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Poker News from Gambling911.com Get your daily poker fix right here at Gambling911.com. Find everything from the latest tournament news to scandals to all the latest updates from the European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker. Poker news will never be the same again. Economic Stimulus Package for College Students: Online Poker
College students these days may have a little more money than those of past generations and it's not all about their rich mommies and daddies. Some have been earning it themselves, even as jobs become more scarce and economic woes mount. Hunter Fritz isn't making his money working at McDonalds. The University of Minnesota sophomore plays online poker and wins. Fritz knew he'd arrived on the poker scene last year when he won a tournament that netted him $160,000 in winnings, he told the University paper, adding that he now plays about three hours per day and considers it his job.
Fritz said he'd
rather play online
than at a physical
table because he
enjoys the comfort
of his own home,
prefers to play up
to six tables at
once and thinks
non-online games
progress slowly. That paper spoke to other students, including Marketing Major Ryan Tongen, who plays online poker up to 40 hours a week and takes in a cool six-figure income each year. Needless-to-say, students like Hunter and Ryan won't have to worry too much about paying off college loans the rest of their young adult lives. For these young people, online poker represents a stable industry in an otherwise unstable economy with little sign of recovery over the next several years. PokerPulse.com estimates online poker to generate $2 billion dollars, despite the fact that some politicians and the US Justice Department have condemned the activity.
Bodog Life: Poker Pro Shannon Elizabeth a "Loser"
Oddsmakers at the popular online gambling and entertainment website, Bodog Life, have essentially given up on the big name poker playing celeb, Shannon Elizabeth, who is part of this season's Dancing With the Stars ensemble, despite rave reviews. At 18-1 odds, Bodog is basically saying "Shannon can't win". Elizabeth was widely expected to get far in the competition thanks to her loyal - and some might say horny - fan base. Before becoming a poker legend, Ms. Elizabeth starred in the sex flick, American Pie.
Bodog Founder, Calvin Ayre, once tried to romance Ms. Elizabeth. The two remain friends but Bodog is yet to secure a major contract to have Elizabeth come on board as part of "Team Bodog". She would be joining sultry male musician (and star of his own sex flick) David Williams. It is Kristi Yamaguchi who's the Gambling911.com economic stimulus pick for those betting on Dancing With the Stars. a $4 bet would still pay out $9 at Bodog Life.
Dancing With the Stars Results has Poker Pro Shannon Elizabeth Moving to Next Round
 The poker community favorite, Shannon Elizabeth, moves on to the next round of Dancing With the Stars following a double elimination night - the first of the new season. Elizabeth, who starred in American Pie, is an accomplished poker player.
Elizabeth, who
describes poker as
her "second career"
has been called "one
of the leading
celebrity poker
players."
She has also cashed
four times in the
World Series of
Poker in 2006 and
2007, but again
busted out of the
Main Event early. In
2007, she advanced
to the semi-finals
of the NBC National
Heads-Up Poker
Championship in a
field consisting of
the top poker
professionals before
losing to eventual
champion Paul
Wasicka. Among the
four opponents she
defeated were three
World Series of
Poker multiple
bracelet winners:
Jeff Madsen, Barry
Greenstein, and
Humberto Brenes. ReeferPoker.com Gives Away Vaporizers as Freeroll Prizes to Facebook /MySpace Fans
“We have a strong
community of MySpace
and Facebook fans,
and we’re happy to
give them something
for free”, commented
Dave Ishere, Poker
Room Manager of
Reefer Poker.
“Although a bit
pricier than your
normal water pipe or
pack of rolling
papers, a vaporizer
is a way to enjoy
marijuana without
inhaling any harmful
smoke.” Reefer Poker’s Facebook page can be found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reefer-Poker/6600492093?ref=s and its MySpace page can be found at http://www.myspace.com/reeferpoker420.
Bodog Places Bounty on Poker Player's Head
When poker bloggers
sit down this
Tuesday, March 25,
for the weekly Bodog
Poker Blogger
Tournament, they
will be up against
more than just their
fellow online
counterparts. They
will also be facing
one of poker's most
successful
tournament players,
Team Bodog pro and
two-time World
Series of Poker
bracelet winner Josh
Arieh.
