Tampa Greyhound Track has announced it is ending live racing starting Aug. 18, only 49 days after beginning its 75th racing season.
The track will, however, continue to have simulcast wagering on greyhounds, thoroughbreds, standardbreds and jai alai. The poker room will also remain open for daily poker games. But the future of live racing beyond [...]

Organizers of the Moscow Millions poker tournament has announced that it will push through with the event despite the withdrawal of online site Full Tilt Poker as sponsor. However, the date has beenmoved from October 20 - 22 to November 24-26.

In a statement earlier this week, the organizers said: “Though we truly welcomed Full Tilt’s support, the success of the Moscow Millions has not been planned solely dependent on it.”

China Leisure Sports Administrative Center announced that it will launch the first National Traktor Poker Tournament in China and has selected WPT Enterprises, Inc. as the exclusive marketing partner for the Tour. The tour will focus on the sport of Traktor Poker, known as Tuo La Ji, China’s most popular poker game.
“This marketing partnership with [...]

The National Poker League has signed a partnership deal with the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino for the 2007 Vegas Open and World Championship Tournament, scheduled November 24th – December 5th. The tourneys will be held at the Venetian Poker Room in Las Vegas.
Previously held at Caesar’s Palace, the 2nd NPL Vegas Open will feature a [...]

LAS VEGAS, July 31 — Harrah’s will launch the fourth season of its popular World Series of Poker Circuit with an expanded schedule of 12 tournament stops that will bring high-stakes poker action and excitement to players at nine Harrah’s casinos around the country.
“Strong customer demand prompted us to add another event to the Circuit [...]

The 2007 California State Championship at Commerce Casino, the world’s largest poker room, begins Tuesday Sept. 4 featuring No Limit and Limit Hold’em poker tournaments.
The 19 events, with buy-ins ranging from $220 to $2,580 for the main event, will draw leading local players and national poker stars. The Cal State Championship is a feather in [...]

A Danish court, in the suburb of Lyngby, has ruled that Poker is not merely a game of chance but also requires skill and is therefore legitimate competition.
The ruling acquitted the president of the Danish Poker Association, Frederik Hostrup, of charges of arranging illegal gambling events. Hostrup had been sued by hotel and restaurant trade [...]

$1,700,000 Up for Grabs at Borgata Poker Summer Open

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., June 27 /PRNewswire/ — The biggest $5,000 buy-in poker tournament in the history of Atlantic City got underway this weekend at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. The field started with 337 players making for a $1,685,000 prize-pool with over $500,000 for first place. Players [...]

Bluff Europe Magazine Names Poker’s Big Five Cities
Wednesday June 27, 6:17 am ET

London Tops List of Europe’s Number One Poker Destinations
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bluff Europe, Europe’s most widely read poker magazine, has named Europe’s top five poker destinations based on a number of criteria and on the general level of poker enthusiasm in the city.
The 2007 list, [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - Three hundred and seventy- eight (378) players marched into the Poker Room at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa yesterday for the start of Event #9. Players took to the felt like fish to water for the $500 buy-in event, which offered a total prize-pool of $189,000 — [...]