June 28, 2006
World Poker Tour Enterprises, Inc. announced this week that it has reached an agreement with the Silicon Valley software development company CyberArts to provide technology and software for re-launching WPTE’s online gaming business. “This relationship will make it possible for us get to market faster with a superior product,” said Steve Lipscomb, founder and CEO […]
June 28, 2006
Full Contact Poker.com has developed an ingenious marketing concept for the next WSOP, using the catch phrase “Wear the name, share the fame.” The online poker site offers FCP members who play in WSOP events the chance to share in potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, just for wearing FCP apparel in the TV-intensive competition. […]
June 28, 2006
One of the online gambling phenomena that reporters have increasingly noticed is the high value tournament, and this week we took a look at the most popular of at least three different big bucks competitions that have become a regular happening in online poker. The PokerStars $1 Million Guaranteed tournament attracted “only” 1301 players with […]
June 28, 2006
Full details are still awaited on a terse announcement by PartyGaming and Harrah’s Entertainment that they have signed a deal for PartyGaming.com to be the official sponsor of the World Series of Poker. The agreement apparently gives the major London-listed gambling group serious advertising and publicity exposure for its PartyPoker.net information site on the well […]
June 28, 2006
If the rest of the World Series of Poker competitions are anywhere near as fiercely contested and skilled as the 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions, poker fans are in for a real feast of excitement and big money action. The free roll tourney was held earlier this week and attracted large crowds of spectators to […]
June 28, 2006
The excitement and anticipation attending the big-time nature of the World Series of Poker in Vegas is already almost tangible as the media machine behind poker’s most globally watched event goes up a gear with the tournament date now visible on the horizon. Last year’s WSOP recorded the most successful run in its history with […]
June 28, 2006
Internet message boards often carry interesting, not to mention intriguing tidbits of information and business offers, and this was the case on the popular Winneronline.com forum this week. Using the eye-catching *handle* “Suited Pocket Rocket” an American poster revealed that he or she was about to start up a really innovative venture – a daily […]
June 28, 2006
In last week’s “forthcoming attractions” we reported on the upcoming clash of top poker players from 8 nations around the world at the third annual PokerStars.com World Cup of Poker in Barcelona, Spain. Ultimately, it was Team Poland that defeated Team United States to take the top prize as the Polish team battled their American […]
June 28, 2006
It took nearly four hours for Erick ‘E-Dog’ Lindgren and Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow to get heads up at the FullTiltPoker.Net Pro Showdown at Red Rock Casino, but just one hand for Lindgren to claim the victory and the $600 000 first-place prize last week Lindgren and Matusow outlasted five other Team Full Tilt members, […]
June 28, 2006
PokerTeam.dk team members Christian Grundtvig and Henrik Witt enjoyed a lucrative payday following the Paris World Poker Tour champs at the Aviation Club de France earlier this month; Grundtvig picked up a cheque for Euro 712 500 as the winner, and fourth placed Witt banked Euro 168 750 to add to his salary as a […]