April 23, 2010
Beauteous Brit poker pro Liv Boeree has bested 1 240 starters in the European Poker Tour San Remo tournament to take home the main prize of Euro 1.25 million, adding to her growing list of achievements in the game. The model, TV presenter, part time physicist and formidable poker player set up the heads up […]
April 23, 2010
The Merge Poker Network has benefitted significantly from the migration of Sportsbook.com and Players Only.com (see previous reports), with the independent online poker stats site Pokerscout.com reporting a traffic boost of some 160 percent. In its weekly summary, Pokerscout.com comments: “The big news of the week was the migration of several sites from Cake Poker […]
April 21, 2010
Poker forums like twoplustwo were buzzing this week as members discussed the latest monster prop bet between top poker pros. Generating plenty of comment and speculation was a report that international poker aces Phil Ivey – well known for his penchant for prop bets – and Howard “The Professor” Lederer, had agreed on a two […]
April 21, 2010
In New York Assemblyman Joe Lentol – a Democrat representing Williamsburg – has proposed legalising poker, inspired he says by the needs of today’s young gamblers. “Poker is the game that most people want to play now,” said the longtime assemblyman. “New Yorkers watch it on TV, they play poker on their computers and many […]
April 20, 2010
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has acquired three online poker information sites in Poker Pages.com, Play Winning Poker.com and Poker-Babes.com. The new acquisitions augment the company’s Poker Stars Blog.com, an in-house poker medium, offering poker players a useful and informative internet poker information resource. The Pokerstars announcement reveals that Poker Pages.com was launched […]
April 20, 2010
The timeline for the introduction of provincial government-sanctioned online poker in British Columbia, Canada appears to have shortened, according to an article in the Times Colonist newspaper over the weekend. The report reveals that Rich Coleman, the provincial minister responsible for gambling, has announced to the legislature that peer-to-peer provincial online poker will go live […]
April 20, 2010
Two land poker players who took five Los Angeles area casinos to court on bad beat jackpot complaints left empty handed after a judge ruled that state law prohibited them from trying to recover gambling losses in the courts. [More…] The court heard that LA casinos typically collect $1 from every pot to pay “bad-beat […]
April 20, 2010
Poker fans will be able to keep up to date on their favourite game and controversial topics associated with it in a new CardPlayerTV show branded “Under the Gun” and hosted by Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg. The 30-minute weekly show, which is sponsored by UB.com, debuts on Monday April 26th on the CardPlayerTV site and features […]
April 20, 2010
The World Series of Poker’s latest list of player-voted pros for the 2010 Tournament of Champions suggests that younger players are not as active as they should be in the process…and the result is a list of 20 respected candidates that omits some of the exciting younger exponents of the game. There’s still plenty of […]
April 20, 2010
Last week’s news that Everest Poker owner Ultra Internet Media SA has charged the World Series of Poker of breaching a $22.5 million sponsorship contract has been followed by a denial from WSOP owner Harrah’s Entertainment. UIM launched the litigation earlier this (April) month in a Las Vegas federal court (see previous report), claiming that […]