September 25, 2008
The Isle of Man based giant online poker website PokerStars was in conflict with the UK Advertising Standards Authority this week over its new “Play Mind Games” poster campaign, reports The Guardian newspaper. The campaign features top pro poker player Daniel Negreanu holding an ice hockey stick and sporting the line: “Poker is a sport […]
September 25, 2008
Carter King (23) is the online champion in this year’s PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker main event held online this week. In a gruelling two day tournament, King (user name ‘ckingusc’ ) survived a record field of 2 185 entrants in the $1 500 + $200 event, which generated a prize pool of almost […]
September 25, 2008
Online poker player Olivier Lombard (23) paid for his vacation and then some this year when he decided to enter the Titan Poker $2.5 Million Guaranteed online poker tournament whilst on holiday from his job as a French civil engineer. It was a decision that earned him the $500 000 first prize despite a rather […]
September 24, 2008
John Pappas, executive director of the more than one million member Poker Players Alliance (PPA), has issued a statement in regards to legal action taken by the Commonwealth to seize the domain names of Internet gambling websites. “The Poker Players Alliance is outraged at the actions taken by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and the Franklin […]
September 24, 2008
The news earlier this week that Kentucky state officials are seeking the confiscation of some 141 online gambling domains (see previous reports) has been carried widely in mainstream as well as industry media, but has not fazed some forward-thinking operators who had already made contingency plans for such an official action. The Guardian newspaper in […]
September 23, 2008
International poker pro Phil Ivey showed them all how it’s done in London this week when he won a bank-boosting half a million dollar main proze in the Full Tilt Poker.com Million Dollar Cash Game. It was the second toime that the accomplished and inscrutible Ivey had pulled off the big game against players like […]
September 23, 2008
Event 1 of the World Series of Poker Europe has come and gone, leaving Danish pro Jesper Hougaard the victor and holder of a gold bracelet and a useful GBP144 218 in cash. Hougaard was the low man in chip stacks when the final table started out, but with skilled and determined play he truimphed […]
September 20, 2008
A London stock trading business is developing a new market in which investors can put up money as stakes for experienced poker players to use in order to generate shared winnings. Although staking friends or business associates is not unheard of in the professional game, most successful players reportedly prefer to pay their own way, […]
September 19, 2008
Times may be tough, and world economies taking strain, but online poker marches on, seems to be the theme for the August – September period as tracking site MarketPulse reports surging visitor numbers at several of the premium websites. The already booming PokerStars has been especially brisk so far with August traffic figures as quoted […]
September 19, 2008
Pre-launch information from Party Poker is that its brand new table will debut next Monday, September 23rd, supported by a $50 000 customer freeroll on Saturday and a media freeroll in October. The company says the launch will be the result of a lengthy development process. In addition to sharp new graphics, the tables have […]