On November 1 in Dallas, there's a "Dallas Lawyers' Charitable Texas Hold'Em Poker Tournament" benefitting the SPCA.
On November 1 in Dallas, there's a "Dallas Lawyers' Charitable Texas Hold'Em Poker Tournament" benefitting the SPCA. (Via The Scrolldown)
It requires a $250 "donation" and there's a first prize of a trip to Vegas or NYC. Despite this, and the fact that it's apparently being run by lawyers, I'm not sure that this is legal in Texas.
Yawpta
Yet another World Slot Tour article. This one focuses on how the WPT has driven popularity of poker among amateurs.
The Tour's popularity caused Bicycle Club's Legends of Poker! Tournament, which will be featured on the TV show, to grow from 126 entrants last year to 380 this year, said Kelley P. O'Hara, Bicycle's director of marketing.
wpt dvd's
The World Poker Tour has released their series on DVD. It's $199.99 for all 15 episodes, whic includes no real extras. Link
I think the WPT is making a huge mistake by not including at least a little bit of untelevised footage. There are many players on rec. Gambling. Poker and wptfan.com who have indicated that they already have seen all the episodes, so aren't that interested in a box set, but would pay a lot for more hands.
I think a better strategy for the WPT would have been to release the boxed set, with each episode, plus at least one hour of extra (perhaps uncommentated) hands. Then follow that up with "full editions" of each final table, showing literally every Slot Online hand, for something like $99 an episode. That way you have a hook for all buyers now, and still capture all the people who want to pay for all the hands later.
Borgata wpt final table under the big lights
The Borgata is making a big deal out of their World Poker Tour event this month. I'd love to be there to watch the final table:
The state Casino Control Commission on Wednesday approved the casino's request to move the final table of the World Poker Tour's Borgata Poker Open into the 1,000-seat Music Box theater. The poker tournament, which pays $25,000 to the winner, will be held at Borgata from Sept. 17-22.
Internet gambling sentence
More news about offshore gambling operators being prosecuted. David H. Tedder got sentenced to 5 years in prison for bringing earnings from Gold Medal Sports into the US. Tedder has a pretty questionable past, but his offence in this case was simply bringing income from an offshore gambling operation into the US.
It's simply a really bad idea to be living in the US and running any sort of online gambling operation right now.
