May 20, 2008
Devilfish Poker.com, the online poker company owned by Devifish Gaming plc with UK poker ace Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott as its ambassador relaunched this week on the Entraction (formerly 24hpoker) software and network. No reason was given for the change from Excapsa software, although there is unconfirmed speculation that it may be related to the high […]
May 20, 2008
John Tabatabai has become the latest rising young poker star to join Betfair’s poker player team. The 23 year old takes his place alongside Sorel Mizzi and Annette Obrestad as Team Betfair continues to build an impressive team roster. Originally from Cardiff but now living in London, Tabatabai’s passion before poker was chess, where he […]
May 19, 2008
The UK-based 3D online poker company PKR.com has announced a bold move into European television which it hopes will achieve extended viewer numbers in up to 15 million homes across the continent. Airing nightly, the shows will feature in-game footage captured from the final tables of two of PKR.com’s top tournaments – the $100 buy-in […]
May 19, 2008
The online poker firm Everest Poker has updated its February 2007 demographics study of European poker players (see previous report) with a second review carried out in partnership with Jupiter Research. Once again a sample of 3 000 players in 16 European countries was used. It appears from the latest numbers that the game is […]
May 19, 2008
Paddy Power Poker.com released full details of the Irish Winter Festival this week, scheduled to take place between the 25th and 27th October 2008. The festival will be headlined by the Irish Masters (a tournament with an estimated prizepool of Euro1 million) and also features two one-day side event tournaments. The Irish Masters is a […]
May 18, 2008
Movie star Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke successfully held another of their “Ante Up for Africa” fund-raising poker tournaments this week, generating another half a million dollars for the charity. Thanks to a top-up from the venue for the tournament, the San Manuel Casino near Los Angeles, over $500 000 was raised, increasing […]
May 16, 2008
Maryann Morrison’s “Woman Poker Player” print magazine has been acquired by the Bluff Media group for an undisclosed consideration. Explaining the sale, Morrison said this week: “Woman Poker Player magazine was founded as a vehicle for the encouragement of women to play poker. At that time women were only representing about ten percent of live […]
May 16, 2008
The inaugural WPT Canada Coast to Coast tournament up there at the River Rock Resort in the Great White North drew top poker names prepared to make a pricey main event buy-in investment of $3 000 for a crack at the $845 000 prize-pool, including Gavin Smith who is the current WPT Season IV Player […]
May 16, 2008
A senior Danish court (Landsretten) legal decision that Danish [land] poker clubs be prohibited from running poker tournaments as a contravention of the Danish Criminal Code is to be reviewed by the country’s Supreme Court following an appeal by Frederik Hostrup and the Danish Poker Federation, reports Poker News. The eastern division of the Danish […]
May 14, 2008
The online poker company PKR.com pitched in to help a children’s charity at a London event involving celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and ace footballer Teddy Sheringham this week. The event was in aid of the One to One Children’s Fund, involved in child assistance around the world. Held at London’s Sketch Restaurant, the fundraiser featured […]