November 26, 2007
The weekend saw the culmination of the latest Pokerstars Asian Pacific Poker Tour, held at the Grand Waldo Hotel in Macau. Despite a star-studded entry field of 352 hopefuls, it was the relative unknown Dinh Le who finally prevailed in a tough, eight and a half hour final table to decide the event on its […]
November 24, 2007
Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, a new magazine devoted exclusively to Internet poker, is now the largest poker publication in Scandinavia, a spokesman revealed this week. It is the only online poker magazine distributed to all four Scandinavian nations – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In addition to its 30 000-copy distribution, 10 000 copies a […]
November 24, 2007
The recently crowned All Africa Poker Tournament champ Greg Ronaldson (24) has ambitions next year to repeat or better the outstanding performance at the 2007 World Series of Poker of previous champ Raymond Rahme. Ronaldson excelled in the Tournament, held at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, taking home a million-Rand winner’s prize together with […]
November 23, 2007
Gibraltar-Based online bookie group Victor Chandler has teamed up with the UK’s Admiral Taverns in launching a new pub poker site branded vcpubpoker.com. The site is exclusively for customers of the 2 700 public house Admiral Taverns group. Patrons of the pub group will be offered weekly freerolls, as well as hundreds of regular prizes, […]
November 23, 2007
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which licenses Absolute Poker.com has issued a progress report on its investigations into the hole card cheating debacle at the online poker site (see previous bulletins), indicating that a report could be presented to the Commission by December 7. Under the heading: “Absolute Poker active and ongoing investigation” the Commission revealed […]
November 22, 2007
One of the most informed and widely visited online poker information websites has debuted in Europe in addition to serving American players over the years. Card Player Media has announced the launch of its new website, Card Player Europe.com to complement its Card Player Poker Sports magazine. Company spokesmen claim the new website will be […]
November 21, 2007
Life of Sports Inc. launched its successful University Poker Championship in the United Kingdom and throughout North America this week, partnering with Cake Poker.com in the United Kingdom and with Poker Stars.com in North America for the weekly free roll tournament format. In Britain, the University Poker Championship (UPC) is open to any college or […]
November 21, 2007
Full Tilt Poker management will be celebrating another successful series this week following the conclusion of the 15 events and one Main Event that made FTOPS 6 a winner. The epic generated a total prize pool of $11 168 000, well over the $9.125 million in guarantees which Full Tilt posted, giving the thousands of […]
November 21, 2007
Despite the paucity of progress reportage from Absolute Poker on investigations into the tournament cheating scandal that has engulfed the company for the past three months, it continues to be the subject of intense player discussion and media coverage. After first denying that there was a problem when the player community exposed the cheating, Absolute […]
November 19, 2007
The sixth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series charged on over the weekend, with the centre of attraction the Main Event, for which the online poker site had guaranteed a $2 million prize pool. However, the guarantee was overtaken by the large entry field of 4 371 players, each of whom was worth […]