November 22, 2008
Good news for poker tournament fans is that Poker Stars.com will be putting France back on to its European Poker Tour programme after an hiatus of two years due to a now changing but originally unfriendly French legislative environment. The company has confirmed that the Casino Barriere Deauville will be part of the EPT’s fifth […]
November 21, 2008
It took four gruelling days of poker action to get there, but Joao Barbosa (26) of Portugal this week claimed the title and the Euro 367 141 ($457 489) main prize at the PokerStars.com EPT Polish Open in Warsaw. Playing a tough final table, the remaining nine survivors from an entry field of 217 included […]
November 19, 2008
Devilfish Gaming plc, the UK based online poker company started by poker ace Dave Ulliott, has announced the acquisition of the player base of Hungarian-based Paramin Poker.com, a company on the Entraction online poker network. Owned by Poker Akademia, the Paramin site has migrated its players to DevilfishPoker.com and the two companies have entered into […]
November 19, 2008
Declining online poker revenues have moderated growing casino, bingo and sportsbetting results at Internet gambling group Party Gaming plc, producing an overall flat third quarter, the company reported this week. The poor performance on the poker front included a 12 percent decline in player sign ups during the quarter as revenues slumped to $65 million. […]
November 19, 2008
Industry observers are speculating on this week’s decision by the Peak Entertainment group in Malta to move its online poker action over to Playtech’s iPoker network. The change will involve Sun Poker and the poker activities of the long-established CS Casino and Omni Casino, and is scheduled to take place next (December) month. The consensus […]
November 18, 2008
The Swedish and Malta-based online poker provider and network Entraction has opened an office in Madrid, Spain to better meet the strong demand from Southern Europe. The firm anticipates that the gaming market will show an annual growth of more than 17 percent in Spain and France and 21 percent in Italy through to 2012. […]
November 18, 2008
The storm in a teacup created when the Florida and national US media discovered that University of Florida college basketball player Nick Calathes owed $600 to an online poker website has apparently passed, with officials confirming that the young sophomore point guard for the Gators did not break any National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. UF […]
November 18, 2008
It’s often said that the pace and complexity of online poker and its multi-tabling opportunities make it a young man’s game, and the young guns have certainly been winning an impressive number of big-money tournaments recently. Targeting this demographic, LifeofSports this week launched its North America Online College Poker Championship in partnership with the growing […]
November 18, 2008
Europeans are being offered an opportunity to try poker in one of the largest free poker competitions in the region in the latest promo from Everest Poker.com. The website is arranging 27 events across the continent, and dozens more online during the Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC), designed to attract more Europeans to the online […]
November 18, 2008
The Full Tilt online poker website celebrated the end of another successful series this week with the completion of edition 10 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. With two big-money events, it was a fitting climax to a tournament that saw plenty of action from skilled online poker players around the world. The big […]