LAS VEGAS - As he watched the action of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship early Saturday night, World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack had a wide smile on his face as he motioned to the crowd hovering along the rail. The fans were standing two and three deep in most spots and the amount of camera bulbs that were flashing made it look like a red carpet at the opening of a blockbuster motion picture.

His win on Sunday in the Amazon Room was worth $246,616. The new Triple Crown winner told WSOP officials after the tournament had concluded that it was the third Pot Limit Omaha High-Low event he had ever played. He noted, "I got lots of advice from some English players. But when it comes to experience in this game, I was clearly in the bottom half of the field.

I suffer from the same senior malady as most of my peers in that I can't remember what I had for breakfast or where I left my cell phone, but I am blessed with an uncanny recall of things that happened when I was a very small child. Given the present economic situation, I thought I would share some memories of growing up in Asheville during the Depression years of the early '30s.

A couple were invited to a swanky family masked fancy dress Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going.

Live and online poker players in South Carolina have been jumping for joy at the news that Senate Bills 535 and 628 have cleared the state's Senate Judiciary Committee. Both bills explicitly legalize social games of poker. Senators McConnell, Mulvaney, Ford, Land, Knotts, and Davis introduced senate Bill 535.

Only a month ago Coral Eurobet moved all their online poker players from the Party Gaming Network (Party Poker) to the OnGame network (Pokerroom.com). Faced with a rapidly depreciating stock price, Party Gaming decided to cut out all of their former "skin" partners from the rake action. This forced Coral Eurobet to find a new home.

Jurors have already found Lacy guilty of capital murder and aggravated robbery, a class Y felony, which is punishable with a prison sentence ranging from 10 to 40 years or life in prison. The jury must decide whether Lacy should be sentenced to life in prison without the benefit of parole or to death by lethal injection for killing 47-year-old Randall Walker.

Editor's note: The Moneymaker Millionaire finals will be running all day today, beginning at 11am ET in the Bahamas. We'll be reporting the action as it happens on live blog. Twenty-seven players from around the world played through 800,000 entries in the $2.5 million freeroll. Now, they are here in the Bahamas and will play down to the winner.

Mine That Bird shocked the horse racing world last weekend when it won the Kentucky Derby as a 50-1 long shot. It was the second biggest upset in the 135-year history of the event. Bowen Wallace of Tilden picked the horse to win it. He also picked Pioneerof the Nile (6-1) to finish second, Musket Man (19-1) to finish third and Papa Clem (12-1) to finish fourth on a single ticket.

Park", the most talked about and anticipated festival of the year hits the coolest city in the north for this special annual event Date: Saturday 27th June 2009 Venue:Temple Newsam ' If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise... Leading Leeds club night, System , are temporarily ditching their city home, scaling up,- and shipping out to the 600 acres of Leeds' 16th Century Temple Newsam estate.

Cross-posted on the Bethlehem Daily Star. This week, we have highlights from Northampton County Council's finance and personnel committee meetings Wednesday, as well as the regular council meeting last night (Thursday). Despite the presence of the always irascible Councilman Ron Angle, Wednesday's back-to-back committee meetings started off pretty calmly.

By David Altaner April 7 (Bloomberg) -- PartyGaming Plc, the owner of the PartyPoker.com gambling brand, said its sales are being hurt by competition from offshore Web sites that still solicit customers in the U.S., where Internet gambling is barred. Until the October 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, Gibraltar-based PartyGaming had a world-leading 40 percent market share in online poker, said spokesman John Shepherd in a telephone interview.

Full Tilt Poker. With both sites offering VIP programs and one offering rakeback (Full Tilt), their traffic dwarfs the competition. However, since the inception of the UIGEA many regular cash game players feel like each level's action has gotten progressively "better" in the sense that the players are generally more tight and aggressive than they were years ago.

Well it's another New Year and I wish you all a good one. Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have been so busy I really haven't had time. Christmas was so hectic and seeing the joy on my 2 little boy's faces was well worth the effort and stress of the festive period. Every day was busy over the period and hence didn't get to play too much poker but ended up winning about So here we are with another New Year and no doubt there are loads of resolutions being made and broken.

By Christina Killion ValdezPost-Bulletin, Rochester MN Bored with going out? A night in can be fun -- especially if you make a game of it. Traditional -- and not so traditional -- games provide an alternative way to spend an evening with friends. "It's a cheap way to spend the night in," said A.J.

ARTS & CRAFTS April 1-29: The Hammonton Arts Center will offer a five-week acrylic painting class with artist Bobby Berg. Classes are 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at the center, 219 Bellevue Ave. The fee is $95 for center members and $105 for non-members. For an application form or more information, call (856) 696-2682 or (609) 704-0959 or go to www.hammontonartscenter.org April 4: An art auction hosted by the Keystone Order of the Eastern Star will take place at Keystone Masonic Lodge, Shore Road and Poplar Avenue, Linwood.

The claim now that an unknown intruder was a better defense or a supplementary one to accident is self-serving and pretentious.

This is absolutely untrue. The transactions in question were simply the transferring of company funds from one corporate account to another.

We here in America love to eat the same way most living beings love breathing. We have breakfast, brunch, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner, pre-bedtime meals and assorted coffee breaks scattered throughout the day.

Coaching videos from poker pros: This week's free clip: Andrew "Foucault" Brokos plays 2 tables of $5/10 NL and discusses differences between playing against regulars and unknown opponents.

Lee Trundle League SOME significant changes have taken place over the past fortnight in the top half of the Lee Trundle League.

There are hundreds of jurisdictions in the world with Internet access and hundreds of different games and online gambling opportunities available on the Internet.

Poker players at CelebPoker and Mansion Poker will welcome several new payment processors to their arsenal this month.

Join PokerNews at 12:30 PM Melbourne time on Friday as the 28 survivors play their way down to the final table.

I once heard someone ask a clerk if he could just have the second item, "the free one," the next time someone came up to the till with just one of that item.

Actually, my best friend David Chino Rheem made the final table and it really didn't do much so I don't think there would be a point of it for next year.

The most important thing for me in the new year will be volume. Volume and dedication will be the only way I can meet my expectations for 2009.

Strip casinos have been struggling lately to keep up their gaming revenues. Fewer people are visiting Las Vegas and that means even less are gambling.

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Slipping her fancy watch off her wrist and onto mine, she said casually, "Why don't you use this for the afternoon, so you'll know how fast you have to run on the way back.