November 1, 2013
Pennsylvanian poker player James Dorrance has claimed victory in the fifth stop of the current World Series of Poker Circuit tour, taking down the $1,675 buy-in main event at the Horseshoe Hammond after besting 1,716 other entrants to claim the first prize of $418,425. He also gets a seat at the National Championship next year […]
November 1, 2013
Professional German players turned in another awesome high roller tournament performance Tuesday in the GBP 100,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Alpha8 tournament in London. Only high stakes ace Scott Seiver’s finish in third disrupted another 1-2-3 finish for Germans Philipp Gruissem, Tobias Reinkemeier and Igor Kurganov who ran riot in a competitive and highly skilled […]
November 1, 2013
With a Nevada online poker licence now on the wall, the Siena casino and hotel company out of Reno has revealed its plans to launch on the Nevada intrastate online poker market in the first half of 2014, providing more competition for presently operational sites Ultimate Poker.com and WSOP.com. Apparently Siena is developing a “HD […]
November 1, 2013
A very public and no-holds-barred row has broken out between struggling online poker operator Lock Poker.eu and its now former network Revolution, with accusations and counter charges being bandied about by both sides and doing neither party credit. Player complaints about agonisingly slow payments have been levelled at the two companies for most of this […]
November 1, 2013
India-based Adda52.com, an operation claiming to be India’s first online poker room, has undergone a revamp which it believes will facilitate its International expansion to take on “the poker giants of the world”.The website currently offers No Limit Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha poker game variants which it says constitute the first poker cash […]
November 1, 2013
The respected American poker tournament player Frank Kassela (he holds two World Series of Poker event winner bracelets) is to throw his hat into the political ring and campaign for election to the US Congress, according to a report in the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, which claims that Kassela filed his paperwork with the election […]
November 1, 2013
The mercurial Swedish poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is back at the top after playing through one of his notorious ‘cold’ phases and riding the comeback wave to regain his losses. The High Stakes Data Base reports that in his latest swing upwards Blom clashed with old enemy Douglas “WCGRider” Polk in a seven hour […]
November 1, 2013
19-year old Spanish poker player Adrian Mateos took home Euro 1 million and the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event title after besting Frenchman Fabrice Soulier in a drawn out heads up. 163 hands and five hours later, Mateos became the second youngest bracelet winner in WSOPE history and the second Spaniard to take […]
November 1, 2013
Police in the Victoria province of Australia are investigating a A$70 million Ponzi scheme allegedly involving international poker player Bill Jordanou (55) and Melbourne accountant Robert Zaia (45), who are alleged to have used fraudulent documents to access loans from the Commonwealth Bank – one of Australia’s largest – and siphon funds to their private […]
November 1, 2013
888Poker.com has announced the launch of the company’s latest “Ready to Play” television advert and marketing campaign, featuring the chart topping song “Finale” by popular French electronic musician, Madeon. Our readers can view the slick, modern production here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BIXygXUvU The campaign is focused around the TV advertisement, which takes viewers through the 888poker poker experience, […]