January 26, 2010
The burgeoning Cake Poker Network has added eight new poker rooms including international poker ace Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak’s new site Unabomber Poker.com “We knew we wanted to launch the sickest poker site possible,” said Laak. “By joining a network that focuses on player rewards and accepts players world-wide we knew we would be starting […]
January 26, 2010
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Deauville, France has been won by a 21-year-old largely unknown poker pro called Jake Cody, who took down names like ‘Timex’ McDonald, former WSOP main event champ Peter Eastgate and Internet whiz Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier in the process, besting an entry field of 767 other players – many of […]
January 26, 2010
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a Washington-based poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended the generosity of poker players in contributing to support relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. “Like the rest of the world, the poker community is eager to do anything it can to aid Haiti in the […]
January 26, 2010
In the land Downunder, the Aussie Millions main event is in progress with an entry field so far of 476 players, many of them top names in the game, and more expected to register Tuesday. Names famous in both live and online poker games were among the entries, including Erick Lindgren, Tom Dwan, Sorel Mizzi, […]
January 25, 2010
The online poker site Fantasy Poker.com has informed its players that it is moving to the US-friendly Merge Poker Network and will require up to 2 weeks to complete the integration, starting January 31st. Poker Fantasy gave no reasons for its move to the Kahnawake-licensed Merge network, but advised players that its 24/7 Support would […]
January 24, 2010
Player communication, or the lack thereof, was a criticism levelled at companies involved in an online poker merger this week. Everleaf Gaming Network, which permits US action, and the Europe-facing Universal Poker Network partnered up on January 19th to offer a larger network with more player liquidity. The merged network has yet to be branded, […]
January 24, 2010
Speed is important to many online poker players, especially those adept at multi-tabling, and the tracking and analysis specialist platform Holdem Manager has come up with the answer. Enter Table Ninja, which the company is offering on a 30 day trial, confident in its ability to convince turbo-players on sites like Pokerstars that this is […]
January 22, 2010
Party Gaming’s online poker division, Party Poker continued to build its increasingly interesting professional player team this week with the addition of the often controversial, aggressive and outspoken Antanas “TonyG” Guoga, who lives in Melbourne, Australia but travels the world playing major tournaments. He joins a pro team that includes Kara Scott, Felipe Ramos, Bodo […]
January 21, 2010
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, the international poker ace, has added an online bingo site on the Entraction network to his range of betting sites held under the Devilfish Gaming publicly listed company. DevilfishBingo.com offers players both 75 and 90 ball Internet bingo, and Ulliot himself is involved in the calling action, often putting amusing and perhaps […]
January 21, 2010
With gambling liberalisation growing closer, the increasingly hectic French market saw yet another partnership deal between major companies taking shape this week. The state gambling monopoly Francaise des Jeux and land casino group Lucien Barriere were reported to be teaming up to launch a seriously competitive online poker site, the newspaper Le Figaro reported. The […]