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And then there were eight. If this statement was attached to an Agatha Christie novel it would mean that some really bad things had happened to everyone but the remaining eight people; and even their future was looking a little on the bleak side. When we are talking about this statement in reference to poker tournaments and television poker, it describes where we are in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship.

The Bellagio is a very popular casino in Las Vegas (even more so after the hit remake of Ocean's Eleven) that sports a water show that has to be seen to be believed. It also sports a number of high profile major poker tournaments every year, and the annual 5 Diamond World Poker Tour Classic is one of the more popular.

The Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, CA isn't the hotspot that many of the Vegas Casinos are. It isn't the biggest or the best in California, etiher, but when it came time for the World Poker Tour to find partners for their fledgling idea, the Bay 101 got on the short list.

They say that heads up competition is the purest form of poker. You have one player against the other, focusing all their skills and tactics on each other, trying to get in the other player's head and out play them regardless of the cards they actually hold. When NBC launched their National Heads Up Championship, they found they had a hit on their hands.

There are few places better to be in the cold months of January and February (and even March) than California. There are few places in California that are better to be than Los Angeles, so all you poker fans are in luck if you plan on attending the World Poker Tour: 2008 LA Poker Classic.

When you hold a poker tournament in Las Vegas, poker pros are going to play. It may not be the biggest event, or the most advertised, or boast the largest cash prizes, but as long as it is worth the effort of driving down the street to play a game you love and possibly add to your bankroll, the pros are going to be there. Such was the case with the recently held National Poker League Vegas Open.

Binion's casino, formally Binion's Horseshoe, is a famous destination in Las Vegas, being the birthplace of the World Series of Poker. When they sold the franchise to Harrah's Entertainment they needed something to fill the tables, and one way they do that is by hosting the World Tavern Poker Open.

It was the first event of its kind, and it signifies the hope that poker may yet put down roots in the People's Republic of China, where currently gambling is an illegal activity. It was the Poker Stars sponsored Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau, which took place in the only territory in China where poker could happen.

Arizona recently joined the ranks of those US States that got a visit from the Heartland Poker Tour. Six of the final table players in this event were from Arizona, and the winner as well. It was Andreas Foulias, fifty-three years old from Gilbert, Arizona, who won the No Limit Texas Holdem freezeout event. Foulias picked up nearly $60,000 with this victory, for which he has a few interesting plans.

The Asian Pacific Poker Tour is new this year, and it has already set a number of records. With the first live poker event to take place on the soil of the People's Republic of China, the APPT Macau event turned a lot of heads, and the Big Event at the end of the season - the Asian Pacific Poker Tour Sydney - is likely to do the same.