March 5, 2016
After besting a field of 514 talented players, German poker pro Dietrich Fast has been declared the winner of the $10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic. His reward includes the main prize of $1,000,800, and a $15,000 seat into the WPT Tournament of Champions. The WSOP bracelet holder faced WPT title-holder Mike Shariati […]
March 4, 2016
The massive Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba has signed a deal with Oceans Sports and Entertainment agency, agreeing to promote the International Federation of Poker’s Match Poker (formerly Duplicate Poker) international tournaments. The major publicity opportunities inherent in the Asian agreement will go a long way to realising IFP president Patrick Nally’s ambitious target of presenting […]
March 4, 2016
UK poker fans can look forward to a new televised poker show later this year following Channel 4’s commissioning of Good Egg Productions and Channel X Productions to put together a new series titled Celebrity Poker Home Game. In a presser this week Channel 4 characterised the new show as “a new hybrid poker entertainment […]
March 4, 2016
888Poker has announced that it is making major changes to the way it rewards player loyalty…and in keeping with its recreational player-friendly strategy the new system will favour them over the shark players. The company is removing rakeback facilities and replacing them with a new program branded 888Poker Club, where players will be encouraged to […]
March 3, 2016
Edmund Yeung, a poker pro originally from Singapore but now residing in the UK, has bested a field of 1,003 to win the 2016 Sky Poker UK Poker Championships main event and add an impressive GBP 210,000 to his bank balance. The prize was the largest first placing reward ever recorded from the UKPC Main […]
March 3, 2016
European Poker Tour and Big Game fans will be more than familiar with the incisive commentaries of Joe Stapleton, who has just signed up with the televised Poker Night in America series “I’m thrilled to be back doing poker on TV in the States,” Stapleton said in a statement announcing his appointment this week. “Especially […]
March 1, 2016
Some of the best poker players in the world feature among the twelve teams in the Global Poker League, which staged a much-publicised, five-hour or more drafting event last week at the SLS Hotel in Beverley Hills, in which team captains selected their players. Here are the full team lists: Rome Emperors Mustapha Kanit Dario […]
March 1, 2016
Austrian players using the French-regulated version of Pokerstars at Pokerstars.fr have been advised by the company that effective March 1st the site will be closing its virtual doors to Austrian players. In a message to Austrian players, the online poker company advised: “We are writing to inform you that, due to the latest change in […]
February 29, 2016
The second edition of the American Poker Awards took place in the appropriately swish area of Beverley Hills in California last week, with a range of industry criteria applied to the 15 winner categories. TDA Founder and WPT Executive Director Matt Savage’s selection as Industry Person of the Year received general approbation, as did the […]
February 28, 2016
Bwin.Party has not confirmed speculation this week that its PartyPoker subsidiary may be ousted later this year from the New Jersey online gambling alliance with Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Whilst the Borgata online gambling enterprise is the market leader, its poker numbers are reportedly lagging behind the Caesars-WSOP-888Poker venture, which may be a motivating […]