July 6, 2015
World Poker Fund Holdings, Inc. (WPFH), a poker orientated entertainment company and co-owner of the World Poker Channel, has detailed its latest poker projects which span the TV, internet and land-based channels. They include sponsorship tournaments, reality TV shows and an interest in Native American Indian online gaming. WPFH is majority owned by Lookhu, Inc. […]
July 6, 2015
Jackpot Digital (formerly Las Vegas from Home Entertainment Inc.) has acquired the assets of Multimedia Games’ PokerTek business for a $5.4 million cash consideration of which $2.25 million will be payable on closing. The balance will be paid through an earn-out formula which may increase the consideration to $7.5 million, the company said. PokerTek distributes […]
July 6, 2015
The results of the last of the preliminary tournaments leading up to the Main Event are now awaited at the World Series of Poker as 10 players from an original field of 4,422 continue to fight it out in the $777 buy-in Lucky Sevens NLHE contest – number 66 on the WSOP schedule – after […]
July 6, 2015
The attention swerved again this weekend from the World Series of Poker at the Rio to the Aria, where US poker pro Brian Rast took down the spectacular first $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl. With 43 players registered, the event carried a massive $21.5 million prize pool, ensuring that most of the final table […]
July 5, 2015
The 2015 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has entered the last stretch in the run up to the Main Event, with two bracelet competitions finishing over the weekend, both new inclusions on the schedule this year. The WSOP.com semi-online event was played at six-man live table in Las Vegas, and a New Jersey […]
July 5, 2015
After almost two months and 67 events, the Main Event of most prestigious live poker tournament on the planet, the World Series of Poker, is set to kick off on Sunday July 5 in Las Vegas. Ten days have been set aside for the event, number 68 on the WSOP schedule, which is expected to […]
July 4, 2015
Continuing the best traditions of talented young German players, 24-year-old Leipzig student and part time player Paul Hofer bested a field of 4,554 other players to win the $1,111 buy-in Little One for Big Drop event at the World Series of Poker Friday night. It was his first World Series visit, yet he had already […]
July 3, 2015
Alex Lindop, a 25-year-old professional player from Stoke-on-Trent, has claimed the UK’s second bracelet in this year’s World Series of Poker, besting a talented field of 2,154 other players and claiming the $531,037 winner’s share of the $2.9 million prize pool. Making a return to WSOP nine years after he won the 2006 Main Event […]
July 3, 2015
Pokerstars and its California tribal and cardroom allies have upped the ante in the fight for fair and open online poker legalisation in the Bear State by launching a new Professional Player Tour initiative titled Let California Play! The initiative will be supported by the www.californians4ipoker.com website launched last month (see previous report). The drive […]