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Oct 27 2004, 08:16pm
The 2003 World Series of Poker is now for sale on DVD!
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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, 10:48am
Poker Legend Draws 312 Players to Tournament with More Than $3 Million Total Prize Money; WPT Honors Doyle Brunson with Addition of 16th Tour Stop
In a show of respect for all-time poker great Doyle Brunson, hundreds of players made an appointment with the WORLD POKER TOUR(TM) and its new tournament honoring the man who memorialized the 10-2 poker hand. The inaugural event started Tuesday at Bellagio, Las Vegas. One of the most venerable names in poker, Brunson captured his first of nine World Champion bracelets in 1976 and his first WORLD POKER TOUR win less than two months ago. The Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship attracted 312 players, driving the total prize pool to $3,026,400 on the sixth stop of the acclaimed WORLD POKER TOUR. The WORLD POKER TOUR is the highest rated series in the history of the Travel Channel, airing Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Oct 19 2004, 09:19am
FSN anted up the news that Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament will return to the network for a second season.
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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 7 2004, 10:34am
Celebrities pit themselves against member of the general public in a nail-biting game of celebrity poker. The stakes are high, with £120,000 potential prize money, and the venue (the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton Marina) is star studded with celebrities including Jimmy White, Stephen Hendry, Chris Brookes and John McCrirrick all taking part. As the games commence, tensions rise and with each player contributing a £1,000 fee, no one can afford to lose
London, UK (PRWEB) October 7, 2004 -- Celebrity Poker comes to Sky TV Men and Motors this month with UK Challenge 2004 Celeb Poker Tournament
The inaugural CelebPoker UK Challenge 2004 Poker Tournament will be shown on Sky Men and Motors Friday 8th October 2004 at 11pm.
The event was played at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton over the bank holiday weekend 28/29th August, with a prize pool of £120,000, making it one of the largest poker tournaments in Europe. The line up was breathtaking, the £120,000 prize pool had attracted the great and good of European Poker as well as a healthy mix of celebrities and satellite qualifiers to really give the event an edge that you could sense seeping out from the walls.
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Oct 6 2004, 09:20am
Following the success of a bunch of celebrity TV shows that revolved around poker, film director Zak Penn is taking the next step – shooting a full-featured comedy about an international poker tournament, pokergazette.com reported.
The film will feature Ben Affleck and David Schwimmer, both of whom have become poker aficionados, William H. Macy, who learned a lot about gambling while filming Oscar-nominated "The Cooler", Chicago favorite Richard Kind, and German film director Werner Herzog who will be wearing his actor's hat.
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Sep 22 2004, 09:38am
Annie Duke beat out her older brother and eight other poker legends to win $2 million and the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.
The 39-year-old Duke outlasted the other players in an grueling game held earlier this month at the Rio hotel-casino.
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Sep 16 2004, 10:51am
With the WORLD POKER TOUR(TM) (WPT) setting records for numbers of players and prize pools at its Season 3 tournament events, WPT Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE) announced a ten-year commitment to its partner casinos by exercising its contract options. WPTE plans to schedule a minimum of 15 WPT-sanctioned events each year, averaging one or more each month through 2013. In conjunction with this commitment, WPT published its Season 4, 5, and 6 tournament schedules through 2008. The WORLD POKER TOUR is the highest-rated television show in the history of the Travel Channel, airing every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. PT/ET.
"We look forward to continuing the Tour that generated a new horizon for poker," said Steve Lipscomb, President of WPT Enterprises. "Thus, we've taken the extraordinary step of activating these renewals early and making sure that our players can mark these dates on their calendars."
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Sep 15 2004, 09:24am
Player wears “Dominate the Table” t-shirt at final table of the Ultimate Poker Challenge. For the first time a national brand of No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em clothing products will be featured on a nationally syndicated television show.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 15, 2004 --- On September 18th and 19th, amateur poker player Cong Tran will be shown dominating the table against professional poker players at the nationally televised final table of the Ultimate Poker Challenge wearing All N Poker’s “Dominate the Table” signature t-shirt. For the first time a national brand of No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em clothing products will be featured on a nationally syndicated television show.
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