April 10, 2012
Poker pro Robert Fellner (28) may live in Las Vegas, but he prefers to play poker on the internet, a career that has become problematic thanks to the prohibitionary tendencies of American federal politics. Over the weekend the US and Canada television service of the BBC made Fellner the central peg on which it hung […]
April 9, 2012
The last nine players standing in the Paddy Poker Irish Open currently running in Dublin will probably come back to the table today thinking “there can be only one” as they contemplate a main prize worth Euro 420,000 and eight opponents to beat. Starting three days back with an entry field of 502 hopefuls, the […]
April 9, 2012
Poker Table Stats, an online poker program that provides real-time statistics across many sites, added hand ranges in the “Rank Calculation” area this week. The new functionality allows online poker players to use Poker Stove and Karlsson Sklansky hand range calculations instead of the “One vs. One All-In” default hand rank, a company statement advised. […]
April 7, 2012
Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have proved the outstanding commercial success of the high speed poker concept with their Rush and Zoom products (see previous reports), and now Unibet has entered the field with Relax Poker’s Fast Poker product. The major European internet gambling group announced the launch of the new offering this week, giving […]
April 7, 2012
888Poker’s decision to replace Pokerstars as the sponsor for the University Poker Championship event in Montreal (see previous reports) has been vindicated by the major interest shown in the event, report the organisers. Eighty-four competitors from 14 universities in Quebec province qualified for the tournament by accumulating points playing online poker at 888 Poker over […]
April 7, 2012
Brit poker ace James “Flushy” Dempsey has taken down the winner-takes-all, $10,000 buy-in inaugural iSeriesLIVE tournament in Dublin, beating out an illustrious band of 9 other top international players that included Maria Ho, Faraz Jaka, Devilfish Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, and Carlos Mortenson. The brainchild of Poker Royalty chief Brian Balsbaugh, the event was […]
April 6, 2012
New financial filings on April 3 show that the Epic Poker League’s parent company, Federated Sports and Gaming, financial situation is worse than was first indicated in its February 28 bankruptcy disclosures, which recorded 100 creditors and debts of $5 million. Card Player reports that the new filings show that FS&G has almost $8 million […]
April 6, 2012
The draft schedule for the next Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker was released for player comments some weeks ago (see previous report) and has now been tweaked and firmed up by the poker company. Pokerstars is guaranteeing $30 million in prize pools for the popular event, which will run online between May 6 and […]
April 6, 2012
Veronika Pavlikova, an 18-year-old internet poker player who has already made $225,000 and a name for herself as xbet_kiddi in online tourneys, has made an impressive entry into the major live tournament sector with her recent Euro 70,000 win at the France Poker Series Snowfest event in Evian, and is already being hailed as the […]
April 5, 2012
The Isle of Man-based online poker provider Pokerstars saved the day for the islands closure-threatened Family and Mobile Libraries this month, coming forward with a commitment to keep the library viable – and the jobs of its employees safe – for at least another three years. Government austerity cutbacks due to the tough economic situation […]