April 13, 2015
US professional and mainly high stakes internet cash game player Jason Mo is $151,000 better off this week following his weekend victory in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Seoul after an entertaining heads up against Singapore pro Bryan Huang. It was Mo’s first major victory title although he can claim two previous WSOP final tables […]
April 11, 2015
Pokerstars and Full Tilt parent Rational Group, itself a subsidiary of the Amaya Gaming group, has announced the appointment of new marketing and operational executives. Israel Rosenthal has been appointed chief operations officer for the Isle of Man-based company, replacing Rafi Ashkenazi, who is taking on new responsibilities at Amaya. Rosenthal is a Rational Group […]
April 10, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwC1icvy4mg International online and land poker star Phil Ivey has an interesting new role…appearing as himself in a new advertising campaign for the Chrysler C300 luxury car. The US-created series is titled “Kings and Queens of America” and features other US movers and shakers like Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky […]
April 9, 2015
The Poker Central network has announced that it is to produce a television show based on this year’s $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, working in collaboration with WSOP contractor Poker Productions. The plan is to flight the show on a major television network around August this year. […]
April 8, 2015
Global Poker Index CEO Alexandre Dreyfus has given an insight into his latest project – the Global Poker League – during an interview with the poker information site Poker News. Dreyfus intends to build on the success of his Global Poker Masters product, where teams of players compete against one another, and hopes to generate […]
April 8, 2015
Pennsylvania looks increasingly like the online poker legalisation hot spot at present, with this week seeing another bill introduced to the state House. The proposal, titled HB 920, comes from Representative Tina Davis, whom our readers will recall tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to achieve legalisation with an almost identical proposal that stalled in committee. Her […]
April 7, 2015
Despite the presence of four top Irish players at the final table of the Paddy Power Irish Poker Open over the weekend, it was Greek player Ioannis Triantafyllakis who took the first place honours after a tough heads up with local player Kevin Killeen that included a two-way split agreement. The Greek pro took home […]
April 7, 2015
British-born professional gambler and poker player Dave Ulliott lost his hard fought battle with cancer today (Monday) at the age of 61. A colourful character in the poker world, Ulliott was known in his early career as “Dave-The Clock” and later as Dave “DevilFish” Ulliott. He was a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner (1997), who […]
April 6, 2015
The proposal by the Tournament Directors Association to hold its annual conference at Sheldon Adelson’s The Venetian resort in Las Vegas rightly met with a storm of protest from outraged online poker luminaries (see previous reports) but all is well now following an announcement over the weekend by the TDA Board that the venue has […]
April 5, 2015
A report over the weekend on the respected information site Online Poker Report suggests that an influential tribal group – the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians – may be moving away from its insistence that any California online poker legalisation bills contain “bad actor” exclusion clauses against companies that provided online gambling services to US […]