April 27, 2007
The 400 000 member Poker Players’ Alliance was first out of the gate with support for the new online gambling proposals titled Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act launched today (Thursday) by Congressman Barney Frank. In a press release, the PPA said it supports House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank’s introduction of sensible Internet gambling […]
April 27, 2007
Fronted by journalist and media personality Sam Mann, the UK operations of giant portal Yahoo! launched real money online poker play this week in a three way deal that sees Gibraltar-based St Minver provide and operate a white label site that uses Boss Media software and provides the player liquidity of the growing Boss International […]
April 26, 2007
Days 2 and 3 of the World Poker Tour championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas have continued to entertain spectators with great poker and the antics of many of the top stars in the game. 479 players took their seats for the five blind levels of Day 2, this from an original starting field […]
April 26, 2007
Some months ago we carried news of a new online poker site branded The Gambler Poker Club.com forming from a base in Los Angeles and endorsed by country and western signing star Kenny Rogers (who at one time owned his own poker site now closed.) This week the company has issued a press release quoting […]
April 26, 2007
The Dobrosoft powered and Canadian owned Digital Gaming Network (DGN) is entering the highly competitive big money poker tournament sector this week with a $100 000 Guaranteed tournament starting April 29. The buy-in to the final event is $60, and there are satellite contests now running 24 hours a day leading directly to this event […]
April 24, 2007
The announcement this week that the new online poker site World 3d Poker.com is to sponsor a hospitality event at the Amsterdam affiliate conference next month has put the spotlight back on the Swedish software supplier Designed Quality Entertainment (DQE) and its growing online poker operation The 3d Network. Eight sites have now joined the […]
April 24, 2007
The World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas continued to provide great competitive poker action right up to the close of Day 1B which saw the field further thinned down from a start of 333 entries, slightly more than Day1A which boasted 306 players. The record total of 639 players prepared to […]
April 23, 2007
For experience and talent in the game of poker, a pro player like Johnny Chan is pretty hard to beat, and the cool-as-ice veteran, who has two World Series of Poker main event champion bracelets in his trophy cabinet will soon be using cyberspace to pass on his knowledge to would be dealers. The Buffalo […]
April 23, 2007
Christchurch Casino in New Zealand was the setting this week for the final table in the New Zealand Poker Championship, which turned out to be a hard-fought contest with some fine poker skills on display. An Australian and a New Zealander confronted each other in the final heads up when Kiwi househusband Richard Grace and […]
April 23, 2007
The UK online gambling group Mansion is putting big money down in its online poker investment in daily $100 000 guaranteed tournaments, according to a company spokesman this week. Thus far, the firm had paid $5 206 470 in total on overlays since January 3 when the series was introduced…and it still has a way […]