Online poker news

Top poker rooms react on Absolute Poker debacle
11/21/2007 - Despite the paucity of progress reportage from Absolute Poker on investigations into the tournament cheating scandal that has engulfed the company for the past three months, it continues to be the subject of intense player discussion and media coverage.

Large entry field for FTOPS 6 main event
11/19/2007 - The sixth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series charged on over the weekend, with the centre of attraction the Main Event, for which the online poker site had guaranteed a $2 million prize pool.

Canadian poker fest to be sponsored by Mansion
11/17/2007 - The Gibraltar-based online gambling group Mansion has announced that it is the presenting sponsor for the 3rd Annual B.C. Poker Championships, to be held at the River Rock Casino Resort in British Columbia, between November 18 and 25, 2007.

Maestro Poker expelled from iPoker network
11/16/2007 - When online poker provider Playtech recently warned its iPoker network sites against rakeback deals it meant business, it appears. This week the network announced the removal of Maestro Poker "....due to rakeback violations, which are against the iPoker network policy."

3D online poker nears launch at Ladbrokes
11/16/2007 - Online poker players at Ladbrokes will soon experience for themselves the latest in Internet poker technology as the website gears up for the launch of the company's latest 3D virtual reality poker this week

Legal US online poker in 18 months?
11/16/2007 - Speaking at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas today (Thursday) former Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Poker Players' Alliance pressure group, said he expects the legalisation of online poker in the United States within 18 months.

Titanic effort from Titan Poker
11/16/2007 - Playtech-powered Titan Poker will stage a $1 000 000 Guaranteed Prize tournament on December 9 as part of its European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) tournament series, and now guarantees $8 000 000 in monthly online poker tournaments, a company spokesman said this week.

Beevers is GBPT champ
11/15/2007 - The Hendon Mob's Joe Beevers is the winner of the first Great British Poker Tour, which concluded its inaugural season this week at the Bristol Harbourside Gala Casino.

World Poker Final decided
11/15/2007 - Following a closely fought heads up between Nick Schulman and Mike Vela, the latter was declared winner of this year's World Poker Finals, taking the $1 704 986 top prize. Schulman had to be content with second placing and a still-generous $864 652 payday.

Harrah´s surveying European online poker sector
11/15/2007 - Could U.S. land gambling giant Harrah's be an online gambling competitor in Europe soon? It appears to be a possibility according to CEO Gary Loveman who revealed this week that his company is taking a close look at entering the European online poker market, possibly to extend the reach of its global World Series of Poker brand through online satellite tournaments.

Majority oppose US Government position on online poker
11/14/2007 - On the eve of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on online gambling, the Poker Players' Alliance has drawn attention to a recent independent survey which shows that Americans are unhappy with the US government's anti-online gambling stance.

Heats are cool for OnGame
11/14/2007 - Bwin Group subsidiary Ongame Network Ltd, a provider of online gaming platforms, has seen an increase in interest of over 200 percent in the Grand Tournament – the flagship event of the network – following the addition of the innovative feature Heats two months ago.

Mamma Mia online poker room for Microgaming network
11/14/2007 - The Microgaming Poker Network welcomed a new South American online poker site this week with the arrival of the Chilean-based Mamamia Gaming.com operation.

Six figure wins at FTOPS 7
11/13/2007 - With the current edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series of tournaments in full swing, there was big money for the winners this weekend as Event 7 was finalised.

New tournament concept a knockout
11/13/2007 - The more competitors you knock out, the bigger rewards you reap in the latest tournament tactic introduced by Full Tilt Poker.com to keep the action exciting - the Bounty Knockout Tournament.

One for the ladies in Paddy´s online poker tourney
11/12/2007 - Next year's Irish Open week long poker epic will see the introduction of a new event - the Irish Open Ladies - on May 22 2008. The new contest will take the form of a no limit hold'em freezeout with a reasonable buy-in of Euro 300 + Euro 30 that should ensure a good attendance.

US Justice Department to hold online poker hearing
11/10/2007 - Claimed by the Poker Players' Association as a by-product of the organisation's recent Washington Fly-In initiative (see previous InfoPowa reports) the U.S. Department of Justice is to hold a hearing on Internet gaming at 10 00am on November 14, says PPA executive director John Pappas.

More detail emerges on Absolute Poker crisis
11/10/2007 - Followers of the unfolding cheating crisis at Absolute Poker.com will have some absorbing reading over the next few days as Poker News publishes a clearly extensive interview with Nat Arem, one of the main player investigators who uncovered the debacle at the online poker site.

Globet launches online poker with Microgaming
11/10/2007 - Gibraltar based Globet Casino.com has enhanced its online casino operations with the launch of a new poker room on the Microgaming Poker Network.

