June 5, 2010
Last week’s Swiss Supreme Court finding that poker is a game predominantly of chance (see previous report) has triggered critical comment from the International Federation of Poker, which is a member of the 150 nation SportsAccord movement. The finding reversed an earlier decision by an inferior court that poker was a skill game, and it […]
June 5, 2010
Hungarian poker pro Peter Gelencser has collected his first World Series of Poker bracelet, and a prize of $180 730 on winning event 7 – the $2 500 buy-in Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) competition. The internet ace took on an entry field of 290 other players that featured big names like Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, […]
June 5, 2010
The news that the state of New Jersey’s Senate Wagering and Tourism Committee had approved the further progress of a bill seeking to allow Atlantic City operators to move into intrastate online gambling continues to reverberate around the industry. In follow up publicity, the committee’s chairman, Jim Whelan, said this week that over half a […]
June 5, 2010
Connexionfrance.com reports that the new French law regulating online poker has hit a last-minute delay following a complaint from Malta. Online sport and horse racing bets will be opened up to new, legal competition as planned from next week, but France’s plans to regulate online poker have been postponed by at least a month, the […]
June 5, 2010
Poker pro Phil (Unabomber) Laak’s attempt on the world record for continuous poker playing was still in full swing with 37 hours gone and 43 still to outlast as we went to press Friday. Laak is playing for the Camp Sunshine charity and to make the Guinness Book of Records by breaking a 74 hour […]
June 5, 2010
Pras Bansi, a 32-year-old pro with the UK team Hit Squad picked up his second World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet this week when he was victorious in the $1 500 buy-in NLHE, taking home the first prize of $515 501 after besting a field of 2 092 players. Despite an early chip lead by […]
June 4, 2010
Gioia International, a company that has pioneered a poker game based upon the deal of a real deck of shuffled cards by the fully automated “Cut N’ Shuffle” system, has been granted a gaming licence allowing it to operate on the Isle of Man. The company and its management had to satisfy the Isle of […]
June 3, 2010
Online poker and skill gaming operations have proved to be a winner for the giant Italian online gambling company Microgame, accounting for 60 percent of the firm’s Euro 1 billion turnover in 2009. Releasing its numbers this week, the company reported a 151 percent year-on-year increase in full-year net profit to Euro 11.8 million, well […]
June 3, 2010
Doyle Brunson triggered interested speculation this week when he referred to Absolute Poker and UltimateBet in his blog, commenting intriguingly: “I know some of the former owners are still in the office at UB so they have to go the extra mile with their security.” Brunson, who went no further in identifying those concerned, was […]
June 3, 2010
Brit poker pro Brian Townsend has blogged that he is leaving his post as top instructor at the CardRunners organisation following careful consideration. “When I joined CardRunners back in 2007, I joined because I thought it was a great company and because I wanted to gain experience helping run my own small business. CardRunners is […]