August 11, 2008
The founder and chief architect of the high profile Polaris poker robot research team at the University of Alberta in Canada, Dr. Darse Billings, put the use of poker robots into perspective this week in responding to Internet blog comments that such developments had the potential to destroy the online poker industry. Polaris probably sports […]
August 11, 2008
The Poker Stars.net Latin America Poker Tour Punte del Este has been won in Uruguay by Jose Miguel Espinar after a tough three days of competition against a starting field of 350 hopefuls. Espinar, who has been playing professionally for less than a year, took the title and a winner’s check of $241 735 after […]
August 9, 2008
The Poker Players Alliance might not support Representative Pete Sessions’s HR6663 (see previous report) but the Remote Gambling Association – a trade association embracing most of the major UK online gambling companies – certainly does. This week the RGA endorsed the UIGEA Clarification Act (HR 6663) and expressed strong support for its sponsors for taking […]
August 9, 2008
Poker Stars.com is heading for the islands again early next year with a reprise of its popular Caribbean Adventure tourney, scheduled for January 4, 2009 at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. The event will form part of the company’s European Poker Tour despite its different geographic region, presumably for organisation and administration […]
August 8, 2008
Montreal and Sofia, Bulgaria-based gambling firm Carlyle Gaming and Entertainment Limited is about to launch a new Texas Hold’em based poker game that it believes will revolutionise those markets where the game is restricted or banned…by removing the element of chance and delivering a purely skill-based, and therefore legal, version of a universally popular game. […]
August 8, 2008
Gaming Media Group, owners of Europe’s largest dedicated gaming television network, Poker Channel and major online gambling site PokerHeaven.com, has signed a three year contract with Cryptologic for Internet games in five languages. In terms of the deal, Cryptologic will be the sole provider of online casino software to the two operations. Poker Heaven is […]
August 8, 2008
The poker information site Pocketfives.com scored a coup this week with a podcast interview with Frank Fahrenkopf, chief of the influential US land gambling trade body the American Gaming Association. This first week of August marks the AGA’s eleventh annual Responsible Gaming Education Week, reminding its members and the public alike of the importance of […]
August 8, 2008
The first event in the current Full Tilt Online Series of Poker – FTOPS 9 – drew 5 779 entrants, boosting the guaranteed one million dollar prize pool to $1 155 800 midweek. Players paid a buy-in of $200+$16 to participate in the event, which was hosted by poker ace Allen Cunningham, who unfortunately failed […]
August 8, 2008
Online poker leader Poker Stars.com has put the pressure on its tournament competitors once again this week, boosting its guaranteed prize pool levels significantly. The giant poker website’s Sunday Million prize pool has been taken up $500 000 to $1.5 million, and the regular Sunday Warm-Up event prize pool has been ramped up $250 000 […]
August 7, 2008
Latest information on Assemblyman Lloyd Levine’s proposal to liberalise poker in California is that his bill AB 2026 has undergone another revision, taking it back to a study of the prospects for the game within California. AB2026, the California Gambling Control/Intrastate Legalization Act, was originally intended to study whether California should take advantage of the […]