be in the cards for the organizer of a Texas Hold'em poker tournament at a local bowling alley that was raided Monday night.
The tournaments had been held each Monday night for eight months. The organizer said no money traded hands, and many players didn't consider them gambling.
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Jul 21 2004, 09:02am
St. Cloud, Minn. (AP) The owner of a St. Cloud bowling alley -- where police busted a poker game this week -- is vowing to fight any charges.
Dave Bischoff had been holding a free game of "Texas Hold'em" poker at Granite Bowl for about eight months before police shut down the operation Monday night.
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Jul 21 2004, 09:01am
PARIS, July 21 (AFP) - British poker ace Surinder Sunar won the Grand Prix de Paris poker tournament, the French stop on the World Poker Tour that was marred by a daring armed heist, the organization said Wednesday.
The 45-year-old Sunar took home EUR 679,000 (USD 835,000) for his win at the event late Tuesday, which cost competitors EUR 10,000 just for a seat at the table.
Source: Expatica
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Jul 20 2004, 11:37pm
HE WATCHES with the "Vegas stare" as they fall on green baize, the difference between failure and fortune resting on the turn of two cards.
Tomorrow evening, John Burns will gather those two cards to his chest, in the hope they will lead to a winner’s pot of £250,000.
If the Glasgow man’s skill at "Texas Hold ’em", the classic poker game, can carry him to Friday and the "last table" of Europe’s most prestigious tournament, he could come home a very wealthy man.
And that is not bad for someone who has played poker for only nine months.
Source: Scotsman.com
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Jul 20 2004, 02:26pm
PARIS (Reuters) - It was daylight robbery at the casino, but it was the owners, not the players, who were relieved of their cash.
Two masked gunmen burst into the Aviation-Club de France casino on the Champs Elysees on Tuesday, ordered staff and players to lie on the floor and raided the tills. They then fled with 76,000 euros (50, 700 pounds) in a stolen refrigerated truck, police said.
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Jul 20 2004, 12:35pm
PARIS (AFP) - Two armed men staged a daring heist at a world poker tournament on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, making off with 76,000 euros (94,000 dollars) in cash after forcing players to lie on the ground, police said.
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Jul 20 2004, 11:40am
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2004--PokerBook Gaming Corporation ("The Company" or "Company") is a publicly traded company (Pink Sheets:POKG) that develops and markets internet gaming, poker and bingo software to licensed operators around the world. In addition, the Company provides management, marketing, and other support services to its licensees.
Jack E. Owens, CEO, said: "We are really excited to announce the first legalized poker gaming site in the United States. PokerBook Gaming Corporation is the first to organize legal, on-line Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments for charity fundraising! PokerBook Gaming will target and contract only licensed Non-Profit 501(c)3 Large Corporations with established Donor contributor bases. This will give them the ability to cash in on the world Poker craze for fundraising. PokerBook Gaming Corporation's FANTASY POKER CLUB'S WORLD TOUR, scheduled for launch September 2004, will give charities the ability to use the Internet in a revolutionary new way!"
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Jul 20 2004, 09:02am
Seemingly overnight, poker has evolved from the game of cowboys, casinos and college dorms into a full-blown national fad.
Multimillion-dollar tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour now appear on cable television. Celebrities go nose job to nose job over $250,000 for charity on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown.
There's even a college poker championship that offers $15,000 scholarships to top players.
Source: HoustonChronicle.com
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