December 8, 2009
Mystery Swedish online poker phenom Isildur1 came back from a losing streak in his latest visit to the Full Tilt nosebleed tables, taking some serious revenge on those who had taken millions from him recently. In a staggering series of high stakes games the still unidentified high roller recouped some $3.1 million for his badly […]
December 8, 2009
The Pokerstars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Sydney Grand Final ended in a local vistory this weekend as online qualifier Aaron Benton of Wollongong, New South Wales, bested a field of 395 to take the main A$594 000 prize and the trophy. Benton, a 32-year-old personnel consultant, said that he played on the Internet and in […]
December 8, 2009
Vancouver Internet services group Intelimax Media Inc. has announced the completion of development on its Gamboozle platform, a new proprietary subscription model gaming platform to be launched on Gamboozle.com in early January. The company hopes to generate revenues from a continual growth in membership and additional revenues from advertising, and cites a current captive market […]
December 6, 2009
Online poker fan Neil Moodie (38) made the court records this week when he escaped conviction on a technical point for publishing a bare-breasted photo of his former girlfriend on an online poker website personal profile. The case serves as a reminder that the Internet can be a very public place. Moodie’s troubles started when […]
December 6, 2009
Online poker pro Tom Dwan will be hoping that his change of fortune for the better hangs around after coming through the losing doldrums and making almost $980 000 Friday. Recent weeks have seen this multi-million dollar pro become – in monetary terms – one of the biggest losers in online poker, but the tenacious […]
December 6, 2009
The furore surrounding the failure of Pitbull Poker.com, with a slew of stories of players losing their winnings and tales of attempts to remove assets from a Costa Rica premises overnight (see previous reports) seems to have quietened down, but one tenacious player and affiliate marketer is not giving up. Whilst the hubbub on major […]
December 5, 2009
After taking some horrendous bankroll hits last week the mysterious Swedish online high stakes player Isildur1 took a brief break, but was back on Full Tilt’s nosebleed section once more as the week closed. Unfortunately for the man the whole poker sector is talking about, the break did little to change his luck, and the […]
December 3, 2009
The world record set only days ago of completing 40 088 hands of online poker in 18 hours and 33 minutes (see previous report) set by a 22-year-old Russian player has already been broken. American online player and blogger at http://joeingram1.liquidpoker.net/ ‘ChicagoJoe’ cracked the Russian record set by player ‘innerpsy’ by completing 50 000 hands […]
December 3, 2009
The respected US-based online poker software developer Cyberarts, famed for its flexible Foundation platform, is now 35 percent owned by Greek lottery provider Intralot’s interactive subsidiary I2, which has also cornered the right to increase its involvement to a majority holding. I2 md Andreas Papoulias said this week that the move into Cyberarts not only […]
December 2, 2009
Followers of the incredible high stakes action of mystery Full Tilt nosebleed player Isildur1 were left wondering whether he would be back for more following another crippling night Monday that saw his bankroll seriously depleted. Online poker pro Brian Townsend, who has already profited handsomely from the Swede, was the first to get into him […]