October 7, 2010
Full Tilt Poker.com has released the schedule for the next edition ? the eighteenth ? of its popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series, which commenced November 10. FTOPS XVIII will consist of 34 separate events with prizes funded from a total guaranteed prize pool of $19 million. Kicking off the tournament, the first event will […]
October 7, 2010
The Cake Poker Network has added another operator to its growing roster of internet poker sites following the signing of Asian multi-channel online gambling operator SunGame and its branded site Poker King.com. ?We are very excited and proud to launch our new poker product,? said a SunGame spokesperson, who noted that the Cake Network supports […]
October 7, 2010
The Pokerstars UK and Ireland Tour Champion of Champions competition was appropriately named for David Vamplew this week; only a day after winning the EPT London main event for GBP900 000 and a EPT Grand Final seat (see previous report), the 23-year-old Scottish pro triumphed over eight other UKIPT winners. The winner-takes-all event took place […]
October 6, 2010
Chandler Bator, a twenty-one-year-old finance sophomore at Arizona State University, says he carried out both legal research and viability calculations before launching his college student-targeted online poker venture Your College Poker Club, which operates on the subscription club model and offers its members cash prizes in weekly tournaments. Bator has merged social networking with the […]
October 5, 2010
Party Poker.com has announced the winner of its ?Drive the Dream’ promotion, awarding the first prize of a new Aston Martin DB9 coupe to 19-year-old cartography student Marek Sisnowski of Krakow, Poland. The young player won the big prize on a complete freeroll after a nine handed live shootout at The Mint Casino in London […]
October 5, 2010
The Irish city of Killarney hosted the third edition of the Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival this week, attracting 632 international players, each hoping to take home the Euro 75 000 first prize. After three days a final table was set, led by Brit player Jon Kalmer on 1,81 million and comprising Richard Connoly, Isle of […]
October 5, 2010
A relatively unknown young player from Scotland, David Vamplew, has taken down the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Main Event in London after five tough days of intense competition against some of the world?s top players. The young Scot, who is a recent math graduate and a member of the University of Edinburgh Poker Club, played […]
October 4, 2010
The main event of the Pokerstars? European Poker Tour is approaching its climax after five frenetic days of action, with Sunday seeing the 24 survivors from an original field of 848 whittled down to a final table of nine. Sunday evening, Kyle Bowker eliminated John Hall in 9th Place for GBP 45,000 to set the […]
October 3, 2010
Ladbrokes Poker.com reports that the 633 player entry field for its 2010 Irish Poker Festival this weekend pushed the prize pool well beyond the guarantee and now stands at Euro 316 000. When we went to press the field had been reduced by half to 281 in the first day’s action, which featured many international […]
October 3, 2010
Big names in the poker firmament continued to fall Saturday as the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Main Event concluded Day 3 with only 24 players from an original entry field of 848 still in the hunt for the GBP 900 000 main prize. 104 eliminations walked away from their tables before Sunday dawned, among them […]