http://www.xxpokerxx.net Your online community for Online Poker, live chat, links directory . . . . en-us http://www.dmcubed.com/pics/blog.gif http://www.xxpokerxx.net 88 31 Online Poker http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8305 Poker Blog: Our hero records his trials and tribulations through the world of online poker and the poker rooms of Los Angeles. http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8304 Matt Matros, a 26 year old graduate student in fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, finished third in the World Poker Tour Championship, winning $706,903... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8303 Martin Deknijff is the winner of the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship and the largest first prize ever paid in tournament poker... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8302 The World Poker Tour has named Erick Lindgren the WPT Player of the Year... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8301 Greg Fossilman Raymer is the 2004 Texas Hold'em world champion. In the final event of the 2004 World Series of Poker, a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament with 2,576 entries, Raymer emerged victorious to take a record setting first prize of $5 million... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8300 Another popular poker tournament is the 2004 Stars and Stripes Bicycle Casino poker tournament in Bell Gardens, California. The poker tournaments run from June 24, through July 5, 2004... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8299 There are some popular poker tournaments coming up around the end of June and running through the July 4 weekend. The first is a Bellagio poker tournament - the 2004 Festa al Lago II, with tournaments taking place from June 22, through July 5, 2004, in Las Vegas... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8298 Friday, June 18, is the No Limit Texas Hold'em Championship of Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship tournaments. The Championship is a $10,000 buy-in tournament spread over four days... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8297 If you missed the 2004 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you can watch the action at many of the final tables beginning with a No Limit Texas Hold'em WSOP poker tournament to be televised by ESPN on July 6, and ending with the World Series of Poker Main Event Texas Hold'em poker tournament to be televised August 17 through September 14... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8296 Proving himself a serious student of the game, actor Ben Affleck won the Commerce Casino 2004 California Poker Championship. Affleck picked up $356,400 and a $25,000 seat at the World Poker Tour Championship which will take place at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in April, 2005... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8295 The Grand Prix de Paris poker tournament at Aviation Club de France is the first stop on the World Poker Tour. Daily poker tournaments begin July 1 and conclude with a four day no limit Texas Hold'em poker championship July 17-20. Preceding the championship are fourteen other poker tournaments including Omaha, Texas Hold'em, and other poker games as well as a two day "Omaha Cup" Omaha championship poker tournament... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8294 The Orleans Hotel Casino in Las Vegas will host the annual Orleans Open Poker Tournament from July 10 through July 25. The Orleans Open is a fun poker tournament particularly for players looking for low buy-in tournaments. There are 17 individual poker tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $125 up to $1060 for the Texas Hold'em Championship tournament... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8293 Turning Stone Casino is hosting the American Poker Championship July 12-14, 2004. This is a three day no limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament with a $10,000 buy-in and $1 Million in prize money. Fox Sports Net will televise the final table live (well, almost) July 14, beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern. The show is being billed as the first live telecast of a poker tournament final on television. What makes this a particularly interesting poker tournament, is that many of the top poker pros will be competing in a relatively small field, so there is a good chance of seeing some of them at the final table. Eight of the top 20 players will be in the tournament including Daniel Negreanu, Barry Goldstein, Hasan Habib, Howard Lederer, and more... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8292 It was an exciting final day yesterday at the Grand Prix de Paris poker tournament at Aviation Club de France. Surinder Sunar, a poker pro from the UK, won the championship but the excitement was the daylight casino heist that interrupted the tournament... http://www.xxpokerxx.net/read.php?article=8291 The Bicycle Casino Legends of Poker gets underway today with tournaments running through August 31. The main event is a four day no limit Texas Hold em tournament that begins on August 28 and is the third stop on the World Poker Tour. The local poker pros are good, the buy-ins are reasonable, and there is even the occasional Hollywood celebrity sighting. These are some fun poker tournaments worth taking a look at...