Check out Bodog
Poker Here
Poker Blog Claims Spitzer Call Girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre Has "Man Hands"
Leave it to the boys at WickedChopsPoker to do a little "hand analyses" and come up with the theory that maybe....just maybe...disgraced former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Alaxendra Dupre may have been an Aston Alexander Dupre - i.e. a man. WCP points to photos that appeared in US Weekly of Ms. Dupre (and yes, we will stick to the "Ms"): "Just look at those man hands on her. They make ours look dainty. Especially since we just had hot cream manicures done." You know what they say about guys with big feet! But the so-called "man hands" theory hasn't quite caught on. "Anyway, so she probably ain't a dude but the online poker-hating, hooker-loving Spitzer should get a refund for the $4300 he spent on b****** "Kristen" this past February in Washington DC hotel, because the girl is about as far away from being a 5-diamonds escort as Dancing with the Stars' Shannon Elizabeth is away from ever winning an Oscar." Oh and while we are on the topic of Shannon Elizabeth. We learn her faith tomorrow (Tuesday night) as the first Dancing With the Stars results show of the new season arrives. Elizabeth, a favorite of Gambling911.com readers since she doubles as a professional poker player, was described as a "ball of nerves" during her debut. Hairdressers on the set were calling her Shannon ElizaBITCH. Elizabeth was currently among the favorites at 6-1. See all the Dancing With the Stars betting odds here
X-Men Origins: Wolverine to Feature Poker Legend
The movie is called "X-Men Origins: Wolverines", not "XXX-Men Origins: Wolverines Grannies" - therefore it will not be starring granny toe-sucking poker pro David Williams - who is part of Team Bodog - but instead the very likeable Daniel Negreanu. That's not to say we don't like David Williams. On the contrary, we love David Williams. I'll admit it. I'm a MILF! In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Negreanu will play himself and play poker against Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine. Negreanu discusses the film, among other things, with RawVegas.tv (below).
Daniel Negreanu's parents, Annie and Constantin, moved to Canada from Romania in 1967. When he was several credits short of graduation, Daniel dropped out of high school and began his life as a rounder playing at the local charity casinos and looking for illegal games around the city. While in Toronto, Daniel met and began dating Evelyn Ng, who would also become a well-known professional poker player. After building up his bankroll, he left for Las Vegas at the age of 21 to pursue his dream of becoming a professional poker player. However, "The Strip" got the better of him and he was forced to move back home to Toronto to rebuild his bankroll. As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,900,000, fourth in winnings, behind only Jamie Gold, Joseph Hachem, and Phil Hellmuth.
Unfortunately fans will have to wait more than a year to see Negreanu bluff Wolverine. This week I sit down with Jeff Ma to discuss the upcoming film "21". Watch for my interview upcoming.
Deval Patrick Loses in Bid to Ban Online Gambling for Massachusetts Citizens
 Attempting to follow in the footsteps of Washington State, angry gamblers (led by a powerful poker playing coalition) made it clear that Massachusetts Governor would not be squashing a billion dollar online gambling industry in favor of special interest casino groups based in that state. Patrick proposed legalized gambling in Massachusetts but with the stipulation that all online casinos and poker rooms be banned. Throw in the condition that actual gamblers could ultimately face felony charges much as is the case in Washington State already. Furious poker players and others led a march this week in protest of the planned legislation. “I don’t think filling our expensive jail cells with poker players is what Massachusetts voters had in mind when they elected Deval Patrick,” Nesson said in a statement. Gambling911.com had also warned in the past that fans of some of the nation's most bet on sports teams could ultimately be held criminally liable. There would be no more betting on the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics - at least not by those living in the state.
"Stupid Poker Player of the Decade" Breaks Back
You may recall seeing 22-year-old poker pro Shannon Shorr, a guy, playing last year's WSOP in a back brace and being pushed around in a wheel chair after he fractured two vertebrae and broke his heel. The boys at WickedChopsPoker did a little investigation and came back with the following:
At the
time he didn't say
much about what
actually happened,
just that he was
"horsing around"
with his roommates
when "a major
accident happened at
the house"
(Shannon's blog post
about it here). The following video contains offensive language not suitable for young children and women.
"I'm going to have to be responsible at some point," Shannon writes in his blog. Filed Under Poker News
WrestleMania® XXIV Online Poker Winner Announced
Just as MTV and Professional Wrestling formed a marriage back in the 1980's, online poker looks to do the same with UltimateBet.com with its very own WWE® WrestleMania XXIV Free Online Poker tournament. An online poker player from Pickering, Ontario, with the moniker youngg17, won the March 2 winner-take-all match and secured the ultimate WWE WrestleMania XXIV prize package, Gambling911.com can reveal.
