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Pokernews.info and online poker room Noble Poker team up for a $5,000 Freeroll tournament
Premier poker news source Pokernews.info (www.pokernews.info), and Noble Poker (www.noblepoker.com) have teamed up to bring poker players their favorite thing – Free Money.
On March 27th, 2005 at 1pm EST Noble Poker will host the first Noble Poker/Pokernews $5,000 freeroll tournament. This tournament will be a No Limit Texas Hold Em tournament, with $5,000 in total prize money. Pokernews.info writer, Professional poker player, and two time World Poker Tour final table participant Tony G will be playing in this very special tournament, and this will offer players a chance to play with, and learn from one of the best.
To sweeten the pot, Noble Poker will is offering an exclusive deposit bonus offer to Pokernews.info readers. A 100% deposit bonus up to $500 is being offered to anyone who signs up for a real money account at Noble Poker through the special Pokernews.info link. This 100% up to $500 is the best bonus deal on the web. Players who sign up through the special pokernews.info link will also automatically be eligible for the freeroll tournament.
“Noble Poker is delighted to be able to offer a $5,000 freeroll to new depositors coming from Pokernews.info. Hopefully, it will be just the first of...
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The History of Boxer Dogs Playing Poker
Cassius Marcellus Clay, the wry commercial artist who gave the world dogs playing poker, was born in upstate New York in 1844. He was named after the abolitionist Quaker,Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, one of the most eloquent anti-slavery politicians of the antebellum South, Kentucky Sen.
Cash, as his friends and family would call him, had never received any formal art training. Though, by the time he was 20, he was a draftsman and frequently had his sketches featured in the local newspaper. A short time later, he had one of his drawings published in Harpers Weekly and subsequently came to be the inventor of "comic foregrounds", where tourists place their head through a hole in a painting, appearing to have a comical muscular body for photographs. Coolidge caught the attention of the Brown & Bigelow Company in 1903. The commisioned him to create a series of comical paintings for their advertisin calendars. Dogs being one of his favorite subjects, Coolidge decided to create paintings of Mastiffs, Collies, Boxers, Great Danes, etc. participating in human activities. Dogs would smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and, most famously, sit around the table for a game of five-card draw. To a dog,...Read more













