February 1, 2011
Tweets on the online gossip site Twitter this week pose the question of whether WSOP champ, PPA supporter and internationally recognised poker pro Greg ?Fossilman? Raymer has left the Pokerstars pro team. Speculation is that his resignation followed attempts to cut pro remunerations by the world?s biggest internet poker site. Fellow pro Kathy Leibert started […]
January 31, 2011
Party Poker and Drag The Bar marketers have come up with a synergistic promo to help players improve their skills. The online poker training site has partnered with Party Poker to create a new program called “DTB4FREE” that allows players to get free poker training at Drag The Bar. To participate, players opt-in at the […]
January 30, 2011
The Aussie Millions tournament concluded at the Crown Casino in Melbourne this weekend in a victory for local amateur player David Gorr (68) who survived a field full of international professionals to take the title and the A$2 million main prize. It’s the third consecutive year that an Australian has won the prestigious southern hemisphere […]
January 29, 2011
Rumours have persisted over the alleged deterioration in the relationship between Doyle?sRoom and the Cake Poker Network over the past few weeks, however, DoylesRoom cites new software built exclusively for the poker room and a customised poker experience for its customers as reasons for the move. Current player accounts have been migrated automatically to the […]
January 29, 2011
The World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship held at Beau Rivage, Biloxi, Mississippi was won by Russian poker pro Alexander Kuzmin this week. Kuzmin, the tables starting chip leader, took the title after a long heads up with Leif Force to take the $601,469 top prize and an entry into the $25,000 buy-in WPT World […]
January 28, 2011
The giant online poker company Pokerstars, which recently exited the market in Washington State, has now apparently shied away from other US states, reportedly shutting down its eCheck cash processing facilities to the residents of a number of other states. The states involved are believed to include Nevada, New York, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, […]
January 26, 2011
Italian mobile provider Buongiorno has entered the French online poker market this week with its Winga.fr poker offering. French gaming regulator ARJEL granted Buongiorno online poker license approval under the Winga brand towards the end of last year (see previous reports). Buongiorno’s Winga brand has a presence in the regulated Italian online poker, bingo, lottery […]
January 25, 2011
The 2011 schedule for the 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) was announced this week. The annual tournament, comprising a slate of poker’s most popular variations, is set to run at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from 31 May to 19 July 2011 and will again be televised on ESPN. […]
January 24, 2011
Dan ‘Jungleman12’ Cates continued his rise to nosebleed fame as the week came to a close by taking on some of the Internet’s top high stakes players and emerging with a profit of $430 000 in a single night. The young pro has been making major waves on the internet nosebleed tables since his rise […]
January 24, 2011
Fans of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) can look forward to the next outing – the nineteenth in the popular series – which starts on February 6th and runs through to February 20th, providing players with a choice of 45 events backed by guaranteed prize pools totalling over $22 million. A wide variety […]