October 23, 2007
The 800 000 member Poker Players’ Alliance is gearing up to energetically lobby Washington lawmakers this week by flying in 100 members, including several poker champions such as Chris Moneymaker, to get poker exempted from anti-online gambling laws which already feature unfair exemptions for online horse races, state lotteries and fantasy sports. Raising the stakes […]
October 22, 2007
The Absolute Poker affair took another astonishing turn on Sunday when the company issued its much awaited statement on the cheating online poker tournament that has placed its credibility at serious risk Joe Norton, a former Grand Chief of the Kahnawake Mohawks who license Absolute Poker In the Quebec province of Canada, advised in the […]
October 22, 2007
The organisers of the popular Great British Poker Tour Grand Final added yet more lustre to the event this week with the announcement that top international poker pros Jamie Gold, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly and Robert Williamson III have all signed up for the climactic final event on November 5 to 11 at […]
October 21, 2007
With a comprehensive official statement still awaited on its crisis of trust the staff at Absolute Poker has gone from denial to admission and a furious blizzard of theories on its position, floated on gambling information portals. As the week ended Absolute Poker players involved in the controversial cheating tournament that started the scandal were […]
October 20, 2007
As the Absolute Poker scandal trundled into the weekend, dubbed “Pokergate” by some observers, more detail emerged on the delivery of information which enabled an incensed player community to adduce sufficient evidence that something was terribly, and fraudulently wrong with an online poker tournament held by the online poker website Absolute distributed the following message […]
October 19, 2007
PocketFives received a phone call from Absolute Poker late Thursday night confirming the suspicions of the online poker community over the past month. The webmaster at PocketFives writes: “While we need to be vague in this post to respect their wishes, we can say that their systems were compromised, and that they are prepared to […]
October 18, 2007
For several weeks now allegations regarding the possibility of collusion and cheating in an Absolute Poker online tournament have been gaining currency as the player community on many top poker message boards examines disclosures on the incident The sequence of events alleged to have occurred runs like this: 1.) The second placed player in a […]
October 18, 2007
It wasn’t that long ago that dismayed US online poker fans witnessed the departure from the US market of the popular poker room Doyle’s Room.com when its network exited the sector in the wake of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. This week the news was more upbeat – Doyle’s Room is back. The online […]
October 18, 2007
The allegations of impropriety during an online poker tournament at Absolute Poker.com gathered further momentum as the week progressed, with the issue reaching the pages of the New York Times, and a statement from the website’s licensing jurisdiction pledging an independent investigation of the affair. Kahnawake Gaming Commissioner David Montour announced that following the emergence […]
October 17, 2007
In a historic day that marked the evolution of Traktor Poker, or Tuo La Ji, from traditional folk game to an officially recognised Sport by the China Leisure Sports Administrative Center (CLSAC), the World Poker Tour (WPT) China National Traktor Poker Tour (see previous reports) crowned its first Provincial Champions this week in Lanzhou, Gansu […]