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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 19 2004, 11:21am
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- The Black Hills gambling town of Deadwood, which has had its notoriety rejuvenated courtesy of a popular cable television series of the same name, will land on national cable TV again in October, this time as a backdrop for the "World Series of Poker."
Bill Walsh, owner of the Franklin Hotel on Deadwood's Main Street, said his contact at ESPN confirmed the show on Friday.
The two-day taping will feature 12 previous winners playing poker in his Main Street-level saloon. ESPN will fly the players to Deadwood, where they will stay at the Franklin. It's scheduled for Oct. 26-27.
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Jul 16 2004, 12:35pm
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2004--Full Tilt Poker(TM) (www.fulltiltpoker.com), the newly launched online poker software designed by some of the world's leading poker players, is sponsoring "Poker In Athens," an organization whose ultimate goal is to get poker internationally recognized as a sport and sanctioned in the International Games.
Source: AltaVista
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Jul 14 2004, 11:19pm
VERONA -- Flushed with the success of the American Poker Championships at Turning Stone Casino Resort Wednesday, promoter Rick Kulis is planning to return to the venue for more televised events.
"We're coming back," said Kulis, president of Hollybrook Regency Inc. His California firm brokered the deal with Fox Sports Net to broadcast Wednesday's million-dollar poker tournament live from the Oneida Indian Nation's casino.
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Jul 14 2004, 09:05am
STAMFORD, Conn. -- There's nothing wrong with a friendly poker game among friends, but Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says "poker nights" being held at some Connecticut bars are illegal.
Blumenthal Tuesday sent a letter to four bars, three in Stamford and one in Hamden, urging them to stop holding weekly "poker nights."
Source: Newday.com
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Jul 13 2004, 03:28pm
Fox will broadcast the first live tournament final round from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday from Turning Stone's Showroom.
It will be a true gamble for Fox, said tournament promoter Rick Kulis of Hollybrook Regency Inc.
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Jul 13 2004, 12:38pm
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Several Connecticut bar owners have used the rising popularity of tournament poker to attract and keep customers, but state officials say that could be violating gambling laws.
Source: Las Vegas Sun
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