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Poker News Archive

Golf tournaments team up with poker to put aces on the greens (USA Today)
In a match made in Las Vegas, the World Series of Golf, May 13-16, will combine America's fascination with Poker with its appetite for golf think Poker with 5-irons and wedges in a made-for-TV event to be shown June 23-24 on NBC.

Online poker boom helps 888 boost yearly profits 34% (Financial Times)
The growing popularity of online Poker outside the US helped lift underlying profits at 888, the online gambling company by a third last year in spite of a ban on operations in North America.

Court refuses to legalize poker (The Herald-Sun)
The Joker Club of Durham has long contended that Poker is a game of skill, not chance, and betting on it should be legal in North Carolina.

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