April 23, 2009
Poker fans Downunder saw the first edition of a new magazine catering to their interests this week in the form of PokerNews Australasia, which heralds PokerNetwork’s expansion into more diversified forms of media and will be available at Australian casinos and poker rooms. The bi-monthly publication will contain the latest in Australian and world poker […]
April 22, 2009
Asian Poker Tour CEO Chris Parker has advised that a significant number of leading online poker rooms have already signed up to provide online qualifiers for its popular Macau event, which this year will run from August 12 through 23, 2009. Last year’s six day event has been redesigned into a record breaking 12 day […]
April 21, 2009
Dominik Nitsche, an 18-year-old online poker player from Minden in Germany is the new champion in the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour after a Grand Finale in Argentina that attracted an entry field of 291 pokerheads from around the globe. Nitsche qualified online at PokerStars for the tournament, saving himself the $5 200 buy-in, and […]
April 21, 2009
Entrants for the World Poker Tour Venice live poker tournament – and there are expected to be many – will enjoy the beautiful setting of the Casino di Venetia on the banks of Venice’s world famous Grand Canal when they’re not battling it out on the felt. WPT announced the venue for the tournment’s main […]
April 20, 2009
Internet gambling opponents who use the argument that Internet gambling is especially addictive had a setback this week with the release of news from a recent Harvard study. The respected daily college newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, reported that the study was conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions and suggests that the widespread […]
April 19, 2009
The “Ante Up for Africa” charity fundraising poker tournaments started in the United States will see increased exposure in Europe this year, thanks to a new initiative by the online poker giant PokerStars.com. When the fifth season of the PokerStars-sponsored European Poker Tour holds its Grand Final in Monte Carlo later this (April) month it […]
April 18, 2009
The chairman of the Poker Players Association, former Senator Alphonse D’Amato, told Associated Press this week that the pressure group has a lobbying budget of $3 million that it will devote to overturning the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, or deploy to at the very least carve out an exemption that would legalise and regulate […]
April 17, 2009
Henrik Tollefsen was some distance from home this week when he was crowned Norwegian Poker Champion 2009 at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham, UK. The reason? Norwegian authorities continue to cling to outdated laws which have made it advisable for the country’s booming poker playing population to stage their tourneys elsewhere. Tollefsen’s […]
April 17, 2009
Officials of the Indiana Gaming Control Division conducted an evening raid on The Card Room in Richmond, Indiana this week briefly detaining 16 residents of the city on gambling charges. Larry Rollins, a spokesman for the division, told local media that the 16 players were betting in a game of Texas Hold ‘Em. “We received […]
April 16, 2009
World Poker Tour has confirmed that it is expanding its European Poker Circuit to embrace Barcelona in Spain and the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The announcement follows an earlier notification that the WPT would be hosting events in Venice, Italy and Morocco in May and October 2009 respectively. The Barcelona event will take place between […]