January 24, 2011
Team Titan sponsored poker pro Sam Trickett (24) defeated Tony Bloom heads-up to take the 2011 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge title pocketing an AUD$1.525 million first prize this weekend at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The Englishman joined a total of thirty-eight players in the AUD$100 000 buy-in event that included well-known players Phil […]
January 20, 2011
The speculation on where poker pro Annie Duke is bound following her recent departure from Ultimatebet (see previous report) is over. The international poker ace revealed this week that she has been appointed a commissioner in a new league that is hoping to become the PGA of poker, defining the game’s best players and hosting […]
January 20, 2011
With high stakes games and a prestigious venue, a new enterprise titled PureProp.com is hoping to pull in the high-rolling whales for some London-based poker action. The company is promoting to a select audience of wealthy poker fans, inviting them to compete in cash games and tournaments at London’s The Ritz Club Casino next (February) […]
January 20, 2011
Six months after introducing the Essence business model, Bwin’s internet poker subsidiary Ongame reports an 8 percent increase in recreational player sign-ups. A company spokesman confirmed this week that since introducing Essence, Ongame has achieved the highest number of recreational, i.e. net depositing, players than at any time over the last two years. And in […]
January 20, 2011
A new survey conducted by Tulchin Research has shown that there is wide support in California for the idea of legalised and state-regulated online poker. The study showed that more than sixty percent of all state residents favour the creation of state-run online poker sites to help with a worrying state budget shortfall of around […]
January 20, 2011
The perception of a booming internet gambling market in Italy was given a further boost this week with the release of official statistics by regulator AAMS showcasing growth in online poker of 28 percent in 2010. Star of the show was tournament poker, which delivered 65 percent of all internet gambling turnover in Italy last […]
January 17, 2011
All eyes were on the Pokerstars Caribbean Poker Adventure over the weekend, with Chris Oliver widely expected to take the title and the $2.3 million first prize down after starting the final table with an overwhelming chip lead and maintaining it right through to the heads up. But it was 24-year-old Galen Hall from San […]
January 17, 2011
Full Tilt Poker has introduced Multi-Entry Tournaments in a variety of different formats including Knockout, Rush Poker and Rebuy variants. – Multi-Entry Tournaments allow the player to register for the same tournament numerous times which means players can ?multi-table? a single tournament.– Each player’s entry in a Multi-Entry Tournament will have its own chip stack […]
January 17, 2011
Will Molson took the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25 000 High Roller prize after beating Leo Fernandez heads up and earned $1 072 850 in the process bringing his lifetime earnings at PCA high roller events to $1 622 925. Molson went into the heads up with Fernandez with a massive chip lead of 5.8 million […]
January 15, 2011
The Everleaf online poker network will welcome a new Malta-licensed site on January 16 when No Bad Beat Poker.com launches with the beta version of its namesake and a patented game concept titled No Bad Beats Poker. The operator claims that the concept is a “…revolutionary new feature in online poker designed to protect players […]