November 17, 2005
Ongame-powered Spanish language poker room Poker Loco.com says that the boom in online poker is spreading rapidly and has now reached Spain. Claiming to be the first Hispanic online poker site, the company is optimistic about the game in Spain and other Latin countries. According to recently released stats from Overture, the number of poker […]
November 17, 2005
SportingOdds, a subsidiary of Brit gambling group Sportingbet.com is going after new online poker players with a campaign based on traditional offline and online advertising augmented by direct mail and an innovative website. Aided by marketing agency Beechwood the company has developed the user friendly website which will run promotions from within the poker site […]
November 16, 2005
Woman Poker Player, a lifestyle publication targeted on the rapidly growing female poker player demographic, is launching a series of $1 000 freeroll tournaments in collaboration with Playtech-powered online poker room, Titan Poker.com. Scheduled for November 25th, the tournament is open to all players who sign up and participate in the discussions on the Woman […]
November 16, 2005
Kudos to Hollywood Poker.com, which this week showed that poker players have plenty of heart in a celebrity tournament that raised US $ 50 000 for charity. It was a full house at the poker site’s one year anniversary party held at the Montmartre Lounge in Hollywood, CA. Hollywood Poker’s Vince Van Patten welcomed celebrity […]
November 15, 2005
Readers will only find a new online game called Badugi Poker on Tribeca Tables’ sites, we’re informed in a press release from the turnkey poker provider this week. Badugi is an Oriental poker game-style which has been sweeping the offline world and is now being made available to online pokerheads, too. “Players are always looking […]
November 15, 2005
The Prima Poker Network welcomed six new card rooms this week to its growing poker network, bringing to 46 the number of card rooms using this platform. The new rooms include AllInPoker.com, betEd.com, DreamPoker.com, PokerTime.com, PokerArena.com and 5DogsPoker.com. Each card room offers online poker players a user-friendly and secure place to learn, fine-tune their poker […]
November 13, 2005
According to the website for fans of mega film star Leonardo DiCaprio, the poker legend Doyle Brunson and his DoylesRoom.com online poker room have donated money to support a full length feature film on global warming and the environment, to be produced and narrated by DiCaprio, who is a friend. Brunson has been a lifelong […]
November 13, 2005
The folks behind StackPokerOnline.com have been conducting an effective publicity campaign on their upcoming launch, using what they promise is revolutionary poker software technology as an attraction. This week the companys PR person published an interview he had conducted with the companys CEO, Thomas Newton who started playing poker back in 1998 whjilst at college […]
November 11, 2005
One of the longest press releases of the year was received from the World Poker Tour this week, listing the many possibilities if your near and dear one happens to be a poker fan. It’s a sure bet that someone in your family has been bitten by the poker bug and is hoping for something […]
November 11, 2005
Card Player reported details for the 2006 Canadian Poker Championship this week. The head-ups event, which will be filmed and televised, will take place March 8-12 at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, Alberta. The CDN$5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament will be limited to 128 players, who will vie for the top prize of CDN $250,000. […]