October 26, 2007
Settling into its new home on the Ongame Network, the online poker division of Gibraltar-based Mansion gambling group showed that it means business this week by boosting the coming weekend’s Grand Tournament guaranteed prize pool 50 percent to $300 000. The Grand Tournament, run as a ‘Heat Tournament’, offers a unique player-friendly format with two […]
October 25, 2007
It’s a big title, but then the “PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open” is likely to be a major real money event. Poker Stars has launched the first-ever real money No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament to be held in the People’s Republic of China. The APPT Macau stop will run from November […]
October 25, 2007
Absolute Poker and Kahnawake Gaming Commission investigations into the cheating scandal at the poker group appear to be proceeding apace, judging by the latest statement from AP – mere days after its initial announcements that it was taking action. In the latest statement, the firm recaps events leading up to the investigation and its assurances […]
October 25, 2007
The three day Poker Players’ Alliance drive to persuade Washington politicians to legalise online poker ended this week, achieving good publicity coverage and leaving legislators with plenty of food for thought….and a few ruffled feathers among the horseracing fraternity, which enjoys legislative carve-outs on Internet wagering. Some 100 poker players, most of whom were hand-picked […]
October 24, 2007
The Mountain View, California based web-cam social video network company Arsenal Interactive has launched its HeyCosmo Texas Hold’em poker application on the Facebook platform. HeyCosmo is an intuitive free web-cam service enabling live interactivity and communication on the Internet. The service is directly available to Facebook members from their personal profile pages. Arsenal’s live, multi-player […]
October 24, 2007
Following its enforced withdrawal from the American market due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the online poker giant Party Poker has been building new business in the European market, paying close attention to localisation as it goes. Localisation has been identified as a key issue in markets with widespread cultures and languages as […]
October 24, 2007
The board of directors at World Poker Tour Enterprises have scored a management recruitment coup this week by persuading two senior and widely experienced online gambling executives to join the WPT ranks. Andy Goetsch joins as executive vice president of online gaming and Robin Malhotra has been appointed as managing director, international sales and marketing. […]
October 24, 2007
You’re heads up and doing well in a major online poker tournament with a potential $75 000 difference between first and second placing when you lose your Internet connection, the game freezes and you can’t get back on the Internet….it’s a confluence of events that is infrequent, but still feared by many Internet poker fans. […]
October 23, 2007
The 800 000 member Poker Players’ Alliance is gearing up to energetically lobby Washington lawmakers this week by flying in 100 members, including several poker champions such as Chris Moneymaker, to get poker exempted from anti-online gambling laws which already feature unfair exemptions for online horse races, state lotteries and fantasy sports. Raising the stakes […]
October 23, 2007
The well connected and informed gambling information portal Point-Spread.com made further serious revelations in the Absolute Poker scandal Monday, claiming that unidentified sources have revealed a greater web of deceit than just one tournament. Webmaster Tommy Jensen quotes sources in Costa Rica who say that the cheating scam has been ongoing for the past three […]