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Another Heads-Up Champ to be Crowned at Canadian Open Poker Championship

Hot on the heels of NBC's Heads-Up Poker Championship, the Canadian Open Poker Championship will crown a heads-up champ of its own in four days. The C$5,000 (about US$4,300) buy-in poker tournament started yesterday at the Stampede Casino in Calgary. No-Limit Texas Hold 'em is the game of choice for the 128-person poker field. The top 16 players are slated to cash in the poker tournament.

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Notable poker pros Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari and 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion Huck Seed are among those vying for the C$250,000 (about US$217,000) first prize. Each flying to Calgary in the wake of participating in NBC's heads-up poker event, Esfandiari and Seed are most likely among the favorites to win it all in Calgary, especially after Seed advanced to the final four there. For those interested in finding out more about the Canadian Open Poker Championship, further information is available on www.canadianchampionshippoker.ca.



Mommy Goes Missing to Play Poker

A woman with three children and one more on the way was arrested in Saipan, a tiny island in the Pacific ocean, for abandoning her kids to play poker. Not exactly the best example of responsible parenting, the pregnant woman, Lincy Santos, left her young children alone at home to go play poker in a local arcade. As if this wasn't bad enough, Santos has flown the coop to play poker before and has been caught doing so four times!

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Despite Santos having been arrested thrice already for leaving her children at home unattended, Ramona Villagomez Manglona, a Superior Court Associate Judge, still issued a relatively light sentence. Manglona reprimanded Santos in court, demanded she maintain a safe distance from poker and gambling establishments, and imposed a curfew on her. With "punishments" such as these, it's no surprise that Santos continues takes her chances at the poker tables.

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