May 13, 2011
Venezuelan poker pro, Ivan Freitez took the grand prize at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final held at the Casino Gran in Madrid this week. Freitez earned Euro 1 500 000 for his efforts along with the title in what is described as a show of “unorthodox, but effective high-stakes poker” culminating in a […]
May 12, 2011
World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament directors promised a bigger, better WSOP 2011 in an announcement made this week. For the first time in the history of the WSOP, all 58 gold bracelet events will receive video coverage with a wide overshot angle of the table and its players and a flop camera providing the […]
May 11, 2011
Professor Steven Levitt, a University of Chicago economics professor and author of bestseller Freakonomics along with fellow Professor Thomas Miles have published a working paper entitled “The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker”. Analysing information from the 2010 World Series of Poker in which 57 tournaments attracted […]
May 11, 2011
John Pappas, executive director of the poker advocacy group, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) commented this week that players are reporting mixed results with regard to having money refunded from online gambling companies involved in the recent US Department of Justice action, estimating that $100 million to $500 million in funds could be involved. In […]
May 11, 2011
Interested parties will be relieved to hear that Absolute Poker, including UB (formerly Ultimate Bet) has apparently reached an agreement with the US authorities to facilitate US online player refunds. Absolute Poker?s statement said that the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY)has agreed to provide all necessary assurances to third […]
May 10, 2011
Further indications of the worsening situation at the Cereus poker network, heavily impacted by Black Friday and compelled to drastically downsize, came to light Monday when the company issued a press release announcing the termination of sponsorship arrangements with eleven top international players. Blanca Games, the parent company of the network, explained that the legal […]
May 10, 2011
Breaking the pattern of a London-based championship over the past few years, the World Series of Poker Europe moves to France in 2011 and will take place at Casino Barri?re de Cannes. In a statement Monday the organisers advised that the fifth WSOP Europe will begin on October 7, 2011 and run for two weeks […]
May 10, 2011
Given the abiding interest in the multi-million dollar Absolute Poker and UltimateBet online poker cheating scandals among millions of poker players around the world, a forthcoming book will likely achieve significant sales. The book is to be authored by Haley Hintze, a well-informed and tenacious investigative journalist who for some time has probed deeply into […]
May 8, 2011
Eight final tablers, each guaranteed a payday of at least Euro 45 000 and a crack at the Euro 525 000 completed the Euro 25 000 buy-in EPT Madrid Hi Roller competition Saturday, with Internet and live tournament ace Bertrand ‘ElkY Grospellier taking the honours. The final table was led by Galen Hall, chased by […]
May 7, 2011
The newswires and online media sites were buzzing late Friday with the news that the offices of online poker companies in Costa Rica had been visited by the local equivalent of the FBI, the Organismo de Investigaciones Judiciale. Pokerstars, Absolute Poker and UBPoker offices were all named in the reports. The fact that the various […]