8-year-old battles Online Gaming Giant! for $500,000 winnings

The case against 8 year old Aashish Nanak from Chandigarh who won 22,912,500.38 Indian Rupees, (that’s a life changing $500,000 dollars!) playing an online poker game, started today in New Delhi.

Lawyers acting for the Nanak family are battling to secure the money that would allow the family of twelve to move out of their slum dwelling into a new home and a new life.

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UltimateBet.net's Poker2Nite – Episode 13, Part1 – Joe Sebok and Scott Huff

Poker2Nite is the latest poker TV show created by UlimateBet.com

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Poker2Nite Episode 13, Part 1

The recap of the inaugural season of Poker2nite includes some embarrassing outtakes of Joe Sebok and Scott Huff. We revisit Durrr-weinerschnitzel and Mike Sexton’s Poker Hall Of Fame induction.

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Tonight: Episode 2 of the English Poker Open 2009 on The Poker Channel

Catch the final table action tonight in Episode 2 of the inaugural English Poker Open tournament, sponsored by RakeTheRake, on The Poker Channel (UK: SKY Channel 166).

To check channels for your country visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poker_Channel

UK(GMT)
Ep2 premieres at 2230 on 10th March (repeated at 0030 on 12th)

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Tomorrow: Episode 2 of the English Poker Open 2009 on The Poker Channel

Watch the final table action in episode 2 of the inaugural English Poker Open tournament hosted by DuskTillDawn in Nottingham and sponsored by RakeTheRake.

To check channels for your country visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poker_Channel

Here are the broadcast times and dates.

UK(GMT)
Ep2 premieres at 2230 on 10th March (repeated at 0030 on 12th)

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Poker Tournaments Hero Winner

The long awaited PokerStars Final has taken place and the winner certainly earned every cent of his winnings, although it was a tough choice on who to root for. On the one hand, we had the poker playing priest that was going to donate all his winnings to the church in order to build a new roof. On the other hand we had a severely injured 9/11 veteran policeman who had been unable to work ever since his heroic efforts to rescue people trapped in the towers on that fateful.

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