September 2, 2010
The Toronto Sun publishing an interesting article this week, claiming that online poker site Pokerstars has ‘set up shop’ in Canada, and that the poker giant’s software, which has dealt over 48 billion hands, was developed in Richmond Hill, Ontario by PYR Software, a firm created by PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg in 2000. Scheinberg, a […]
September 2, 2010
Online gambling software developer Betsoft has announced the launch of its new Poker 3 software, describing it as “the world’s first true 3D, heads up Texas Hold’em online poker game.” Poker3.com boasts cinematic quality avatars with real life animations and a textured setting for an international player audience. “We believe what Poker3 has achieved is […]
August 31, 2010
Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cate, Tom Dwan’s latest 50 000 hand challenger (see previous reports), maintained the impetus and excitement of the new challenge this week, confronting Dwan in another almost 7 000 hand hectic session. On Monday the duo played $200/$400 NLHE across four virtual tables at Full Tilt Poker, with Cate extending his overall lead […]
August 31, 2010
The statement claims: “Poker players deserve to know the real facts so let us be clear: We support online poker and we are working hard to make sure it will benefit all Americans. America’s poker community should be united in opposing the Frank legislation that would ship jobs, revenue and taxes beyond our communities. We […]
August 29, 2010
With his 18 month long 50 000 hand million dollar Challenge competition with Patrik Antonius still running, internet high stakes maniac Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan has embarked on another mammoth confrontation. Dwan announced the new Challenge in a typically laconic Twitter post this week, naming his next opponent as 21-year-old University of Maryland economics major Daniel […]
August 29, 2010
Tom Malkasian, a director of the Commerce Casino, has responded to the Poker Players Alliance’s ‘Players Before Profits’ campaign (see previous reports) in which the million strong action group urged US players to voice their disapproval of the Californian card room’s opposition to federal legalisation of online poker. In a company statement, Malkasian defended the […]
August 27, 2010
Taking many industry observers off-guard late Thursday was a press release from the largely unknown e-gaming firm Blanca Games revealing that it has acquired the interests of the Cereus poker network formerly owned by Tokwiro Enterprises and including well established if at times controversial sites Absolute Poker.com and UltimateBet.com. The release did not provide details […]
August 27, 2010
In our last report on the $5 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Legends of Poker in Los Angeles, the final table of six was down to three handed play between New Yorker and former Wall Street trader Andy Frankenburger, Kyle Wilson and Tom Lee – sole survivors of an original field of 462 entrants, all […]
August 27, 2010
The one million member online poker action group Poker Players Alliance came out with all guns firing this week in a press release criticising the Commerce Casino for its opposition to the federal legalisation of online gambling. Our readers will recall that the Commerce Casino was recently involved with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians […]
August 27, 2010
Currently generating a tremendous amount of heated online poker message board discussion (the last time we checked the 2plus2 thread was 42 pages long) is an allegation that puts internet poker phenom Sorel Mizzi under the spotlight again. Started on August 20 at http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61/mtt-community/alleged-chatlog-between-sorel-thorladen-857685/ this long and highly speculative thread discusses alleged plans by Mizzi […]