March 18, 2009
Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan and Patrik Antonius got it together for another session in their 50 000 hand million dollar poker challenge this week after delays caused by over-full calendars and movements around the globe. The two poker aces mixed it up over another nine hundred hands and three hours, bringing the total played so far […]
March 18, 2009
PokerStars.com, the world’s largest Internet poker site, integrates with the land poker industry tomorrow as it opens the brand new “PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa” live poker room at the Grand Lisboa Casino. Located on the second floor of the famous Grand Lisboa in the heart of Macau, PokerStars Macau will be the largest […]
March 18, 2009
Online poker operator Everest Poker is making a name for itself with quirky player surveys, such as how different nationalities play, with the latest in the genre examining the impact of external events on a player’s ability to function well at the poker tables. After a six month study, the company has found that relationships, […]
March 18, 2009
Online poker company Poker Star’s live poker tourney in Mexico, the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Mexico, was disrupted and the main event halted following a ban by local Nuevo Vallarta bureaucrats late last year, requiring the company to reorganise what was left of the main event to ensure it was fairly concluded for the […]
March 17, 2009
Full Tilt Poker management’s decision to boost the guarantee on the prize pool for its main weekend million dollar tourney was vindicated by big player turnouts last weekend, with “grimmy101” taking home an impressive $216 000 as the winner – a good return on the $500+$35 buy-in. 2 355 entrants registered for the event, inluding […]
March 17, 2009
Online poker players with Macs who are looking for a better way to manage their poker tournaments might want to look over the latest version of Poker Manager from Romain Cosentino’s CocoaTree Applications (formerly rcSofts). The company claims that the second iteration of the software shows blinds, time elapsed, time left for the round, average […]
March 17, 2009
Police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia acted on a tip-off and raided an apartment block in the city on Saturday afternoon, arresting 25 persons allegedly either organising or taking part in an illegal poker tournament. Those arrested included the tournament organiser and several college students, reports the New Straits Times. Police spokesman Asst Comm Wan Abdul […]
March 17, 2009
Jacob Avery, a researcher in the University of Las Vegas’s fellowship program in gaming studies, delivered the latest lecture in the Gaming Studies Colloquium Series, titled “The Social Worlds of Everyday Poker Players” last week, taking a look at why poker players find it so hard to quit whilst winning. Opining that past research focused […]
March 15, 2009
27-year-old German graphics designer, model and Full Tilt Poker pro Sandra ‘Black Mamba’ Naujoks took home the European Poker Tour Dortmund trophy and the Euro 917 000 winner’s prize over the weekend after an exciting heads up with fellow German Holger Kanisch, a 27-year-old economic science student at the University of Wuppertal. The heads up […]
March 13, 2009
The largest online poker site on Playtech’s iPoker network, Titan Poker.com, dished out the dosh this week following its giant $2.5 guaranteed tournament. A regular for the past 2 years, “Ragen” took down the main prize of $525 000 after slugging it out for a total of 13 hours and 28 minutes. Ragen started playing […]