November 4, 2008
The big online poker tournaments last Sunday once again illustrated the continued keen interest in playing the game on the Internet, with several winning players taking home six figure payments. The regular industry biggie – the PokerStars Sunday Million – soared past its guaranteed prize-pool level of $1.5 million as 7 836 players bought in, […]
November 4, 2008
In Canada, The National Post reported at length Tuesday on an important Ontario Superior Court judgement in a civil action tied to the UltimateBet “hole card” cheating scandal which saw thousands of online poker players cheated out of millions of dollars whilst using software that was developed by Excapsa. With a former Ontario premier and […]
November 3, 2008
After four tough days and 540 opponents, Nottingham, England player Will Fry (28) won the inaugural PokerStars EPT Hungary trophy over the weekend, taking home a cheque for Euros 595 839 as a well deserved reward. In fact the final table of the well supported tourney went quickly compared with the 4 days that it […]
November 1, 2008
Yet another claim, this one citing ‘impeccable sources’, has been made that the investigative television program ’60 Minutes’ will soon screen a program on poker. There has been extensive speculation on when the program will air ever since investigators for ’60 Minutes’ interviewed poker personalities at this year’s World Series of Poker. Rumours sweeping the […]
November 1, 2008
With the frenetic action of the $30 million World Championship of Online Poker over, PokerStars settled back by almost 13 percent to its more usual player visit performance in October 2008, still pulling in an impressive average of 16 200 players every 24 hours to stay at the top of the global poker popularity pops. […]
October 30, 2008
Always innovative, the 3D online poker website PKR.com has come up with a marketing scheme aimed at getting singles to the virtual tables. The company has inked a deal with UK dating site Lovestruck.com aimed at bringing singles together in a series of online and face-to-face poker nights, starting next (November) month. The singles poker […]
October 30, 2008
The Paddy Power Irish Masters Championship has been won by relative unknown player Fiachra Meere of Limerick, who survived a field of 423 poker hopefuls to scoop the Euro 150 000 main prize. The championship was part of the Irish Winter Festival and provided a fitting close this week for the well patronised Dublin event. […]
October 30, 2008
One of the world’s top poker pros, 34-year-old Monaco-based Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen, has been causing havoc in the big money online poker action at Full Tilt.com, earning a million dollars in a single day at one stage, reports the HighStakesDb.com poker information site. And playing against some of the best players around on […]
October 29, 2008
Another American gambling legal tussle is imminent, this time in New York state where Missouri-based Free Poker Experience LLC has filed suit against the state in an effort to clarify regional laws on gambling with particular reference to bar poker leagues. Bar poker leagues frequently host poker tournaments as a popular promotional vehicle to generate […]
October 29, 2008
The decision by ESPN and the World Series of Poker organisers to delay the final table action on the 2008 spectacular will literally play out next month starting November 11, but the big TV buildup has already commenced. Last week the ESPN network showed the attrition of 79 players down to 27 players filmed at […]