November 14, 2007
The Microgaming Poker Network welcomed a new South American online poker site this week with the arrival of the Chilean-based Mamamia Gaming.com operation. The site goes live today (Tuesday) and should prove popular with the increasingly important Latin American sector. With an initial focus on Chile and Argentina, Mamamia Poker expects to reach further into […]
November 13, 2007
With the current edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series of tournaments in full swing, there was big money for the winners this weekend as Event 7 was finalised. With a guaranteed prize pool of a million dollars and buy-ins of $300 + $22, the event attracted a large online entry field of 4 […]
November 13, 2007
The more competitors you knock out, the bigger rewards you reap in the latest tournament tactic introduced by Full Tilt Poker.com to keep the action exciting – the Bounty Knockout Tournament. Players entering the tournament have a set percentage of their buy-in placed on their heads as a bounty, and as the tournament progresses, the […]
November 12, 2007
Next year’s Irish Open week long poker epic will see the introduction of a new event – the Irish Open Ladies – on May 22 2008. The new contest will take the form of a no limit hold’em freezeout with a reasonable buy-in of Euro 300 + Euro 30 that should ensure a good attendance. […]
November 10, 2007
Claimed by the Poker Players’ Association as a by-product of the organisation’s recent Washington Fly-In initiative (see previous reports) the U.S. Department of Justice is to hold a hearing on Internet gaming at 10 00am on November 14, says PPA executive director John Pappas. Speaking to the online poker portal PocketFives.com, Pappas said this was […]
November 10, 2007
Followers of the unfolding cheating crisis at Absolute Poker.com will have some absorbing reading over the next few days as Poker News publishes a clearly extensive interview with Nat Arem, one of the main player investigators who uncovered the debacle at the online poker site. Poker News commendably and as an independent observer, financed a […]
November 10, 2007
Gibraltar based Globet Casino.com has enhanced its online casino operations with the launch of a new poker room on the Microgaming Poker Network. Believed owned by a Uruguayan group, Globet changed from Chartwell Technology to the Microgaming software platform for its casino operations earlier this year and is targeted primarily at Central and Eastern Europe. […]
November 9, 2007
The Kahnawake registered company Tokwiro Enterprises, 100 percent owners of Absolute Poker.com issued a progress report as the week closed on its ongoing investigations into a cheating scandal that has seen the company widely condemned by the player community The report contains some interesting numbers, with Tokwiro claiming that the cheating “window” lasted for 40 […]
November 9, 2007
The power of online poker is showcased today (Friday) with the start of the sixth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, with over $9 million in guaranteed prize pools available and expected to attract the customary large entry fields. The online poker spectacular runs over a 12 day period with 16 different events […]
November 9, 2007
Swedish news publication The Local.se reports that the Swedish government has turned down a proposal from its gambling monopoly Svenska Spel to provide online poker services to an unidentified European member of the World Lottery Association. Svenska Spel had planned to partner with online poker software provider Boss Media in “exporting” online poker services for […]