February 22, 2011
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIX (FTOPS) main event set a record for the largest prize pool in its history drawing a field of 14 479, all in it for a share of a prize pool approaching one that is normally found in major land poker championships such as the WSOP of $8 687 […]
February 21, 2011
The sheer magnitude and technical complexity of the historic hole-card cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, and the impressive detective work carried out by players to expose it, make the subject one of abiding interest…and it surfaced again over the weekend on a poker radio broadcast. Poker News Daily reports that one of […]
February 21, 2011
A new high-stakes poker-themed production featuring a stellar cast is in the works. The film based on the 1974 George V. Higgins national best-selling novel, Jackie Cogan, will be directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by The Weinstein Co. and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. In the gritty, tough talking pages of Higgins?s novel, professional […]
February 21, 2011
The Cake Poker Network appears to have a strategy to counter the recent loss of Doyle’s Room, launching the new Poker Pros Network this month through CDV Software Development, a company registered in Panama and operated from Costa Rica. Poker Pros Network is being presented as a unique concept in online poker, offering players the […]
February 20, 2011
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation?s PlayNow.com i-gaming site has joined the GTechG2-powered Canadian Poker Network – the first regulated poker network in North America – which was launched in December 2010 at Loto Qu?bec?s Espacejeux.com online gambling website. PlayNow.com?s poker fans will now be able to compete against other Canadians on the Espacejeux.com site, increasing […]
February 18, 2011
The author of one of two Californian intrastate bills seeking to legalise online poker, Sen. Lou Correia ratcheted up the political rhetoric this week with an op ed article in the newspaper Capitol Weekly. Correia used the platform of the Golden State?s $25 billion budget deficit to promote his bill SB40, which has the potential […]
February 17, 2011
The 23 year-old Russian player Natalia Nikatina scooped Euro 243,830 and the title of champion at the Euro 5,000 buy-in WPT Paris National Series Main Event, presented by ACFpoker.fr, at the world famous Aviation Club de France this week, trouncing favourite Sam Trickett of the UK and other respected names in her first live major […]
February 17, 2011
With the 9th season of World Poker Tour premiering on Fox Sports Net earlier this month, the World Poker Tour Texas Hold ‘Em poker game on social networking site Facebook.com has been upgraded with several new features. WPT has created four new table designs: silver, gold, platinum, and black diamond. These exclusive tables can only […]
February 16, 2011
A William Hill Poker player identified as KioN1 has won $280 000 on Playtech’s iPoker network, his second jackpot win in as many months. This latest win on the Fort Knox Jackpot follows a $30 000 win on iPoker’s Rio Jackpot in December 2010. Fort Knox is a Sit ‘n Go tournament that has a […]
February 16, 2011
With the prospect of regulated online gambling at state level growing in New Jersey, Florida and California, the US media again aired the thoughts of the Morongo band of Mission Indians this week. The Morongo are in a strong alliance with Californian land card rooms titled the California Online Poker Association, which is supporting one […]