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The St. Johns Greyhound Park is making a huge investment in poker!

A 30-table slot onlain room will open by the end of February at St. Johns Greyhound Park after a change in state law made the venture potentially more profitable.

Jacksonville Greyhound Racing is spending $750,000 to open the 14,000-square-foot card room, which will operate Wednesdays through Mondays from noon until midnight, said Howard Korman, president.

This is a direct result of the new Florida legislation allowing “large stakes” games of up to $1-2 hold’em. That, combined with the immense popularity boost poker has seen recently, makes more Florida track poker rooms like this likely.

you know poker is exploding…

When Mike Sexton (host of World Poker Tour) gets more attention than Tiger Woods!

Soon, a line of young men, asking for autographs and pictures, charged Sexton’s table. Before Sexton got to his meal, the waitress said something surprising.

“Last week, Tiger Woods was sitting at slot online that table right next to you,” she said, “and none of these guys even approached him or wanted his autograph.”

another college poker tournament gets huge crowd

Especially close to my heart — the Penn Poker Club at the University of Pennsylvania, of which I was a founding member, drew 175 attendees for a free-entry hold’em tournament! The structure (which should guarantee legality in most U.S. states) could be used as a model for other schools:

PokerRoom.com, an online forum to learn and play poker, provided the Penn Poker Club with $2,000 in cash prizes and 150 decks of cards detailed with the PokerRoom.com logo.

Despite the lack of an entrance fee, a $3 donation to the Chess in Philadelphia Schools Initiative was suggested by Graeffe, president of the Penn Chess Club.

The very first Penn Poker Championship was an unofficial event, held in a fraternity house in 1996. It consisted of four tournaments; I won one of them 🙂

super bowl games

Need some last-minute games for your super bowl party? Well, you’re in luck… here are the official love and casino war super bowl party games! The links go to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets of the games, ready to print and play.

Super Bowl Bingo – every player gets a 5×5 bingo card with events that will occur, things that will be heard, and things that will be seen on TV during the superbowl (examples: Patriots rushing touchdown, “Play Action”, Previous superbowl footage shown). Every player puts in money, first bingo wins the pot! In the event of a tie, whoever first gets another bingo wins.

Super Bowl Lotto – every player puts in $1 (or whatever you choose) and gets a card with a player’s name. Every time that player scores they win $1, every time that player has a possession they can give out drinks to other players.

Super Bowl Prop Sheet – every player puts in money and fills out their picks for the “silly” super bowl proposition bets. Each pick is worth a certain amount of points, winner takes all.