February 14, 2007
The latest channel pending launch by the burgeoning Sky television network in the UK should please Brit poker players – it’s a poker dedicated offering with an ambitious new program aimed at getting people to play their favourite game via TV. Broadcast from Sky Poker’s Feltham studios, the programs will feature a series of guests […]
February 14, 2007
This week saw the championship advent of an ingenious new interpretation of the game of poker – it’s called Duplicate Poker and its goal is to get around the luck vs skill debate surrounding the legality of the game. In the new wrinkle, the cards are set-up so that each table and each seat at […]
February 13, 2007
Adding spice to this weekend’s Sunday Specials in online poker was the third series of Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series, and a fifty percent add-on by Party Poker to its already popular guarantee. The Poker Stars Guaranteed Sunday Million continued to lead the field with a starting lineup of 6 786 players, all in the […]
February 13, 2007
The usually ebullient poker pro TonyG was in an uncharacteristically negative mood this week when he notified players using his online poker site that he could no longer continue to accept US players. Notices on the site, emails to US players and posts on his blog reflected the pro’s reluctance to take the lock-out route, […]
February 13, 2007
The respected poker publication Poker News has proved extraordinarily professional and patient in trying to uncover a 2 million chip mystery which occurred during the final stages of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. At a very late stage of the competition, an additional 2 million chips mysteriously and perhaps […]
February 12, 2007
The ambitions of American poker players to have their game of choice classified as a “game of skill” to circumvent the current US assault on Internet gambling received a sobering shock this week when a top American gambling administrator told a journalist working for the Las Vegas Sun “…they don’t have a chance in hell.” […]
February 11, 2007
Sweden defied huge odds to pull off a spectacular triumph at the PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup in Cardiff. The winning team,captained by Bo Sehlstedt, included 2006 WSOP bracelet winners Anders Henriksson and Mats Rahm, as well as Johan Storakers, William Thorsson and online qualifier Hans Isoz. The team scooped $100 000 in a televised tournament […]
February 10, 2007
The organisers of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour were flushed with success this week following a better than expected response to the tournament which showed just how popular this concept is. The demand on the inaugural Bolton leg of the competition has persuaded Grosvenor to extend all future events to four, instead of three days. […]
February 10, 2007
The Las Vegas poker sector was left wondering at the choice of identical timeframes this week when super gambling giants The Venetian and Wynns competitively announced new poker tournaments scheduled for later this (February) month. The Venetian’s ‘Deep Stack Extravaganza,’ and the ‘Wynn Classic’, whilst having different formats have both been scheduled to take place […]
February 10, 2007
Five of the world’s top poker stars have agreed to play in the Asian Poker Classic, the largest poker tournament yet staged in India,scheduled for the spectacular coastal resort of Goa from March 1-5, 2007. The $1 million guaranteed jackpot combined with a minimum $250 000 overlay makes this tournament one of the most attractive […]