December 24, 2010
The last woman standing in the 2009 World Series of Poker notched up a win in the Full Tilt Poker Masters Series Spain held at Gran Casino Costa Brava, Lloret de Mar. 888 Poker ambassador, Leo Margets overcame thirty-one top Spanish players in the invitation only event to add EUR 100000 to her lifetime poker […]
December 21, 2010
The respected independent online poker monitoring site pokerscout.com has highlighted the decline in online poker business year-over-year which has already been pointed out in several corporate financial reports. Commenting on the week beginning 20 December the site noted that, year-over-year, and even with the opening of the French market, the total worldwide online poker market […]
December 20, 2010
The Cereus online poker network has released its schedule for the sixth UB.com (formerly UltimateBet) Online Championship, better known as UBOC, showcasing a total of 29 events supported by over $5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The schedule launches on January 16, 2011 and runs through to January 30, climaxing in a $1 050 buy-in […]
December 19, 2010
Caesars Interactive Entertainment (formerly Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment) will work with Microgame S.p.A., Italy’s largest poker network operator, to market the WSOP brand in Italy with online and offline poker tournaments and promotions. People?s Poker, a network of over 120 online poker sites, will be co-branded using both the WSOP and People?s Poker brands, and serve […]
December 19, 2010
Welsh poker pro, Roberto Romanello (34) pushed his lifetime poker earnings over the $1.5 million mark when he took down the Pokerstars.net European Poker Tour Prague Main Event this week in a heads up against Emiliano Bono, taking home a Euro 640000 paycheck. After a tantalisingly close sixth place at EPT Copenhagen earlier this year, […]
December 17, 2010
This may be the season for giving, but it does not appear from the respected publication ESPN that the legalisation of US online poker will be among the gifts below the online gambling industry Christmas tree. The usually knowledgable and well connected ESPN writer Andrew Feldman reported late Wednesday that Senator Harry Reid’s proposal to […]
December 17, 2010
Online gambling operator Unibet has launched its own platform in Italy on Unibet.it and is offering Italian poker players Sit & Go, scheduled and multi-table poker tournaments on the Ongame P5 Poker Engine. Poker cash games, casino offerings and sports betting will be added to the platform in 2011. ?Re-launching our operations, using our own […]
December 14, 2010
Online poker pro, Jonathan Karamalikis (22) took down the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final held in Sydney, Australia this past weekend and went home with a pay-check of AUD$459,510 (GBP 288,521). A formidable final table included well-known pro’s Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe and Eddy Sabat but it was Benjamin McLean and Jonathan […]
December 12, 2010
Online poker giant Pokerstars.com has released its latest software update, which includes new features such as: – Font Changes for Games – PokerStars changed the fonts for games to be more distinguishable and friendlier to people with various types of color blindness. – Changes include: ? Ring games players are waitlisted for will be blue, […]
December 12, 2010
Following closely after his first WSOP bracelet win, Danish pro poker player, Gus Hansen (36) has taken down the Full Tilt Poker Million IX. The ?winner takes all? tournament sees Hansen adding $1 million to his life time earnings, bringing his career winnings to around $ 8,5 million. In a short heads-up Hansen beat Tony […]