September 9, 2009
The internationally famous – and now professionally retired – Aussie cricketer Shane Warne will be on Australian television screens in a poker role soon following a 888.com marketing move exploiting the interest in the recent England vs. Australia Ashes test cricket series. Shane Warne’s Poker Ashes will be the first major poker television show of […]
September 9, 2009
The combined Californian card rooms and Morongo tribe push for legalised online poker has been put on the back burner whilst additional concerns are addressed, a spokesman fot the Morongo Band of Mission Indians revealed this week. My Desert.com reports that Patrick Dorinson, a spokesman for the tribe that operates Morongo Casino Resort Spa near […]
September 8, 2009
Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies was back at the high stakes online poker tables with a vengeance over the weekend, enjoying a profitable run mainly at the expense of one of the world’s top players, Phil Ivey. According to statistics from the independent information site MarketPulse, Sahamies has prevailed on two consecutive nights, making close to half […]
September 8, 2009
The current edition of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued to pack ’em in at the weekend with Event 9 – the $215 buy-in NLHE competition alone attracting an entry field of some 11 131 players, and the following event, number 10, registering 300 poker aces prepared to pay the $10 300 […]
September 8, 2009
Creating fertile grounds for speculation and debate this week comes the news that the International Poker Network operated by Boss Media plans to introduce fines on overly generous licensees on the network come November this year. The motive behind the measure is apparently to encourage the skins to attract a greater number of recreational (and […]
September 6, 2009
The fast-growing Cake Poker Network has been having “connectivity problems” that have resulted in serious interruption of services, the network announced on its blog over the weekend. The announcement read: “Over the last week, the Cake Network experienced a series of connectivity issues that has culminated in a prolonged interruption of services. We have now […]
September 5, 2009
Patrick Antonius and Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan played another short episode in their 50 000-hand, million dollar endurance challenge as the week ended, but it was an unremarkable clash that saw Dwan come out ahead by around $27 000. The two played 458 hands in which another $37 million crossed the felt, and moved the whole […]
September 5, 2009
The organisers of an ambitious attempt to pit 25 sports legends against 25 top poker pros at the swanky Atlantis resort in the Bahamas have had to call the event off due to lack of interest. The much-hyped tournament, headed by Sports Legends Challenge CEO Bruce Bibbero, was scheduled for September 14 to 17, and […]
September 5, 2009
The latest edition of the PokerStars World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) is now in full swing, with the first event – the $215 buy-in NLHE 6-max – attracting a healthy entry field of 8 538. The guaranteed prize pool soared to $1 707 600 and was divided apportioned among the final table survivbors as […]
September 5, 2009
It’s full steam ahead for Matchroom Sport and the UK 3D online poker room PKR.com as arrangements for the inaugural PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam live tournament in London surge ahead. The event is scheduled to from October 8-10, 2009 at 3 Mills Studio. GrandSlam will see 32 of the world’s best players battling it out […]