January 30, 2008
The Pokerstars European Poker Tour Dortmund had a slightly delayed start this week for all the right reasons – more players entering than had been anticipated. The first day of the German event involved a longer registration queue at the Hohensyburg Casino, but play eventually started in a Day 1A that saw 198 contestants, many […]
January 30, 2008
Online poker player MarkW is probably still celebrating following his $120 000 win over the weekend at BodogLife.com, where he hit the jackpot on the new Caribbean Hold’em progressive game. The Colorado player took home $121,369 after hitting a Royal Flush on the new casino game’s progressive jackpot. The prize is shared among BodogLife.com’s Caribbean […]
January 30, 2008
Brit poker entrepreneur and Nuts Poker League founder, Steve Bellis has teamed up with a travel business in Holywell, UK to offer poker holidays, with this year’s first party of poker players scheduled to travel to the Sands Beach Resort in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote in June. Bellis said: “We went out there last year with […]
January 30, 2008
Staying true to her Arctic roots, 22 year-old Swede Cecilia Borg from Västerbotten played it cool to defeat the best that poker at bet365.com has to offer to triumph in the poker leaderboard tournament finale this week. She walks away with guaranteed seats at every iPoker network-supported land based EPT and WPT poker tournament this […]
January 25, 2008
Progressive Gaming International Corporation’s new World Series of Poker Texas Hold’em P2P console software has been approved by Gaming Laboratories International and the company expects to begin placing the consoles in Harrah’s casinos soon. Progressive Gaming has a limited exclusive license agreement with Harrah’s Licensing Company, LLC, whereby the company was granted the right to […]
January 24, 2008
Washington state lawyer Lee Rousso is a persistent man….he has to be, given the mountain of “discovery” paperwork he has been asked to provide on poker by a state government legal team. But there is light at the end of the tunnel following a senior judge’s ruling that the issue of discovery be re-argued with […]
January 23, 2008
The much sought after CardPlayer Europe “Player of the Year” award for 2007 has gone to UK poker pro Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott after a third-place finish in the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic on December 17 catapulted the wily Englishman to the top of the leader board with 3 446 points. Ulliott’s late surge […]
January 23, 2008
Controversy has swirled around the troubled Dynamic Gaming Systems online poker network recently as rumours of its imminent demise hardened into firm information from network members that indicated a halt to payouts and non-existent communications Operators on the network started to look for new homes with the reportedly fast-growing Merge Poker and Dobrosoft’s Gold Chip […]
January 23, 2008
The 19-year-old online and land tournament poker star Annette Obrestad is making some canny investments in the poker industry and this week increased her shareholding in Norwegian community and information website Poker Manager.com to 5 percent. Other shareholders include European Poker Tour aces Peter Willers Jepsen and Bjorn-Erik Glenne, who helped build the concept, and […]
January 22, 2008
uJogo, a rewards-based poker site, has positioned its allegedly legal poker product on the major community website Facebook following extensive research into the advantages and obstacles that may be encountered. uJogo paid research firm TNS to conduct the study, which revealed that here are about 30 million adults who play roughly three hours of free […]