July 10, 2007
Former Senator and chairman Alfonse D’Amato of the pressure group Poker Players’ Alliance was in Las Vegas to make the traditional “Shuffle Up and Deal” call that started Day 1D – the fourth and last Day One heat in this year’s World Series of Poker. D’Amato took the opportunity to appeal to cheering players to […]
July 10, 2007
Hall of Poker Famer and 11 WSOP bracelet holder and champ Phil Hellmuth will be joining the legendary Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson when the World Series of Poker hits the UK this September Business Wire reports that pre-registrations officially opened this week for the World Series of Poker Europe with Betfair as the presenting sponsor, […]
July 10, 2007
It was another late night for many of the 1 743 players who entered the Day 1C heat at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, which closed with 650 players still in the game and headed for Day 2 B. Shock early departures (see previous report) were Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak, and […]
July 10, 2007
Ongame Network, an online poker subsidiary of the Vienna-listed Bwin Internet gambling group has signed the British gaming house Redbet Limited to its network. The Redbet group operates and manages several gaming brands including Redbet, TotalPoker, GoldClubCasino and MingelBingo. Following the deal, several poker sites within the Redbet sphere will switch to Ongame Network poker […]
July 10, 2007
The popular and well established online gambling company CelebPoker.com has launched a new Internet gambling game this week branded CelebBlackjack.com. The game is offered in single deck blackjack and six deck blackjack. A company spokesman said the addition of blackjack to CelebPoker’s portfolio is the first of several new games that CelebPoker plan to introduce, […]
July 9, 2007
Day1B of the World Series of Poker main event in Las Vegas wound to a weary finale in the wee small hours after almost 15 hours of hard fought poker as a starting field of 1 545 players tried to survive for the next round. In a star-studded field were five former world champs (see […]
July 8, 2007
The main event action at the World Series of Poker continued to climb as Day 1B attracted a field of 1 545, with a possible 1 600 or more players planned for Day 1 C. And in Day 1A (see previous report) a 1 287 player turnout was disappointingly lower than the previous year’s 3 […]
July 7, 2007
The praiseworthy initiative by Annie Duke and movie star Don Cheadle to raise funds for the Darfur refugees in the Sudanese crisis (see previous reports) received a boost of $500 000 following the special “Ante Up For Africa” tournament held at the World Series of Poker this week. Entrants paid a buy-in of $5 000 […]
July 7, 2007
World Series of Poker organisers do not seem overly concerned that the player entries for Day 1A of the main event are down 40 percent this year at 1 300 hopefuls. But speculation that the reduced interest may be due to the decision to exclude online poker sponsorships this year may be a little premature. […]
July 7, 2007
Only 30 points made the difference when it came to winning the World Series of Poker Player of the Year this week. Tom Schneider took the title in a close run contest with Jeffrey Lisandro when neither player succeeded in the last event, number 54 the $5 000 No Limit Draw Lowball, which was won […]