September 18, 2008
The dust had hardly settled on this week’s House Financial Services Committee approval of Barney Frank’s HR 6870 Payments System Protection Act (see previous report) when the Poker Players Alliance announced its support for the latest attack on the UIGEA – amendments and all. In a statement issued immediately after news of the favourable vote […]
September 12, 2008
Readers will no doubt recall the early days of the Poker Players Alliance and the dynamic inaugural president of the organisation Michael Bolcerek, who has since moved on and has just been appointed by Aristotle International as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Aristotle’s Integrity product, which helps operators keep underaged wannabe gamblers and fraudsters […]
September 12, 2008
The U.S. poker coaching firms CardRunners and StoxPoker have combined training library resources to provide what spokesmen describe as the most comprehensive poker training references on the Internet. Each company boasts a roster of highly experienced instructors, and will continue to operate seperately and focus on specific market areas, sharing the enhanced library resource. “We’re […]
September 10, 2008
The stellar gathering of poker pros at the recently concluded Asian Poker Tour Macau proved to be a fruitful recruiting ground for London-listed Asian Logic, which announced this week that JC Tran, Quinn Do and Nam Le have signed up to represent the APT on the world poker market. The deal was off to a […]
September 10, 2008
Online poker action continued to deliver major winning payouts this week as events in the PokerStars 2008 World Championship of Online Poker concluded. Event 6 – the $530 buy-in NLHE online tournament at the WCOOP attracted a massive entry of 7 351 players for Sunday afternoon’s start, all chasing a guaranteed $3 million prize pool […]
September 10, 2008
Nine survivors of a tough two day competition in the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour High Rollers tournament started an 11 hour final table battle for supremacy this week, seeking to unseat a dominant chip leader in David Steike In two days of play, the 61 players who had paid an entry fee of $19 […]
September 9, 2008
In a tough four day tournament characterised by long hours at the felt, Frenchman Alain Roy was victorious in the Partouche Poker Tour Cannes Main Event over the weekend, beating a field of 480 entrants that included top global players like Gus Hansen, Scotty Nguyen, Robert and Michael Mizrachi, Noah Schwartz, Jeff Madsen, David Williams, […]
September 9, 2008
The US-facing and based PurePlay online poker company, which claims to be legal in the United States, reports that it has expanded its player ranks to over 1.5 million competitors and has disbursed more than $4 million in cash prizes since Novermber 2005. “We are committed to staying at the forefront of legal online poker, […]
September 8, 2008
A Doyle’s Room blog entry over the weekend reporting on a social get together by poker legend Doyle Brunson and son Todd with 14 time Olympic swimming gold medallist Michael Phelps has ignited wide speculation that the poker loving swimming sensation could become part of the Doyles Room.com celebrity team. Backed by a photo of […]
September 7, 2008
US professional player Edward Sabat (22) may be young, but he’s already cashed in 8 major tournaments and this weekend scored his biggest earnings ever, the $453 851 first prize in the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event. To do it, the young gun had to survive a field of 538 players that […]