November 5, 2009
The latest edition – the fourteenth – in the popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series of Internet poker tournaments has just kicked off, offering 25 events and over $16 million in prizemoney to online pokerheads around the world. With buy-ins ranging from $100 to $2 500, there are possibilities for a wide range of bankrolls. […]
November 5, 2009
The Pokerstars UK and Ireland Poker Tour is currently being set up and will comprise nine events across Britain and Ireland, commencing with the Euro 2 000 buy-in Galway tourney at the Radisson Hotel in December. This will be followed by the first of the English venues, at the Grosvenor G Casino in Manchester on […]
November 5, 2009
The Houston, Texas-based Internet software developer 32nd Degree has released a new iPhone application that allows poker players to record, review, discuss, and share live Texas Hold’Em hands. The free application, dubbed ‘Hold’Em Hand History’, allows players to quickly record all the details of live poker hands from start to finish. After saving the details […]
November 3, 2009
Mandatory SEC declarations by World Poker Tour Enterprises Monday morning explain why shareholders rejected an offer for the company that was three times the value of one already on the table The Form 8-K filed by WPTE advises that the directors considered an initial approach by Mandalay Media on October 29th in which it sought […]
November 3, 2009
The UK-based online gambling group Virgin Games is aiming for a 5 percent share of Italy’s booming online poker market within a year of its start-up, reports the Reuters news agency, quoting the chief executive of Virgin Games, Simon Burridge, this week. Virgin’s online poker is operated in a revenue-sharing partnership with Italy’s Cogetech SpA, […]
November 3, 2009
November 14th is a date many pokerheads have outlined in red on their calendars; after weeks of anticipation it marks the start – or re-start – of the World Series of Poker action, specifically the final table climax in which nine finalists battle it out. Besting 6 494 other entrants in the WSOP main event […]
November 2, 2009
Mandalay Media’s last minute attempt to snatch World Poker Tour Enterprises from PartyGaming’s acquisition offer appears to have failed. The special shareholders’ meeting which Mandalay sought to have postponed (see previous reports) was held on the 30 October as planned, and the Party Gaming deal has been accepted by the shareholders despite being substantially inferior […]
November 2, 2009
After just short of two years with Paddy Power as head of online marketing, Fintan Costello has made a career switch by moving to PokerStars as senior marketing manager. A BSc graduate in Business and Finance from Dublin City University, Costello commenced his career running his own web design and marketing company – Contender Media […]
October 31, 2009
The Mandalay Media last-minute attempt to snatch World Poker Tour Enterprises from earlier bidder and Party Gaming subsidiary Peerless Media (see previous report) continued to excite press attention going into the weekend. In what appeared to be a response to possibly counter bidding, Mandalay Media increased its $35 million cash and stock offer further on […]
October 31, 2009
Phil Ivey’s bad week at the Full Tilt high stakes cash game online tables perked up as the week closed with a profit on Pot Limit Omaha of over a million – mainly at the expense of Tom Dwan, who haemorrhaged over a million through the night. Ivey’s cards and talent enabled him to hammer […]