Not every PartyPoker tournament takes place online. PartyPoker is helping crown the king of No-Limit Hold’em amongst the X-Games elite. Over the past month, athletes from various extreme-sport disciplines — surfing, wakeboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, and freestyle motocross — have been competing in a series of qualifying poker tournaments to win their way into the championship of the PartyPoker.net Big Throwdown. The final qualifiers are going down this week, with the “main event” taking place in LA during the Summer X Games on August 4. (The same day “Day 2″ of another big main event gets underway.)

The PartyPoker.net Big Throwdown will air on Fusion TV and the Outdoor Life Network.

CardPlayer has a story on Party Gaming’s 2nd quarter earnings. In a nutshell, it says growth continues … particularly outside the U.S.

We probably all should remember every so often that there’s more going on in this world than just poker … there’s darts, too!

Canadian steel chunker John Part, who won the PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert Classic three weeks ago is apparently continuing his tear through the dart-tossing world. He advanced earlier today (yesterday, depending on where you’re reading this) in the 2006 Stan James World Matchplay tournament.

LAS VEGAS–Daniel Negreanu is pioneering the video poker blog at this year’s WSOP. And check it out … he dug up some old footage of his stand-up comedy routine during the talent show of the 2003 PartyPoker Million. Funny.