May 7, 2010
Virgin Racing and Full Tilt Poker.net have teamed up in a sponsorship agreement for this season’s F1 car racing, with the first race the Spanish GT this weekend. Both companies will enjoy significant branding on the team’s VR-01 race cars, drivers and team apparel and other elements of the team’s on-track and off-track environment. The […]
May 6, 2010
Industry giant Party Gaming plc has announced its third b2b deal in France with an exclusive multi-year agreement to provide a white label online poker service for Aviation Club de France, one of the country’s most prestigious card rooms and private member clubs. The new service, branded ‘ACFPoker’, will join PartyGaming’s expanding French poker network, […]
May 6, 2010
Bwin subsidiary Ongame has added three new partners to its dedicated Italian regional online poker network, growing the roll call to 10 partners holding Italian operating licenses. May 2010 sees the migration of MatchGames and TOBS to Ongame Network’s P5 Poker Engine, with Casino Italia following in June. Ongame launched its 5-million player-strong dedicated Italian […]
May 6, 2010
The ‘mountain and valley’ style action of online high stakes poker aces is avidly watched by legions of Internet railbirds – none more so than the inscrutable Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan. After ending last year in a disastrous decline of around $5.5 million and well into a ‘valley’ phase, Dwan persevered, coming right in the early […]
May 5, 2010
The mainstay of Playtech’s i-Poker Network, Titan Poker, has announced that the next, and sixth, edition of the European Championship of Online Poker will start May 24th with a $5.1 million guaranteed overall prize pool. The latest prize pool is a substantial escalation from the inaugural ECOOP guarantee back in December 2007, when the company […]
May 5, 2010
The Swedish online gambling group Betsson has announced the acquisition of iPoker online poker operator Betfriends, an operation that boasts 4 000 active players, and also offers online casino and sports betting action to its customers. The Betsson statement reporting the purchase did not give details of the consideration involved. Comments from Betsson management suggest […]
May 4, 2010
Investors in the online poker group Devilfish Gaming, brainchild of the respected pro Dave Ulliott, will have been relieved to see better numbers developing through the last half of 2009. The latest FY results show that the company is reducing its pre-tax losses and increasing sales, thanks to a significant improvement which has seen user […]
May 4, 2010
The sixteenth edition of Full Tilt Poker’s popular FTOPS ended early this week in spectacular style with a 20 hour NLHE main event that attracted plenty of players and delivered great action and major money. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVI was certainly a memorable experience for player ‘urbandb888’, who fought off some impressive […]
May 4, 2010
The upmarket Mayfair area, and specifically the Palm Beach Casino in the Mayfair Hotel, will be the venue for the action, which will take place between August 29 and September 5 2010. Main event action is to be capped at 400 players, and will cost entrants GBP5 000+GBP300 to participate (but there will be online […]
May 4, 2010
The respected US poker publication Card Player has run down recent rumours that influential Nevada Senator Harry Reid was working on a new online poker regulation bill. The UK Sunday Times created a media stir when it published the rumour that a bill could be launched within the next three months, information said to emanate […]