Online poker news

Merge benefits from new sites
04/23/2010 - The Merge Poker Network has benefitted significantly from the migration of Sportsbook.com and Players Only.com (see previous InfoPowa reports), with the independent online poker stats site Pokerscout.com reporting a traffic boost of some 160 percent.

Bodascious Boeree wins EPT San Remo
04/23/2010 - Beauteous Brit poker pro Liv Boeree has bested 1 240 starters in the European Poker Tour San Remo tournament to take home the main prize of Euro 1.25 million, adding to her growing list of achievements in the game.

Dwan on a roll again
04/23/2010 - The news this week that online high stakes poker pro Tom 'durrr' Dwan logged a profit of $1.2 million in a single night's activity on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker.com, again focused attention on the improving fortunes of this young player.

Poker in New York?
04/21/2010 - In New York Assemblyman Joe Lentol - a Democrat representing Williamsburg - has proposed legalising poker, inspired he says by the needs of today’s young gamblers.

The mother of all prop bets?
04/21/2010 - Poker forums like twoplustwo were buzzing this week as members discussed the latest monster prop bet between top poker pros.

We didn´t breach online poker contract, says Harrah´s
04/20/2010 - Last week's news that Everest Poker owner Ultra Internet Media SA has charged the World Series of Poker of breaching a $22.5 million sponsorship contract has been followed by a denial from WSOP owner Harrah's Entertainment.

Are the young guns voting?
04/20/2010 - The World Series of Poker's latest list of player-voted pros for the 2010 Tournament of Champions suggests that younger players are not as active as they should be in the process...and the result is a list of 20 respected candidates that omits some of the exciting younger exponents of the game.

Cardplayer TV launching new show
04/20/2010 - Poker fans will be able to keep up to date on their favourite game and controversial topics associated with it in a new CardPlayerTV show branded "Under the Gun" and hosted by Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg.

Badbeat litigators have no luck in court
04/20/2010 - Two land poker players who took five Los Angeles area casinos to court on bad beat jackpot complaints left empty handed after a judge ruled that state law prohibited them from trying to recover gambling losses in the courts. [More...]

P2P online poker by september
04/20/2010 - The timeline for the introduction of provincial government-sanctioned online poker in British Columbia, Canada appears to have shortened, according to an article in the Times Colonist newspaper over the weekend.

Major poker firm buying up online information sites
04/20/2010 - PokerStars, the world's largest online poker room, has acquired three online poker information sites in Poker Pages.com, Play Winning Poker.com and Poker-Babes.com.

New French moves at Party Gaming
04/19/2010 - Party Gaming has the new week off to a good start with its announcement that it has clinched a second important French b2b deal with an exclusive multi-year agreement to provide a white label online poker service for AB Groupe, one of the country’s leading TV broadcasters.

Washington charity poker raises $70 000
04/17/2010 - Playing poker for a good cause, there was a good turnout of Capitol Hill lawmakers at this week's charity poker tournament in Washington DC organised by the Poker Players Alliance and poker siblings Annie Duke and Howard "The Professor" Lederer.

WPT Hold´em popular on Facebook
04/14/2010 - The World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em poker application on Facebook (see previous InfoPowa reports) is reportedly getting plenty of attention due to its free-to-play format and the possibility of winning prizes.

Licence first, says Cake Poker Network
04/13/2010 - Cake Poker Network's French players are seeking a new home following the network's advisory that it is closed to French players with effect from the end of last week. The ban on French action will affect all Cake network member sites which have French players.

French language for Poker Channel
04/13/2010 - Gaming Media group's The Poker Channel, has announced that it is to launch Poker Channel France, the first dedicated poker channel for French viewers, on 8th June.

Selbst wins Mohegam NAPT
04/12/2010 - Accomplished land and online poker pro Vanessa Selbst (25) defeated a formidable final table over the weekend to win the North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun main event; her biggest win yet at $750 000 after besting 715 entrants in the competition.

Full Tilt furore Downunder
04/11/2010 - Using the now well known .net advertising strategy to get around domestic anti-online gambling laws in Australia, Full Tilt Poker is set to do some productive advertising in the sports market, according to widespread reports in local media.

The big game disappointment
04/10/2010 - After weeks of hyping the possible unmasking of mystery Swedish high stakes player Isildur1, Party Poker's The Big Game has told disappointed fans that one of the major attractions for the tournament starting this weekend will not, after all, be attending.

Merge Gaming set to grow
04/10/2010 - The forthcoming migration this month of PlayersOnly and Sportsbook.com poker players to the Merge Poker Network (see previous InfoPowa reports) is set to dramatically increase player liquidity, boosting player numbers by as much as five times by some estimates.

Ode to Isildur1
04/10/2010 - The hype around Isildur1's hoped-for outing at the upcoming Party Poker show The Big Game heightened over the weekend with the posting of an amusing and very well done Youtube.com presentation titled "I am Isildur1" - view it here (it's well worth the time).

