Shannon Elizabeth Gets Carded
July 27, 2007
Shannon Elizabeth Gets Carded, Can’t Play Victoria Poker Championships in Australia. Hahahahahahaa. Talk about Poker Ownage.
She walked into the Crown Poker Room and was stopped by security guards. “Where is your ID?” they asked.
“I don’t have it with me,” Elizabeth responded.
“Then we can’t let you into the casino,” the security guards said.
“Don’t you know who I am?”
The guards returned a blank stare.
“I’m 33 years old,” Elizabeth said, her voice starting to choke with emotion, “why are you carding me?”
“We can’t let you in without ID.”
And with that, Elizabeth stormed off, and was denied access to the Victoria Poker Championships. It is unknown whether or not she came back later with ID.
PearlJammer wins Bodog Poker $100k Tournament
July 24, 2007
Jon “PearlJammer” Turner this year as he reeled in a win in the Bodog Poker $100k Guaranteed online poker Tournament on Sunday.
The online poker pro walked away with a $25,000 payout for his first-place finish.
He started the final table second in chips, but by the time PearlJammer made it to heads-up against Henge, he was the underdog by two-to-one.
Standings:
1st
Jon “PearlJammer” Turner
$25,000
2nd
Henge
$14,000
3rd
mmm10167
$9,000
4th
Papi Shamrock
$6,500
5th
JoeJuno
$5,400
6th
Reinhart
$4,400
7th
Bluffer08
$3,400
8th
JC 78 S00ted
$2,400
9th
Chaos0Nriver
$1,550
Absolute Poker’s Bad Beats Won Twice
July 24, 2007
Bad Beat Jackpot
A bad beat never felt so good.
Back-to-back Bad Beats At Absolute Poker
It was double the insanity this past weekend at Absolute Poker. In just over four hours, our Bad Beat Jackpot was hit twice.
At 12:38 on Saturday, July 21st, JOE JETS lost quad 9s to SHORT_SHYT’s quad Jacks. Don’t feel bad for him, though. For his bad beat, JOE JETS walked away with $97,650.85.
The madness continued at 16:55 when JBAND277’s quad 10s were no match for GOLFCOFFEY’s quad Jacks. Another $26,890.35 made its way into JBAND277’s account for his losing hand.
Danish Court Rules Poker a Game of Skill
July 24, 2007
A Danish court ruled at the end of last week that poker can be won or lost based on the amount of skill a player possesses and not on how lucky they are. Said the judge, “You can win in poker based on being clever enough to hide your strategy, even though you might have a fairly poor hand.”
This ruling seems to supports Congressman Robert Wexler’s “The Skill Game Protection Act” (HR) 2610 bill, which seeks a carve out for online poker as a game of skill.
We shall see if this ruling makes its way to the USA.
Shannon Elizabeth Warming Up in Melbourne
July 24, 2007
American Pie actor-turned professional poker player Shannon Elizabeth arrived in Melbourne to play in the Victorian Poker Championship, which starts this week at Crown. The Victorian Poker Championship is a $3,000 No Limit Holdem Main Event. Shannon is gearing up for the inaugural PartyPoker Women’s World Open in a few weeks in London. I dont know about you guys but damn if Shannon was sitting next to me at a poker table, I would have a hard time keeping my poker face on.
