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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 30 2004, 09:21am
The Fresh Poker Faces league, to be launched in October, will offer bi-weekly tournaments where players will learn various strategies and be able to ask a more experienced players of WPC questions on their tournament play. This will be a very fun and informative way for women to learn the basics of poker. The tournament leaders each month are awarded prizes for their placement with a goal to be graduated into the mainstream tournament events of the Womens Poker Club.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:18am
Saturday nights used to find Danny Langseth and his Minnetonka High pals at the movie theater or at one another's homes playing video games. But since the summer, their pastimes have been replaced by a new obsession: Texas Hold'em.
Spurred by online poker and cable TV shows such as ESPN's "World Series of Poker" and Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown," the game has become wildly popular with teenagers and college students. They hold tournaments in their basements and dorm rooms, paying $5 to $10 each for a shot at winning the jackpot. The more players, the bigger the pot.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:18am
BELL GARDENS, Calif. - When Marla Schram Schwartz sat down at a Southern California poker club two decades ago, men rose from the table and swore never to play with a woman.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:16am
ORLANDO, Fla. -- As reported by the Orlando Sentinel: "You could say that more teenage boys have started staying home and working on math skills: calculating percentages, identifying patterns, adding and subtracting.
"...They're playing poker - Texas Hold `em to be exact.
"...Since televised Texas Hold `em tournaments have become the darling of ESPN, the Travel Channel and Bravo, the free-for-all brand of poker has spread like text messages through a high school.
"...The newfound popularity of poker among teens worries some adults.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:16am
Tireless casino watchdog and man of the people, Bryan Bailey, a.k.a Casinomiester, has announced the launch of his new poker room watchdog site, Casinomeister-poker.com. Bailey has been championing the little man and flushing out snakes in the grass of the online casino world since 1998. He says that the new site will essentially mirror the mission of Casinomesiter for the burgeoning online poker market, with added Poker tips, Poker Do’s and Don’ts, a Poker Forum, and Poker News, courtesy of Infopowa News Service.
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Sep 27 2004, 11:15am
THEY'RE everywhere now. Casino San Pablo in San Pablo. Garden City in San Jose. Lucky Chances in Colma. The Oaks in Emeryville. California Grand in Pacheco and the Palace in Hayward, Buckhorn in Livermore and Artichoke Joe's in San Bruno. The Bay Area bunch joins nearly 100 other card clubs existing in the state. Toss in the Indian casinos and all the Nevada gaming facilities and you've got a lot of folks holding, folding and hitting. And, as San Ramon resident Errol Krok wisely realized, a dearth of dealers. Krok, 48, worked at three area clubs in the last eight years. About six weeks ago, he noticed that, thanks to the popularity of ESPN's "World Series of Poker" telecasts, more people were trying their hand at playing. And there weren't enough dealers to handle the demand. In fact, the casinos were "desperately" short of dealers, Krok says. It immediately clicked: Start a school for poker dealers. It made good sense to bring in some new blood into the business. Quicker than Krok could say "Texas Hold'em," the Ace opening session, which included eight men and six women 25 to 40.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:18am
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - On Sept. 19, three of the luckiest guys alive finally caught a break and headed up to a room at the Borgata casino here for a rest in the middle of a long day at the World Poker Tour. In the past few years these three have each won millions of dollars - the talk generally gets less specific when losses come up - playing Texas Hold 'Em, a card game that has stormed across television and computer screens and put poker in the middle of the table as never before.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:18am
JACKSON (AP) — A prosecutor says poker tourneys at businesses are legal but he's asked local law enforcement officers to monitor them anyhow.
District Attorney General Jerry Woodall said in a memo to eight law enforcement agencies that such tourneys do not violate state gambling laws.
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Sep 24 2004, 09:17am
Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 23 (UPI) -- Poker may prove to be a winner beyond the million-dollar Las Vegas tournament games seen on television.
Retailers, hoping to cash in on the popularity of the rich-pot games on TV, are stocking up on tables, chips and other poker gear. Casinos and card clubs are making room for poker tables while more tournaments show up on TV.
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