April 1, 2008
The vagaries of Norwegian legal approaches to poker have resulted in this year’s Norwegian Poker Championships moving to Nottingham in England, where a clearer and more practical attitude toward the game exists. The event will be hosted by the Dusk Til Dawn Club from April 28 to May 5, 2008. Police raids and Norwegian authorities […]
April 1, 2008
Top online poker bloggers, posters and writers are predicting that the popular US television investigative program “60 Minutes” could be about to launch an expose on the Absolute Poker cheating scandal (see previous reports). The program, which has a viewership in the millions, has previously covered online gambling in 2001, 2005 and 2006…and not always […]
March 26, 2008
Neil “Bad Beat” Channing is the new 2008 Irish Poker Open champion after convincingly defeating a talented final table with confidence and consummate skill this week to win the lion’s share of a record Euro 3 million prize-pool. Entering final table play as the chip leader with $2.75 million of the $6.67 million in play, […]
March 25, 2008
The 900 000 member poker grassroots advocacy group Poker Players Alliance (PPA) has launched its Litigation Support Network. This free member service will provide basic, initial legal advice as well as refer members to a network of attorneys who have expressed interest in helping PPA members with poker-related legal issues. “As both the popularity of […]
March 23, 2008
Internationally famous poker players Todd Brunson and Jennifer Harman have each done their bit for charity this year by hosting competitions that raised funds for causes as widely diverse as care for children suffering from cancer and the prevention of cruelty to animals. Brunson raised $20 000 for the Leo Brien Foundation, which operates Camp […]
March 21, 2008
Pokerstars has earmarked a massive $12 500 000 for sponsorship of a thousand seats at the 2008 World Series of Poker, the company announced this week. For the next few months leading up to the big event, Pokerstars will be running a diversity of tournaments and qualifiers aimed at finding 1 000 top players who […]
March 20, 2008
36-year-old Andreas Jörbeck is the winner of PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008! The online qualifier from Stockholm overcome an otherwise all pro final table that featured serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder ‘The Cobra’ Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, 2008 Premier […]
March 19, 2008
Poker players around the world will be pulling out their diaries this week following an announcement from Harrah’s that the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe will take place in London between September 19 and October 1, with Betfair again the sponsor. As with the inaugural event, this year’s tournament will be hosted by London […]
March 19, 2008
Devilfish Gaming, the online poker company recently listed on the London AIM market will be operating with two poker software platforms following an agreement with Entraction this week which augments an existing platform from Boss Media, owners of the International Poker Network. Entraction (formerly 24hPoker) has its own network. CEO Devilfish Gaming, Paul Barnes says […]
March 18, 2008
The businssness relationship between online gambling software provider Cryptologic and the American poker group World Poker Tournament Enterprises seems to be working well, with an announcement this week that the two companies are to extend their online activities. WPT Enterprises Inc. is now to expand its Internet casino offering, adding Spanish and German language Internet […]