October 25, 2009
203 entries from 33 countries have ponied up around Euro 6 000 each for a crack at the over Euro 1 million prizepool on offer at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Warsaw tournament, which this weekend comes to a climax with a very competitive final table. Entrants to the event included Alexander Kravchenko, Luca Pagano, […]
October 25, 2009
A war of words could be shaping up between online poker payment processor Players Investment Company (PIC) and the Merge Poker Network following the ending of a business relationship between the two organisations. Last week Chuck Kidd, the PIC chief executive, despatched an email to his players announcing the end of PIC’s agreements with Merge […]
October 24, 2009
Professional poker player Clonie Gowen’s $40 million attempt to sue Full Tilt Poker et al for breach of contract (see previous reports) has been dismissed a second time by a federal judge, although she has one last shot at a resolution. The suit concerns alleged oral agreements some years ago on a share in Full […]
October 23, 2009
In an interesting parallel story to the Kentucky hearings, LexisNexis Butterworths reported on a legal preemptive strike through its domain name registrar but clearly aimed at the state of Kentucky…before a British court! Full Tilt Poker owners Pocket Kings Limited took issue with the English domain registrar Safenames Limited and another in case EWCH 2529 […]
October 23, 2009
Full Tilt Poker’s online nosebleed tables created a haemorrhage for high stakes cash game pro David Benyamine mid-week when he lost bigtime, mainly to Gus Hansen and Ilari Sahamies, leaving the virtual 7-Game tables down by $405 000. Benyamine has had better years, and to date is down overall by almost a million dollars. For […]
October 22, 2009
Those sports-minded marketers at online poker giant PokerStars.com have scored another promotional try by inking an agreement with Britain’s Rugby Football Union. The deal follows a slew of sports sponsorships by the Internet poker firm that have seen it positively associated with Mexican soccer teams, superior whiskey and luxury sports cars. In addition, the company […]
October 22, 2009
Tokwiro Enterprises subsidiary and member of the Cereus online poker network Ultimatebet.com is planning to warm up the competitive atmosphere in Europe with the launch of UltimateBet.de, a dedicated German language information website that will outline the company’s all new series of live poker tournaments destined for Germany and the Czech Republic. Company spokesmen said […]
October 21, 2009
Party Poker.com’s latest online poker software update sees the introduction of a new bounty tournament facility this week, the highlight of a product upgrade that also sees the introduction of a ‘remember table layout’ feature and enhanced players notes. Bounty tournaments allow players to profit by knocking other players out. A PartyPoker spokesman said the […]
October 21, 2009
Ulitimate Fighting Championships (UFC), a subsidiary of the martial arts and fight club group Zuffa LLC is offering its many followers the chance to slug it out on the virtual poker tables. Emails and forum postings by UFC members indicate that the company has signed up with the NLOP.com free-play online poker site, offering legal-in-the-US […]
October 20, 2009
Fears that the popularity of poker as a tournament game may be waning were put aside this week when Boylepoker reported that its International Poker Open tournament in Dublin, Ireland had attracted an entry field the envy of most countries outside the United States. The $250 buy-in NLHE event pulled in 1 440 players from […]