August 15, 2009
The announcement of a new poker challenge – this time live – by online and live poker ace Tom “durrr” Dwan has followers speculating that it may be an admission that the 50 000 hands in his original Challenge is too protracted a contest. NEW CHALLENGE FROM TOM DWAN – THIS TIME LIVE Has Dwan […]
August 15, 2009
The Pittsburgh Post reports that a Pennsylvania poker game organiser’s defence that poker is a game predominentely of skill and therefore falls outside gambling law restrictions has failed in a local court. 65-year-old Lawrence Burns was charged with twelve different illegal gambling misdemeanours in 2007 after enforcement officials accused him of running poker tournaments at […]
August 14, 2009
Midweek madness broke out at the Full Tilt high stakes NLHE virtual tables Wednesday as some of the top players on the Internet (or in live tournaments, for that matter) cruised in and started playing. According to MarketPulse, at the end of the session two well known names – Phil Galfond and Aaron Jones – […]
August 14, 2009
PokerStars.com has released its European Poker Tour London plans, which schedule September 30 to October 7 as the tournament dates. The tourney will take place at the Hilton Metropole Hotel and includes sixteen seperate events, making this the biggest PokerStars EPT Poker Festival yet. Notable among the events is the three-day EPT London GBP 20 […]
August 13, 2009
The 3D online poker site PKR.com’s latest software upgrade includes the launch of a new Jacks or Better VP game, the introduction of a useful extra financial option in PayPal and a new feature titled “cards up tables” which makes multi-tabling easier on the popular site. Players may now opt to sit at new ‘cards […]
August 13, 2009
The U.S. poker advocacy group Poker Players Alliance remains in the thick of things in the skill vs. chance legal debate still ongoing in Colorado. In its latest press release on the issue, the organisation has expressed its support for efforts to appeal a ruling in a state intermediate court that poker is predominately a […]
August 12, 2009
Four poker publications are to cooperate to grow established poker markets in Spain, Portugal and Brazil and add value to the existing poker communities following an agreement this week. Poker News founder and poker pro Tony Guoga met with João Nunes of PokerPT.com and PokerDoBrasil.com; Juan Barros of PokerPoquer.com and AmericanFlop.com and Ricardo Pinto in […]
August 12, 2009
The pressure to regulate intrastate poker in the tax-strapped state of California is increasing, according to a report this week in the Sacramento Bee. And the situation has created unlikely alliances, such as that between California card clubs and tribal casinos, long bitter political rivals, but now working together in a concerted, behind-the-scenes drive to […]
August 11, 2009
The inaugural season of the PokerStars.net Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour has concluded and enters the record books as a success, attracting a total of 1 309 competitors and prize pools worth US$ 2.4 million. The first four tour stop winners were Karl Krautschneider in Adelaide, Paren Arzoomanian in Sydney, Chris Levick in Melbourne and Danny […]
August 11, 2009
Last week was a profitable one for former Full Tilt professional David Benyamine, who returned to the nosebleed $300/$600 tables online after a short absence licking earlier wounds and ended up among the big money success stories as the week ended. Friday was a particularly good day for the adventurous pro as he clashed with […]