October 18, 2011
The decision by Merge Poker Network to again take new US player sign-ups appears to have been a sound one in traffic terms; the independent online poker monitoring site Pokerscout reports that the network’s traffic soared over 7 percent in the past week. “The much-anticipated move came mid-week, so the 7 percent weekly gain only […]
October 18, 2011
Bwin.party.digital subsidiary Party Poker has announced the availability – initially only on cash games – of downloadable online poker action accessible by Macintosh users. Using its own proprietary software, the company has joined a growing number of online poker operators that have expanded their offerings to cater for Apple fans with downloadable dedicated poker clients, […]
October 17, 2011
Moving the World Series of Poker Europe to larger premises in Cannes, France has clearly paid off for the organisers, who reported over the weekend that total entries to the main event had reached an unaudited 593 – 71 percent higher than the registration list for the same event last year in London, and up […]
October 17, 2011
Party Poker.com and Matchroom Sport will be bringing a three poker discipline tournament dubbed The PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship to the Playboy Club London in Mayfair from November 13 to 17, 2011. The $25K buy-in event is open to 12 players who will play in three disciplines of poker ? No-Limit Hold?em, […]
October 16, 2011
Tristan ‘cre8tive’ Wade (26), a respected online player and poker blogger, claimed the fourth gold winner’s bracelet to be awarded at this year’s World Series of Poker Europe, currently running in Cannes, France. Wade took down the Euro 3,200 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Shootout, besting a field of 256 that included notables like Johnny Chan, […]
October 16, 2011
With one more starting flight still uncounted, it looks as if entries into this year’s Euro 10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe main event are set to break records in Cannes, France. A slew of big names were on the 310-name registration list for Day 1 A, including Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan (neither […]
October 15, 2011
A jail sentence handed out to a UK poker player who made serious threats against the staff of an unidentified internet poker operation may serve as a cautionary tale for others; no matter what the provocation, keep your cool. The Darlington & Stockton News reports that Michael Gallagher (35), a currently jobless poker player, was […]
October 14, 2011
In the US, the game of poker has been dealt another blow, this time by major television broadcaster NBC. The corporate has removed the popular National Heads Up Poker Championship from its 2012 calendar. The story was broken earlier this week by the online poker information site Wicked Chops.com, which quoted NBC sports senior director […]
October 13, 2011
Online poker company PokerStars has announced “Double Vision Sunday” where its popular Sunday Million and Sunday Warmup tournaments will run twice on Sunday, October 16, 2011. The first Sunday Million tournament will run in its usual time slot with theadditional edition starting at 15:00 ET, both with a guaranteed prize poolof $1 000 000. The […]
October 13, 2011
Online and live tournament poker pro Steve Billirakis won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the tender age of 21 back in 2007, and this week he had the satisfaction of adding a second piece of the respected jewellery to his collection at the WSOP Europe in Cannes, France. Billirakis surged to victory […]