PMD Furniture Direct, Inc. recently co-hosted the 2nd Annual Ante4Autism fundraising event at the Las Vegas Furniture Market. Held on Feb. 9, the poker tournament raised more than $7,000 for Autism Speaks in support of autism research, awareness, and advocation.
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WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — High-stakes poker players, politicians and celebrities will gather this week in our nation’s capital to cash in their chips for Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans). The grand prize is a $10,000 seat at the World Series of Poker in July in Las Vegas.
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Charities have been having Las Vegas-style fundraisers for decades, but charity poker rooms with nightly Texas Hold ‘em games have started to appear in the last few years. Among them is Hot Rods Poker Room, 1715 E. Michigan Ave., operated by Charity Poker Solutions.
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LAS VEGAS –The newly formed North American Poker Tour has reached an agreement with cable network ESPN2 to air 16 one-hour episodes of its tournaments.
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LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – February 18, 2010) – PokerStars.net today announced an exclusive deal to televise the newly-launched North American Poker Tour (NAPT) on ESPN2 beginning in April 2010.
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LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – 02/18/10) – PokerStars.net today announced an exclusive deal to televise the newly-launched North American Poker Tour (NAPT) on ESPN2 beginning in April 2010. ESPN2 will televise 16 original hours of the groundbreaking poker tour, as well as multiple reruns, featuring all the NAPT stops, including the PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure. The NAPT [...]
Read More...The newly formed North American Poker Tour says it has reached an agreement with cable network ESPN2 to air 16 one-hour episodes of its tournaments. The tour, owned by poker event consultant Global Poker Tours Ltd., begins a six-day series of tournaments at the Venetian casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday.
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It all started at a restaurant in the Bellagio. Mori Eskandani, a television producer and poker player, and executives from the Game Show Network were finalizing plans for a new poker show over dinner five years ago. That’s when poker professional and two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion Johnny Chan walked up to [...]
Read More...LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – February 10, 2010) – Day 2 of Harrah’s Tunica $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event has drawn to a close, and Team Victory Pro Paul Wasicka has cinched the chip lead with only nine players remaining. The 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up and 2007 NBC National Heads-Up champion will [...]
Read More...A New Jersey Assemblyman is pointing to a record Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas as proof Atlantic City should get into the sports gambling business, according to PolitickerNJ.com. Louis Greenwald (D-Camden) argued Monday that the expected $100 mil…
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