March 5, 2010
Chile, hamered this week by a 8.8 Richter scale earthquake and badly damaged as a consequence, will not be hosting its leg of the Pokerstars Latin American Poker Tour as planned. Scheduled for the third week in March, the LAPT Chile has been put on indefinite hold in deference to the tragic consequences of the […]
March 5, 2010
The land and online betting group Paddy Power.com has ambitious sponsorship plans for ace but disgraced international golf champ Tiger Woods – the company has entered negotiations through IMG to sponsor the world’s best golfer in a five-year, GBP 5 million deal. Woods, who is four titles short of equalling Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 […]
March 5, 2010
With little notice and less fanfare, the Chance Room online poker site on GTechG2’s IPN network closed its virtual doors this week after a mere 5 months in business. Owned by LGH Limited, the company started French and English language online operations in October 2009, with Louis Harang, a director of LGH, announcing proudly: “We’ve […]
March 4, 2010
Pokerstars’ 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) schedule has been tweaked following “constructive criticism” from players, according to the company’s blog. There is now a brand new SCOOP schedule with more events and a bigger guaranteed prize pool: 38 total events with a $45 million guaranteed prize pool. Satellites for SCOOP should begin within […]
March 4, 2010
Microgaming Poker Network has new technology to get players to the virtual tables faster. The company has launched its new 1Click Poker client for the first time at Ladbrokes. 1Click Poker takes a new approach to an old problem – how best to get new players active and playing online. Players opening the client are […]
March 3, 2010
Scott Seiver, a 24-year-old poker pro from Cold Harbor, New York, is having a profitable year. Just five days after earning $215 000 for a fourth placing in the Pokerstars NAPT on Feb. 23rd he has triumphed in the $25 000 buy-in LA Classic High Roller competition. In achieving his best yet win, worth $425 […]
March 3, 2010
Celebrities, professional poker pros and politicians will gather in Washington DC tonight (Wednesday) to play in a poker tournament designed to raise funds for the Paralyzed Veterans of America – an organisation devoted to the care of US warriors seriously injured in the service of their country. The event will be hosted by World Series […]
March 3, 2010
The Goldbet online gambling group’s poker interests have chosen the Microgaming Poker Network to host their action, the network announced this week. Founded in 2000, GoldBet is owned by one of the leading online bookmakers in Europe in terms of active players and selection of odds and events offered. The partnership with Microgaming allows GoldBet […]
March 2, 2010
Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero, a Team PokerStars.net Pro who hails from Argentina, is the new Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este champ after besting a field of 306 players over the weekend. Pokerstars hailed the event as a success which generated a prize-pool of $ 1 042 260, putting 48 entrants ‘in the money’ and […]
March 1, 2010
Online Poker Network has launched a poker operation integrated onto the Connective Games poker software platform, and designed with small to medium sized poker skins in mind. The new operation will will offer “new to market” customers access to a global poker network and a range of online poker games. Connective Games is a Russian […]