Online poker news

Danish higher court appeal could be good news for poker
05/16/2008 - A senior Danish court (Landsretten) legal decision that Danish [land] poker clubs be prohibited from running poker tournaments as a contravention of the Danish Criminal Code is to be reviewed by the country's Supreme Court following an appeal by Frederik Hostrup and the Danish Poker Federation, reports Poker News.

Inaugural WPT Canada tourney won by Vancouver player
05/16/2008 - The inaugural WPT Canada Coast to Coast tournament up there at the River Rock Resort in the Great White North drew top poker names prepared to make a pricey main event buy-in investment of $3 000 for a crack at the $845 000 prize-pool, including Gavin Smith who is the current WPT Season IV Player of the Year; Canadian Poker Tour Player of the Year Brad Booth and 2007 Mandalay Bay WPT Champion Shawn Buchanan. Other well respected players included Jody Trainer and Antonio Esfandiari.

Women´s poker mag changes hands
05/16/2008 - Maryann Morrison's "Woman Poker Player" print magazine has been acquired by the Bluff Media group for an undisclosed consideration.

AOL offering free WSOP seats
05/14/2008 - The giant U.S. Internet services group America Online (AOL) announced this week that its Games.com website will award six sponsored seats to this summer's World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas.

Record revenues for Everest Poker parent
05/14/2008 - With more real money players and soaring revenues, the Taiwan firm Gigamedia, which owns the Everest online poker company, delivered good news to investors this week in releasing its Q1 2008 results.

PKR and Jamie Oliver for charity
05/14/2008 - The online poker company PKR.com pitched in to help a children's charity at a London event involving celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and ace footballer Teddy Sheringham this week. The event was in aid of the One to One Children's Fund, involved in child assistance around the world.

Energy drink firm gets into online gambling
05/12/2008 - The Malta and Swedish online gambling provider Entraction (formerly 24hPoker) and Fifty Ventures Ou have partnered to launch MadCrocPoker.com, an online gambling venture that features poker, casino and sportsbook activity under a Malta license. MadCroc is an energy drink available in Europe.

UK players like the look of PKR poker
05/12/2008 - A press release from the 3D online poker firm PKR.com this week boasts that its poker website has come out tops in the Hitwise Gambling (Poker) category, finishing ahead of other major players like Ladbrokes Poker, VC Poker and William Hill Poker in visits from UK players.

New online buy-in record in latest Full Tilt Tourney
05/11/2008 - Online poker website Full Tilt Poker.com has set what is believed to be a new online poker record with its latest tournament offering - a $25 000 buy-in heads up challenge titled $25K Heads-Up World Championship.

Germany´s Jung takes down Party Poker Million VI
05/11/2008 - The cruise liner MSC Poesia proved a pleasant venue this week for the final table of the Party Poker Million VI tournament and its winner, Alexander Jung. The German player beat an initial field of 171 to enter the final nine, and then outplayed them all to take the $358 000 main prize and the beautifully crafted glass trophy.

Canadian clinches Worls Poker Crown win
05/10/2008 - The long trip to Barcelona in Spain to compete in the 888.com World Poker Crown final table was worth it for 21 year old Canadian poker player Jack Hinchey, who took the title and a million dollar main prize.

WSOP largesse from Ladbrokes Poker
05/10/2008 - The online poker division of major British gambling group Ladbrokes has made a significant investment in World Series of Poker special bonuses as an incentive for its sponsored players to achieve high finishing spots in the main event of the poker spectacular organised by Harrah's Entertainment.

Scandinavian online poker deal for Cryptologic
05/09/2008 - Online casino and poker software developer Cryptologic continued its brisk business pace this week with a three year exclusive deal to provide the Scandinavian company OPoker.com with gaming software designed for the Scandinavian market, as well as customer support services, e-cash management and business service support.

3D poker site to launch player magazine
05/09/2008 - The fast-growing 3D online poker firm PKR has hired Dennis Communications, the customer publishing arm of Dennis Publishing, to produce a quarterly print magazine for its players. The first issue of the magazine will be published in June 2008.

Full Tilt Online Poker Series 8 now on
05/08/2008 - The latest version of the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series - number 8 in the series - commenced this week, with WPT champ David Chiu hosting the first event in the 24 contest program that runs through to May 18 and offers large prize-pools, attracting thousands of online poker fans.

WPT Q1 reports net less of $2.8 million
05/07/2008 - The Nasdaq-listed WPT Enterprises, Inc. has released its Q1 2008 results, showing a 10 percent increase in overall revenues over the same period last year, but a $2.8 million net loss for the quarter.

Latin America Poker Tour won by a Duchtman
05/07/2008 - The inaugural Latin American Poker Tour organised by online poker giant Poker Stars.com ended in victory for the nineteen year old Dutch player Julien Nuijten this week. The Hollander prevailed over an entry field of 314 poker fans who travelled to Rio for the event, either stumping up the $2 500 buy-in, or winning entry packages online through Poker Stars satellites.

MTV "Real World" celebs for poker room
05/07/2008 - The tournament designers at popular online poker room DoylesRoom.com are promising interest, possible reward and the novelty of mixing it up with MTV celebrities from 'The Real World' in a forthcoming tournament.

Microgaming Poker Network signs three new licensees
05/06/2008 - The Isle of Man based online gambling software provider, Microgaming has signed three new licensees to the Microgaming Poker Network. JenningsBet.com, Sunderlands.co.uk (sunderlands.eu) and Eurofootball.bg are all expected to go live over the next few weeks, according to a company press release.

