August 31, 2005
Tournaments continue to capture the imagination and support of poker players, and some of the major firms in the business have announced their forthcoming attractions this week. World Poker Tour announced it will be hosting the second annual Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship from October 18-21 at this year’s Festa al Lago IV being […]
August 31, 2005
Poker News published an interesting study of the Chinese potential for poker this week, saying that it is the next logical step for the poker industry. Despite cultural differences, the game is set to take the country by storm as long as it doesn’t offend the government. Apparently a high tech holding company named Dragon […]
August 31, 2005
British gambling medium Pokerzone, the poker and casino life style channel on SKY Channel 226 is looking for a studio audience for a new gambling chat show titled Heads Up with presenter Richard Herring. The channel is putting together an audience of poker enthusiasts for the new chat show which will be filmed at The […]
August 31, 2005
Wagerlogic-powered online poker operation Pokerplex.com has announced that it is to sponsor a seat at the upcoming Swedish land poker event, Malmo Open Poker Tournament which is scheduled for September 16-18. Satellite tournaments to the Malmo Qualifier will span five week days commencing September 5 with the last tournament taking place on the 9th. Subsequently, […]
August 30, 2005
Johnny Chan, Chris Moneymaker, Ted Forrest, Kathy Leibert, Layne Flack, Barry Greenstein, Men The Master Nguyen, Freddy Deeb, Thor Hansen, Joe Awada, Antonio Esfandiari, Rene Angeli and more of the top names in Poker will be gathering soon for one of the premier events in world poker. The Labor Day Pro-Shootout at the Palms in […]
August 27, 2005
Barely a week after denying that it intended to do so, the Scandinavian sportsbook Expekt has officially signed a deal to join the Tain poker network, departing Prima Poker. Expekt is positioned to become the largest member of the Tain network, which currently includes Scandinavian sportsbooks pointbet and Scandic Bookmakers. Erik Ahlberg, chief executive of […]
August 26, 2005
Some of poker’s most successful players and top Hollywood talent have become investors in the first private equity placement of Card Player Media, publishers of Card Player magazine. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Jennifer Harman, and Thomas Keller, along with Hollywood stars Laura Prepon, Danny Masterson, and Chris Masterson have all invested, and will […]
August 24, 2005
WPT Enterprises Inc., the entertainment firm behind the international World Poker Tour franchise, is to enter the video gaming business, competing with imminent poker productions such as Daniel Negreanu’s “Stacked”. The group has announced that an impressive list of familiar faces who will appear in the game, which currently has the rather unimaginative working title […]
August 24, 2005
The innovative marketing team at Party Poker this week announced a new initiative in collaboration with GPS Industries aimed at promoting an online poker tournament to some 80 000 potential poker players. GPS is a specialised Wi-Fi wireless and GPS-enabled multimedia communications and management company active on the international golfing scene. Under the pilot program, […]
August 23, 2005
Like many other poker followers, InfoPowa (see earlier reports) thought that Helen “Hells Bells” Chamberlain would walk away from the Ladbrokes Poker Millions this week with the main $1 million prize…but we were wrong. A little known, 42 year old factory worker called Tony Jones surprised us all by beating “Hell’s Bells” in a close-run […]