888.com - one of the leaders in casino games and online poker - has teamed up in an exclusive partnership with Shane Warne, the star of Australian cricket.
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The Belgian group Circus will be offering record prize money of 1.2 million euros for the final round of the Belgian Poker Championships at the Namur casino from 17 to 25 November.
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The Arizona State health authorities have sounded the alarm over the amount of lead in Paulsen poker chips, triggering an outbreak of panic in the USA.
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An armed robbery in the basement of a New York poker club ended with the death of a player present in the club in the Flatiron district of Manhattan.
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The World Poker Association has just added a Dutch professional player and a French consultant to its team with a view to extending its activities in Europe and worldwide.
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Joseph Mouawad, a player of Lebanese origins, won the London European Poker Tour Open tournament at the Victoria Casino on Sunday 30th September.
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The “BluffBot 2.0” software program, specially designed for Limit Hold’em poker, has recently won a No Limit tournament between computers in Canada.
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Since the start of September 2007, Belgians have been able to watch the Poker Channel: the British specialist poker channel which is entirely devoted to the game, via the Be TV sports package.
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Charles Nesson, a professor of Law at Harvard University, is encouraging the introduction of poker into universities and high schools and has announced the creation of an association entitled the “Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society”.
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In spite of the strict anti-gaming laws in China, World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Chinese Leisure and Sports Administration Centre (CLSA).
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