Poker week: 15.06.09
Charity event in Cork
THE Macau Sporting Club based in Cork, Ireland, has announced a charity poker tournamentin aid of the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as part of its August 2009 Irish Poker Festival.
The €250-plus-€25 no-limit hold'em tournament will be held on Saturday, August 15. Of each buy-in, €50 plus the registration fee will go to the charity.
The centerpiece of the Irish Classic Poker Festival, taking place from August 10 to 16, is the €100,000-guaranteed (€1,100 entry) no-limit hold'em main event, taking place over three days from Thursday August 13. It offers players a 15,000-chip starting stack with 75-minute blind levels.
Poker to show horseracing
THE Poker Channel is to broadcast a daily live horseracing show as part of a plan to dedicate up to a quarter of its schedule to content other than poker.
The hour-long show will air at 7pm and feature live races from the US, plus tips from jockeys and trainers.
German racing channel and betting website Equi8 Media is producing and sponsoring the show, which will run for three months and air in 18 European countries. It will launch in the UK and Ireland later this year or early in 2010.
"Sports betting always tops the list of what our audience wants," said commercial director Chris White.
Coren book to be published
VICTORIA COREN'S poker memoir book For Richer for Poorer, described as "funny, moving and honest", will be published on September 3. Coren, a journalist, television presenter and poker player, has done well out of the deal with her agent reporting
the publishers, Cannongate, paid a "low six-figure sum" for the book.
Retailing at £16.99, For Richer for Poorer will hit the shops almost three years to the day that Coren landed another jackpot, the London EPT, netting £500,000.
Heads-Up moves to London
THE World Heads-Up Championship has a new home, the Victoria Casino in London. Staged in Vienna for the first time in 2001, the event was transferred to Barcelona in 2004.
The 2009 renewal will be staged at its new home between October 26 and November 1, although organisers have released no further details.
