August 21, 2007
The fifth Full Tilt Online Poker festival ended with a big splash of cash over the weekend as the winner of the Main Event was decided. Player CrazyZachary was the man in the money with a spectacular main prize of $395 905.44. Sunday was the peak day for FTOPS 5 as over $3.8 million dollars […]
August 20, 2007
The weekend saw the final table of the National Poker League’s UK Open Championship play out, with father and son Peter and Josh Gould competing for the GBP 2 600 buy-in Main Event champion’s honours with close initial chip counts of 63 000 and 57 000 respectively. But all’s fair in love and poker, and […]
August 20, 2007
The world’s most prestigious poker tournament, the Las Vegas-based World Series of Poker, is extending its international reach this year by launching the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com. WSOP Europe is scheduled to debut in London between 6-16 September 2007. The new poker series will be held at three casinos operated […]
August 16, 2007
“Be the best in the west at poker,” urges a news article from the British Columbia province of the Great White North this week as it reports on the involvement of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation in a Vancouver area poker tournament. “Do you have the nerves of steel to be the best poker player […]
August 15, 2007
The Microgaming Poker Network signed up another new poker room this week as veteran online gambling site Canbet.com announced that it was switching to the network, which now boasts some 40 brands. Canbet parent International All Sports (IAS) broke the news that Canbet was moving to Microgaming from Ongame, effective immediately. Formed by Mark Read […]
August 14, 2007
The wife of comedian/poker-player Norman Pace, Beverley took home $50 000 and the title of first Party Poker Women’s World Open Champion this week after a tough competition and a tense heads up with runner-up Jen Mason in London. After a number of swings Pace’s pocket sixes held-up all-in against Mason’s Ace Jack off suit. […]
August 12, 2007
Despite the withdrawal of Full Tilt Poker on grounds of full commitment elsewhere (see previous reports) the organisers of Russia’s inaugural Moscow Millions poker tournament say it is still viable and ready to go. However, the date has been changed from October 20 – 22 to just over a month later on November 24-26. The […]
August 11, 2007
Online poker firm Paddy Power Poker.com has announced a whopping Euro 1 million increase in its guarantee for the 2008 Irish Open poker tournament, for which on line qualifiers commence August 13. The 2008 event sees the Irish Open expand with an increased buy-in of Euro 4 200 + Euro 300 registration fee, capacity for […]
August 11, 2007
Gibraltar-based white label specialist St Minver has entered into a partnership with Best Games Holdings Limited in providing a new bingo site as a sister operation to Best Poker.com. BestBingo.com is powered by Parlay Entertainment and targeted on the Scandinavian bingo market, which has seen some of the fastest growth in online bingo in Europe […]
August 10, 2007
Online poker operations at Ladbrokes, probably due to an increasingly competitive European business environment, disappointed investors when the e-gaming division of the gambling group released its interim six month numbers to the end of June this week. Poker net revenue fell GBP 2.7million to GBP 15.7 million in the face of stiff competition in the […]