October 31, 2009
The Mandalay Media last-minute attempt to snatch World Poker Tour Enterprises from earlier bidder and Party Gaming subsidiary Peerless Media (see previous report) continued to excite press attention going into the weekend. In what appeared to be a response to possibly counter bidding, Mandalay Media increased its $35 million cash and stock offer further on […]
October 29, 2009
Forbes magazine carried an interesting feature this week on the 43-year-old Internet entrepreneur behind some of the social networking scene’s most successful applications – Mark Pincus, a man who has made a fortune from giving networkers something to do. Pincus, who named his games provider company Zynga after a pet bulldog, explained the fundamental base […]
October 29, 2009
2007 World Series of Poker Ladies Event champ Sally Ann Boyer is sufficiently angry and offended at Harrah’s Entertainment and the World Series of Poker Academy to open litigation against the two. The case revolves around claims by Boyer that Harrah’s and Post-Oak Productions trading as the World Series of Poker Academy used her name […]
October 29, 2009
Ilari Sahamies, the intimidating Finnish high stakes cash game poker pro, pretty much swept all before him on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables mid-week, ending his night’s work with a profit of $1.1 million. Playing mostly on the now favoured 7-Game virtual tables, Sahamies continued to enhance the reputation of the genre for generating huge […]
October 29, 2009
It was only sheer exhaustion that stopped Tom Dwan from continuing to play beyond 2 040 hands in his latest 50 000 hand Challenge match against Patrik Antonius this week. The two called it a night in the wee small hours of the morning, promising to continue later. The two pros met again in an […]
October 29, 2009
Online poker operator ChiliPoker may be only three years old, but its ambitious management has taken it into several major deals. The most recent is a partnership agreement with GO Voyages to become the official partner for its new direct airline service from Paris to Las Vegas, operated by XL Airways, which will literally take […]
October 28, 2009
The numbers looked like a telephone directory as the big names came out to play Monday night on the online high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker.com. You have to feel for David Benyamine, who took another pounding, losing $434 000 to exacerbate his losses for the year to around $1.4 million. Other […]
October 28, 2009
Narrow escapes and determined comebacks characterised the exciting victory of Queens, New York pro poker player Tommy Vedes as he took down the $15 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Festo al Lago tournament this week, taking home $1 218 225 for his efforts. Vedes’ previous best win was $352 832 at the 2009 WSOP NHLE […]
October 26, 2009
French entrepreneur and poker player Christophe Benzimra, who had only two prior live tournament cashes to his name, surprised them all at the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Warsaw in Poland over the weekend, sweeping all before him at the final table. The week long tourney had attracted some of the biggest names in online and […]
October 25, 2009
A war of words could be shaping up between online poker payment processor Players Investment Company (PIC) and the Merge Poker Network following the ending of a business relationship between the two organisations. Last week Chuck Kidd, the PIC chief executive, despatched an email to his players announcing the end of PIC’s agreements with Merge […]