September 24, 2007
The sponsor of the annual Irish Open poker tournament, Paddy Power Poker.com has reserved the facilities of Dublin’s Citywest hotel as the venue for the next Euro 3 Million Guaranteed Irish Open. The weeklong festival of poker will take place over Easter Weekend from 19th to 24th March 2008. Europe’s longest running annual poker tournament […]
September 22, 2007
The rise in the number of online poker ranking sites, which often give detailed information on the performance, status and profitability of top earning online players has alarmed many interested parties and resulted in a move to protect privacy by the Internet’s biggest online poker site, Poker Stars.com. The “leaderboard” style sites access statistics direct […]
September 22, 2007
Brit gambling group VC Poker plans to make an addition to the lexicon of poker tournament acronyms with a new competition come November. WSOP, WSOPE, WCOOP, WPT and GUKPT will soon be joined by ECOOP – the European Championship of Online Poker, sponsored by the company. VC Poker is currently putting the finishing touches to […]
September 21, 2007
According to player posts on several message boards and a story on the Poker-King portal, an “unauthorised software” bust – widely interpreted as a bot incident – has been made by the Full Tilt Poker website security experts. Players reported receiving emails from Full Tilt Poker advising that refunds will be forthcoming following the discovery […]
September 21, 2007
The Poker Players Alliance is stepping into a Kentucky state political wrangle over poker to help raise support for the game after Governor Ernie Fletcher took up an anti-gambling and anti-poker stance during his re-election campaign. In a press release, the Washington-based PPA announces its initiative thus: “In response to Governor Ernie Fletcher’s election-year change […]
September 21, 2007
Under the new leadership of Washington-based John Pappas, the 760 000 member poker advocacy group Poker Players’ Alliance is stepping up the pressure on US politicians to classify poker as a game of skill, moving it out of the range of anti-gambling moves by the US government. The PPA has arguably become the main lobbying […]
September 19, 2007
The apparent fixation of mainstream media with portraying Internet gambling as a prominent danger to youth often results in uninformed or occasionally downright inaccurate interpretation of the many surveys carried out on the pastime, and it was therefore satisfying to read a factual dismantling of such reports this week in an excellent article by Pittsburgh […]
September 19, 2007
Online poker operators in the European Union will be watching for an announcement on the Italian government’s official definition of skill gaming, and whether it will embrace poker when Article 38 of law 248/2006 is signed, possibly as soon as next week. Discussing the upcoming law, Interactive Gaming News this week examined the remarkable December […]
September 19, 2007
According to the poker information site High Stakes Poker Database, a Swede named Ingrid boosted (her?) bank balance by a very useful $330 000 this week on the Microgaming Poker Network. Nicknamed “Ingrid_Swede” and playing heads up in mid-September in a $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em final confrontation with competing finalist “I_Knockout_U,” the player took down the […]
September 18, 2007
The 5th Poker Stars.com World Championship of Online Poker tournament continues to generate huge prize money as it continues this week, with event number 5, a No-Limit Hold’em competition, attracting a record 6 025 entry field generating a significant prize-pool which Poker Stars boosted to over $3 million. The numbers ensured a wide diversity of […]