March 21, 2005
Poker fans will soon be watching ace poker player Annie Duke, winner of the $2 million “World Series of Poker” Tournament of Champions Event on DVD. The popular champ has signed an exclusive DVD deal with Masters of Poker (MOP). The series of DVDs, shooting this month at the Commerce Casino, will be distributed through […]
March 21, 2005
Sports911.com, a popular sportsbook portal is turning its attention to the booming poker sector. “These are market segments that since our start in September 2000 have been widely ignored by us,” commented Christopher Costigan, founder and President of Sports911.com. “I’m a firm believer in starting off slowly and meticulously in order to engineer a product […]
March 19, 2005
Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, Sol Kerzner, eat your hearts out. This is what a gambling tycoon of the internet age looks like. Vikrant Bhargava is a 32-year-old electrical engineer from Rajasthan who confesses he has never played a hand of poker in a real casino. Poker, though, may be about to make him a fortune: […]
March 19, 2005
Eric Morris’s popular poker publication Bluff Magazine will be on air this week in a new venture to bring poker news and views to the US airwaves. The poker radio show, Poker Night Radio, has been re-launched as the Bluff Magazine Poker Hour and, every Wednesday at 6PM PT/9PM ET, brings news, insight and interviews […]
March 18, 2005
UK bookmaker Victor Chandler’s online poker site, VC Poker.com has released format and registration details for the 2005 VC Poker Cup. The event will take place in London, UK between 1-5 August 2005 and will be open to 128 players. The buy-in for the event will be GBP 5 000 giving an estimated prize pool […]
March 17, 2005
The “best college player in the USA” was $10 000 richer this week following the finals of World Poker Exchange’s Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico. The champ was Nate Belt from the University of Kentucky. Belt competed against five other regional finalists in a live tournament hosted by “MTV Real World: Las Vegas” star […]
March 16, 2005
Reuters is reporting that online casino 888.com is set to float in the second half of this year for around $1.6 billion (840 million pounds), quoting the venerable Financial Times in an unsourced article. Cassava Enterprises, the owner of 888.com and one of the world’s biggest Internet gambling groups, has apparently hired Credit Suisse First […]
March 15, 2005
The US mainstream media continued to follow the North Dakota attempts to legalise online poker last week, with some prominence given to reports that the US Department of Justice was showing it’s heavy hand. The US mainstream media continued to follow the North Dakota attempts to legalise online poker last week, with some prominence given […]
March 15, 2005
Angelciti’s President, George Gutierrez has announced the achievement of almost a million dollars in rake in the first six months of operations of the companys poker arm, Midas Entertainment, Inc. The press release reveals that Midas has taken in more than $3.5 million in deposits, processed in excess of $45.2 million in bets and earned […]
March 15, 2005
World Poker Exchange (WPE) announced thi week that IFILM Corp., a broadband entertainment destination reaching more than five million people per month will exclusively stream clips and highlights from Worldpx.com’s first annual World Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico from March 12 – 14, 2005. IFILM.com will film the final table of the free national […]