February 21, 2007
Perhaps triggered by transfers of Doyle’s Room poker players across to Full Tilt Poker.com with full priveleges, the rumours are currently rife that Full Tilt has acquired the US operations of the popular poker site by outbidding rival Bodog.com. There are also reports that Doyles Room player accounts are currently being transfered en masse to […]
February 21, 2007
The cross-marketing synergy between land and online gambling operations is clearly at work in Nottingham, England where the final preparations are being made to the 46 table Dusk Till Dawn land poker room due for launch by gambling entrepeneur Rob Yong in April this year. The cardroom is being hyped as the largest in Europe […]
February 21, 2007
In a move to boost recruitment for the Poker Players’ Alliance the Full Tilt Poker.com site has informed its members that they can get up to a thousand dollars in bonuses if they sign up for the poker advocacy body. In an email to members, the site encouraged enrolment in the PPA and suggested that […]
February 17, 2007
In earlier bulletins we reported on the imminent US pull-out of the Tribeca Tables network, which was acquired by turnkey provider Playtech last year. The withdrawal has placed several of the network’s sites, including Doyle’s Room, Golden Palace, Straightflush and Poker Host on notice that their US days, at least with Tribeca, are numbered. Poker […]
February 16, 2007
In an expected but still unwelcome move this week, the online poker network Tribeca Tables has announced that it will no longer welcome new US players, and that with effect from February 28 all US IP addresses will be locked out. The liklihood of such a move was announced some time previously when the company […]
February 16, 2007
Party Poker.com’s latest tournament spectacular has been announced and will feature a televised series of games in which 12 of the world’s top players duke it out. The groundbreaking series, developed by Matchroom Sport, will feature a unique league format for a mouth-watering US$500 000 pot. With a system developed especially to showcase the legendary […]
February 14, 2007
This week saw the championship advent of an ingenious new interpretation of the game of poker – it’s called Duplicate Poker and its goal is to get around the luck vs skill debate surrounding the legality of the game. In the new wrinkle, the cards are set-up so that each table and each seat at […]
February 14, 2007
The latest channel pending launch by the burgeoning Sky television network in the UK should please Brit poker players – it’s a poker dedicated offering with an ambitious new program aimed at getting people to play their favourite game via TV. Broadcast from Sky Poker’s Feltham studios, the programs will feature a series of guests […]
February 14, 2007
Although online qualifying games for the next Party Poker European Challenge have already started, the veteran online poker site has introduce a new competitive element for those who achieve a place. The first 50 online qualifiers from Eastern Europe and a similar number from Western Europe will face off against each other in a bonus […]
February 14, 2007
Absolute Poker.com has launched a new Java version of their online poker product called Instant Play, claiming that the no-download option is “easy, accessible and immediate for all poker players.” The new product also opens the door to Apple Mac users, which will be welcomed. Instant Play enables Absolute Poker players to log in and […]