October 31, 2007
The Microgaming-powered online poker room 32Red.com is currently offering players the chance to play their way to the Bahamas and the new WPT Bootcamp competition…and probably get in a little R&R at the same time. The lucky winners of the site’s latest promo will be flown to the Bahamas for a week of top poker […]
October 31, 2007
It’s taken two years of licensing negotiations and a significant investment in a plush land establishment in Nottingham, UK but Rob Yong’s Dusk Till Dawn poker room has surmounted opposition and delays and is almost operational at last, complementing a Cryptologic-powered online version of the brand that has been pulling ’em in for the past […]
October 30, 2007
Whilst it’s rarely smart to leave your suppliers unpaid, when those suppliers happen to be in the publicity business there’s also the danger that the non-payment will be publicly exposed. Adding to its woes, Absolute Poker’s alleged failure to pay its publicity bill suffered just such a fate when Publicity Guaranteed, which claims to have […]
October 30, 2007
One of Absolute Poker’s principal outlets for ‘unofficial’ company statements, the gambling information portal 911, has come out openly in identifying allegedly terminated employee AJ Green aka Alan John Grimard, describing him as: “The culprit in a notorious Absolute Poker ‘internal cheating’ scandal” and carrying his photograph on its website. The website claims that Grimard […]
October 29, 2007
The New York Post gave prominence this week to the visit by delegates from the Poker Players’ Alliance to Washington to educate US politicians on the benefits of regulating online poker, publishing an interview with chairman Senator Alphonse D’Amato. The article commented that despite daunting odds of reversing the effects of the Unlawful Internet Gambling […]
October 29, 2007
The cold winter weather may be drawing in for Northern hemisphere poker fans, but at CelebPoker the tournament action is about to warm up consierably, according to the company, which has just announced that all prize pools for guaranteed online tournaments have been raised. In order to provide players with the best in online poker […]
October 29, 2007
Playtech’s iPoker network seems to be applying restrictions on rake-back marketing involving its affiliates, judging by a recent email to affiliate marketers. The communication reminds iPoker affiliates that in terms of clause 1 of the iPoker network policy, member cardrooms are not allowed to advertise their sites in “rake-back oriented” affiliate sites. “These sites include […]
October 27, 2007
Absolute Poker spokesmen continued to feed selective details of the cheating debacle to chosen information portals as the week drew to a close, claiming that a software update identified as Version 8.0 and released in August this year contained unspecified flaws despite “…months of coding and design enhancements.” The spokesman went on to tell the […]
October 27, 2007
The Poker Players’ Alliance three day Washington education project last week looks to have been successful, giving politicians another perspective on Internet poker and garnering significant media coverage for the 800 000 member poker lobbying and pressure group. One of the PPA members who met with Congress posted on 2+2 Forums that Representative Jim Moran […]
October 26, 2007
Gaming software developer Hands-On Mobile, Inc. and WPT Enterprises, Inc. have launched a sequel to the popular mobile multiplayer poker game WPT Texas Hold ‘Em. Billed as ‘the most advanced mobile game in the world today,’ WPT Texas Hold ‘Em 2 brings more to the table than ever before, the developers claim. Revolutionary new features […]