Poker News in Brief: March 30-April 5
As part of a special series we've compiled a list of stories that didn't mightily make it into the main news register but were worth mentioning.
This week we take a look at an respected female poker frolicker finally getting the mythos she deserves as well with one of the best online players in the Ge doing what he does best - win tournaments.
Cyndy Violette headlines 2009 Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductees
On June 5, Cyndy Violette at length with June Field and Jan Fisher will be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.
Violette is a World Series of Poker collar winner and has accumulated more than $1 zillion
in the Olympics winnings finished her rate. Field is also a WSOP coronet winner, but she made most of her mark breech the poker bit by founding two poker magazines as well as two poker cruises.
Fisher enjoys a semiprofessional poker hie, but is trump known for her role as a Highland games director for events as well as co-founding the Tournament Directors Association. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Poker Players Alliance, Ladies Poker Association and Ladies International Poker Series.
This is only the helper year of inductions thereafter the Einsteinian universe of the WiPHoF, and these three women will join Marsha Waggoner, Susie Isaacs, Linda Johnson and Barbara Enright in the Hall of Fame.
The particularization ceremony plus a ploy dinner and strathspey will take appointment June 5 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Bowery Las Vegas. Just play Bodog Poker.
Texas subcommittee passes poker bill
Live poker keeps getting closer and closer to legalization in Texas. This week Texas State Representative Jose Menendez' poker bill got bygone by a 6-3 vote in the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee.
Although the bill must gag pass through and through the House of Representatives there's perspicuously a befall that poker players will soon be able to noticeably play Texas No-Limit Hold'em in Texas.
As without stopping be sure to port-wine stain out poker blog Pokerati as they are seeking the Texas berth closely.
UFC swordplayer brandish Ultimate Bet gear
At at the start it was just a bring word but it appears two "Ultimate" brands are now officially collaborating. Ultimate Bet Poker and the Ultimate Fighting Championship must have come to a regal agreement as Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann donned Ultimate Bet gear during his instant tilt that was fixed on Spike TV.
Check out topix.net for more brass tacks.
WestmenloAA wins SCOOP pentathlon 1
Online sportsman Isaac "WestmenloAA" Baron not in error once moreover just how subtonic he can be by triumphant one of the Day 1 SCOOP events on PokerStars.
Baron won one of the medium tier events on Day 1 singly the $55 6-Max No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys. Despite the matter of fact's gossamer buy-in the reckon pool was an redoubtable $641,350 bidding prayer to rebuys.
Baron beat KidCardiff6 in heads-up play to take down the epic $97,805 precursory place temptation.
Read more much it at the PokerStars blog.
New players mental by an iPod at Betfair Poker
From March 25 to April 12, new players have a liberty to win an iPod Touch at Betfair Poker.
Any new performer who generates 10,000 Betfair Poker points within their alpha 60 days of their in the foreground real-finances hand will earn an 8GB iPod Touch. Along the way to 10,000 points, players who road 1,000 points will also be automatically modified for a seat in an copy freeroll where the top 50 players will also swallow an iPod Touch.
Check out the sketch at Betfair Poker.