November 6, 2007
Gala group’s spectacular Great British Poker Tour completes its inaugural season this week with a GBP 500 000 prize pool, four day Grand Final at the Gala Casino Harbourside in Bristol where the 2007 GBP Champion will be decided . The big event caps off a debut for the tour that produced great poker in […]
November 4, 2007
Ten mainly European-based online poker players gathered this week for a luxury Mediterranean cruise – and some big-win poker – as guests of Gigamedia’s Everest Poker website. The players, who hailed from six countries, were the survivors of a series of poker tournaments in the Everest Poker Avalanche initiative and they were aiming to win […]
November 4, 2007
The big money available at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin Championship, which ended over the weekend after several days of intense poker, attracted a host of top poker names. Taking the field in Day 1A at the Royal Dublin Society were 91 players, including home grown champs like Jason O’Toole, Andy Black and Conor […]
November 3, 2007
American viewers will have an opportunity to savour some really high stakes poker action next week when Game Show Network screens its popular television show High Stakes Poker. Top poker aces will be putting $100 000 each at risk as they pit their skill and experience against some of the world’s best players. This is […]
November 3, 2007
Using its political savvy, the Poker Players’ Alliance is making sure its voice is heard at a time when state politicians in Massachusetts and Kentucky are most likely to listen – election time. In Kentucky, Governor Ernie Fletcher’s election-year nixing of a proposed referendum on the issue of casino and poker gaming has made the […]
November 3, 2007
Players returning to Bodog Poker this week will find a new look that has resulted from testing and player feedback over the past two years. Key features of the revamp include: * The layout of players now creates a non-linear (circular) line that provides easy to follow action from player to player with each hand. […]
November 3, 2007
Britain’s traditional bonfire and fireworks night – November 5 – will also see the launch at Canary Wharf in London of Betbrokers plc’s new online poker offering, which remained shrouded in mystery as we went to press. According to an open invitation on the corporate website, Betbrokers will be launching its own poker offering with […]
November 2, 2007
Bodog Poker is on target to deal its one-billionth hand by the end of November, and to celebrate the milestone, the online poker site is gearing up to offer cash and tournament credits to its players. “We owe it all to our players for helping us reach our one-billionth hand, and we’re saying thanks this […]
November 2, 2007
Undeterred by the crisis its sister poker company Absolute Poker is currently facing following charges of cheating through flaws in a software upgrade, Ultimate Poker has launched its own software upgrade. The site uses a different software to that deployed by its stable-mate. The upgrade brings to the table a host of new online poker […]
November 2, 2007
Following on the successful path blazed by its mobile Texas Hold ‘Em, and prompted by player demand, mobile gambling operator Aces Royal has launched a new No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em designed to appeal to mobile-only players CEO at the company’s parent Cecure Gaming, Peter Karsten, expects big things from the new release, saying: “Since […]