Big full Tilt Poker win for poker author
05/06/2008 - Matthew Hilger, poker author, poker publisher, and poker pro, won the Full Tilt Poker $750 000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament over the holiday weekend, pocketing over $132 000 for his first placing. The win topped an rewarding tournament record this year, with 9 entries that yielded 3 top 100's, 2 final tables, and finally the big win.

Bonomo joins Bodog
05/06/2008 - The handle 'ZeeJustin' used by top Internet poker player Justin Bonomo (22), is recognisable to most online poker players and could become more so following his agreement to join the professional player list at online poker site Bodog Poker.

If you play, have a say
05/06/2008 - The World Series of Poker timeframe represents a unique publicity opportunity where world interest is focused on the game of poker, and the one million members strong Poker Players Alliance intends to exploit it.

PPA reminds Sen. Kyl of UIGEA imperfections
05/06/2008 - Las week's report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal (see previous InfoPowa report) that Senator Jon Kyl was growing impatient with the protracted drafting process on regulations to support the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act elicited a tart response this week from the Poker Players Association.

PKR Poker lays on a night of glam, glitz and celebrity in London
05/05/2008 - Jez San's burgeoning PKR.com online poker company scored another marketing coup over the holiday weekend when it laid on a night of glam, glitz and celebrity by hosting an afterparty for the attendees of the Professional Footballer's Association Awards.

NBC national heads up changes
05/04/2008 - A new automatic invitation list to play in one of poker's premier televised tournaments - the NBC National Heads-Up Championship - is was released this week, providing a tourney with increased expert participation and viewer interest.

Marvellous Marty is the PartyPoker Workd Open champ
05/03/2008 - 33-year-old Marty Smyth of Ulster in Ireland scooped $250 000 this week after winning the PartyPoker.com World Open IV in London, truimphing over 72 other entrants in the $8 000 buy-in event that generated a total prize pool of $576 000. The final table line-up was impressive to say the least, and included Neil Channing, recent Manchester GUKPT winner Marc “Mr Cool” Goodwin, Andy “The Spider” Ward, Dixie Dean and Ryan Fronda.

117 day dealy on WSOP main event results?
05/01/2008 - According to reports in the respected US newspaper USA Today this week, poker fans may have to wait almost four months after the championship to see who won the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, and how big the prize was.

Hole in one for Full Tilt Poker
05/01/2008 - Accessing a potentially significant audience of game-oriented golf players, the online poker operator Full Tilt Poker.com has signed up as the title sponsor of the Las Vegas-based sports and entertainment event World Series of Golf, billed as the "most innovative golf tournament format since the Skins Game."

Cheaper buy-ins at Party Poker tourneys
05/01/2008 - In an unprecedented move, the Gibraltar-based online poker website Party Poker.com has slashed the charges for all single-table tournaments over $200 to a super-low flat fee of $10. The move means that online poker fans can save up to $190 on buy-ins for some tournaments.

Chiu the champ
04/29/2008 - Proving that anything is possible in heads-up play, Full Tilt Poker pro David Chiu overcame a more than 5-1 chip deficit to defeat Team Full Tilt's Gus Hansen and capture the World Poker Tour Championship this week.

Naked agression at PartyPoker Workd Open!
04/29/2008 - The Russian poker ace Catgirl may be doing some bare-faced bluffing at the $576 000 televised Party Poker.com World Open competition this week, as five of the world’s top poker players face each other across the felt in an $8 000 buy-in poker challenge with a significant reward.

WSOP fever
04/26/2008 - With the 2008 World Series of Poker only months away, there has been a marked increase in seat sponsorship promotions...and not just at the top independents like Poker Stars and Full Tilt who as usual are offering a slew of WSOP entries as tournament prizes.

California poker bill has a good chance to pass
04/25/2008 - The respected online gambling law expert Professor I. Nelson Rose from the Whittier Law School cautioned this week that the industry should not become too optimistic at the news that the Californian legislature is considering a bill to launch a study of intra-state legalisation of Internet poker

TItan increasing investment in online poker tourneys
04/25/2008 - Online poker visitors to the Playtech-powered Titan Poker.com website will have more and bigger tournaments in the future following the annoucement this week that the company is to up its investment in tournaments to $16 million a month.

Flash online poker for Mac users
04/24/2008 - Littlewoods poker has broken out of the dowload poker software cycle, providing a new Flash-based version for players created by software developer CryptoLogic to the same high levels of security offered by major banks.

Annie to manage Ultimatebet tourney
04/24/2008 - Online poker website UltimateBet.com, viewed by many players with suspicion after the cheating scandal at sister Absolute Poker and allegations against its own operations, could achieve more credibility with the appointment of player ace and activist Annie Duke.

The mother of all heads up?
04/24/2008 - Poker legend Doyle Brunson's challenge that he will play anyone, for any amount at any variety of poker has been taken up by Finnish Internet and land tournament star Patrik Antonius, and negotiations are now in progress on the game to be played and the likely very high stakes involved.

New operational chief for online poker educational site
04/22/2008 - Lee Jones, most recently Executive Host for the European Poker Tour, has left to return to the USA and pastures greener, taking up the Chief Operating Officer position at the poker video instruction website CardRunners.com.

Interactive plans for poker machines
04/22/2008 - The Future Trends in Gaming conference in Queensland, Australia recently gave an interesting glimpse of the way in which poker machines may develop going forward....and the influence of the interactivity and advanced graphics used in online games may be impacting the land sector.

PPA memberships tops a million
04/22/2008 - One of the most active pro-online poker groups in the United States, the Washington DC-based Poker Players Alliance, is expected to show phenomenal growth and influence this week when it announces that membership has passed the one million mark.