February 11, 2006
Poker fans will be on the lookout for a new game from London-based skill gaming operator and white-label provider GameAccount, which has announced that it is to launch its 3-Card Poker game this week. The peer-to-peer game will be a skill- and rake-based adaptation of the popular table game, where online opponents play against each […]
February 11, 2006
Next time you see a poker player listening intently to an iPod he or she could be accessing enough information to out-manouevre you, thanks to the arrival on the scene of Online Poker Podcast.com. The product launched this week as the first podcast featuring information on all areas of online poker. Podcasts are all the […]
February 11, 2006
Paul Wieber faced a tough choice this week when he won a major online poker tournament at market leader Party Poker – he had to choose between a cash payout and the use of a private executive jet to fly anywhere he wished for 25 hours. The 32 year old customer service manager from Grand […]
February 11, 2006
Weekend readers of The Independent woke up to the interesting news that Empire Online is close to settling its legal dispute with PartyGaming. The deal would see PartyGaming pay Empire $200 million (GBP 114 million) for terminating the “skin” arrangement under which Empire players were directed to the same platform as those of its rival’s […]
February 10, 2006
The on again, off again IPO by Canadian poker company Excapsa was making the news as we went to press this week with fresh reports that the company has a London launch in mind. The software company, which powers sites such as UltimateBet and UltimatePoker is gearing up to raise as much as GBP 75 […]
February 10, 2006
Readers of the main message boards will have seen the many derogatory comments that followed the introduction of Bodog’s new poker software recently, and this week a news item on the event seemed to confirm that the well respected company has suffered a setback on this product. The item, on Gambling 911 revealed that: “Bodog.com […]
February 10, 2006
Canadian viewers are in for a feast of global poker following a deal between online poker company Riverbelle and the popular TV program Poker Night Live Canada. The program will be broadcast daily by CGTV, a Canadian cable channel specialising in gaming entertainment, on Rogers Digital Cable channel 228. During Thursday and Saturday broadcasts, players […]
February 8, 2006
Planet Ace (Gibraltar) Ltd. has received a clean bill of health and randomness on its Random Number Generator from the Australian test specialists iTech Labs Australia. The certification is that the RNG used to shuffle cards by the companys PokerPages software has been independently examined and has passed inspection as at the date of test […]
February 8, 2006
The coming weekend will see some exciting finals action in a major online poker tournament at Eurobet Poker.com, when a guaranteed prize pool of at least $500 000 will be the reward for the skilled and the fortunate. Schduled for Saturday 11th February, and branded “Grand Tournament VI”, this event will begin at 15.00 ET. […]
February 8, 2006
From time to time a snapshot of online gambling site rankings is taken which the respected Internet traffic measurement site Hitwise publishes. Although these are dynamic statistics which change over short periods of time with the ebb and flow of visitors to the various sites it nevertheless makes an interesting short term view possible. Here […]