June 13, 2006
The Gibraltar-based gmbling group Mansion.com pulled off a Bodog style six-figure aircraft advertising deal this week with Flybe, one of Europe’s leading low cost airlines, to brand one of their jet aircraft. The two-year aircraft wrap deal was unveiled for a one-off World Cup charter appearance, before it commences normal Flybe scheduled services now encompassing […]
June 13, 2006
The Microgaming Poker Network added a new member to its operator ranks this week with the admission of TellPoker.com, which brings with it the innovative Pokershare style approach of attracting new customers by making their players shareholders in the company. During the first one and a half years of business TellPoker will give away 40 […]
June 13, 2006
If you’re planning to attend the World Poker Congress in Stockholm on June 26 and 27 and you haven’t organised your bookings yet, you’re running out of time to attend what looks like a great exchange of ideas. Latest to join the speaker list are Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner, World Series of Poker and Steven Lipscomb, […]
June 10, 2006
The Bluff Magazine publishers, Bluff Media have been given the go ahead by Harrah’s Entertainment to produce live radio broadcasts from this year’s World Series of Poker tournament. The non-binding agreement is subject to definitive documentation. Bluff Poker Radio’s live World Series of Poker broadcasts, which can be heard exclusively on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel […]
June 10, 2006
It’s been another busy week for Swedish turnkey provider Boss Media it appears. The company has finalised two agreements with Cyprus-based gaming operators and completed an IVT deal with Zest Gaming, an Italian manufacturer and operator of gaming terminals. The Cyprus-based operators Bashedger and The BetArena will go live with Boss’s poker software and network […]
June 10, 2006
Feel like taking on the big boys? Online players fresh to the land based game of poker are about to receive a leg up into the exciting world of televised high stakes poker in the newest take on Texas Hold’em tournaments, the Gibraltar-based Mansion group’s Superstar Challenge. On July 12, three free-roll Internet qualifiers will […]
June 8, 2006
In a deal with PokerZone Television, Two Way TV and Zone4Play’s betting brand, The Winner Channel are launching a play-along TV poker show branded Face Up Hold ‘Em. The two hour play-along show will be broadcast daily on Sky on the PokerZone TV channel. During the show, produced by Two Way TV, a Texas Hold […]
June 3, 2006
Alistair Assheton’s Leisure and Gaming publicly listed group, which includes the VIP, Acropolis, English Harbour and Nine.com groups among its subsidiaries has put together another dynamic deal this week, this time with the newly re-branded Microgaming Poker Network. The plan is for a new L&G poker brand titled StanleyVIPpoker.com to be formed, which will launch […]
June 3, 2006
The online poker sector has another million dollar tournament following the announcement this week that FairPoker.com, a member of the ipoker network, is to host a $1 000 000 Hold’em online tournament on Sunday July 16. Qualifying rounds for the tourney, dubbed The Million Mania have already begun and players can either buy a seat […]
June 3, 2006
PokerStars speculation was rampant again this week as media reports indicated that the online poker giant was close to appointing HSBC to advise it on a massive GBP 1.6 billion London stock market flotation. Financial and business media seemed confident that the company would name the banking behemoth as sole global co-ordinator and sponsor of […]