Beast Gaming signs up for white label poker
04/09/2010 - The Alderney-licensed Beast Gaming group has signed up for a white label poker and fantasy sports i-gaming platform from Vancouver-based online gambling software developer Intelimax.com. The deal is the first of its kind for Intelimax, which recently launched its white label service.

Three more online poker sites join Cake Network
04/09/2010 - The Cake Poker Network has signed up three more operators from online casino, sportsbook and poker sites JuicyStakes, BeteXpress and KakuyPoker.

Entraction poker network signs up a new site
04/08/2010 - The Entraction online poker network has signed an agreement with European sports book PlanetWin365, to deliver poker software and access to Entraction's global poker network.

Big names flock to Party Poker´s Big Game
04/08/2010 - The possible unmasking of Swedish high stakes player Isildur1 (see previous InfoPowa report) is just one element that is exciting attention around the Party Poker Big Game, where the action starts next Sunday at the Les Ambassadeurs Club in Mayfair, London and will continue for 48 hectic hours.

Brit takes Irish open title
04/07/2010 - Hope in the Emerald Isle that an Irishman would take the Paddy Power Poker Irish Open title were dashed Monday when British poker pro James Mitchell (20) bested a large field of 708 entrants to carry off the title and the Euro 600 000 main prize.

Poker popular with Czechs
04/07/2010 - The Czech Republic has been at the centre of an Internet and land poker boom over the past year, the newspaper Prague Daily Monitor reported this week, revealing that poker venues have proliferated and the national poker player numbers have surged to around 200 000.

Consorting with the enemy?
04/06/2010 - With the June 1st implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations looming on the horizon, the Poker Players Alliance is reportedly looking for some unusual allies in its bid to exempt online poker from the law, which prohibits financial transactions with 'illegal' online gambling operators and processors.

International poker aces sign up with Pokerstars
04/06/2010 - Two more international online poker aces, one from the United States and one from Ukraine, have signed up to Pokerstars Team Online, the 24 professional player roster that represents the company on and offline.

French online poker site to expand into sports betting
04/06/2010 - The French online poker provider of free poker play, NetBetPoker.fr has strengthened its appeal in the soon-to-liberated French gambling market through a sports betting white label deal with French betting provider France Pari.

Manhattan Grand Jury probe focused on Full Tilt Poker?
04/05/2010 - The American enforcement noose may be about to tighten around the Internet's second largest online poker site, Full Tilt Poker, according to reports over the weekend in the respected Financial Times newspaper in the UK.

Poker Heaven and Poker Channel for sale?
04/04/2010 - The Poker Heaven and Poker Channel interests of UK online gambling company Gaming Media Group could be up for sale, opines the Telegraph newspaper, noting that Management has hired Cavendish Corporate Finance to advise on options for the future.

Everest Poker and WSOP in legal dispute
04/03/2010 - The Las Vegas Sun broke news of a $22.5 million legal tussle between Everest Poker owners Ultra Internet Media and the owners of the World Series of Poker, Las Vegas giant Harrah's Entertainment this week.

French player wins WPT Bucharest
04/03/2010 - A 37-year-old French businessman, Guillaume Darcourt, took the honours in the World Poker Tour Romania tournament in Bucharest over the weekend.

B3W launches online poker and virtual horse racing platforms
04/02/2010 - The B3W software development company has augmented its existing online casino and scratchcard software offering by launching online poker and virtual horseracing platforms to the international market.

Will Isildur1 be identified?
04/01/2010 - This is not an April Fool's Day prank; Party Gaming has managed to recruit the enigmatic Swedish high stakes player Isildur1, famed for winning and losing millions on the Internet tables at Full Tilt, to its live and televised The Big Game IV tournament planned for April 11 to 13 at Les Ambassadeurs club in Mayfair, London.

African charity poker to be sponsored by PPA
03/31/2010 - The Poker Players Alliance, a trade association representing over a million US poker players, will be hosting the next Ante Up for Africa charity tournament, which is to take place at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, D.C. on April 14th.

Betsson to offer Entraction online poker
03/31/2010 - In a major Scandinavian deal this week online poker software and network provider Entraction and Internet gambling group Betsson have agreed to partner up in order to provide Betsson's 290 000 active players with access to Entraction's network. Betsson will offer Entraction's poker alongside its existing Ongame poker offer.

Full Tilt Poker launches new television show
03/31/2010 - Arch Pokerstars rival Full Tilt Poker.com has nnounced a new televsion series for the United Kingdom, dubbed “The Poker Lounge.” The series, which pits an amateur against five Full Tilt Poker pros, will air on Channel 4 in Britain.

Sunday online poker continues to deliver the big money
03/30/2010 - The popularity and reward potential of the routine Sunday online poker tournaments was again illustrated last weekend by some serious winning payouts.