March 21, 2005
Want to know what the odds on winning are on that Texas Hold ‘Em hand you’re holding? Real Time Poker Odds gambling software website is testing an innovative ‘pay-by-link’ model that tells players the exact odds of their hand winning, whilst they’re actually playing. Users get a free licence if they create a hyperlink in […]
March 21, 2005
Poker’s eminence as a mainstream entertainment as well as gambling genre was emphasised this week with the announcement by entertainment provider Majesco that it has added addition a poker title to its current options of Nintendo DS games. Texas Hold ‘Em was selected by the company for the new game due to its proven thrills […]
March 19, 2005
Eric Morris’s popular poker publication Bluff Magazine will be on air this week in a new venture to bring poker news and views to the US airwaves. The poker radio show, Poker Night Radio, has been re-launched as the Bluff Magazine Poker Hour and, every Wednesday at 6PM PT/9PM ET, brings news, insight and interviews […]
March 19, 2005
Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, Sol Kerzner, eat your hearts out. This is what a gambling tycoon of the internet age looks like. Vikrant Bhargava is a 32-year-old electrical engineer from Rajasthan who confesses he has never played a hand of poker in a real casino. Poker, though, may be about to make him a fortune: […]
March 18, 2005
UK bookmaker Victor Chandler’s online poker site, VC Poker.com has released format and registration details for the 2005 VC Poker Cup. The event will take place in London, UK between 1-5 August 2005 and will be open to 128 players. The buy-in for the event will be GBP 5 000 giving an estimated prize pool […]
March 17, 2005
The “best college player in the USA” was $10 000 richer this week following the finals of World Poker Exchange’s Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico. The champ was Nate Belt from the University of Kentucky. Belt competed against five other regional finalists in a live tournament hosted by “MTV Real World: Las Vegas” star […]
March 16, 2005
Reuters is reporting that online casino 888.com is set to float in the second half of this year for around $1.6 billion (840 million pounds), quoting the venerable Financial Times in an unsourced article. Cassava Enterprises, the owner of 888.com and one of the world’s biggest Internet gambling groups, has apparently hired Credit Suisse First […]
March 15, 2005
William Hill TV, Channel 425 on the Sky platform, launched a new style poker programme this week, ‘Poker 425’ for the late night poker viewer. The first programme will air in the UK on Wednesday March 23. ‘Poker 425’ is a weekly magazine style programme which moves away from the usual repeat broadcasts of old […]
March 15, 2005
World Poker Exchange (WPE) announced thi week that IFILM Corp., a broadband entertainment destination reaching more than five million people per month will exclusively stream clips and highlights from Worldpx.com’s first annual World Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico from March 12 – 14, 2005. IFILM.com will film the final table of the free national […]
March 15, 2005
Angelciti’s President, George Gutierrez has announced the achievement of almost a million dollars in rake in the first six months of operations of the companys poker arm, Midas Entertainment, Inc. The press release reveals that Midas has taken in more than $3.5 million in deposits, processed in excess of $45.2 million in bets and earned […]