May 17, 2005
In what poker software provider Dobrosoft describes as “…an amicable arrangement” it was revealed this week that the America’s Card Room (ACR) online poker network is changing to the Swedish Ongame poker software, taking some but not all of the poker room *skins* with it to the PokerNetwork. The changes came to light after online […]
May 16, 2005
There will be more competition in the poker room field soon, following Gaming VC Holdings S.A. announcement this week that it has signed an agreement with Swedish provider Boss Media to provide an online poker platform for Casino Club.com, Gaming VC’s online casino. The launch is scheduled for July 2005, when Gaming VC plans to […]
May 14, 2005
This year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) fourth stop turned out to be something of an endurance test, with a record playing time of 12 hours 35 minutes at Harveys Casino Resort, reports the Tahoe Daily Tribune. It turned out to be the longest final table in circuit history when the winner, a 39 year […]
May 11, 2005
It was refreshing to read about a new approach to charity tournament marketing from VIP Management Services, where a linked land and online gaming initiative for charity has been formed this week. Through its VIPpoker.com brand, VIP has partnered with the Normandie Casino in Los Angeles to create a $25,000 cash-guaranteed poker tournament with proceeds […]
May 11, 2005
The Internet poker message boards have been hot with exchanges on Empire Poker over the past week or more following what seems to be a large number of arbitrary and inadequately explained account closures. InfoPowa attempts to obtain an official comment from Empire Poker management appear to have fallen on deaf or unwilling ears, for […]
May 9, 2005
Online gambling group Bodog.com will be footing the bill for a University of Minnesota junior to compete with the best of the best at the 2005 World Series of Poker scheduled for July this year. Eric Zard (21) beat 430 other online players in the Bodog tournament this week on his dorm computer, winning the […]
May 5, 2005
The UK newspaper The Independent carried one of those good luck, and great poker skill stories this week when it reported the WPT successes of a British businessman who took two weeks off in Vegas to play poker. Paul Maxfield has been running his own manufacturing company in Stoke-on-Trent for 25 years when he decided […]
May 4, 2005
Eric Morris’s Bluff Media group has announced plans for a tournament to find the best online poker player, with a ticket to WPT superstardom for the winner. The Bluff Poker Tour will run from June through Dec 2005 – a 6-month mission to find the best online poker player in the world and give him […]
May 3, 2005
Another industry initiative based on the opportunities afforded by UK online gaming regulation surfaced this week when Internet video games provider CYOP Systems International Inc. announced it is to launch a poker software licensing subsidiary titled Red Felt Software Ltd. based in the United Kingdom. The Canadian company has engaged a London firm to form […]
May 3, 2005
Summit Entertainment Group, Inc. is introducing online gambling activities with a new online gaming casino, sportsbook, bingo and “One of a kind” Live poker at Lucky Summit.com The site links players from around the world to play poker against each other in real time, for fun money or real money. Action is offered on Texas […]