June 13, 2007
Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu’s departure from Full Contact Poker (see previous report) was explained this week by news that Full Contact Poker is closing, steering its players to online poker industry leader Poker Stars.com. Canadian born but Vegas resident Negreanu becomes the latest addition to Team PokerStars, joining a handful of the game’s largest names […]
June 13, 2007
Two years ago poker legend Doyle Brunson and his company together with unspecified investors hit the headlines in a surprise announcement that a $700 million offer for World Poker Tour had been tabled and was being considered The news sent WPT shares rocketing some 50 percent, but the excitement was short-lived as the deal unravelled, […]
June 13, 2007
Intriguing press release of the week came from IGA Worldwide, an in-game marketing network that announced a deal with the PKR poker website to display adverts on its tables. IGA points out that the practice of table felt advertising is now common in big land poker tournaments, and the concept is ‘infiltrating’ the online poker […]
June 13, 2007
Only the specified timeframe prevents an online poker room’s latest promotion from becoming dangerously generous, but the company making the offer is going ahead with a scheme that could see winners have their rewards doubled. Prime Poker.com has launched its “Prime Doubler” promotion, with the promise that it will double any amount won in poker […]
June 13, 2007
Turnkey provider and gaming software developer Playtech has secured an intellectual property sub-licence agreement with Guardian Gaming and Shuffle Master that will enable it to offer its software licensees the Shuffle Master games, Three Card Poker, Dragon Bonus, Let it Ridem Fortune Pai Gow Poker, Casino War and Ultimate Texas Hold’Em. Guardian Gaming is a […]
June 12, 2007
The marketing rights for poker software owned by international investment group DG Holdings have been awarded to Doing Poker.net in a deal signed this week following the recent arrival at DG Holdings of ex-WSOP tournament director Bob Daily Doing Poker.net is closely associated with the online poker and casino operator Doing Poker.com, a multi-language gaming […]
June 12, 2007
Online gambling marketing affiliates in the Bahamas for the CAP Spring Break this weekend were on the receiving end of what appeared to be a licensing snafu when local gaming authorities nixed a BetUS.com-sponsored Affiliate World Series of Poker fun tournament. Delays in the arrival of the necessary paperwork had organisers hopping, but it all […]
June 12, 2007
World Series of Poker Event number 12 – the six-handed $1 500 No Limit Hold ‘Em – pulled in 1 427 players avid for a crack at a $481 697 winner’s prize and one of the golden WSOP bracelets. By the time the six man final table convened – away from the main playing areas […]
June 12, 2007
Event 14 at the World Series of Poker – the two-day $1 500 Seven Card Stud – was decided in the early hours of Sunday morning after a tough 17 hour race to a final table tussle that featured big names Greg Raymer and Barry Greenstein. Emerging from the fray with the winner’s bracelet and […]
June 10, 2007
Kudos to Casino City reporter Aaron Todd, who made the mainstream press headlines in Boston this week with an entertaining story that helped him attract attention to what he considers an ineffective law, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. In pursuing a personal project to trade up from a 60 cent check to a $10 […]