January 31, 2006
Readers may recall publicity last year in which the Golden Spirit Mining Company announced the unlikely intention to operate an Internet poker site. This week these intentions materialised in the form of a renamed company (now it’s Golden Spirit Gaming) and an average sort of online poker site branded Golden Spirit Poker.com. Unfortunately there is […]
January 27, 2006
The Israeli buisiness newspaper Israel Globes reported that things were looking up for Noam Lanir’s Empire Online group. In a trading update taking in the last quarter of 2005, the firm said that it expects to return profits in excess of $50 million for the year 2005. The company stated that its net gaming revenue […]
January 24, 2006
Sam and Janice March, fifty-somethings who own a farm in Kansas showed they had the right stuff online when they qualified on the same day for a million dollar cruise. Each of them won separate entries on the same day, beating thousands of players in two different types of games to win seats on the […]
January 22, 2006
TalkSport is to host InterPoker’s new poker program, part of its ongoing offline marketing campaign. The program went live on Mike Dickin’s show at 10 pm program on January 20, targeting Talksport’s 2.2 million listeners. Recent research carried out by Online Gambler Magazine and InterCasino indicated that poker players are always on the look out […]
January 21, 2006
Readers may remember the brief but eventful life in the latter part of 2005 of a company called Pokershare, which had an innovative marketing approach of sharing its profits with its players. Unfortunately, before these riches could be realised Pokershare and its network, Excapsa had a falling out and that has led to litigation. The […]
January 20, 2006
Harrah’s License Company, LLC, an affiliate of Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.has announced new dates and an expanded schedule for its World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next spring. The revised Caesars Palace Circuit WSOP schedule includes a new $5,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. event that will test entrants’ expertise in four games […]
January 19, 2006
Australian press reports have be en following the progress of the Aussie Millions poker tournaments, currently being fought at the Crown Casino In Melbourne. On day 4, 36 players were battling toward the final table with more than $660,000 separating the lowest trailing contestant from US chip leader Kenna James, who resumed play with $700,500. […]
January 17, 2006
Full House Entertainment, the turnkey poker software provider has had a busy week, launching Touchstone Poker.com (see earlier reports) and now a new site for international model Cindy Margolis branded Cindys Poker.com. Developed in partnership with Mercury Sports N.V. out of Curacao, the new venue promises an extensive range of poker-based games to suit all […]
January 17, 2006
Canadian turnkey provider Chartwell Technology says that its new ’32 Card Poker’ online game is proving successful amongst Chartwell’s Italian and other European clients. Chartwell, which took over MicroPower poker software and its Nexus network last year says that in a few short months ’32 Card Poker’ has been well-received by both players and operators […]
January 16, 2006
Full House Entertainment NV, the turnkey poker software and site provider has made a professional if somewhat bland job of presenting Touchstone Poker.com which launched this week in the competitive online poker sector. Operated by Curacao-licensed Global Fortune NV, the new poker room offers access to a wide selection of ‘play for fun’ or ‘play […]