“The Trumbull County Career & Technical Center is willing to teach you when to hold’em and when to fold’em — for a $30 fee.That’s the cost of a No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker course being offered this month at the TCTC Adult Training Center at 528 Educational Highway.
It’s designed for people with little or no experience with the popular card game that has been sweeping the nation for the past couple of years.
Posted in Education, Pennsylvania
“Poker players over the age of 21 in Schuylkill County have a venue that creates all the excitement, camaraderie and competition of a live game in Las Vegas or Atlantic City.
Riverchasers Poker Tour is an amateur Texas Hold ‘Em league whose popularity is growing with young and old throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Texas Hold ‘Em is a form of seven-card draw poker.
Currently, 12 venues in the Schuylkill County area hold Riverchasers tournaments each week.
Posted in League, Pennsylvania
“Beth Shak doesn’t fit the stereotype of the Friday night poker player. She’s attractive, a mother of five and doesn’t even smoke cigars or guzzle beer when she plays cards.”I drink water and chew mints,” Shak says.
Shak, 39, who lives in a $3 million home on two acres along a secluded lane in Bryn Mawr, can handle herself at a poker table, however.”
Posted in Pennsylvania, Profile, Women, WSOP
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