April 4, 2010
The Poker Heaven and Poker Channel interests of UK online gambling company Gaming Media Group could be up for sale, opines the Telegraph newspaper, noting that Management has hired Cavendish Corporate Finance to advise on options for the future. The move to explore a sale comes after the company received several unsolicited approaches from trade […]
April 3, 2010
A 37-year-old French businessman, Guillaume Darcourt, took the honours in the World Poker Tour Romania tournament in Bucharest over the weekend. The event was sponsored Gamebookers.com and took place at the Novotel Bucharest City Centre Hotel, with the six seat final table moving to a special location with a live audience. Darcourt won Euro 125 […]
April 3, 2010
The Las Vegas Sun broke news of a $22.5 million legal tussle between Everest Poker owners Ultra Internet Media and the owners of the World Series of Poker, Las Vegas giant Harrah’s Entertainment this week. Ultra Internet Media is claiming in federal court legal filings that Harrah’s-WSOP breached its multi-million dollar sponsorship contract in 2008 […]
April 2, 2010
The B3W software development company has augmented its existing online casino and scratchcard software offering by launching online poker and virtual horseracing platforms to the international market. The Malta-based firm has been involved in the online gambling industry for the past 12 years and is offering the new products as fully licensed add-ons or in […]
April 1, 2010
This is not an April Fool’s Day prank; Party Gaming has managed to recruit the enigmatic Swedish high stakes player Isildur1, famed for winning and losing millions on the Internet tables at Full Tilt, to its live and televised The Big Game IV tournament planned for April 11 to 13 at Les Ambassadeurs club in […]
March 31, 2010
Arch Pokerstars rival Full Tilt Poker.com has nnounced a new televsion series for the United Kingdom, dubbed “The Poker Lounge.” The series, which pits an amateur against five Full Tilt Poker pros, will air on Channel 4 in Britain. Filmed in London and screened on Channel 4 weekly from June 21st to August 23rd, the […]
March 31, 2010
In a major Scandinavian deal this week online poker software and network provider Entraction and Internet gambling group Betsson have agreed to partner up in order to provide Betsson’s 290 000 active players with access to Entraction’s network. Betsson will offer Entraction’s poker alongside its existing Ongame poker offer. ”This strengthens Betsson’s total offer in […]
March 31, 2010
The Poker Players Alliance, a trade association representing over a million US poker players, will be hosting the next Ante Up for Africa charity tournament, which is to take place at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, D.C. on April 14th. The fundraiser will be attended by charity co-founder and poker pro Annie Duke, who has […]
March 30, 2010
The world’s largest online poker website, Pokerstars, and Fox Television are combining to present a major cash game television show in which buy-ins will be $100 000, and the action will be in the $200/$400 NLHE nosebleed arena. Appropriately titled “The Big Game”, the production is expected to attract some of the biggest high stakes […]
March 30, 2010
The popularity and reward potential of the routine Sunday online poker tournaments was again illustrated last weekend by some serious winning payouts. In the PokerStars Sunday Million 9 371 poker fans paid the buy-in of $215, generating a prize pool of $1 874 200. This cashed some 1 350 players, with winner tony6733 winning the […]