May 27, 2009
Intabill, an Australian online e-cash processor owned by BT Projects Pty Limited, owes A$30 million, three million of this to four top online poker companies, the Aussie newspaper Courier-Mail reports. Among those affected are PokerStars.com, Full TiltPoker.com, Golden Palace.com and Absolute Poker.com – all fortunately strong enough to withstand any financial backfires caused by Intabill’s […]
May 26, 2009
Analogies with the fall and rise of the Phoenix are perhaps inevitable when considering Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin’s huge win this week in the Full Tilt $25 000 Heads Up World Championship, playing some of the biggest names in professional poker. The young player was reported to be a million dollars in the red at the […]
May 24, 2009
Savvy political observers in Florida last week were suggesting that the Bill to watch is HB 425, a regulatory proposal which easily passed through the legislature and contains an interesting provision that could portend future attempts to legalise internet poker in the sunshine state. The provision creating ripples of excitement requires the legislature’s policy research […]
May 23, 2009
The British online poker room PKR.com announced this week that they have agreed a blockbuster deal with poker publisher Bluff Media that will see PKR.com act as the exclusive sole live broadcaster of 24 bracelet events from this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. With ESPN no longer broadcasting many World Series events […]
May 23, 2009
The major US gambling group Harrah’s Entertainment Inc set the Internet message boards alight as the week ended by announcing the establishment of a new subsidiary, Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (HIE) to manage the global growth of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and explore a European interactive strategy. And it confirmed rumours from earlier […]
May 21, 2009
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan got it together for another session in the million dollar Dwan Challenge midweek, playing 700 hands to bring the total played of the 50 000 required to 14 249. It was another weak session for Dwan, who ended up another $32 706 behind his opponent, who is now $424 631 […]
May 20, 2009
Online and live poker fans alike can look forward to an absorbing new poker series on US cable television come August 2009. Cable operator G4’s new show “2 Months, $2 Million” is expected to debut with a new concept that follows the progress of four poker players competing to win $2 million collectively in two […]
May 20, 2009
Vitaly Lunkin had to contend with a final table that included Internet and live poker aces like Alexander Kravchenko and Ivan Demidov this week as the final table of the Pokerstars Russian Poker Tour Moscow played out. In the main event, the Full Tilt pro saw them all off despite an initially shorter stack, to […]
May 20, 2009
Interesting research by the search marketing firm Greenlight positions Partypoker, 888 and Pokerstars as the highest-ranking poker brands online, reports eGaming Review, which claims exclusive sight of the search results this week. The Greenlight study shows that the three poker and gaming brands achieved superior search results to rivals such as Everest, Full Tilt and […]
May 19, 2009
Radio Sweden reports that Swedish poker players are elated by a decision earlier this week by the Court of Appeal in Gothenburg that declares poker tournaments in the country generally legal. The court threw out an earlier verdict by a district court in Uddevalla that had sentenced participants of a private tournament to prison terms […]