December 1, 2009
Gioia International Limited has signed with Red Planet Gaming Inc for the launch of Real Deal Poker.com, a new concept in online poker that does away with the need for random number generators. Unlike all other online poker sites that use RNG’s to deal cards, Gioia has developed two unique products in the market – […]
December 1, 2009
After a couple of narrow escapes against some formidable opposition, and starting the final table with one of the lowest chip stacks, former Irish football star Tony Cascarino has emerged triumphant in the GUKPT Grand Final main event in London. The final table looked included the following players: Tony Cascarino, Antoine Arnault, Philip Patrick, Daniel […]
December 1, 2009
The roller coaster that is Isildur1 hit the online poker high stakes tables again Sunday in three epic clashes with Finnish pro Ilari Sahamies that saw millions cross the table…and back again. In two different million dollar confrontations, the two started playing over 4 different $500/$1 000 Pot-Limit Omaha tables that saw some spectacular bluffs […]
December 1, 2009
Two of the regular Sunday online poker tournaments last weekend delivered big entry fields and significant main prizes, with plenty of action over the Thanksgiving holiday period. In the Pokerstars Sunday Million almost 9 100 Internet pokerheads paid the buy-in of $200+$15, generating a prizepool of $1 815 400 and delivering six figure payouts to […]
November 30, 2009
Are you one of the many online poker fans impatient to see the end of the Dwan 50 000 hand Challenge before the Apocalypse? Started early this year and still barely half completed, the Challenge has stretched the patience of many observers with its sluggish on/off performance. A 22-year-old Russian pro showed this week that […]
November 29, 2009
The embarrassingly public and very acrimonious payment dispute between PICClub and the Merge online poker network (see previous reports) seems to be headed for the courts judging by recent posts on an online gambling information message board by PIC chief executive Chuck Kidd. It now appears that the outstanding monies owed to players have been […]
November 28, 2009
In days rather than weeks, the mystery Swedish high stakes online poker player Isildur1 has gone from a downswing that saw him lose $5 million to a recovery of $2.2 million, and he’s done it at the expense of some of Internet poker’s best exponents. Thursday saw Isildur1 back on Full Tilt, playing across several […]
November 27, 2009
The British social games developer Playfish Limited has executed a beta launch of its new ‘Poker Rivals’ application on the giant social networking site Facebook. London-based Playfish was recently purchased for a reported $400 million by eletronic gaming industry giant Electronic Arts and is testing the waters with its new product following the success of […]
November 27, 2009
Mystery online poker high roller Isildur1 was back on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Wednesday night to continue his exciting million dollar assaults on some of the world’s top Internet players. Initially, he did rather well, playing Dwan, Antonius and others on the six-max $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha virtual tables and scoring a quick […]
November 26, 2009
It’s a series of clashes between online poker titans that has reenergised interest in Internet high stakes poker, and it appeas to gain rather than lose intensity despite the huge stakes involved – we’re talking the NHLE and PLO matches being played out on the Internet nosebleed tables between mystery Swede Isildur1 – who just […]