March 7, 2009
Full Tilt Poker.com is to improve its players’ chances of success through coaching by top poker pros following the opening of the site’s new Full Tilt Poker Academy this week. The teachers roster for the virtual classroom reads like a who’s who of land and online poker, including as it does Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, […]
March 7, 2009
Online poker coaching website Bluefire Poker has come up with a high rpofile initiative to draw attention to the skill vs. chance debate in poker – a $1 million challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama and any member of the United States Congress that an amateur player from Capitol Hill cannot defeat any of the […]
March 7, 2009
Spade Club.com, an online poker subscription website, is in the middle of an intensely member-participative drive to develop company T-shirts, which it will sell in an online store currently being planned. So far, over a hundred members-cum-designers have responded to the competition with a wide range of designs, which the company has on public display […]
March 6, 2009
33-year-old Louisiana bar owner and poker player Eric “Lafayette” Cloutier is in a world of trouble this week, acording to an Associated Press report. Following a nine month investigation, the former professional ice hockey player faces 505 charges involving tax evasion, fraud and money laundering, and has been arrested by Louisiana Alcohol and Tobacco Control […]
March 6, 2009
The independent online poker stats site MarketPulse reports that Phil Ivey enjoyed a profitable session Thursday at the Full Tilt Poker big-action virtual tables, taking over a million from formidable players like Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan and the ultra-cool Finnish player Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies. It’s been a bad week for Sahamies (see previous report) who lost […]
March 5, 2009
Tom “durrr” Dwan, the online poker pro who’s play is never dull, revved up the railbirds at Full Tilt Poker’s nose-bleed tables this week, taking a record (for 2009 thus far) pot of $594 000 from the formidable Finnish player Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies in an exciting heads up clash. Dwan emerged victorious from the match, […]
March 4, 2009
Redkings Poker has announced its successful acquisition of a Malta gambling licence. The licence gives Redkings additional accreditation to its Gibraltar licence through the Ongame network on which it operates. Licences from the Mediterranean Internet gambling centres and jurisdictions have become increasingly popular due to the white-listing for UK advertising which both Malta and Gibraltar […]
March 3, 2009
According to the independent online poker statistical site MarketPulse, many top online poker players continued to score bigtime during February games, mainly at high stakes Full Tilt Poker games, although there were those who took some serious losses, too. Biggest winner on the most popular NLHE list for February 2009 was Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro, who […]
March 3, 2009
It looks as if 2009 will be a busy year for the legislature and the courts in the state of Texas as moves to expand or liberalise gambling shape up. Starting the year off is the reintroduction by Representative Jose Menendez of HR 222, a bill which seeks to acknowledge poker as a game of […]
March 3, 2009
Loyalty rewards specialist firm Initial Rewards Limited has signed a three year deal with online poker network group Merge Gaming to provide loyalty platforms and support across all of the latter’s licenced brands. Initial director Lee Reuben said: “Through this deal with Merge Gaming, Initial Rewards re-affirms its leading position within the loyalty industry for […]