October 31, 2009
November 2nd will see he advent of a new poker show on Sky Sports television in the UK, sponsored by the giant online poker provider PokerStars.com. Branded ‘Bounty Stars of Poker’ and filmed by Emblaze Productions, the show takes amateur online qualifiers from PokerStars.com into a live TV environment where they will have to beat […]
October 29, 2009
Online poker operator ChiliPoker may be only three years old, but its ambitious management has taken it into several major deals. The most recent is a partnership agreement with GO Voyages to become the official partner for its new direct airline service from Paris to Las Vegas, operated by XL Airways, which will literally take […]
October 29, 2009
It was only sheer exhaustion that stopped Tom Dwan from continuing to play beyond 2 040 hands in his latest 50 000 hand Challenge match against Patrik Antonius this week. The two called it a night in the wee small hours of the morning, promising to continue later. The two pros met again in an […]
October 29, 2009
Ilari Sahamies, the intimidating Finnish high stakes cash game poker pro, pretty much swept all before him on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables mid-week, ending his night’s work with a profit of $1.1 million. Playing mostly on the now favoured 7-Game virtual tables, Sahamies continued to enhance the reputation of the genre for generating huge […]
October 29, 2009
2007 World Series of Poker Ladies Event champ Sally Ann Boyer is sufficiently angry and offended at Harrah’s Entertainment and the World Series of Poker Academy to open litigation against the two. The case revolves around claims by Boyer that Harrah’s and Post-Oak Productions trading as the World Series of Poker Academy used her name […]
October 29, 2009
Forbes magazine carried an interesting feature this week on the 43-year-old Internet entrepreneur behind some of the social networking scene’s most successful applications – Mark Pincus, a man who has made a fortune from giving networkers something to do. Pincus, who named his games provider company Zynga after a pet bulldog, explained the fundamental base […]
October 28, 2009
Narrow escapes and determined comebacks characterised the exciting victory of Queens, New York pro poker player Tommy Vedes as he took down the $15 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Festo al Lago tournament this week, taking home $1 218 225 for his efforts. Vedes’ previous best win was $352 832 at the 2009 WSOP NHLE […]
October 28, 2009
The numbers looked like a telephone directory as the big names came out to play Monday night on the online high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker.com. You have to feel for David Benyamine, who took another pounding, losing $434 000 to exacerbate his losses for the year to around $1.4 million. Other […]
October 26, 2009
French entrepreneur and poker player Christophe Benzimra, who had only two prior live tournament cashes to his name, surprised them all at the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Warsaw in Poland over the weekend, sweeping all before him at the final table. The week long tourney had attracted some of the biggest names in online and […]
October 25, 2009
The major online gambling and poker operator Sportingbet.com has become the latest company to sign up for the Damn Small Poker widget developed by software provider of acquisition strategies Trebax Innovations to promote its sites, which include Paradise Poker. DSP will be available immediately in Sportingbet’s English language markets and will subsequently expand to reach […]