March 13, 2009
Pacific Poker.com is putting the finishing touches to an ambitious promotion that will see an online poker player win a seat in the next star-studded Cannes Charity Poker Event – a private charity tournament that will run in tandem with the Cannes Film Festival later this year. Scheduled for May 19th 2009, the high profile […]
March 13, 2009
The first World Poker Tour tournament to be held in Africa will be a five star poker happening in October 2009 at the Casino De Marrakech in Morocco with a reasonable buy-in of Euro 4 500, and an up-and-coming online poker website has partnered with WPT in promoting the event. The CEO of Chilipoker.com, Alexandre […]
March 12, 2009
Phil Galfond’s new online poker training venture Bluefire Poker and the UK 3D Internet poker site PKR.com have agreed to collaborate for the benefit of the latter’s players. PKR.com will act as Bluefire Poker’s exclusive partner across Europe, with Bluefire pros providing regular and original strategy content for both the PKR.com website and PKR TV. […]
March 12, 2009
World Series of Poker organisers Harrah’s Entertainment released new WSOP rules this week that include a “play nice” provision under the heading “Code of Player Conduct”. The rules cover the use of profane language and provocative conduct at the tables, along with restrictions on sponsor logos at televised feature and final tables and an admonition […]
March 11, 2009
For 207 years the US state of South Carolina has maintained a law against any games using cards or dice, but that could be about to change. The antiquity of the law makes it ineffective in a new era where games and attitudes have changed, and Charleston senator and Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell […]
March 11, 2009
Gibraltar-based Party Poker.com launches its audacious Million Dollar Hand promotion today (March 11th 2009) which will run through to 22nd March. The promotion offers the chance to win a cool $1 million or more through action at the website’s real money tables. Players will get a playing card for every 15 PartyPoints they earn during […]
March 10, 2009
Online poker players at the Swedish government’s gambling monopoly Svenske Spel have been given another optional tool with which to pace their action with the launch of Spelstatus, which shows users how much they have won or lost on total in poker since starting to play the game at the Svenska Spel website. Mikael Franzén, […]
March 10, 2009
The romantic and historic city of Venice will be the venue for the first major poker tournament in Italy currently being planned by the World Poker Tour for May 6 – 10, 2009. The tournament will be held at the Casino di Venezio, with a buy-in of Euro 4 000+Euro 400, with the winner taking […]
March 9, 2009
With a competitor list of 64 of the top poker players in the world, a buy-in of $20 000 generating a prize pool of $1.28 million and a first prize of $500 000, the 2009 NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship lived up to expectations this week, delivering an exciting tournament of champions which culminated […]
March 8, 2009
The numbers are staggering, attracting as much attention as the billions that governments are throwing at sub-prime crisis mortgage banks; Pokerstars talks in the millions and billions when it comes to online poker action. Millions in tournaments, billions in poker hands dealt online and now the news that the giant Internet poker website recently signed […]