The 3rd National Heads-Up Poker Championship will start airing on NBC in April. The poker tournament, which was filmed at the Caesars Palace Poker Room March 2-4, will air on seven consecutive Sundays in April and May, starting on April 8th. For the third straight year, a field of 64 of the world’s best poker players competing in a series of heads-up (one-on-one games of Texas Hold’em) matches to determine who is the best face-to-face poker player in the world.

LAS VEGAS – March 19, 2007 – Harrah’s License Company, an affiliate of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., has executed a non-binding letter of intent to form a digital publishing alliance with Bluff Media for online and radio coverage of all World Series of Poker-branded events on a global basis.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The World Series of Poker is preparing for a record number of entrants even though the government is cracking down on online gambling sites that have boosted the tournament’s popularity.
Organizers said Wednesday they are planning for 10,000 players, a 14 percent increase over last year’s record of 8,773 players. Half of [...]

Seven top professional poker players filed a motion for summary judgment against WPT Enterprises, Inc. and the World Poker Tour in federal district court in Los Angeles claiming WPT has committed multiple violations of federal antitrust laws.

Texas State Rep. Jose Menendez from San Antonio has introduced a bill that would regulate poker here. If passed, up to four poker tables would be allowed in certain bars or establishments. “This legislation could raise over a billion dollars over the next biennium for state coffers while bringing the game out of legal limbo and into the light,” said Mike Lavigne, treasurer of the Texas Poker PAC.

Amateur poker player Adam Weinraub experienced the true meaning of “the gift that keeps on giving” yesterday as he won the 5th Annual World Poker Tour (WPT) Invitational, an invitation-only event and the most glamorous stop of the poker circuit. Weinraub–who won his Invitational seat by bidding last year in a silent auction to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation–outplayed a field of 385 celebrities and poker pros to take home the $100,000 first place prize and a $25,000 free seat in the WPT World Championship.

(Goa, India) - March 4th 2007 is an historic day in Indian sport as Carl Hostrup from Denmark (1st place), Samuel Lehtonen from Sweden (2nd place), and Pranav Bathija from India (3rd place) share their portion of the $1,000,000 (44,490,085 INR) prize pool at the Asian Poker Classic (APC), India’s first-ever professional poker tournament.

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots organization of more than 160,000 poker enthusiasts, announced today that former United States Senator Alfonse D’Amato has joined the PPA to serve as Chairman of the Board and help lead efforts in Washington D.C. to protect the game of poker.

GARY RIVLIN and MATT RICHTEL
NY TIMES
For years, Alfonse M. D’Amato, the former Republican senator from New York, was the host at a Thursday evening poker game at his Capitol Hill office, playing with other lawmakers, staff members and lobbyists late into the night over pots that ranged from a few dollars to a few hundred.
Once [...]