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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, 09:19am
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 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 9 2004, 01:50pm
Probably no updates until I get back!
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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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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