April 23, 2007
The Bellagio in Las Vegas was in the poker spotlight over the weekend as 304 players gathered for the World Poker Tour championship main event, which attracted poker stars from all over the world despite a hefty buy-in of $25 000. The resultant prize-pool will be the highest yet in WPT history, with the winner […]
April 21, 2007
The most popular – and populous – online poker room around, Poker Stars.com has been the subject of worried forum postings following a series of bounced checks to players, and this week the issue was addressed by the online poker information portal Poker-King.com. In a report that does not clarify whether the players concerned are […]
April 20, 2007
News reports suggest that the heat may be on in the Lone Star State, with reports of three seperate raids on poker organisers this week. In the first report, from KXAN News in Austin Texas, Travis County deputies raided an Internet cafe in Pflugerville yesterday (Thursday) confiscating a number of computers, detaining operator Zorica Vilotic, […]
April 20, 2007
In their quest for unique and eye-catching online poker tournaments, organisers have arranged some of the richest and most entertaining events around, featuring poker aces who are themselves major attractions. This week a truly unusual competition was announced that will see man pitted against AI machine in a Caribbean cruise setting. Picture a seven day […]
April 20, 2007
International poker players will be gathering in the vibrant Spanish coastal city of Barcelona this October following an announcement by the World Poker Tour that its Season 6 itinerary is to include Spain. Scheduled for the Casino Barcelona owned by Grup Peralada in the city, this fourteenth WPT tournament will be filmed The WPT – […]
April 18, 2007
Relative unknown Anna Wroblewski was $337 395 richer this week after winning event 9 of the Fifth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Vegas – a $3 000 No Limit Hold ‘Em competition. In beating a field of 324 players that included highly experienced and tough opponents, Wroblewski became the first […]
April 17, 2007
World Poker Tour has advised interested parties that it has abandoned plans to film for television its Grand Prix de Paris competition. The big event will still take place at the Aviation Club de France on the Champs Élysées but it will not be televised following a refusal by French gaming authorities to provide permission. […]
April 16, 2007
Marc Karam may have just missed the top European Poker Tour prize in his heads up with Gavin Griffin recently, leaving with the second place check of Euros 1 061 820, but he went on to score bigtime in high stakes games on the Microgaming Poker Network, according to statistics published on the High Stakes […]
April 16, 2007
Excitement is building internationally as Africa’s biggest poker championship yet – the five day South African Poker Festival – moves closer. Scheduled for May 9 to 13, some of the biggest names in the poker world will convene in the southern part of Africa next month for the inaugural South Africa Poker Festival. Included on […]
April 16, 2007
British poker clubs under the aegis of the U.K. Poker Clubs Association are considering measures to fight current proposals in the UK’s new Gambling Act, which comes into force in September this year. According to a weekend report in The Observer, the clubs are unhappy with certain provisions in the Act and intend to challenge […]