March 3, 2011
The last few nights on the high stakes virtual tables have seen Sweden’s erratic online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom taking home great chunks of money (see previous reports), but in true and spectacular Isildur1 style, the roller coaster crested and headed down midweek. Playing on the Pokerstars nosebleed tables, Blom dropped a stunning $734 […]
March 2, 2011
ElectraWorks, a PartyGaming subsidiary applied for and received approval for World Poker Tour website WPT.fr from French online gaming regulator ARJEL this week. The firm already holds licence approval for partybets.fr, gamebookers.fr, partypoker.fr, acfpoker.fr, luckyjeux.fr and luckyjeux.fr. Italian online gambling company Microgame has also received licence to operate an online sports betting service in the […]
March 2, 2011
Online poker?s biggest operator, Pokerstars, has ended its sponsorship of the North American Poker Tour for reasons that have not been clarified by the company, but are believed to be the result of intervention by Californian gaming regulators. The Pokerstars North American Poker Tour will, however, still be held at the Bicycle Casino in Los […]
March 2, 2011
Viktor ?Isildur1? Blom has enlivened the high stakes tables at Pokerstars for the second time in forty eight hours, again handing out a very expensive drubbing to fellow high stakes pro Scott ?urnotindangr? Palmer. The Swedish phenom took another $495 000 off Palmer in addition to the $620 000 he won off him the night […]
March 2, 2011
Hardly had the record million dollar bad beat bonus at UB.com been reached (see previous report) when it was hit this week. Player ODESSA99 had the good fortune to have bad luck while playing $.50/$1 limit Hold’em, when his quad queens lost to table-mate FARFLUNG’s quad kings. ODESSA99 picked up the BBJ winner?s share at […]
March 1, 2011
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is firing on all cylinders again, judging by his performance over a single night session on the Pokerstars online nosebleed tables this week. The enigmatic young Swede hammered fellow ace Scott ‘urnotindangr’ Palmer over 745 hands, taking $620 000 off him and laying to rest the growing suspicion that Palmer is Isildur1’s […]
March 1, 2011
A record badbeat bonus is being claimed by online poker site UB.com on the Cereus Network, where the numbers have gone over a million dollars and counting. Joe Sebok, one of the network pros, blogged this week: ?It?s an insane amount of money with our Bad Beat Jackpot hitting a million bucks, and a few […]
February 28, 2011
Florida politician Joseph Abruzzo’s attempt to introduce a bill legalising intrastate online poker is likely to be debated in the next session of the state Assembly, which kicks off on March 8. And if it is successful, Florida could have legalised online poker in the law books as early as July 1st, local media is […]
February 28, 2011
Poker News Daily has continued its reportage on the Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker hole card cheating scandal with fresh allegations that embrace accusations of extortion and intimidation. The multi-million dollar cheating debacle re-surfaced last week when an individual claiming to have a wealth of evidence on the cheating scam, Travis Makar, was interviewed on […]
February 28, 2011
On June 7 last year Phil ?The Unabomber? Laak, set a new world record for the most hours of poker played in a single sitting after 115 hours. Setting a world record and having that record officially ratified by the Guinness Book of World Records are significant achievements, and this week Laak reached both with […]