July 14, 2008
Gibraltar based online gambling group 888.com has continued its white label expansion with a an Australian-Asia deal this week with the Poker Dome Group. The new online poker website, PokerDomePoker.com is owned and operated by the Australia-based PokerDome group, which owns the land-based Oz Poker Tour and operates a land poker room in Macau. Previously […]
July 13, 2008
189 players took their places at the ever reducing number of tables at the 39th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas on Day 5, the survivors of a starting field of 6 844 vying for a share in a prize-pool of $64 333 600. All 189 players will leave with a cash prize, having […]
July 12, 2008
The last Infopowa coverage of the 39th World Series of Poker reported on the opening stages of Day 3 as far as the money bubble, after the survivors of Days 2A and B combined to start play with a field of 1 307. Day 3 came to an end with 474 players qualified to go […]
July 11, 2008
The promised match between a University of Alberta poker program and seven human poker coaches from StoxPoker.com (see previous report) took place this week at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas…and the humans lost. The University has a strong background in developing poker programs as part of its development of artificial intelligence for […]
July 11, 2008
Thousands of players, many of them highly experienced and professional, have seen their 39th World Series of Poker Main Event hopes dashed this week as the process of elimination moved through Days 1A through D, on to Days 2A and 2B and now into Day 3, where for the first time the combined survivors from […]
July 11, 2008
The Bad Beat Jackpot available on the Microgaming Poker Network has reached $200 000 – up 35 percent on previous records – according to a statement from the company this week. The BB Jackpot kicks in when hands of Four-of-a-Kind, 8’s or better are beaten offering the player the chance of a Bad Beat payout. […]
July 10, 2008
When Day 2A in the World Series of Poker Main Event heats started (see previous reports) there were 1 251 survivors from the Day 1A and 1B action taking their seats at the tables at the Rio in Las Vegas…by days end only 466 have made it through to Day 3. A special education teacher […]
July 9, 2008
Tuesday saw the start of the Day 2 heats at the 39th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with 1 251 survivors from Day 1A and 1B gathering to commence the next round of attrition in Day 2A. Mark Garner of Little Rock, Arkansas held the chip lead on almost 195 000 chips, chased […]
July 9, 2008
This year’s radical departure from the usual World Series of Poker program, which will see the final table taking place only in November after the participants are decided in July, could have created a great opportunity for coaching deals that enable the nine players who make it to hone their poker skills. And it appears […]
July 8, 2008
The 39th World Series of Poker Main Event action through the four heats of Day One completed this week with the end of Day 1D, which saw 1 652 survivors going forward to the Day 2 series, including former World Champions Phil Hellmuth, Carlos Mortensen, Johnny Chan and the current reigning champion Jerry Yang. Other […]