The prize package
includes return
airfare for two to
Orlando, Florida;
hotel
accommodations; $500
spending money;
premium floor seats
to WrestleMania XXIV
at the Florida
Citrus Bowl in
Orlando; meet and
greet with a WWE
Superstar at Fan
Axxess; exclusive
tickets to WWE Hall
of Fame induction
ceremony; brunch
with WWE Superstars
at Bacon, Bagels &
Biceps Brunch; two
Championship replica
belts; two exclusive
WrestleMania XXIV
fold up chairs; and
a framed
WrestleMania XXIV
poster.
Dancing With The Stars Shannon Elizabeth Would Not Make a Good Wife
Posted Mar 19th
2008 11:13 am by
Gambling911.com News
Wire
You can forget Gambling911.com's feeble-minded attempts to marry off billionaire Calvin Ayre to Dancing With the Stars debutante and poker pro Shannon Elizabeth. Shannon Elizabeth could turn into Shannon Elizabitch, according to TMZ.com, which reports that Shannon has been out of control on the set of this season's Dancing With the Stars....or at least in the dressing room.
The makeup
department is on
rouge alert. They
think she's got
incredible diva
potential and she's
already shunned the
makeup artist
assigned to her,
much the same way it
is said she
"shunned" Ayre's
advances way back
when.
2008 World Series of Poker Europe: Dates Announced
The dates for the
second annual World
Series of Poker
Europe Presented by
Betfair have been
set, Harrah’s
Entertainment, Inc.,
owner and operator
of the most
prestigious poker
tournaments
announced today.
Did Poker Play Role in Murder?
A professional poker
player and his wife
who were both found
dead in their home
last week were
murdered,
authorities said
Monday. Read more after the jump...
Harvard Goes After Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Over Planned Online Poker Prohibition
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick wants to follow in Washington State's footsteps and make gambling online a Class C felony. That state's most prestigious university will do its part to stop him. A card-playing Harvard Law professor and his poker-crazy students will stage a protest today outside the State House rallying against Gov. Deval Patrick’s casino plan.
Scott Van Voorhis of
the Boston Herald
reports that while
most opponents,
ranging from church
leaders to social
activists, will be
warning of the
perils of expanded
gambling, the
Harvard group will
be arguing there is
not nearly enough. Deval has seemingly gone unchallenged in his attempts to prohibit online poker as a means of boosting his state's own casino industry, despite a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that found the US Government has engaged in "protectionism" of its own gambling industry, specifically the horse racing sector. The Herald points out that the rally comes after weeks of crusading by Nesson and other members of his Harvard poker society on the issue. Nesson has written to Patrick, and to top casino executives with an interest in Massachusetts, urging that the penalties for online gambling be dropped, said Andrew Woods, a Harvard law student and a spokesman for the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.
The group has also
enlisted the help of
the nearly one
million player
strong Poker Players
Alliance and its
leader, Alfonse
D'Amato. Team Bodog's Josh Arieh Wins Wynn Classic Event
Team Bodog pro Josh Arieh won the Pot Limit Omaha event at the Wynn Classic in Las Vegas yesterday, cashing for $59,000. Here's a photo of him with his wife, Angela, after the win. From all of us here at Bodog, congrats for taking this one down, Josh!
Winner of the First Bodog Open Is...
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Posted Mar
28
2008 8:20 am by
Christopher Costigan
"It allows for a lot
of freedom," Fritz
(pictured)
said.
Posted Mar
27
2008 11:26 am by
Jordan Bach
Elizabeth, who
describes poker as
her "second career"
has been called "one
of the leading
celebrity poker
players." She visits
Las Vegas up to
three times each
month to participate
in poker games with
the top players of
the United States.
Elizabeth played in
the Main Event of
the 2005 World
Series of Poker and
won a special
tournament
celebrating the
opening of a new
poker room at
Caesars Palace hotel
in January 2006,
beating out 83
celebrities and
poker professionals
to win $55,000. She
has also cashed four
times in the World
Series of Poker in
2006 and 2007, but
again busted out of
the Main Event
early. In 2007, she
advanced to the
semi-finals of the
NBC National
Heads-Up Poker
Championship in a
field consisting of
the top poker
professionals before
losing to eventual
champion Paul
Wasicka. Among the
four opponents she
defeated were three
World Series of
Poker multiple
bracelet winners:
Jeff Madsen, Barry
Greenstein, and
Humberto Brenes.
Posted Mar
24th
2008 10:39 am by
Sparky Collins
Posted Mar
22th
2008 12:39 am by
Anna Casada
Dancing
With The Stars
Shannon Elizabeth
Would Not Make a
Good Wife
2008
World Series of
Poker Europe: Dates
Announced
Posted
Mar 17th 2008 6:56
pm by Calvin Ayre