May 31, 2008
Playtech-powered Titan Poker.com, the biggest online poker room on the iPoker network, dealt its billionth hand on May 27, sending Finnish player “wootrigged” home with a prize of $55 000. The other five players playing at the same table received $5 000 each for participating in hand number 1 000 000 000. Titan Poker’s Billionth […]
May 30, 2008
After months of silence and amid a growing uproar in the online poker player community over alleged cheating by player NioNio, the owners of Ultimate Bet.com, Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, issued a statement this week. The statement presumably marks the end of what Tokwiro describes as a “lengthy investigation” in which it has been joined by […]
May 30, 2008
The always innovative poker company Bluff Media launched a new venture this week in the shape of Club Bluff.com, a subscription based online poker room. Rival publisher CardPlayer magazine beat Bluff to the punch this time, launching its own subscription-based online poker room earlier this year The concept gets around risk and uncomfortable and restrictive […]
May 30, 2008
The Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin has taken another significant step in player protection by ordering anti-cheat software from the Swedish data mining and predictive database analysis firm ICU Intelligence. Bwin will introduce the firm’s Botguard product to detect players using cheating software on Internet poker sites. BotGuard is powered by advanced technology capable of […]
May 29, 2008
Casper “Poker Ghost” Hansen lived up to his nickname at the Casino Barcelona in that Spanish coastal city this week, taking a large entry field of 253 by surprise to win the first WPT event of the year, the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship. In his biggest coup to date, the young Danish player truimphed […]
May 29, 2008
It hardly seems possible, but another year has passed and on Friday the 39th World Series of Poker launches in Las Vegas, attracting thousands of players from all over the planet who have the buy-in cash for one or more of the many events, or who have qualified for seat sponsorships in the numerous online […]
May 28, 2008
The weekend saw plenty of online poker action at Full Tilt, where the new $25 000 buy-in Heads-up Championship took place, with pro player David Singer and Emil Patel in a tense final heads up in which Singer prevailed, taking home the main prize of $560 000. For his second placing Patel collected a check […]
May 28, 2008
The multi-platform online poker firm Sky Poker is launching two new TV shows, “Stacked Up” and “Sky Poker Unlimited” for UK pokerheads soon. Stacked Up focuses on the art of playing cash poker and will introduce the stars of the game to the nation. It’s a weekly show that will see teams of three players […]
May 28, 2008
The online poker website Pokerstars.com has put together a multi-layered scheme through which its hundreds of thousands of members can make aid contributions to the victimes of the Chinese earthquake catastrophy. The Pokerstarsblog comments that its players have a long history of supporting people in need. In the past several years, PokerStars and its players […]
May 26, 2008
The second tourney in this years recently introduced Latin American Poker Tour took place in San Jose, Costa Rica this week and was won by a 24 year old Hungarian player, Valdemar Kwaysser, following a heads up with Max Steinberg. The young Hungarian collected a $274 103 paycheck for his victory. Kwaysser knocked out numerous […]