September 4, 2009
The Online Railbird Report has published its always interesting overview of the big winners and losers on the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker. The biggest winners in August were Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin (+$2.44 million) – although he’s taken a bit of a caning more recently; Cole South (+$1.58 million) and Brian […]
September 3, 2009
The legal requirements regarding numbers supporting an attempt to put online poker on the state ballot in Massachusetts have been the downfall of an attempt by the Poker Players Alliance and other interested parties to take poker to the next level in the state. Associated Press reports that Attorney General Martha Coakley ruled Wednesday that […]
September 2, 2009
The Cereus Network’s UltimateBet.com online poker website has responded to demand from Mac-users by launching a full-on Mac-compatible version of its software. “Our company strives to make our poker room accessible to as many people as possible and we recognize that Apple computers have a growing market share in the personal computing industry,” explained Paul […]
September 2, 2009
MarketPulse reports that war appears to have broken out on the virtual tables at Full Tilt Poker over the past 24 hours with giant pots won and lost. Just about the only big online high stakes players absent from the action fest were apparently Phil Ivey and the mysterious Mantonas. The action was principally on […]
September 2, 2009
Earlybird delegates to the upcoming EiG conference in Copenhagen later this (September) month will have an extra diversion to visit in the Danish city – Party Poker.com and Ace Magazine have teamed up to create Poker in the Sky, taking place on Friday 11 September. Poker in the Sky literally rises above everything that you’ve […]
August 31, 2009
The weekend saw nine survivors from an original entry field of 429 in the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour main event commence battle in Macau. The final table comprised Dermot Blain, Mike Kim, Daoxing ‘Boa Boa’ Chen, Darkhan Botabayev, Pontus Kers, Jicheng Su, Dbinder Singh, Brandon Demes and Stefan Hjorthall, with the last-named the […]
August 31, 2009
One of Australia’s favourite gambling vehicles – poker machine games commonly referred to as ‘pokies’ – are at the centre of a new row building Downunder. Eight of the 134 games approved since December 2007 have a level of volatility which is higher than that recommended by the Australia/New Zealand Gaming Machine National Standard, but […]
August 30, 2009
Monies that were seized by federal orders on their way through e-cash companies and banks to pay US online poker players will not be released, a US District Judge in San Diego ruled as the week came to a close. The funds, which are understood to amount to some $13 million in the San Diego […]
August 30, 2009
Just a reminder that the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is about to get going, and this year will feature 45 events No-Limit, Razz, Pot-Limit Omaha, Fixed-Limit Hold’em, 8-Game Mix, Pot-Limit Hold’em, Badugi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Fixed-Limit Omaha Fixed-Limit Triple Draw, H.O.R.S.E, 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, and the newly introduced No-Limit Omaha. […]
August 29, 2009
iPoker, the online poker network for Playtech-powered gambling websites has announced a $1 million guaranteed prize pool tournament branded Monthly Million, which will start September 13th. Direct buy-ins of $535 are offered, along with satellite qualifiers around $1.10 for players on participating iPoker skins. Featuring 30-minute blind levels, Monthly Million players will start with a […]