December 1, 2008
Barely two days after launching, Tokwiro Enterprises’ Cereus poker network, comprised of UltimateBet and Absolute Poker players, has awarded a Bad Beat jackpot of note to a novice Texas Hold ‘Em player. Barely two days after launching, Tokwiro Enterprises’ Cereus poker network, comprised of UltimateBet and Absolute Poker players, has awarded a Bad Beat jackpot […]
December 1, 2008
Clearly as part of the build-up to Sunday’s Sixty Minutes program on Internet poker, on which it collaborated (see previous reports), the Washington Post published the first part of an article on the Mohawks of Kahnawake over the weekend. Post writer Gilbert M. Gaul reported on the ownership of Absolute Poker.com and UltimateBet.com by naming […]
December 1, 2008
Poker pros JC Tran and TonyG battled it out in the heads up of the 5 day long third edition of the PartyPoker Premier League, which culminated over the weekend. The tournament saw twelve of the world’s top internet and land players pitted against each other in a series of heats leading to the final […]
December 1, 2008
Early consensus of online poker players on the poker message boards seems to be that the widely publicised CBS “Sixty Minutes” television program Sunday did not make the industry look as bad as it could have done. Despite having rather confused perceptions on the ‘illegality’ of the game in the United States, and some negative […]
December 1, 2008
The Washington Post has published its full five page article on Internet poker, titled “Players Gamble on Honesty, Security of Internet Betting” and written by Gilbert M. Gaul, who worked with Sixty Minutes television producers in preparing Sunday’s program on the same subject The full article can be read here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901679.html In the piece, Gaul […]
December 1, 2008
The rights to the advanced 3D poker software of the now defunct UK firm Playwize plc have been acquired by the Isle of Man-based Internet gambling software provider Microgaming. A company spokesman described the deal as a further move in the Microgaming quest to deliver innovative, high quality and interactive gaming experiences to operators and […]
November 28, 2008
Rumours earlier this (November) month that the World Poker Tour was about to remove the Borgata Poker Open from its schedule of 2009 events have been confirmed by the company. The Borgata Poker Open was slated for the end of January 29, but is now no longer on the WPT Season 7 program. When we […]
November 27, 2008
Paul Leggett, the COO of Tokwiro Enterprises, was busy midweek briefing employees on the upcoming Sixty Minutes television expose of the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet scandals and the online poker industry in general BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES (Update) Tokwiro briefs employees on Sixty Minutes program Paul Leggett, the COO of Tokwiro Enterprises, was busy midweek […]
November 26, 2008
Cereus Poker Network, owned by Tokwiro Enterprises and comprised of players from that Kahnawake company’s two online poker rooms Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, has launched. And judging by initial attendance when InfoPowa checked the venue out – some 17 500 players around 1pm Eastern Standard Time – interest levels are high. Both participating sites had […]
November 26, 2008
Four months of collaborative journalistic investigation by the Washington Post and CBS television’s famed “60 Minutes” television producers culminate this weekend in the much anticipated screening of an expose on the multi-million dollar online poker cheating scandals at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker. The program will be screened in the United States on November 30th at […]