April 19, 2012
Police investigating the illegal Chattanooga poker game in which an alleged caterer pulled a gun and was shot by police threw down their trump card Wednesday, producing a surveillance video that showed Clifford Billups buying-in to the game and receiving chips. During the police raid Billups reportedly headed for the back door, pulled a gun […]
April 19, 2012
In a follow up to a Pokerstars threat of legal action earlier this week, it appears that the data mining and selling site Poker Table Rankings has backed away from a confrontation. On Wednesday the data miner published a notice advising that it has removed Pokerstars player profiles from its database. “Whether we are providing […]
April 18, 2012
The Asian Poker Tour claims that the $129,000 buy-in for its Manila Millions Super High Roller tourney in the Philippines will not only generate a prize pool worth $3 million, but also constitutes the biggest buy-in yet for an Asian live tournament. According to the organisers, 25 players have so far signed up, including Tom […]
April 18, 2012
The management at Betonline, a Panama-based online sportsbook and poker operator, appear to be at sixes and sevens over the future of the company’s controversial internet poker room, with players reporting conflicting company information, a slew of complaints and a possible network change. For some weeks now players on various poker message boards have been […]
April 17, 2012
In Ireland, a new company branded New Full Tilt Limited has been registered with starting capital of Euro 1 million furnished by Groupe Bernard Tapie, the putative French acquirers of the scandal-ridden Full Tilt Poker empire. The GBT founder’s son Laurent and International Stadiums Poker Tour director Prosper Jer?my Masquelier are listed as sole directors […]
April 17, 2012
The formidable Finnish internet high stakes poker ace Ilari Sahamies has not had a happy year at the tables so far, but on Monday he staged an impressive comeback that saw him leave the Pokerstars nosebleed tables with $324,000 after almost 1,600 hands of $50/$100 to $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha. His victims included top online […]
April 17, 2012
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout produced one of the more interesting articles on internet poker’s Black Friday amidst a blizzard of publicity on Sunday’s first anniversary of the US Department of Justice’s decimation of the American industry. In it, Pokerscout reveals that during the first 10 days after April 15, 2011, Full Tilt Poker […]
April 17, 2012
The Isle of Man-based giant online poker operator Pokerstars has launched legal proceedings against statistical data supplier Poker Table Ratings, alleging that by selling data concerning Pokerstars action the site is infringing its intellectual property rights, and breaching the terms and conditions attached to using Pokerstars. Poker Table Ratings data-mines operational sites and sells statistical […]
April 17, 2012
The record-setting Pokerstars UK and Ireland Poker Tournament outing in Nottingham, England came to a conclusion Monday with a 60-year-old landlord from Leicestershire, Robert Baguely, taking the honours and the GBP 210,400 prize after besting a record turnout of 1,625 players at the Dusk Till Dawn poker club. All the more remarkably, Baguely qualified for […]
April 17, 2012
Speculation was running riot at major poker information forums like twoplustwo Monday after watchful players noted that the year-long dormancy of the Full Tilt Poker website had been broken by intermittent activity. A blizzard of comment and speculation followed a player post claiming that up to 411 players appeared to be active on the website, […]