May 4, 2008
A new automatic invitation list to play in one of poker’s premier televised tournaments – the NBC National Heads-Up Championship – is was released this week, providing a tourney with increased expert participation and viewer interest. Now four years old, the championship generates so far unsurpassed poker television viewerships, with the likes of Phil Hellmuth […]
May 3, 2008
33-year-old Marty Smyth of Ulster in Ireland scooped $250 000 this week after winning the PartyPoker.com World Open IV in London, truimphing over 72 other entrants in the $8 000 buy-in event that generated a total prize pool of $576 000. The final table line-up was impressive to say the least, and included Neil Channing, […]
May 1, 2008
According to reports in the respected US newspaper USA Today this week, poker fans may have to wait almost four months after the championship to see who won the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, and how big the prize was. Industry observers are currently awaiting the results of a press conference when all […]
May 1, 2008
Accessing a potentially significant audience of game-oriented golf players, the online poker operator Full Tilt Poker.com has signed up as the title sponsor of the Las Vegas-based sports and entertainment event World Series of Golf, billed as the “most innovative golf tournament format since the Skins Game.” The sponsorship partnership will yield a variety of […]
May 1, 2008
In an unprecedented move, the Gibraltar-based online poker website Party Poker.com has slashed the charges for all single-table tournaments over $200 to a super-low flat fee of $10. The move means that online poker fans can save up to $190 on buy-ins for some tournaments. No matter how high the stakes are above $200, the […]
April 29, 2008
Proving that anything is possible in heads-up play, Full Tilt Poker pro David Chiu overcame a more than 5-1 chip deficit to defeat Team Full Tilt’s Gus Hansen and capture the World Poker Tour Championship this week. The performance earned Chiu, a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, his first WPT title and nearly […]
April 29, 2008
The Russian poker ace Catgirl may be doing some bare-faced bluffing at the $576 000 televised Party Poker.com World Open competition this week, as five of the world’s top poker players face each other across the felt in an $8 000 buy-in poker challenge with a significant reward. The 23 years old Russian player was […]
April 26, 2008
With the 2008 World Series of Poker only months away, there has been a marked increase in seat sponsorship promotions…and not just at the top independents like Poker Stars and Full Tilt who as usual are offering a slew of WSOP entries as tournament prizes. This week Ultimatebet was offering tournament activity leading to $12,000 […]
April 25, 2008
The respected online gambling law expert Professor I. Nelson Rose from the Whittier Law School cautioned this week that the industry should not become too optimistic at the news that the Californian legislature is considering a bill to launch a study of intra-state legalisation of Internet poker The professor said that whilst Representative Levine’s bill […]
April 25, 2008
Online poker visitors to the Playtech-powered Titan Poker.com website will have more and bigger tournaments in the future following the annoucement this week that the company is to up its investment in tournaments to $16 million a month. The boost comes less than a year since Titan introduced the $10 million a month guranteed prize […]