Asian Poker Classic grows

February 4, 2007

The richest poker tournament in Asia just got richer – organisers of the Asian Poker Classic (APC) have guaranteed a minimum add-in of $250 000 to the prize pool, which means more than $1million could be available at the first professional poker tournament ever staged in India. With the addition, the MaharajahClub.com spomsored tourney, is […]

Scandic Bookmakers leaves Tain for Bwin subsidiary

February 2, 2007

The Danish language gambling website Scandic Bookmakers is the latest online poker site to join the large Ongame internet poker network, migrating across this week. Formerly powered by Tain no-download software, Scandic has been in business since 1997 and is licensed by the Malta jurisdiction. The site only accepts accounts from Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, […]

NBC and Caesar’s Palace team up to provide poker spectacular

February 1, 2007

NBC has announced the return this March for a third season of the popular bracket-elimination poker tourney, National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The tourney pits 64 top players against each other in an event that will be flmed for television in the tournament room at Caesar’s Palace between March 1st and March 4th, 2007, with the […]

Weekend online poker action still going strong

January 30, 2007

This weekend’s main online poker tournaments continued to generate plenty of action and player registrations for some excellent prizepools. Poker Stars.com guaranteed Sunday million competition drew 2 768 ambitious poker players, who happily paid the buy-in for the $500+30 event in order to get a crack at the $1 384 000 prizepool, which put the […]

Parting of the ways for Gold and Bodog

January 28, 2007

Poker-focused media report that the endorsement agreement between World Series of Poker 2006 champion Jamie Gold and online gambling group Bodog has been ended prematurely. Reports said that a senior media executive at the offices of Bodog marketing company Riptown Media had confirmed the split, attributing it to normal commercial imperatives in the United States, […]

French act against online poker

January 26, 2007

French authorities appear to be following the lead of their American counterparts with the announcement that a top online poker room is facing a ban on advertising Media reports are that the French club, Le Salon des Ambassadeurs, has banned all images from one of the Internets’ most well-known poker rooms, Pokerstars at a tournament […]

Bill for Legal Online Poker Filed in WA State

January 26, 2007

by Poker Pages – A bill was submitted in the state of Washington last week to exclude internet gambling played from a person’s home from being a felony. This also includes online poker. Under the state’s 2006 internet gambling law, any online gambling currently conducted in the state is a Class C Felony, which is […]

Nordic poker network switches to Playtech

January 23, 2007

Several popular online poker sites will migrate from the Tain Poker Network to the iPoker/Playtech Network early in February. Among those making the move are Expekt.com, Gutshotgaming.com and Pokerducks.com. Tain has been supplying software to the gambling industry from its base in Stockholm since 1999, whilst Playtech claims to be the world’s largest publicly traded […]

$152 9960 won by Tae in first Winter Poker Open event

January 20, 2007

At the Borgata in Las Vegas the atmosphere was reportedly electric this week as the forty remaining players from Event 1 ($500 buy-in) in the 2007 Winter Poker Open returned to battle. The field that began with 1 370 players had been whittled down to three, but kit was eventually Tae Baik of Leonia, NJ, […]

Great Dane, Gus Hansen, wins the 2007 Aussie Millions

January 20, 2007

Danish poker pro Gus Hansen is the new 2007 Aussie Millions champ, boosting his personal bank balance with a winner’s check for $1.5 million after a close-fought heads up with the 19 year old online poker prodigy from Illinois Jimmy Fricke at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. One of the most aggressive and widely publicised […]