August 26, 2006
World Poker Tour group’s legal counsel filed the company’s first response this week in an interesting case brought by leading poker players who claim that the WPT tournament agreements place them at a personal and business disadvantage WPT has hired top legal councel in Makan Delrahim of the Washington D.C. law firm of Brownstein, Hyatt […]
August 24, 2006
Party Poker marketers are determined to get the attention of potential customers wherever they may be, and that includes public washrooms according to media reports this week. The biggest online poker room on the Internet has engaged with advertising company AddDirect to place advertising material in up to 300 washrooms in up-market clubs throughout the […]
August 24, 2006
A Vegas entrepreneur has come up with the ultimate in eye-catching poker tournaments to titivate and intrigue a wide audience and attract television exposure, too. He plans a strip poker match between World Series of Poker champions and Playboy Playmates, most of them novices at the game. Tentatively planned for Las Vegas next February, the […]
August 23, 2006
The current 2006 World Series of Poker main event winner, Jamie Gold will not be enjoying his $12 million first prize just yet; a law suit claiming half of the giant bonanza has been filed in Las Vegas, and WSOP host Harrahs Entertainment has been restrained by court order from paying out until the case […]
August 23, 2006
Fighting her way through a starting field of 419 players, Californian Kelli Griggs took the top money prize at the Bicycle Casino’s Ladies Event this week, more familiarly known as the Ladies Poker Party. Kelli’s prize includes being selected for the World Poker Tour‘s Ladies Night IV, giving her the opportunity to play against women’s […]
August 22, 2006
The regular weekend, big-money tournaments continued to flourish this week with the organising online poker rooms all meeting their participation targets, thus ensuring that the guaranteed prize pools were reached. In the Poker Stars.com $1 Million Guaranteed weekly event this popular site (it’s the second biggest on the Internet) welcomed a little shy of 6 […]
August 22, 2006
One of Europe’s most respected no limit Texas Hold ’em poker tournaments, the event has been boosted by a doubling of the guaranteed prize pool to Euro 2 million, making it not only one of Europe’s richest tournaments but also its largest in terms of players. This year’s capacity will be 800, with players being […]
August 21, 2006
The Amateur Poker Association and Tour (“APAT”), in association with PokerStars.com and PokerPlayer Magazine, announced the launch of the APAT Online Series this week, promising loads of poker action on one of the Internet’s top online gambling sites. APAT Online is a series of 30 International tournaments hosted exclusively at Poker Stars. The inaugural APAT […]
August 21, 2006
The September 16 starting date for the fifth annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is just around the corner, and Pokerstars organisers will be burning the midnight oil getting ready to host players from more than 80 countries competing in 18 tournaments for a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million. The WCOOP will run […]
August 21, 2006
Moves by US politicians to put an end to online gambling in that country have had little effect on the growth in the number of online poker rooms, according to Poker Site Scout.com. The site reports that there are now 600 online poker rooms and counting, giving players an unprecendented choice for entertainment venues Poker […]