December 28, 2006
Live Poker.com, a progressive online poker community that engages players with realistic, full-screen 3D game play, is using the latest media to communicate with players, launching a free series of original Live Poker Podcasts designed to help online poker players improve their game and enhance their online experience. The Live Poker Podcast topics range across […]
December 28, 2006
Allyn Jaffray Shulman, a respected legal eagle in the USA takes an objective look at the 1961 Federal Interstate Wire Act at Card Player.com this week in a well argued article that puts this outdated law into perspective. It should be required reading for every Department of Justice official tempted to apply the law to […]
December 28, 2006
The Which Poker site has declared after online research that since the signing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in the US, PokerStars has become not only the world’s largest tournament online poker room, but also the world’s largest cash game online poker room. The new ranking follows the poker room’s decision to […]
December 28, 2006
Pok3d.com is the latest arrival on the 3D online poker scene, and its outstanding graphics are already generating favourable comments. Launched by the French video games developer Mekensleep, the new site claims that it represents a revolution in Internet poker because players can customise personal avatars and use them to project emotions to their opponents. […]
December 27, 2006
Online poker room Everest Poker has joined the million dollar tournament league with the announcement this week of a competition with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. “This is our biggest event yet, and I’m tremendously excited to roll it out and see what happens,” said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager. Spanning nine months, […]
December 23, 2006
The dispute between WSOP champion Jamie Gold and television produced Crispin Leyser took a new turn this week when a U.S. judge upheld the continued freeze on half of Jamie Gold’s $12 million 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event winnings. The court agreed, however to a request from attorneys for both parties for the […]
December 21, 2006
Some of the top names in poker, and former World Series of Poker champs will be passing on their expertise and knowledge at the first WSOP Academy in Tunica next January 27 – 28; on the tuition staff roll call are Greg Raymer, Joe Navarro, Scott Fischman and Alex Outhred. Post Oak Productions, a Toronto-based […]
December 21, 2006
37 year old New Jersey roofing contractor Rick Rosetti took home the big money – all $368 096 of it and a $10 000 WSOP sponsorship to boot – this week when he won the Harrah’s World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) main event in Atlantic City. In an exciting heads up with management consultant […]
December 21, 2006
Melbourne, Australia poker ace Joseph Hachem added a World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship win to his c.v. this week and in the process pocketed a winner’s check for almost $US2.2 million at the Bellagio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. His winnings include a $25 000 seat sponsorship in the WPT World […]
December 21, 2006
Card rooms across Ireland and the UK are gearing up for live satellites for Euro 2 million guaranteed Paddy Power Poker.com Irish Poker Open 2007, with the betting company announcing the first wave of venues holding live satellites for the big event. Dozens of Europe’s leading card rooms are hosting satellites from January right up […]