March 6, 2006
Pokerzone Sky Channel 843 has released its poker entertainment schedules for April, with some interesting fare for the UK fans of the game: Pro Month starts Monday 3rd April 2pm to 4pm GMT with: Face Up Poker At 8pm GMT: Going All In – Texas Hold’Em secrets taught by champions will be screened, with Gus […]
March 6, 2006
Poker players on the UltimateBet site were getting increasingly riled this week as technical hassles plagued their entertainment and locked up their cash. Complaints were cropping up all over the Internet of what is claimed was a botched (Excapsa) software upgrade that crashed the site for over 24 hours, and came back online with decreased […]
March 3, 2006
The Irish betting group Paddy Poker says that its entry to the online poker market has paid off, signing up nearly 10,000 gaming customers in the past year. According to the bookmaker, nearly 10 percent of its total online customer base use the site solely for casino games and it is making a solid contribution […]
March 3, 2006
The popular poker magazine, Bluff carries an interesting report on what was probably one of the most expensive poker games of all time in its current issue. In what is considered the largest head-to-head poker game ever, self-made billionaire banker Andy Beal matched $20 million against a rotating cast made up of the best high-stakes […]
March 2, 2006
Betfair Poker has been targeting the female poker demographic in a recent promotional initiative. The company says that in 2004, there were 201 entrants at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Ladies Event, and this number tripled by the 2005 tournament. This is therefore a logical development area and a seat at this year’s WSOP […]
March 1, 2006
British university students over the age of 18 years, many of whom are already skilled poker players, will have their own targeted competitive arena soon following Poker Room overtures to universities across Britain aimed at launching the first UK nationwide Student Poker Tour. The country’s biggest university towns will be playing host to PokerRoom.com this […]
March 1, 2006
The giant Swedish online poker network Ongame has added newcomer Bet24.com to its card room membership. Bet24.com has licensed the Ongame poker software, enabling its customers to play the online poker game against more than 7 million players already connected to Ongame Network. A spokesman for Bet24.com said the move means it will be able […]
March 1, 2006
One of the top online poker sites reached a milestone last week when Poker Stars.com recorded for the first time a total of 100 000 players online simultaneously at its site. Poker Stars spokesmen gave the event some historical perspective by revealing that less than three years ago, the company broke the 10,000-player mark for […]
February 28, 2006
Futurebet- licensed card room Pure Poker.com unexpectedly went off-line this week, allegedly for “temporary” but unspecified reasons according to a brusque statement on what is left of the site. Alarmingly, players claim that this was done without communicating with them in advance, and several are now deeply concerned about monies they had tied up in […]
February 25, 2006
Online poker fraudsters, and the consequences of this dishonest conduct at major online poker venues was one of the top discussion subjects this week following spectacular detective work and the confiscation of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one case, the $200 buy-in, $500 000 Guaranteed Tournament held by market leader Party Poker was the […]