February 28, 2010
The heated debate on the legalisation of online poker in the state of California has been much in the news lately (see previous reports), with substantial focus on the differing opinions of two Indian gambling groups. On the one side of the argument is the Morongo band of Mission Indians who have land gambling interests […]
February 27, 2010
The 21-year-old fearless nosebleed stakes online player Ashton Griffin took down the $25 000 buy-in Pokerstars North American Poker Tour Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout as the week came to a close, winning a total prize of $560 000 and earning the respect of the 49 other top players in the field. The young Florida […]
February 25, 2010
Despite his ambitious nickname, Tom ‘kingofcards’ Marchese had yet to cash in a big live competition, but he remedied that in style this week as he took down the inaugural main event of the Pokerstars North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The 22-year-old pro from New Jersey bested a field of […]
February 25, 2010
The merged Everleaf Gaming and Universal Poker Networks have a major new member following the glitzy launch this week of Victory Poker.com. Victory Poker officially launched in style with ‘Team Victory’, Hollywood and poker celebrities, and a charity poker tournament at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Highlights of the official red carpet […]
February 24, 2010
Online poker provider Pokerstars has released details of the next SCOOP (Spring Championship Of Online Poker) tournament, which is scheduled for May 3 and is to run for two weeks with guaranteed prize-pools totaling $36 million. The 33 events planned will embrace almost every form of poker, and will each have a choice of three […]
February 24, 2010
It seems an ever growing number of online gambling companies are entering into b2b deals in the industry, with the London-listed Devilfish Gaming the latest to ink a contract. Devilfish has signed an agreement to provide Germany’s giant Gauselmann GmbH leisure and entertainment group with development and advisory services with the goal of launching a […]
February 23, 2010
It took 22-year-old Anton Wigg of Sweden a tough four hours to beat his final opponent in the heads up of the PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen in Denmark this week, but it was worth the effort….he took home Euro 494 000, a seat in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and the respect of 422 […]
February 23, 2010
Last Sunday saw the fourth anniversary of the Pokerstars Sunday Million regular tournaments, and the world’s largest Internet poker provider did it in style with a record $4 million guaranteed prize-pool that brought in some 36 169 global poker fans, boosting the prize-pool to $7 233 800 – the largest Sunday Million treasure chest yet. […]
February 22, 2010
The well planned launch of Pokerstar.net’s inaugural North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas got off to a good start with its $5 000 buy-in NLHE tournament over the weekend, with 872 players registering, many of them well known names in international poker. Although the registrations fell short of the 890 player […]
February 22, 2010
As yet unconfirmed reports circulating on the popular poker message board twoplustwo suggest that FBI agents may be probing the activities of the Full Tilt Poker site, online poker’s second largest and global provider of Internet poker. The fact that agents have allegedly been contacting players in the state of Washington, the only state where […]