April 13, 2012
Our readers may recall an interesting copyright case lodged in 2009 by Brandon McSmith against Full Tilt Poker in which he claimed that his ideas had been copied in that company’s now discontinued television show “Face the Ace.” The apparently close interest that the Federal Bureau of Investigation took in McSmith’s action added to the […]
April 13, 2012
A new class action suit was reportedly filed against Full Tilt Poker (FTP) entities in a Las Vegas Federal Court Thursday. The suit, seeking a court order for the defendants to refund funds and pay punitive damages, follows another dismissed by a U.S. District Judge earlier this year which was filed by the same tenacious […]
April 13, 2012
PokerStars popular new fast ring game Zoom Poker has raised its stakes at No Limit Hold’em to $2.50/$5, a move, as pointed out by PokerFuse, that may indicate more than just the testing of its software functionality. Considering the success of the product, there is the possibility of the company eventually moving all its high […]
April 12, 2012
Guy Laliberte’s One Drop charity, which provides water resources to third world impoverished communities, should do rather well out of the World Series of Poker’s million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament on July 1st in Las Vegas; WSOP officials announced Thursday that 30 players had committed themselves to the tournament and the […]
April 11, 2012
When we left the Party Poker Premier League V final table late Tuesday afternoon there were five players left in the running following the eliminations of Sam Trickett, Mathew Frankland and Tom Dwan. Since then Scott Seiver has emerged the winner of the $500,000 main prize and a $25,500 seat in the WPT Championships later this […]
April 11, 2012
April 20 2012 will hopefully see ace poker players with large bank rolls entering for the Manila Millions Super High Roller tournament, where the buy-in is Hong Kong $ 1 million (about GBP 81,000) Jeff Mann, chief executive of the Asia Poker Tour which is organising the event in collaboration with Resorts World Manila, confirmed […]
April 10, 2012
Poker pro Robert Fellner (28) may live in Las Vegas, but he prefers to play poker on the internet, a career that has become problematic thanks to the prohibitionary tendencies of American federal politics. Over the weekend the US and Canada television service of the BBC made Fellner the central peg on which it hung […]
April 10, 2012
When Belgian poker pro Kevin Vandersmissen took his seat at the final table of the Paddy Poker Irish Open on Monday he had not only survived an entry field of 502 quality players over three days of action, but he had the smallest chip stack in an elite group of finalists that included Ian Simpson, […]
April 10, 2012
The Poker Players Alliance is using this week leading to the first anniversary of Black Friday to rally U.S. poker players in a fresh protest against the restrictions politicians and enforcement agencies have placed on the game in America. Titled “The Players Will Never Fold”, the new campaign runs through April 16 and encourages players […]
April 10, 2012
After eight straight weeks of declining traffic, the online poker business rose last week with a 2.8 percent rise, according to the independent monitoring site PokerScout. Five of the top sites benefited from the surge with traffic increases of 5 percent or more, and nine of the ten top sites all reported improvements. Fast-paced Zoom […]