November 23, 2010
The World Poker Tour has announced the dates for two new televised tournaments in Europe in 2011 ? WPT Venice and WPT Vienna ? as well as the first WPT National Series Event. WPT Venice, presented by Party Poker.it, will be televised and globally distributed by the WPT. Taking place at the luxurious Casino de […]
November 23, 2010
The latest edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series – the eighteenth – ended this week with a well subscribed Main Event that saw the top five players each taking home six-figure checks. 5 000 FTOPS XVIII entrants paid $600 apiece to register, building a prize pool that exceeded the guaranteed $3 million and […]
November 19, 2010
Speculation that significant numbers of Chinese players may have been colluding on the internet poker site Pokerstars.com appeared to be confirmed this week when the company e-mailed the following notice to China-based players. ?PokerStars.com has introduced a new security feature that prevents players from certain countries playing at the same ring game table. ?This restriction […]
November 19, 2010
The Los Angeles leg of the Pokerstars North American Poker Tour was concluded this week, with poker pro Joe Tehan emerging the winner after a tense heads up with Chris DeMaci. The win boosted Tehan?s already million dollar plus career winnings by $725 000. The Los Angeles leg main event was a $5 000 buy-in […]
November 16, 2010
The Cake Network online poker network has been granted a Class 4 Letter of Intent by the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority and, as such, is ready to commence Network operations. Cake?s newly formed Malta operating company has also successfully completed Phase 1 of the application for a Class 3 License; Phase 2 is underway […]
November 16, 2010
Danish online poker player, Peter Eastgate (23), who back in 2008 was the youngest winner of the WSOP Main Event is putting his winners jewellery up for sale on e-Bay. Eastgate’s justification for selling off the coveted winners bracelet along with prize watches stems from a desire to assist children’s charities via UNICEF. His e-Bay […]
November 14, 2010
On the back of Phil Hellmuth?s other forays into the publishing world namely; ?Play Poker Like the Pros? and ?Read ?Em and Reap?, a new e-book titled “Phil Hellmuth’s Legendary Poker Hands” has been released. The e-book documents some of Phil Hellmuth’s greatest poker hands played. In general eBook format, each installment is about 22 […]
November 11, 2010
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has censured Nine Network and Network Ten, finding that they breached their broadcasting obligations by promoting an online poker site. The advertisement for pokerstars.net was televised over coverage of Wimbledon 2009 by Nine Network and Network 10 also came under scrutiny for billboard advertisements run before a weekly sports […]
November 11, 2010
Full Tilt Poker has upgraded its software to include draw poker games that give players the opportunity to replace any of the cards in their hand by drawing new cards from the deck. Full Tilt now offers five variants of draw poker: – 5-Card Draw, classic game features one draw round and is played for […]
November 10, 2010
The 90 second commercial running the strapline ?Play Online Poker; It’s Safer PokerStars – Awarded Safest Online Poker Site? features amongst others, PokerStars Pro Team member, Norwegian Johnny Lodden. The commercial centers around poker players using rather unconventional means of getting rid of each other including poison, fire and other dubious methods. While the commercial […]