November 13, 2008
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little lived up to his Internet handle this week by winning the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Final in one of the longest heads-up contests on record. For Little it was worth the stress and stamina, with a winner’s prize of $1 120 310 and his second WPT title in the bag. […]
November 12, 2008
PartyPoker.com has declared Great Britain the winner in its 2008 Poker Nations Cup. Team Great Britain, captained by Roland de Wolfe and comprising Neil Channing, Surinder Sunar, Joe Beevers, Ian Frazer and PartyPoker.com VIP online qualifier Charlie Durbin overcame Team Ireland in the heads-up to take the GBP 100 000 main prize money and the […]
November 12, 2008
The Dublin-based online poker software and network provider Cryptologic has announced that it has entered into a strategic Internet poker agreement with Swedish online poker provider Boss Media AB, and will merge its major poker licensees with Boss Media’s International Poker Network (IPN) within the first quarter 2009. The agreement sees Crypto increasingly distancing itself […]
November 11, 2008
The Poker Players Alliance is mobilising resistance to the attempt by the outgoing Bush administration in the United States to rush through controversial regulations supporting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (see previous report) The poker advocacy group is urging all members to call the U.S. Federal Reserve and object to the over-hasty process currently […]
November 11, 2008
The 22-year-old Danish player Peter Eastgate has survived a field of thousands, a competitive final table and a tough heads up with the formidable Russian player Ivan Demidov to emerge as the winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Starting the heads up last (Monday) night at the Rio in Las Vegas, […]
November 11, 2008
The UK-based 3D online poker site PKR.com has exclusively engaged Tom Hall’s AsianLogic Limited online and land gambling service company to market it in the Asian sector. Under the terms of the agreement, AsianLogic will be responsible for developing PKR.com’s customer base in the region. A company statement reveals that AsianLogic will use its expertise […]
November 10, 2008
When we left the WSOP final table story earlier today (November 10) Scott Montgomery had been eliminated at hand 133 in fifth place and Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate were significantly ahead of Dennis Phillips and Ylon Schwartz in chip counts, with the Russian in the lead by a good $14 million. We can now […]
November 10, 2008
Since mid-July, when the final nine players in the World Series of Poker Main Event was decided, poker fans have been waiting to see the resumption of action after a 117 day hiatus at the behest of television executives. On a grey and rainy Sunday morning this weekend their patience was rewarded as the November […]
November 8, 2008
The sources which confidently asserted that the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker cheating scandals expose would be on the November 9 edition of the television program ’60 Minutes’ apparently got it wrong. The program schedule released Friday shows that the much anticipated expose is not being screened this week. And there is no indication as to […]
November 8, 2008
The respected Las Vegas Review-Journal reported this week that the change in the US administration ushered in by last week’s elections could be beneficial to online poker in the country. Quoting Harrah’s CEO and Chairman Gary Loveman who was responding to questions on a conference call, the LVRJ reported that the senior executive believes the […]