PokerShare closed

November 11, 2005

Further to the reports last week, Pokershare has now emailed all players outside North America that they will be shutting their doors at 9am ET on November 14. Pokershare was an online poker operation that promised to give players a share in its success and achieved wide publicity as a result . Last week it […]

The Great Poker Raid arrests in Baltimore are thrown out

November 11, 2005

It was reported by Baltimore press as the biggest gambling raid in the city since Prohibition, and attracted nation-wide media coverage when Baltimore police raided the Owl’s Nest club on Nov. 2, arresting 95 and seizing more than $25 600 in cash, thousands of poker chips, card decks and liquor and beer allegedly being sold […]

Tell your poker story

November 10, 2005

Most poker players have a good story to tell – bad beat stories, great wins, successful bluffs. Now is your chance to tell it. The Small Town Poker Tour(STPT) is a unique new poker show scheduled to hit the air soon. The STPT is traveling the highways and byways of America setting up Texas Hold’em […]

New WSOP Champion of Champions

November 10, 2005

Mike Matusow is the 2005 WSOP Champion of Champions this week, having outlasted a field of 119 World Series of Poker Champions to win this prestigious tournament and take hom the $1,000,000 first place prize money. The final table that began Tuesday afternoon ended almost twelve hours later early Wednesday morning. Polker’s top players were […]

Million a month at Titan Poker

November 7, 2005

The owners of Playtech-powered Titan Poker.com, a recently launched online poker room must have deep pockets judging by the guaranteed $1 million or more a month they are currently promising in tournament prizes. Titan Poker claims to be growing quickly, due to popular daily, weekly and monthly big cash tournaments, and to special jackpot sit […]

World Poker Tour adds Winter Poker Open

November 7, 2005

Responding to the constantly changing face of the poker world, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the 2005-2006 fourth season schedule. The sixteen event schedule has been joined by the Borgata Winter Poker Open, to be played at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, from January 20th through February 1st. The Borgata […]

Playstation Poker

November 7, 2005

World Poker Tour and 2K Sports have launched a fascinating new poker-related entertainment using the very popular Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Microsoft Xbox as the medium. As a video game, World Poker Tour presents all the attributes for which it has become globally successful – big names, glitsy venues and exciting camerawork – with […]

Clearing the air on chinese poker

November 7, 2005

Misinformation regarding the game of “Chinese Poker” is prevalent on the Internet, claims a press release just in from gambling expert Daniel Fong, who claims that websites offering information on Chinese Poker make glaring errors in the rules of play, and in some cases even confuse it with another game entirely. Fong intends to correct […]

Pokershare in trouble?

November 3, 2005

Pokershare, the online poker operation that promised to give players a share in its success and achieved wide publicity as a result appeared to be in trouble this week amid reports that Toronto based Excapsa, which controlled the network on which it operated had closed its accounts and was paying players out. Pokershare had only […]

Chartwell Tech Poker for LuckyBall

November 3, 2005

Chartwell Technology Inc, a provider of gaming software systems to the online and remote gaming industry has secured a contract to supply its multiplayer poker product to LuckyBall S.A., a licensing provider for Paradisebet UK Ltd. The site will join PokerNexus, Chartwell’s poker community. Partnering with Chartwell earlier this year through LuckyBall S.A., Paradisebet has […]