The next few weeks will be like the Super Bowl season for poker players and fans. It’s the 2005 World Series of Poker World Championship Event starting June 3rd in Las Vegas. This year some 8,000 players are expected for the $10 thousand buy-in main event, that’s a whopping $80 million in prize money!That could [...]

Paradise Poker-sponsored contender Afleet Alex wins the 130th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, May 21. It was a sweet victory for Tim Ritchey’s colt who nearly collided with runner-up Scrappy T but gaining composure to be the first Preakness winner to break from Post 12 since Pleasant Colony in 1981. Afleet won by 4 [...]

Italian Jeff Lisandro came into the final table with an overall chip lead. And that kept him afloat ’til the end to win the WSOP Lake Tahoe Circuit Event No Limit Texas Hold’em championship on May 11 at Harveys Resort and Casino. Phil Ivey, who started as 3rd overall chip leader with nearly $300,00 in [...]

Poker Gazette – More than a hundred people hovered around poker tables on Tuesday at the World Series of Poker Lake Tahoe Circuit Event’s $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em main event at Harveys Resort and Casino. What the overflow crowd saw was all three Northern Nevada players get eliminated. Tony Le of Reno, who started the [...]

ParadisePoker.com, one of the biggest and popular online poker rooms, joined the 2005 Kentucky Derby frenzy with sponsored contender Afleet Alex. Afleet Alex placed third in the 131st Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs and will see action again at the Preakness Stakes, slated for May 21 at the Pimlico Race Course, where he’s [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ValuSoft, a division of THQ Inc., and a leading global publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and productivity software, today announced the release of Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship(TM). This high stakes PC poker game will be available at retailers throughout North America for $19.99 SRP. “The passion for poker [...]