November 26, 2008
It’s been over a year since high profile poker pro Phil (Poker Brat) Hellmuth launched his poker apparel company, capitalising on his nickname and branded Poker Brat Clothing Co. This week the company announced a new line of designs available to poker fans at Poker Brat.com. “I love the people who designed these shirts,” said […]
November 26, 2008
Ecom Enterprise, a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian listed online gambling group Playsafe AS has launched a new online poker site, PayNoRake.com, which it claims rewards loyal customers. The site offers 100 percent rakeback and makes daily payments to members – features described by Ben Johansen, chief executive officer of Ecom, as the natural evolution […]
November 26, 2008
The information portal Online Casino Topic reports that the owners of French online gambling sites are getting set to start fighting French opponents who do not want them to launch online casino and poker websites. In October, live casino operators were “extremely vocal” at a government organised conference at which the liberalisation of the French […]
November 25, 2008
The super online poker network Cereus, owned by Tokwiro Enterprises and formed by merging the player bases of UltimateBet and Absolute Poker is to launch this week. Marketing affiliates were alerted last week by emails from the Chipleader affiliate program that the operational launch – announced some months ago – was on schedule for November […]
November 25, 2008
The UK-listed online and land gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc, which has extensive Italian betting interests through its Betshop subsidiary, has launched real money online poker. The group has partnered with Microgame SpA’s People’s Poker Network, which offers a large range and number of tournaments to attract players. The deal gives L&G access to […]
November 25, 2008
Canadian born but Vegas resident poker pro Daniel Negreanu has won the BC Poker Championships, taking home a useful first prize of $371 910 from the event, held at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia. Although the cap of 750 entrants was not reached, a turnout of 689 players was achieved for the […]
November 24, 2008
The Democratic Party Representative for Texas, Jose Menendez, has shrugged off the lapse of an earlier attempt to regulate poker in the committee stage of the Texas House (see previous reports) and has instead re-launched an amended bill HB222 that seeks to expand poker’s availability in the state. Titled the Poker Gaming Act of 2009, […]
November 23, 2008
The Mansion Poker.com website says ‘Wilkommen’ to German speakers this week with the launch of de.mansionpoker.com, a new German language version of their operational online poker site that has been specially designed for the important and fast growing German market. Like their English-speaking counterparts, Deutsche spielers can choose from over 500 tournaments ranging from the […]
November 22, 2008
Good news for poker tournament fans is that Poker Stars.com will be putting France back on to its European Poker Tour programme after an hiatus of two years due to a now changing but originally unfriendly French legislative environment. The company has confirmed that the Casino Barriere Deauville will be part of the EPT’s fifth […]
November 22, 2008
Professional poker player Jesse Jones, who in 2005 put at risk $100 000 of his own money to found the World Poker Association to represent tournament players, has appealed for help in keeping the body going. Ill health and differences of opinion with the WPA’s board (see previous reports) have left Jones alone at the […]