November 11, 2005
Card Player reported details for the 2006 Canadian Poker Championship this week. The head-ups event, which will be filmed and televised, will take place March 8-12 at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, Alberta. The CDN$5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament will be limited to 128 players, who will vie for the top prize of CDN $250,000. […]
November 11, 2005
One of the longest press releases of the year was received from the World Poker Tour this week, listing the many possibilities if your near and dear one happens to be a poker fan. It’s a sure bet that someone in your family has been bitten by the poker bug and is hoping for something […]
November 10, 2005
Mike Matusow is the 2005 WSOP Champion of Champions this week, having outlasted a field of 119 World Series of Poker Champions to win this prestigious tournament and take hom the $1,000,000 first place prize money. The final table that began Tuesday afternoon ended almost twelve hours later early Wednesday morning. Polker’s top players were […]
November 10, 2005
Most poker players have a good story to tell – bad beat stories, great wins, successful bluffs. Now is your chance to tell it. The Small Town Poker Tour(STPT) is a unique new poker show scheduled to hit the air soon. The STPT is traveling the highways and byways of America setting up Texas Hold’em […]
November 7, 2005
Misinformation regarding the game of “Chinese Poker” is prevalent on the Internet, claims a press release just in from gambling expert Daniel Fong, who claims that websites offering information on Chinese Poker make glaring errors in the rules of play, and in some cases even confuse it with another game entirely. Fong intends to correct […]
November 7, 2005
World Poker Tour and 2K Sports have launched a fascinating new poker-related entertainment using the very popular Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Microsoft Xbox as the medium. As a video game, World Poker Tour presents all the attributes for which it has become globally successful – big names, glitsy venues and exciting camerawork – with […]
November 7, 2005
Responding to the constantly changing face of the poker world, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the 2005-2006 fourth season schedule. The sixteen event schedule has been joined by the Borgata Winter Poker Open, to be played at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, from January 20th through February 1st. The Borgata […]
November 7, 2005
The owners of Playtech-powered Titan Poker.com, a recently launched online poker room must have deep pockets judging by the guaranteed $1 million or more a month they are currently promising in tournament prizes. Titan Poker claims to be growing quickly, due to popular daily, weekly and monthly big cash tournaments, and to special jackpot sit […]
November 3, 2005
Hard on the heels of its annoucement that it is to continue using Cryptologic poker software for the next few months at least, come reports that Betfair has just closed a deal it has been working on for months – the acquisition of Danish online poker site Poker Champs, and their software company Aglet. “We […]
November 3, 2005
Poker software provider Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc. (“LVFH”) has announced that it has entered into an exclusive title sponsorship with the Heartland Poker Tour (“HPT”) for 52 weeks. The HPT is a weekly televised poker tour series that takes place at several casino venues in the Midwest United States and is currently being […]