April 7, 2009
The European dedicated gaming television network The Poker Channel has announced two new distribution agreements in Portuguese cable deals with MEO, the fastest growing operator in the country, and ZON, the largest digital network operator in the country. The Poker Channel will be available 24 hours a day to MEO’s basic subscribers from this week […]
April 6, 2009
Gibraltar based and UK listed online gambling group PartyGaming plc has signed an exclusive agreement to launch an online poker tournament service in Italy for Intralot S.A., one of the world’s largest suppliers of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems to state-owned lotteries. The deal makes Intralot the first member of PartyGaming’s poker network in […]
April 6, 2009
The most popular application on the huge online social networking website Facebook is Texas Hold ’em Poker, which is played by a staggering 11 million of the site’s 200 million users, according to a report over the weekend in the Financial Times. It’s a staggering number of people interested in online poker and a medium […]
April 5, 2009
Tower Gaming, a Gibraltar-licensed online poker site on the Ongame network, has announced the second edition of the popular online poker tournament Grand Series of Poker II, which will present twice as many events, more qualifiers, and new challenges when it opens April 12th to 26th 2009. With $3 400 000 in the guaranteed prize […]
April 4, 2009
Texas Rep. Jose Menendez’ proposal to legalise poker in the Lone Star state remained on track this week, successfully passing through the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee on a 6-3 vote, conditional on a referendum among local communities that would empower Texans to vote on the issue. “Poker players are the only people in the […]
April 4, 2009
The organisers of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), which kicked off Friday, will be more than happy with the massive support the first event received. The NLHE Six-Max with Rebuys event attracted an entry field of 27 134 players! Despite the low buy-in of $5.50, the sheer size of the entry field […]
April 3, 2009
Last November two talented young players faced off across the felt in the Rio’s Amazon Room in Las Vegas, ready to do battle for the respect and more than $9 million that goes with the World Series of Poker championship main event winner’s prize. Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate had triumphed over an entry field […]
April 3, 2009
The poker term “All In” took on a whole new meaning for a St. Petersburg, Florida Internet poker player this week when his online game at home was interrupted by a violent crash, and he found a large SUV literally all in his house. The driver of the vehicle had missed a T-junction, instead ploughing […]
April 2, 2009
Most innovative poker marketing idea this week comes from BestPoker.com on the Ongame Internet poker network, which is currently running qualifiers for its inaugural “Poker in the Sky” tournament. The qualifiers are designed to whittle what is expected to be a large entry field down to just 22 players, who will then be hoisted 150 […]
April 1, 2009
The contentious area of Danish land poker, which has in the past seen police raids on tournaments, messy court decisions on the skill vs. chance issue, and even messier ruling reversals on appeal, could be about to see some legislative improvements, according to Danish media reports. The government-tasked Danish Poker Committee has made non-binding recommendations […]