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• World Cup of Poker On Cbs

Henry Orenstein, the Verona resident who created the card camera, continues to provide innovative ways to present poker on TV. While most of the poker world is focused on the 2006 World Series of Poker, which began last week, Orenstein has his own summertime coup a weekly poker series on CBS.

...'s format is not a freeze-out tournament, such as the WSOP events where once a player loses...

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• July 02, 2006

• Is a Repeat in Cards? ; Hachem Hopes to Defy Odds in World Series

Minutes after winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker and $7.5 million, a stunned and dazed Joe Hachem said, "My life has changed forever. Twelve months later, when asked how much his life has changed, the Aussie pauses for a few seconds.

... has continued to have an impact in tournaments. "If I can get through Day One and have chips, I'l...

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• July 23, 2006

• Poker Draws More Players, Spectators

LAS VEGAS - Someone was headed for a bad beat. A bad beat worth more than a million dollars.

... start of these suddenly monster poker tournaments can look like Halloween with money. But then you d...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• January 05, 2004

• This World Series Is More Carnival Than Sport

LAS VEGAS - Elvis was in the building, though the King would have been horrified to have this kind of entourage in his prime. There were cheerleaders, too, 10 in all, dressed in little black skirts and plunging orange tops. Toward the middle of the room, a guy played his cards from inside a big fuzzy orange Elmo puppet head. A portly player who looked like he was about to have a heart attack had a woman massaging his back while he fiddled with his chips.

... money at stake in the richest poker tournament ever. Some lucky - and, yes, most of it is luck - ...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 11, 2005