February 18, 2009
Steve Lipscomb’s World Poker Tour will continue to fill television screens for the forseeable future following an extension of the broadcast agreement between Fox Sports Network and the poker company signed this week. The new deal will include episodes from Season VIII which begins filming in the middle of this year and will consist of […]
February 18, 2009
Players at the Poker Host.com online poker venue, currently operating on the Microgaming Poker Network, have started speculating on Internet message boards that the site may soon be seeking a new home. The current conjecture is that the owners are unhappy with excluding US players and are therefore contemplating a move to a more US-friendly […]
February 18, 2009
With bans at PokerStars, Full Tilt and Party Poker besmirching his now dicky reputation, you would think that Josh Field aka JJProdigy, ablackcar and who knows how many other aliases would have developed some morality and ethics by now, but it appears such a epiphany is not to be. This talented – but apparently integrity […]
February 17, 2009
The eleventh outing for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series ended on a high note this week with the conclusion of two big money events that generated high entries and big prize money, and a new record for tourney entries. The $500+$35 NL Hold’em Main Event presented players with a $2.5 million guaranteed prize pool […]
February 17, 2009
Pokerstars.com, the world’s undisputed largest Internet poker website has set another new record for the industry – 25 billion hands of poker achieved on February 16 2009. Over the past week the site has been hyping the imminent dealing of its 25 billionth hand, with relevant promotions and cash awards to tables on the run-up […]
February 16, 2009
Online poker industry observers and legal experts are currently watching a key case play out in a South Carolina court, where Municipal Judge Larry Duffy has been hearing expert argument on the skill vs. chance poker issue, critical in establishing whether the defendants in the case committed an offence against state law. So far the […]
February 16, 2009
The weekend saw over $2 million paid out in online poker badbeat jackpots at just two networks, Merge and Cereus. On Saturday the Merge network reported that its $1.2 million bad beat jackpot had been won the night before, distributing $417 396 to player Ruggio and $208 698 to a Chicago student working his way […]
February 16, 2009
Trust is a critical element in online gambling, and therefore poker site operators may be concerned by the results of a new study by a British research company that shows that as many as 50 percent of respondents mistrust online poker websites. The Great British Poker Survey was carried out by the independent research company […]
February 16, 2009
The fifth edition of Party Poker’s European Open has been won by Welsh poker pro for the last three years Roberto Romanello (32), who was overcome with emotion after taking down the first major title of his career and scooping the $200 000 winner’s prize. The Swansea pro triumphed over European number one Marc Goodwin […]
February 15, 2009
PokerStars.com, the world’s largest online poker site, has come to the rescue of thousands of poker players following the shutdown recently of the poker subscription site Fleet Street Games.com (see previous report). Fleet Street was just one of several such sites which have failed in the currently tough economic times. Launched in February 2008, Fleet […]