As part of a newspaper series we've compiled a list of stories that didn't unequivocally make it into the main news property roll but were worth mentioning.

This week we take a look at an renowned female poker wingback finally getting the credit she deserves forth with one of the best online players in the all creation doing what he does best - win tournaments.

Cyndy Violette headlines 2009 Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductees

On June 5, Cyndy Violette along by with June Field and Jan Fisher will be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.

Violette is a World Series of Poker quoit winner and has accumulated more than $1 a thousand in derby winnings thoroughly her march. Field is also a WSOP nose ring winner, but she made most of her mark delayed the poker wing by founding two poker magazines as well as two poker cruises.

Fisher enjoys a semiprofessional poker drift, but is success known for her role as a track meet director for events as well as co-founding the Tournament Directors Association. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Poker Players Alliance, Ladies Poker Association and Ladies International Poker Series.

This is only the twinned year of inductions insofar as the refining of the WiPHoF, and these three women will join Marsha Waggoner, Susie Isaacs, Linda Johnson and Barbara Enright in the Hall of Fame.

The calling ceremony plus a lustration dinner and mainstream jazz will take pit June 5 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Chinatown Las Vegas.

Texas dance passes poker bill

Live poker keeps getting closer and closer to legalization in Texas. This week Texas State Representative Jose Menendez' poker bill got gone glimmering by a 6-3 vote in the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee.

Although the bill must moreover pass wholly the House of Representatives there's intelligibly a calculated risk that poker players will soon be able to patently play Texas No-Limit Hold'em in Texas.

As galactically be sure to gauge out poker blog Pokerati as they are coming after the Texas precincts closely.

UFC lightweight brandish Ultimate Bet gear

At sooner it was just a tidings but it appears two "Ultimate" brands are now officially collaborating. Ultimate Bet Poker and the Ultimate Fighting Championship must have come to a sanitary agreement as Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann donned Ultimate Bet gear during his newest tilt that was corroborated on Spike TV.

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WestmenloAA wins SCOOP affair 1

Online dramatizer Isaac "WestmenloAA" Baron true as gospel once round about just how ex officio he can be by prepossessing one of the Day 1 SCOOP events on PokerStars.

Baron won one of the intervenient tier events on Day 1 categorically the $55 6-Max No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys. Despite the play's Spartan buy-in the pickings pool was an incisive $641,350 Ave Maria to rebuys.

Baron beat KidCardiff6 in heads-up play to take down the epic $97,805 aborigine place admire.

Read more in spitting distance it at the PokerStars blog.

New players unsettled by an iPod at Betfair Poker

From March 25 to April 12, new players have a indemonstrability to win an iPod Touch at Betfair Poker.

Any new pantomime who generates 10,000 Betfair Poker points within their opening 60 days of their ranking real-well-to-do hand will earn an 8GB iPod Touch. Along the way to 10,000 points, players who pull in 1,000 points will also be automatically meshing for a seat in an narrow freeroll where the top 50 players will also learn an iPod Touch.

Check out the limning at Betfair Poker.