April 29, 2010
One of the owners of the online poker coaching site CardRunners, Cole South, has announced that he is to depart the company due to pressure of too many commitments. It is not known whether South was bought out by his partners. South, who famously (and allegedly with a little help from his friends) took the […]
April 29, 2010
The influential Californian newspaper Capitol Weekly, which serves an audience made up mainly of government and political readers, says it’s time for online poker to be regulated in the state. The op-ed article points out that large numbers of Californians play at online foreign websites thatare not regulated or monitored by U.S. law enforcement to […]
April 29, 2010
The US legal publication Law360 reports that the dispute over breach of contract between Everest Poker parent group Ultra Internet Media and Las Vegas gambling giant Harrah’s Entertainment is becoming more intense. Full details are not yet available, but apparently Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment Inc., which owns the rights to the World Series of Poker which […]
April 28, 2010
Cake Poker may have lost two major network members in Sportsbook and Players Only recently, but the online poker network has continued to invest in its technology, announcing this week that it is about to launch a private beta test program on a new poker client. “We are excited to launch the private beta for […]
April 28, 2010
The Absolute Poker cheating scandal continues to haunt the online poker company despite the passage of time, mainly because cover-ups are still suspected and many players feel that the culprits were not identified and should have been punished more severely for the multi-million dollar rip-offs perpetrated on players (although compensation has been paid). This week […]
April 27, 2010
The legal team at major online poker firm Full Tilt Poker.com will be celebrating a successful week in which the company prevailed in two US courtrooms. In the first case, two California players who were banned and had winnings confiscated failed in their civil case against the giant poker site. Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy […]
April 27, 2010
This year’s entries for the Pokerstars’ EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo were disappointingly lower than the 2009 event at 848 – about a hundred less registrants – probably due to travel difficulties in Europe associated with the eruption of a volcano in Iceland and the subsequent disruption of air traffic. Nevertheless, the excitement was […]
April 25, 2010
Had Shawn Buchanan prevailed in this weekend’s final table of the $25 000 buy-in WPT World Championship at the Bellagio, he would have been the first player to win both the WPT World Championship and the WPT Player of the Year in the same season. Unfortunately that was not on the cards, as Buchanan went […]
April 24, 2010
With Day 6 of the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio just ended, there are now six players left from an original field of 195, among them many of the top pros in the game. Although the total entries for the championship event were disappointingly down on last year’s 338, a prize pool of […]
April 23, 2010
The news this week that online high stakes poker pro Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan logged a profit of $1.2 million in a single night’s activity on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker.com, again focused attention on the improving fortunes of this young player. Last year he was almost hammered into the ground by a series […]