October 18, 2008
Reports on CTV Toronto indicate that the police have again been active in raiding “poker houses” in the city. Police executed search warrants on Nuttz and the Pertutti Bar and claim to have seized gaming tables, chips, cards, other equipment and cash. Seven people have been charged with keeping a common gaming house, and fifty-six […]
October 18, 2008
A 67-year-old retired real estate broker took home the honours and a $1.2 million main prize at the Fallsview Casino at Niagara Falls this week when he won the North American Poker Championship. Glen Witmer survived a field of 454 entrants which was whittled away over 7 tough days, competing in only his second major […]
October 16, 2008
The Poker Players Alliance has furnished its 1.2 million members with a rating guide on the position of members of the US Congress on the legalisation of poker. In a letter to members this week, PPA chairman former Senator Alphonse D’Amato said that in its extensive efforts to promote poker on Capitol Hill the organisation […]
October 16, 2008
The UK-based 3D online poker site PKR.com is to run its popular Oktoberfest tournaments again this year, starting Friday 17 October and offering twelve high-octane events with $270 000 in guaranteed prizes. With a wide range of games on offer, the second annual Oktoberfest is designed to appeal to all types of player with Hold’em […]
October 14, 2008
The current weekly edition of NBC’s late night poker thriller series “Poker After Dark” is being changed to a cash-game format that seperates the men from the boys with a $100 000 buy-in big enough to make the toes curl for the $200/400 NLHE epic. The composition of the six player table is a star-studded […]
October 13, 2008
Two players who filed a class action application in an Ohio court in March 2007 have finally achieved an outcome – but it’s perhaps not the one they were hoping for, with the case lost on terms and conditions and jurisdictional grounds Case 1:06-CV-02376 in the District Court for the North Eastern District of Ohio […]
October 13, 2008
Europe’s dedicated gaming TV network, The Poker Channel, has announced the relaunch of Poker Channel Europe.com in partnership with the online video platform Brightcove. The partnership will facilitate the delivery of free advertising-supported video content on the game. Brightcove’s online video platform is key to the programming online video content, the creation of Flash-based video […]
October 12, 2008
The departure of Gutshot Poker from the Microgaming Poker Network earlier this week continues to throw up intriguing differences of viewpoint. In our initial report InfoPowa noted: “It is uncertain whether the owners of Gutshot have issues with Microgaming, but the following comment in the notification was intriguing: “In respect of the Microgaming situation, we […]
October 10, 2008
The Vienna listed online gambling group Bwin has continued its aggressive expansion into European online poker using the subsidiary Ongame platform by launching a Bulgarian language and full localised website. “We are delighted to have coloured one of the last blank areas of the European Union in with bwin colors,” said Kevin O’Neal, bwin Poker […]
October 10, 2008
The Market-Pulse poker tracker site reports that Party Poker is enjoying increased action following the recent launch of its upgraded software and website Starting in September, the online poker provider’s traffic rose 3 percent, surging to 21 percent in the first weeks of October (to an average of 5 200 players every 24-hour period) an […]