August 26, 2010
The six-man final table of the 2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic championship has concluded with Andreas Krause taking the honours and the main prize of $415,780 The televised final table comprised Zsolt Vasvenszki 1,885,000, Van Marcus 1,436,000, Mathieu Clavet 940,000, Andreas Krause 849,000, Ahmet Ucali 420,000 and Hakan Dalokay 266,000 when the action […]
August 26, 2010
Speculation that Victory Poker was about to quit the Everleaf Network for Cake Poker Network (see previous reports) has been confirmed by a joint press release from Victory and Cake. The statement reveals that Victory will make the switch on September 1st, with Victory Poker owner Dan Fleyshman saying: “I’m truly excited about the next […]
August 25, 2010
The excitement is mounting at the Bicycle in Los Angeles as the final table of the $5 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Legends of Poker starts Wednesday with a $750 000 main prize awaiting the winner. The original field of 462 has now been distilled to just six players, led by Andrew Frankenberger on 3 […]
August 24, 2010
A Dutch Justice Ministry commission set up by Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin to look into the pros and cons of internet gambling has recommended that the government abandons its “barely enforced” monopoly on gambling and instead licenses a small number of private online poker companies, reports the publication Dutch News.nl. The Commission noted that […]
August 24, 2010
The Remote Gaming Association has been quick off the mark in commenting on this week’s release of a Dutch commission’s report on online gambling (see earlier report), criticising its findings because these exclusively recommend that online poker be regulated, but not other forms of online gambling. Speaking for the Association, chief executive Clive Hawkswood said […]
August 23, 2010
The ninth edition of Party Gaming’s World Poker Tour Legends of Poker kicked off at the Bicycle in Los Angeles this week, attracting a 66 percent bigger entry field, thanks to a 50 percent reduction in the buy-in (from $10 000 to $5 000). However, whilst the number of players entering surged from 279 last […]
August 22, 2010
Bosnian poker pro Perica Bukara, who is now based in Germany, is enjoying a profitable August, having just taken down the $373 207 main prize in the $25 000 buy-in Full Tilt Poker Cyprus Classic High Roller Freeze-Out event. It was Bukara’s biggest win to date, but not his first this month; on August 6 […]
August 20, 2010
The Estonian Tax and Customs Board has issued PokerStars, the world’s largest poker site, an activity license in Estonia. Tomas Larsson, PokerStars? Baltics country manager, said, “Applying for a licence is always a complicated process and I am therefore very happy that PokerStars has successfully met all the necessary criteria to obtain an activity license […]
August 19, 2010
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout.com’s report for mid-August showed that across the industry, online poker traffic dropped 1.1 percent, with nine of the top ten tracked sites all booking a loss for the week. Considered in the context of a growing number of corporate financial reports illustrating an apparent decline in online poker revenues, […]
August 19, 2010
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians still appears intent on cornering the internet poker market in California, and has been joined by another 21 tribes in a consortium designed to claim exclusive rights to intrastate online poker. This is not the first time that the Morongo have come to notice in regard to online poker; […]