April 7, 2007
News reports of a French study of player behavioural patterns in the popular poker variant Texas Hold ‘Em have been fleshed out in some interesting Easter holiday reading from The Scientific American this week. The article reviews the work of Clément Sire, a statistical physicist and champion bridge player working at the Laboratory of Theoretical […]
April 5, 2007
The respected poker portal Poker News.com published a truly encouraging story for poker players this week with the news that the Russian Federation’s ‘Federal Agency of Physical Culture and Sports’ has cleared the way for a new Russian poker boom by characterising the game as a sport. Poker tournaments have received the status of official […]
April 5, 2007
A Euro 3.6 million prizepool and television action coverage that will be viewed in over 500 million households around the planet are just two reasons why the National Poker League’s 2007 Global Circuit Tour will attract top players and solid sponsors. Billed with some justification as the largest poker event yet in Europe (see previous […]
April 4, 2007
Leisure and Gaming plc subsidiary Betshop.com has signed up with the Microgaming Poker Network for its online poker activities, joining a growing number of new additions that have joined the network this year. Widely regarded as one of the fastest growing European online betting companies, Betshop is targeted primarily at emerging European markets, and operates […]
April 3, 2007
A pair each of British, Scandinavian and American players sat down with a Canadian and an Irishman this week to decide who would take home an almost Euro 2 million pay check and the respect for winning the prestigious European Poker Tour Grand Finale in Monte Carlo. The competitors at that final table in the […]
April 2, 2007
Online poker players, hold on to your hats! From Monday 2nd April, Party Poker.com will be holding tournaments that guarantee over $5 million a month in prixe money! And on top of this there is over $50 000 in freerolls scheduled every month and hundreds of thousands of dollars up for grabs from the Bad […]
March 30, 2007
Pro poker player J.C. Tran crossed off one of his career targets this week when he won his first World Poker Tour champion title in the World Poker Challenge at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. Tran had previously made it through to five WPT final tables among his many playing achievements, but this was […]
March 30, 2007
“The Oriental Express” – international poker ace Johnny Chan – gets into the online poker operator world this week with the launch on the Ongame Network of his clean, businesslike Chan Poker.com site. One of the most respected profdessionals in the poker industry, Chan has a string of big money final tables and awards to […]
March 30, 2007
English police officials who advised local public houses (bars) in West Mercia that hosting poker games could cost their licence may have some explaining to do following litigation launched by a poker league this week. The trade publication The Publican reports that the Nuts Poker League, which organises poker games in UK pubs is suing […]
March 29, 2007
According to figures released by the company, online gambling group Mansion.com has now given away in excess of $4 million in online poker tournament overlays since the launch this year of its daily “$100K A Day” online poker promotion on January 3rd. During the first 81 days of Mansion’s $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournaments, a substantial […]