August 1, 2007
Top poker magazine Bluff opened voting this week for the 2007 Bluff Magazine Annual Readers Choice Awards Categories this year include: Most Entertaining Player to Watch, Favorite Pro Poker Player, Best Poker Broadcast, Best Live Tournament, Best All-Around Online and Live Poker Room, and Best WPT/WSOP Satellite. “The first Bluff Magazine reader’s choice awards were […]
August 1, 2007
The United Kingdom responsible gambling organisation Gamcare has accredited Gibraltar-based online poker site Poker Stars.com, acknowledging that the company has “…achieved high standards in player protection and social responsibility and recognises the need to assist their customers to play responsibly.” GamCare is a registered charity in Britain and a leading authority on information, advice and […]
July 31, 2007
Online qualifiers for Party Poker.com’s Scandinavian Poker Masters – The Game, Scandinavia’s first televised high stakes cash game are currently running at the Gibraltar-based firm’s website, with only two semi-final packages now up for grabs. The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 […]
July 31, 2007
From San Diego comes the story of an online poker player, Anthony Sandstrom aka “Tuff Fish” who has decided to do something about the legal restrictions on his favourite pastime and that great American game, poker. This week the California secretary of state’s office cleared Sandstrom to circulate petitions putting his proposed initiative on a […]
July 31, 2007
Initial reports on the weekend’s online poker tournament activity at Poker Stars.com indicate a full and action-packed weekend attended by over 20 000 entrants to popular events such as the Sunday Hundred Grand, the Sunday Warm-up, the Sunday Million and the High-Stakes Showdown. Poker Stars still accepts American poker players in tourneys that build significant […]
July 30, 2007
The online poker element on the Virgin Games site has big Internet and land crossover plans for 24 to 25 November this year, when the first Virgin Poker Festival will be held in the British city of Birmingham at the Broadway Casino. The event will feature live poker tournaments with the added entertainment of Virgin […]
July 30, 2007
Party Bets.com has come forward with a useful contribution to the fifth Homeless World Cup currently running until August 4 in Copenhagen. The online sportsbook will be taking bets on teams competing in the event and will donate all proceeds to the Homeless World Cup organisation. Five hundred players from across the globe, who are […]
July 29, 2007
The River City Group organisers of the World Poker Congress (WPC) scheduled for Malta on November 29 and 30 this year have announced that Steve Lipscomb, president of the World Poker Tour, and Jeffery Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker will jointly deliver the opening keynote address. The two veterans, who helm competing […]
July 29, 2007
Florida Congressman Robert Wexler’s Skill Game Protection Act, which seeks to obtain a carve-out from anti-online poker laws in the United States has seen substantially increased political support since June 27, with a number of politicians signing up for his proposal as well as that for Congressman Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act […]
July 29, 2007
The U.S. pressure group Poker Players’ Alliance, which seeks to legalise online poker through regulation or securing a “carve-out” from current prohibitionary laws in America has upped its game with the appointment of the registered Washington DC lobbying and law firm Barnes & Thornburg. The Politico reports that according to a filing with the Senate […]