October 8, 2009
23-year-old Internet poker pro Aaron Gustavson from Las Vegas continued his successful online and live tourney run this year with a resounding win in the main event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour event in London this week. Surviving a record field 730 players, among them some of the world’s best, Gustavson ended the competition […]
October 7, 2009
The Isle of Man-based online gambling software and poker network provider Microgaming has signed up two new operators for its Microgaming Poker Network – Mansion88 and 5050Poker. Management of the 5050Poker website joined the network in direct response to a demand from players seeking greater player liquidity. Chief executive Mattias Eriksson said, “Our players wanted […]
October 7, 2009
The management at PokerStars will be delighted with the news this week that registrations for the online poker company’s European Poker Tour main event in London have eclipsed those of the WSOPE in the same city last month. 730 players entered for the EPT London main event now playing, compared to the 608 entries for […]
October 6, 2009
After nearly a year of development the online gambling consultancy H2 Gambling Capital has released its Internet poker-tracking product to clients. The product, which provides up to 250 data points for each poker platform covered every day, will initially be available to three groups. • A limited number of buy-side funds;• Operators of Internet poker […]
October 4, 2009
The popularity of the H.O.R.S.E multi-poker variant at major live tournaments illustrates well the demand for the more diverse and challenging concept of switching to other genres of the game during a competition, and online gambling sites have been quick to respond with their own versions, and some innovative alternatives to boot. Introduced around a […]
October 3, 2009
The respected Wall Street Journal reports that politicial and legislative moves are afoot in Hungary to legalise and tax online and land poker, with plans to initially raise some Euro 1 million in tax revenues from live poker alone. WSJ quotes the Hungarian daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet, which reported that Laszlo Keller, state secretary of […]
October 3, 2009
The next edition olf the popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series – number 14 in the series – will start on Wednesday, November 4th, offering over $16 million in guaranteed prize money across 25 events, the company announced this week. Six of the events carry a million dollar guaranteed prize pool. FTOPS XIV features a […]
October 3, 2009
The respected online poker information portal Poker Pages.com is to close at the end of this (October) month, according to a website advisory this week. The notice reads: “It is with sadness and regret that we must announce that Poker Pages and all of its related services will be closed on October 31, 2009. “For […]
October 3, 2009
Matt Glantz from the United States, a regular big game player at the Bellagio and poker blogger, has emerged victorious from an original star-studded field of 75 players competing in the GBP20 000 buy-in High Roller event at the Pokerstars EPT London tournament. The Lafayette, Pennsylvanian resident scored a handsome return on his investment with […]
October 2, 2009
The US entertainment publication TMZ.com reports that two Californian players, Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy, have launched litigation against the giant online poker website Full Tilt Poker.com and various top players alleged to be associated with the company. The duo claim that they opened an account at Full Tilt and were skilled and fortunate enough […]