Team Bodog at North American Poker Championship

Online poker site Bodog.com has sent 11 players to the North American Poker Championship at the Fallsview Casino & Resort in Niagra Falls, Ontario!
The players earned their way onto the tournament by playing online poker at the Bodog website.
The televised tournament is the only Canadian stop on the World Poker Tour, and will run till October 29th.
In addition to its WPT satellite qualifiers, Bodog also holds qualifiers for the World Series of Poker, and this year alone sent over 500 players to compete.

World Poker Tour Canadian Open

World Poker Tour Enterprises announced that the first WPT Canadian Open will take place at the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagra Falls!
There will be over 300 US & Canadian players, including Canadas poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Smith, and Isabelle Mercier.
The poker tournament will start on October 22nd and go to October 24th, with the final table being played on the 30th.

World Poker Tour Academy

WPT Enterprises is about to lauch World Poker Tour Academy, an interactive online poker education center.
The site will feature play by plays, video sessions with pro poker players giving tips & tutorials, as well as an interactive community.
Poker fans will be able to comment on their favorite hands, and give their thoughts and opinions.
Pros involved include Scotty Nguyen, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, TJ Cloutier, Evelyn Ng and Vanessa Rousso.
World Poker Tour Academy will contain a database of over 1700 hands of WPT tournaments, including 900 that never made it to the air on the Travel Channel.

Poker Pro Sam Farha in the Movies

Professional poker player Sam Farha has taken his skills to the silver screen. Sam will be playing poker in the new film "Lucky You". The movie will star Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr and Debra Messing, and is set to be released in November.
Sam spoke out on poker and his love of games,
"I like games. I've always been good at them. It's the way my mind works. I love to play Monopoly and games like that too. I was a great pinball player, the best. I like shooting pool. I was great at that too. Poker is like all other games. You have to develop a strategy. Anybody can play poker when you have pocket aces. It takes something extra special to play when you have a four and a deuce."
Looks like Sam has developed his strategy quite well considering he hasn't had to work a typical "job" in 17 years.

Shana Hiatt Still a Poker Girl

Former World Poker Tour hostess, Shana Hiatt is still interested in poker TV.
After Hiatt left the WPT after only a few seasons, she was looking to work on NBC's, National Heads Up Poker Championship and new show Poker After Dark. But apparently NBC was informed that Shana couldn't work for the network, since she didnt complete her contract with World Poker Tour.
On Friday however, a judge ruled that she could still pursue work at NBC.
So look out for Shana on a poker show near you!

Source: Card Player.com

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Play Poker for a Good Cause with Vince Neil

Motley Crue's Vince Neil will be holding his second annual Off The Strip Poker Tournament on November 5, 2006.
The event will take place in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, and raise money for the TJ Martell Foundation to support cancer, luekemia, and AIDS research.
The Texas Holdem poker tournament buy-in is $500, and the there will be a cash prize pool of $50,000. There will also be silent auction featuring a collection of unique music, sports & entertainment memorabilia.
All proceeds from the poker tournament and auction will benefit the Skylar Neil Foundation, established by Vince Neil to honor his daughter who passed away from cancer. So far, Vinces charitable efforts have helped raise over $1 million for the TJ Martell Foundation.

Mark Newhouse Wins WPT Borgata Poker Open

North Carolina's Mark Newhouse took home the title and prize of $1,519,020 last night, when he won the 2006 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open.
The 21 year old was the youngest player at the final table, and the second youngest player to ever win a World Poker Tour Championship.
The Borgata Poker Open made history this year with its attendance records, and the main event whcih featured a prize pool of over $5 million, was the biggest tournament to ever hit Atlantic City.

Vanessa Rousso Wins Big at Borgata Poker Open

Vanessa Rousso impressed all at the WPT Borgata Open in Atlantic City on Thurs night.

The 23 year old law student survived over 300 top poker players to win the largest prize to date at the Borgata Poker Open, taking away $285,450.

The World Poker Tour was welcomed with a celebration at MIXX nightclub, where attendees included poker pros Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly.