January 3, 2008
Mason Malmuth’s respected online poker message board 2+2 started the new year with a new product, launching the first instalment in a new weekly 2+2 PokerCast series. The program will include a wide variety of interviews, strategy and other poker-related content as it moves forward, featuring leading personalities in the world of poker. The inaugural […]
January 3, 2008
Recently arrived Boss Media-powered online poker site Pokertrillion.com has lived up to its promise to provide a Euro 75 000 league with the announcement this week that its exclusive ‘Trillion Poker League’ commenced on Tuesday 1st January 2008. UK-owned Pokertrillion says that tournament players can win a little something extra in 2008; all players that […]
January 3, 2008
According to a statement released by online poker venue Absolute Poker, a total of 39 bad beat jackpots have been hit since the introduction of the firm’s bad beat system in June 2007, paying out $6.58 million to bad beat players. Bad Beat Jackpot is just like regular Texas Hold’em but with a slight twist. […]
January 2, 2008
The online poker software developed by the Backgammonmasters’ gambling website will soon find far wider application following a deal to use the product on betting terminals in a diversity of land locations. The agreement between Backgammonmasters and Betting Terminal Inc involves integrating the Texas Holdem poker game software into game terminals which are scattered throughout […]
December 31, 2007
The imminent $17.5 billion sale of Vegas gambling group Harrah’s Entertainment to Texas Pacific Group Capital and Apollo Management, L.P.will not result in any significant changes to the World Series of Poker hosted annually by the group in Las Vegas, a director of the company has confirmed. WSOP Communications Director Gary Thompson told poker media […]
December 31, 2007
In a sequel to last week’s public message board apology by teenaged online poker whizz-kid Josh Field (better known online as ‘JJ Prodigy’) Poker Stars management has excluded the just 18 year old from its upcoming Poker Stars EPT Carribean Adventure, and by implication other such events. Field has admitted to cheating through underage multi-accounting […]
December 31, 2007
There’s a new world record for numbers of online poker players on-site simultaneously this week, as Poker Stars.com reports 20 386 pokerheads playing at once on the popular site. Available records at the reliable Poker Scout site suggest that this is the first time that over 20 000 real money ring game players have been […]
December 28, 2007
The cynical are opining that it’s an attempt to avoid embarrassing personal confrontations at live tournaments in the future, but others are more charitable and prefer to give Internet poker ace ‘JJProdigy’ the benefit of the doubt in a public apology for cheating the player has made. Josh Field, who uses the ‘handle’ JJProdigy in […]
December 27, 2007
Poker pro David “The Dragon” Pham is the 2007 Player of the Year, overtaking all opposition by taking down Event 8 of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic this month at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for $279 000. This is the second time Pham has reeled in the title and respect of the professional […]
December 25, 2007
Widely regarded as one of the planet’s most prestigious and high-value poker tournaments, the $15 400 buy-in World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic, concluded last week at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, with New York poker ace Eugene Katchalov beating a field of 664 players to clinch a first prize paycheck of over $2.48 million […]