July 1, 2012
With the action due to start today (Sunday July 1st) in the million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament, organisers Harrah’s Entertainment released the final sign-up list of players Saturday. The list confirms that all 48 seats in the tournament will be filled by 19 amateurs and 27 professional players, with two satellite […]
June 30, 2012
Some of the names of the 247 professional players who entered the World Series of Poker event 48 – a $3,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em contest – read like a who’s who of international on and offline poker; featured among them were Justin Bonomo, WSOP main event champ Josh Duhamel, Vladimir Shchmelev, Chad Brown and Dwyte […]
June 30, 2012
Event 49 – $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Ante Only introduced a new format more familiar to internet aces this year, and the turnout of 939 players, many of them well-known and respected online, will have convinced the organisers that, although unusual in tournament action, this is a keeper. US internet pro Greg “DuckU” Hobson took […]
June 30, 2012
Excitement is mounting in Las Vegas as July 1st approaches, and the start of the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament, which will deliver phenomenal rewards, some of them to charity for the relief of water shortages in third world countries. Some professional players and businessmen have the substantial wherewithal to pay […]
June 29, 2012
The World Series of Poker event 45 – $50,000 buy-in The Poker Players Championship ended Thursday, memorable for the quality of its 108-entry list, a controversial floor ruling and the fact that for Michael Mizrachi (31) it was his third bracelet and second Players Championship victory. MIZRACHI GETS HIS THIRD WORLD SERIES OF POKER BRACELET […]
June 29, 2012
Atlanta Lawyer Steven Loube scored his first WSOP bracelet and a $267,345 first prize Thursday in the World Series of Poker event 47 – $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, besting a field of 978. It was the first World Series of Poker event the 34-year-old personal injury attorney had ever entered, and a notable […]
June 29, 2012
On Thursday, following news that Microgaming had pulled 5050Poker’s software licence for contractual breaches involving financial obligations (see previous reports), the Malta regulator Lotteries and Gaming Authority announced that it had suspended the poker company’s operating licence. The regulator also notified players that a complaints procedure for owed players was available, prompting several industry observers […]
June 28, 2012
Hollywood celebrity Pam Anderson is back in the business, according to a press release Wednesday, which reports that the staris involved in the launch of the new BamPoker app on Facebook. Our readers will recall that back in late 2006 Anderson fronted for PamelaPoker.com, an online poker site that lasted about four months before falling […]
June 28, 2012
John Campos, the former Utah banker named in the Black Friday indictments against US online poker sites, should count himself fortunate to have been punished by only a three month jail sentence, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Wednesday, characterising the sentence he handed down as “extremely lenient”. Judge Kaplan told Campos that he might […]
June 28, 2012
California Senator Rod Wright may have had to pull his online poker legalisation measure SB1463 from political committee stages two weeks back (see previous reports) but the initiative is far from dead. Trying to achieve a solution agreeable to the many tribal, commercial and political forces in play must be akin to herding cats, but […]