Absolute Poker cheats took $800k
11/09/2007 - The Kahnawake registered company Tokwiro Enterprises, 100 percent owners of Absolute Poker.com issued a progress report as the week closed on its ongoing investigations into a cheating scandal that has seen the company widely condemned by the player community

FTOPS 6 online poker series starts
11/09/2007 - The power of online poker is showcased today (Friday) with the start of the sixth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, with over $9 million in guaranteed prize pools available and expected to attract the customary large entry fields.

Svenska Spel online poker expansion nixed
11/09/2007 - Swedish news publication The Local.se reports that the Swedish government has turned down a proposal from its gambling monopoly Svenska Spel to provide online poker services to an unidentified European member of the World Lottery Association.

New rakeback site from Celeb Poker
11/08/2007 - Online poker operator CelebPoker intends to make poker rakeback more readily available to all poker players through the launch of its new site RakebackCelebPoker.com. The new poker rakeback site, which goes live today (Thursday), will offer online poker players of all levels exclusive rakeback promotions.

Fulltilt.com for sale
11/08/2007 - A New Jersey product information management company is finding online poker traffic such a hassle that it has put its domain up for sale.

Mansion ups the online poker ante...again
11/08/2007 - Last week the Mansion online gambling group boosted its Grand Tournament prize pool to $300 000 but this week the firm upped the ante again with a further $200 000 injection, lifting the reward even further to a guaranteed total of $500 000 and making the tournament one of the largest online shorthanded tourneys on the planet.

Nordic online casino joins 24hPoker
11/08/2007 - Swedish owned and Malta licensed poker software group 24hPoker has teamed up with Nordic Casino Limited in an agreement that will result in the launch of a new online poker site, KojakPoker.com in the near future.

Clements is new North American poker champ
11/07/2007 - Scott Clements beat a high-powered final table to win the WPT North American Poker Championship title this week, earning Cdn$ 1 387 224 and a $25 500 seat in next year's WPT World Championship scheduled for April, 2008.

Celebpoker goes Swedish
11/07/2007 - Sweden's online poker playing community is the target for CelebPoker.com's latest venture - a new and localised Swedish language site.

Face lift for Pacific Poker software
11/07/2007 - Veteran online poker site and 888.com subsidiary Pacific Poker has widened its appeal with new languages and undergone a major software upgrade.

Thrid quarter revenues dip at WPT
11/07/2007 - The head man at World Poker Tour Enterprises, Steve Lipscomb presided over the release this week of the group's Q3 results, which showed a dip in revenues from television ventures and online operations.

Has Absolute Poker spurned independent audit offer?
11/07/2007 - With no official progress reports yet forthcoming from either Absolute Poker or Kahnawake Gaming Commission on the promised Gaming Associates inspection, the furore caused by tournament cheating allegations continued this week.

Room for expansion in UK online poker market
11/07/2007 - With the continued popularity of the game, one would expect a significant percentage of Internet gamblers to have tried online poker, but a recent survey of 3 822 Internet players of 18 years and over indicates that a surprisingly low 23 percent have tried poker in the last 12 months, leaving room for expansion.

Great British Poker Tour Grand Final this week
11/06/2007 - Gala group's spectacular Great British Poker Tour completes its inaugural season this week with a GBP 500 000 prize pool, four day Grand Final at the Gala Casino Harbourside in Bristol where the 2007 GBP Champion will be decided .

German win in Everest Poker final
11/04/2007 - Ten mainly European-based online poker players gathered this week for a luxury Mediterranean cruise - and some big-win poker - as guests of Gigamedia's Everest Poker website.

American player triumphs at EPT Dublin
11/04/2007 - The big money available at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin Championship, which ended over the weekend after several days of intense poker, attracted a host of top poker names.

Big stakes in televised poker show
11/03/2007 - American viewers will have an opportunity to savour some really high stakes poker action next week when Game Show Network screens its popular television show High Stakes Poker.

PPA increases pressure on two US states
11/03/2007 - Using its political savvy, the Poker Players' Alliance is making sure its voice is heard at a time when state politicians in Massachusetts and Kentucky are most likely to listen - election time.

Upbeat new look for online poker site
11/03/2007 - Players returning to Bodog Poker this week will find a new look that has resulted from testing and player feedback over the past two years.

Betbrokes breaking into online poker?
11/03/2007 - Britain's traditional bonfire and fireworks night - November 5 - will also see the launch at Canary Wharf in London of Betbrokers plc's new online poker offering, which remained shrouded in mystery as we went to press.

Billionth hand at Bodog Poker
11/02/2007 - Bodog Poker is on target to deal its one-billionth hand by the end of November, and to celebrate the milestone, the online poker site is gearing up to offer cash and tournament credits to its players.