January 22, 2009
The main event in the $1 million guaranteed prize pool UltimateBet Online Championship tournament ended this week in victory for player YungMoney209, who survived an entry field of 1 100 hopefuls to triumph after 15 hours of tough online poker. YungMoney’s reward for his talent and time was a check for $245 188 and change, […]
January 21, 2009
The eighth edition of the prestigious annual European Poker Awards took place at the Aviation Club in Paris last week, celebrating 2008’s poker peaks in the region and featuring several well known names. Among the awards was the Player of the Year, which this year went to the respected French online and land player Bertrand […]
January 20, 2009
Noone can doubt the dynamic nature of the online gambling scene following network moves in recent weeks. Internet poker sites have chopped and changed, sometimes with bewildering speed among the main networks, changing the balance of player liquidity and the rankings of the networks in the process. Recent moves have not been kind to Cryptologic […]
January 20, 2009
A poker player who had previously only cashed in two tournaments scored a dream win that paid out a million dollars in the WPT Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi’s Beau Rivage Casino this week. Allen Carter triumphed in an epic 8 hour final table that featured highly experienced poker veterans with bracelet qualifications from some […]
January 18, 2009
The Poker Players Alliance has reported an important positive U.S. decision in the “skill vs. luck” poker debate. Apparently last Friday Pennsylvania Judge Thomas A. James Jr. of Columbia County ruled that poker’s most popular game, Texas Hold’em, is a contest where skill predominates, therefore removing it from the definition of illegal gambling in the […]
January 17, 2009
The UK publishing house Dennis Publishing has rebranded its popular gambling magazine Inside Edge, changing the masthead to Inside Poker to better reflect the card game’s increasing prominence in the title. Media Week informs that the magazine covered sports betting in general when it was launched in April 2004, and has since targeted more experienced […]
January 17, 2009
The poker action centres on Australia this weekend as the A$10 500 buy-in NLHE main event of the Aussie Millions live poker championship gets started Sunday. Last year’s entry field of 780 is expected to be surpassed in the 2009 edition of this popular event, attracting players from around the world and generating a multi-million […]
January 16, 2009
The UK based 3D online poker site PKR.com continued to set new company records going into the new year, according to the PKR Nation company forum. Between December 24 2008 and January 4 2009 the poker site recorded 40 000 new registrations, bringing the total player base to 2.4 million. And on January 4th another […]
January 16, 2009
CelebPoker.com launched a Flash-only version of its online poker software this week, allowing more poker fans to enjoy the website on PC, MAC or linux PC equipment. The use of Flash gives players the advantage of convenience, because there is no download; it can be played on equipment where downloads are banned (ie businesses, universtities […]
January 15, 2009
The Swedish-Maltese online poker network Entraction was in boastful mood this week with a press release claiming that it is the fastest growing network in the industry. It could be no idle boast; looking at the numbers shows a 108 percent growth curve this year, ranking the network 4th largest of the open poker networks. […]