March 23, 2006
All-skill poker provider ThwartPoker Inc., is busy this week with the launch of a PC downloadable version of the game, ThwartPoker’s All-Skill Poker Tour, featuring the award-winning No Limit Hold’em Blitz and 6 Card Battle stud – poker games that award prizes and cash tied to gameplay. Concurrently, the company has announced major distribution deals […]
March 23, 2006
Readers will recall previous reports on TeenPatti.com, which offers traditional Indian Teen Patti games, as well as Texas Holdem and Omaha powered by Yatahay software. The company has joined Yatahay’s TruePoker Network for increased player liquidity, bringing with it Teen Patti – the most widely played card game in India. Allied with the phenomenal growth […]
March 23, 2006
The Pennsylvania Lottery will award five separate trips to the World Series of Poker Tournament this year in a $100,000 Hold ‘Em Poker second-chance drawing Monday, April 10. The five contestants selected will each receive a seat at a World Series of Poker tournament event, saving themselves the $10,000 buy-in, round-trip airfare for two, six-night/seven-day […]
March 23, 2006
Excitement and hype are building toward this year’s World Poker Tour grand finale, which will be hosted at the Bellagio Hotel Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Bellagio’s 2006 4th Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic kicks off April 5th with two-day no-limit hold’em tournaments, including a seniors event and “a last chance to qualify” super […]
March 23, 2006
Newly acquired by the Austrian public company Bet and Win, the Ongame Network has wasted no time in launching The Ongame Network Poker Classic, a tournament with a record-breaking guaranteed prize pool of $5 million and at least $1 million for the final winner. Whilst the prize pool is dwarfed by events such as the […]
March 23, 2006
One of the leading skill gaming providers, the UK’s GameAccount group has officially launched their “3-Card Poker” product after extensive development (see previous reports) The production version of the game is a unique person-to-person (P2P) skill-based adaptation of an evergreen casino game. 3 Card Poker has been integrated into the GameAccount Network, making it available […]
March 22, 2006
Blackberry addicts now have yet another facility on this remarkable mobile communications system – 10 hand Texas Hold Em poker. MGN Technologies trading as Mobile Gaming Now has developed the new gaming software for the Blackberry 8700 Series Cellphone and the release of “Gold Mobile — Texas Holdem,” introduces a range of new entertainment possibilities […]
March 21, 2006
Proving once again that the youth movement is on the march in poker, a quiet 22-year-old college student from Minneapolis became the youngest winner in the five-year history of the prestigious PartyPoker.com Million this week, claiming the $1 million first prize in a display of poker playing that impressed even hardened professionals. James Schneider truimphed […]
March 21, 2006
The doomsayers were at it again this week, opining that too much television coverage was making poker programs less popular and impacting the continued growth of the game. Quoting Nielsen Media Research numbers, the New York Post postulated that poker’s downward spiral has already begun. The audience for Bravo’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown” has fallen to […]
March 21, 2006
British students have snapped up all 300 places in the upcoming Student Poker Championships, reports a spokesman for organiser UK Student Poker.com. The buy-in for the tournament is GBP 30, giving the young guns a crack at glory and the World Series of Poker this year through a first prize sponsored package that will take […]