December 13, 2011
James Dempsey, a professional poker player who hails from Brighton in the UK, claimed the main $821,612 prize in the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas over the weekend, besting a highly experienced field of 413 players on the way. By the time the field […]
December 12, 2011
It’s been a very profitable weekend for international poker pro Jason Mercier, who took down the $100k World Poker Tour High Roller tourney at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, besting 23 other top quality players. The victory after a tense heads up against David Sands made Mercier $683,767 richer, bringing his career earnings in live […]
December 11, 2011
Martin Finger, a 21-year-old business science student from Frankenburger in Germany, and an accomplished Pokerstars internet poker player, has triumphed in the European Poker Tour Prague tournament, earning himself a cool Euro 720 000, and a gold winner’s bracelet worth Euro 10,000. Finger qualified for his seat in the tournament on the internet through a […]
December 11, 2011
The anti-domain piracy legal drive by US land gambling giant MGM Resorts (see previous reports) has run into its first real opposition in Texas entrepreneur Adam Majewski, who has filed a motion for dismissal of an MGM attempt to seize his Excalibur Poker.com domain on grounds that it does not infringe any MGM trademark or […]
December 10, 2011
Jamie Gold, who won the 2006 World Series of Poker main event for a record $12 million after besting a field of 8,772, has joined the illustrious ranks of poker aces who have land poker rooms named after them. On Friday the Las Vegas gambling company Tropicana announced that it has named its newly renovated […]
December 10, 2011
UltimateBet.com, the online poker site that hit the headlines last week when confidential player data was published on a website by person or persons unknown (see previous report), has assured its players that personal banking, social security and credit card information has not been compromised, and that an investigation is in progress. Just on a […]
December 9, 2011
The concept of fast, turbo-charged poker for people on the move is clearly catching on since it was introduced by Full Tilt with Rush Poker, and more recently by InstaDeal (see previous reports). This week Pokertube launched the latest offering in the genre, titled Speed Poker. Pokertube Speed Poker.com enables mobile users to download Speed […]
December 9, 2011
Social gaming giant Zynga has announced that its popular Zynga Poker product is to make its first direct foray into the smart TV market using the Google TV platform via a new native app. This new version of the game will run on any television using the Google TV platform, and has been specifically optimised […]
December 8, 2011
Playtech’s iPoker network appears to have a winning formula in its iPops series, reporting that over 60,000 poker enthusiasts from around the world participated in the network’s recent $1,000,000 Guaranteed Prizes Tournament Series. iPOPS offered players the chance to win massive cash prizes at four online tournaments for exceptionally low buy-ins starting from just 10c […]
December 8, 2011
Effective January 2 2012, the popular poker show High Stakes Poker is to be dropped from the GSN schedule, according to a report this week at buzzerblog.com. Apparently declining audience ratings have prompted the network decision to axe the show, which first aired in 2006 and quickly became a favourite of US poker fans. Top […]