April 11, 2009
This year’s National Hockey League awards at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas on June 18th will include a poker for charity event sponsored by PokerStars.net, a poker information site associated with the world’s largest online poker room. The event was announced by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who revealed that the charity event would take […]
April 10, 2009
New York poker pro Vadim Trincher added a first place prize of $731 000 to his impressive list of 18 big game cashes this week when he took down the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic, bringing his total career earnings to $1 126 243. Surviving a determined field of 259 players and an unusual […]
April 10, 2009
Poker pro Clonie Gowen received the good news this week that the attempt by Full Tilt Poker to have her legal suit for $40 million dismissed out of hand as frivolous has failed, and she is set to continue her action. The ball is back in Full Tilt Poker’s court, which has until April 27th […]
April 10, 2009
Online poker aces Patrik Antonius and Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan got it together for another 890 hands Thursday, although the session count at Full Tilt Poker for the epic 50 000 hand online poker marathon appears to have jumped from 12 to 17 with little record of what happened in the brief period from session 12 […]
April 9, 2009
Patrik Antonius and Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan managed to put together a meaningful 12th session in the 50 000 hand Dwan million dollar challenge midweek, playing a rapidly fluctuating and thrilling 2 043 hand session over almost eight hours before calling it a night due to fatigue. Durrr was at one point handling action on seven […]
April 8, 2009
Media reports from South Carolina indicate that the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office vice and narcotics unit were busy on the gambling front this week, raiding a local home and arresting 21 poker players and dealers. More than $34 400 and gambling equipment was seized in the initiative, which followed an ongoing investigation into allegations of […]
April 8, 2009
Earlier this year online poker website Boyle Poker.com pro Peter Murphy embarked on his Multiplier Challenge – an attempt to turn a starting bankroll of $100 into $10 000 in 11 weeks or less playing online poker. Whilst there were those who opined that the project was perhaps too ambitious, Boyle announced the successful conclusion […]
April 8, 2009
The Poker Players Alliance has cautioned against complacency in the important skill vs. chance debate on poker – a critical element in working toward the legalisation of poker as a game of skill rather than chance, therefore placing it beyond the reach of anti-gambling laws. The caution comes in the wake of favourable results from […]
April 8, 2009
With the recent failure of several online poker subscription websites still fresh in industry memory, it takes a brave soul to launch a new enterprise in this genre in the current tough economic environment, yet that is what Centaurus Games LLC did this week with the introduction of ClubUwin.com, a new poker and blackjack club […]
April 7, 2009
The European dedicated gaming television network The Poker Channel has announced two new distribution agreements in Portuguese cable deals with MEO, the fastest growing operator in the country, and ZON, the largest digital network operator in the country. The Poker Channel will be available 24 hours a day to MEO’s basic subscribers from this week […]