April 26, 2006
Riverbelle Poker Room in the BelleRock group moved a significant step further towards the one-stop integrated site this week by adding 19 different casino games to its offerings. Distinguishing itself from the general run of competition, the Gibraltar-based site now offers its players the capability to play poker and any one of 19 different casino […]
April 25, 2006
With a prize pool of over $15 million and 606 ambitious poker players raring to go, this years World Poker Tour World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas was always going to be exciting, and last night (Monday) Joe Bartholdi finally beat Davidson Matthew in a thrilling heads up with massive bets at stake. […]
April 24, 2006
600 players have fallen by the wayside, many of them with big cheques from a total prize pool of $15 125 000, in the WPT World Championships held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas this past few days. Last night, the top 6 players to survive the gruelling tournament were decided, and the following will […]
April 23, 2006
Swedish police in Skaraborg, Sweden were closing in on a credit card skimmer this week following reports of losses on Internet poker sites that the real card holders had never visited. Nine local residents reported that their bank accounts had been hit by withdrawals, apparently through large payments to Internet poker sites that the card […]
April 23, 2006
The weekend’s big poker event, the World Poker Tour World Championship currently in progress at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, continued to grab attention today. After 5 tough and competitive levels of play with truly major wagers, the original field of 606 are down to the final 19 players, all vying for a seat at […]
April 23, 2006
It has become almost impossible to escape the grinning and rather vacuous visage of American heiress Paris Hilton as the media voraciously follows her latest inconsequential antics in glitterati-land, but this month she hit the silly-ass headlines by losing her GBP 100 000 and some change Bentley car in a poker game at a land […]
April 23, 2006
One of the premier events in poker, the World Poker Tour World Championships swung into gear this week for the fourth time at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Vegas with 606 contestants and a massive prizepool of $15 125 000. For the man or woman who beats 605 opponents from 40 countries in games […]
April 20, 2006
SunPoker.com has signed up British poker ace Kenna James to be its public face and spokesman. Kenna’s duries will include serving as captain of “Team SunPoker” at select poker tournaments around the world. Unusually for this type of agreement, a donation to charity is built-in through which a portion of the poker pro’s winnings will […]
April 20, 2006
With the Euro 350 000 winner’s cheque in his pocket, Dubliner Vincent Melinn was on top of the world this week after being crowned the current Irish Open Poker champion. Live on Sky Sports television, Melinn (54) beat the 6-player final table at the Royal Dublin Society. The champ is an accountant who had only […]
April 20, 2006
World Poker Exchange.com came up with an innovative strategy to pack the players in last month with a rake free business model that looks sure to serve its purpose of attracting new players to sample the site. The rake on poker games is still collected, but refunded to players once a week, the intention being […]