Bodog Poker doubles the prizepool

January 13, 2007

Bodog poker regulars will have a bigger incentive to play in the Sunday online poker tournament prior to the Super Bowl on January 28 – the betting group is doubling its usual $100 000 guaranteed prizepool, providing gamblers with a minimum pool of $200 000. The good news is that buy-ins remain the same at […]

Season three of poker television’s hottest show starts January 15

January 13, 2007

Big money and competitive action are the hallmarks of Game Show Network’s popular poker series “High Stakes Poker” and fans will be looking forward to January 15 when season three airs at 9 pm Eastern Time. 13 episodes of the show were filmed at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas for High Stakes Poker […]

Mounties blitz Nova Scotia poker

January 13, 2007

The Canadian national police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been active in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia recently and are reported to be investigating some 60 allegedly illegal poker games in the region. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported this week that the Mounties are paying particular attention to games of poker being run […]

Ever heard of Poker Russian Roulette?

January 12, 2007

An American criminal trial started this week that showcased a tragic gambling incident in which an eighteen year old gambler was killed whilst playing an idiotic improvised game combining poker and Russian Roulette. The latter is a perilous *game* in which participants take it in turns to point a pistol loaded with one bullet at […]

22 year old student takes the Caribbean online poker pot

January 12, 2007

Starting at a chip count disadvantage at a final table of six in the Poker Stars.com Caribbean Adventure this week, a 22 year old math graduate student from New Jersey with plenty of guts and audacity trounced the competition to win the $1.5 million first prize and a World Poker Tour bracelet. Ryan Daut, and […]

New Irish Poker Champ takes home Euro 114 000

January 11, 2007

The new Irish Poker Champion is John Clancy, who beat 300 other determined poker players this week in Dublin to take home the Euro 114 000 winner’s check, a little down from expectations following a deal late in the deciding game to split the pot among the last three players. Scott Bryant took second place […]

Gala sponsoring “The Great British Poker Championship”

January 11, 2007

The title certainly has a ring to it: “The Great British Poker Champion,” an accolade that will be earned in a series of events that has all the makings of a grand poker spectacle at venues around the British Isles – and it’s sponsored by one of the big UK betting groups, Gala Casinos. Taking […]

Biggest prizepool yet in Full Tilt´s new online poker challenge

January 11, 2007

The high popularity Full Tilt Online Poker Series is to be held again this year…and the already substantial multi-million dollar prizepool is to be further boosted to an impressive $3.6 million, according to a company spokesman. The new series will commence on February 9 with a prizepool that tops previous series which offered $1 million […]

Game of skill or chance? UK poker jury will decide

January 11, 2007

The Times reports that UK poker players will be closely watching developments in a trial that started this week in London under the 1968 Gambling Act. The accused is Derek Kelly (46) chairman of the Gutshot Private Members’ Club in Clerkenwell, Central London, and the charges arise two poker games with allegations of financial charges […]

Profitable poker night for UK housewife

January 11, 2007

Warehouse worker Anne Taylor (48) earns GBP 200 a week at a plant in the Yorkshire industrial city of Leeds, UK but after a stunning poker win at Napoleons Casino in the midlands city this week she may be moving up. The skilled….and lucky poker player walked away from a game with GBP 258 982 […]