September 20, 2006
The new queen of the Party Poker.com World Open II championships was crowned at The Poker Den in London this week. UK mother of two Pippa Flanders took down a starting field of 70 top players that included herself and one other women. Players travelled from around the world to compete and go after a […]
September 18, 2006
Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas and Poker Player Newspaper have come up with an innovative international poker championship which is sure to catch the imagination of the poker community, organising a clash between poker dealers from companies around the world. A company spokesman said that the inspiration for the championship lies […]
September 17, 2006
This weekend saw the conclusion of the third European Poker Tour, with Norwegian Bjorn-Erik Glenne truimphing over a starting field in Barcelona, Spain of 480 poker players, 118 of them qualifying in online tournaments. Three days and plenty of excitement later, the thirteen players still in the hunt gathered for the final day of play […]
September 16, 2006
Mark Flanagan (40) from County Wexford in Ireland, beat a starting field of 216 players to win the Betfair-sponsored Celtic Poker Tour (CPT) Grand Final in Athlone this week. The road haulage company manager and father of five has only been playing Texas Hold ‘Em for a year, although he tries to sharpen his skills […]
September 14, 2006
Further indicators are emerging that this week’s “Phone March on Washington” protest against the banning of online gambling has had some impact. The grass roots initiative, organised by the Poker Players’ Alliance urged players to use an 800 number which routed them through to their political representatives. The message: Do not ban online poker in […]
September 14, 2006
World Poker Tour’s mobile Texas Hold ‘Em game designers will be patting themselves on the back this week after being ranked as the number one mobile poker title, and the fifth ranked overall for all mobile game titles for revenue-generating mobile phone games. According to the June market report by industry research firms Telephia Inc. […]
September 14, 2006
Delta Airlines has made those long, boring coast-to-coast flights a lot more interesting with the introduction of Texas Hold ‘Em poker to the on-demand digital entertainment at every seat. The game will be available on flights of more than 1 750 miles or 4 hours duration, staring with journeys from New York’s JFK airport and […]
September 14, 2006
ComeOutPoker.com, the world’s first online poker site catering exclusively to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community, launched its real money online poker room this week. Company spokesmen quoted unidentified recent surveys that an estimated one-in-10 players are gay. Doing the math, the company’s press release reveals that one-in-five or 18 percent of American adults […]
September 14, 2006
ComeOutPoker.com, the world’s first online poker site catering exclusively to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) community, launched its real money online poker room this week. Company spokesmen quoted unidentified recent surveys that an estimated one-in-10 players are gay. Doing the math, the company’s press release reveals that one-in-five or 18 percent of American adults […]
September 14, 2006
Entertainment industry software developer Playwize plc launched Pokerwize this week, which it claims is the world’s first virtual reality 3D Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) poker game. The AIM-listed Bits Corp subsidiary says that the combination of VoIP and video gaming technology will allow players to interact with each other by voice while playing poker […]