December 21, 2006
The growth of the European Poker Tour has been further strengthened with the announcement of a new Series 3 event to be staged in Dortmund, Germany from 8-11 March, 2007. Capped at 400 players, the four-day, the Euro 5 000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold’em tournament at Hohensyburg Casino in Dortmund will be part of the […]
December 21, 2006
American poker fans can look forward to some entertaining and perhaps educational television on their pastime of choice early in the new year, when NBC debuts “Poker After Dark.” The show is an exclusive visit to the Las Vegas poker scene that debuts on January 2 at 2:05 a.m. ET/PT. The nightly hour-long show, hosted […]
December 21, 2006
Rajesh Modha, a middle aged London nuclear physicist and father of three was celebrating a million dollar poker achievement this week as he banked a $1.2 million check from the Ladbrokes Poker Million having started the tournament as an outsider in a field of 25 000 players. After nine months of intense competition, the starting […]
December 20, 2006
Piquing interest in its January issue now on sale, the popular poker magazine Bluff announced the top poker room award from its Readers’ Choice Awards this week. Poker Stars pipped Full Tilt Poker as most popular site, according to the magazine, which runs the awards in which readers vote for their faves in various categories. […]
December 20, 2006
The Calgary-based Canadian online gambling turnkey provider Chartwell Technology Inc. has announced the completion and release of its popular European-style 32 Card Poker product in Flash technology, opening the way for more players to enjoy the game. This new non-downloadable poker client offers immediate benefits to Chartwell customers and their player base and enhances the […]
December 19, 2006
Pacific Poker speaks your language. Or at least it’s more likely they do at their online poker school now that it’s being offered in French, German and Spanish as well as English. “We now provide our valued foreign language speaking players a unique opportunity to get the best start in the world of poker,” said […]
December 19, 2006
When Jamie Gold won the World Series of Poker’s gigantic first prize of $12 million this year it triggered a nasty dispute which has taken some of the gilt off a great honour. It has been alleged by British television producer Crispin Leyser that he had a prior agreement with Gold to share in half […]
December 19, 2006
The main regular weekend tournaments continued to attract thousands of players this week, with Poker Stars again leading the pack. The Sunday Million tourney at Poker Stars.com brought 6 628 players to the virtual tables, competing for a prize pool of $1 325 600 which put almost a thousand players “in the money.” That gave […]
December 18, 2006
The BBC reports that 24 players in Greenwich, south-east London have since Friday evening been playing poker without interruption in an attempt to set a new world record for continuous poker playing. The players began their endurance bid on Friday night in the Basement Jacks club in the suburb, each putting GBP 20 in the […]
December 18, 2006
Back in the States with a bang after its recent acquisition from LVFH by the Norwegian public company Playshare Holdings AS (see previous reports) the Action Poker Network launches its “$30 000 U.S. Poker Experience” this week with online qualifiers at Action Poker.com, Tiger Gaming.com and Poker in Canada.com. Describing the event as “…a tournament […]