Online poker news

HUngarian pro wins LA Poker Classic
03/06/2010 - Andras Koroknai, a professional player from Hungary, is the latest WPT L.A. Poker Classic champion after besting a final table of six players at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles this week.

Last chance saloon for online poker site
03/05/2010 - With little notice and less fanfare, the Chance Room online poker site on GTechG2's IPN network closed its virtual doors this week after a mere 5 months in business.

Paddy Poker negotiating Tiger Woods deal
03/05/2010 - The land and online betting group Paddy Power.com has ambitious sponsorship plans for ace but disgraced international golf champ Tiger Woods - the company has entered negotiations through IMG to sponsor the world's best golfer in a five-year, GBP 5 million deal.

Chile leg of LAPT cancelled
03/05/2010 - Chile, hamered this week by a 8.8 Richter scale earthquake and badly damaged as a consequence, will not be hosting its leg of the Pokerstars Latin American Poker Tour as planned.

Get started faster with Microgaming Poker
03/04/2010 - Microgaming Poker Network has new technology to get players to the virtual tables faster. The company has launched its new 1Click Poker client for the first time at Ladbrokes.

Pokerstars tweaks scoop schedule
03/04/2010 - Pokerstars' 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) schedule has been tweaked following "constructive criticism" from players, according to the company's blog.

Goldbet joins expanding Microgaming Poker Network
03/03/2010 - The Goldbet online gambling group's poker interests have chosen the Microgaming Poker Network to host their action, the network announced this week.

Poker for the troops
03/03/2010 - Celebrities, professional poker pros and politicians will gather in Washington DC tonight (Wednesday) to play in a poker tournament designed to raise funds for the Paralyzed Veterans of America - an organisation devoted to the care of US warriors seriously injured in the service of their country.

Seiver wins hi-roller event
03/03/2010 - Scott Seiver, a 24-year-old poker pro from Cold Harbor, New York, is having a profitable year. Just five days after earning $215 000 for a fourth placing in the Pokerstars NAPT on Feb. 23rd he has triumphed in the $25 000 buy-in LA Classic High Roller competition.

Argentinian ace takes the LAPT
03/02/2010 - Jose 'Nacho' Barbero, a Team PokerStars.net Pro who hails from Argentina, is the new Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este champ after besting a field of 306 players over the weekend.

New online poker network launched
03/01/2010 - Online Poker Network has launched a poker operation integrated onto the Connective Games poker software platform, and designed with small to medium sized poker skins in mind.

Internet poker will not breach Indian agreements
02/28/2010 - The heated debate on the legalisation of online poker in the state of California has been much in the news lately (see previous InfoPowa reports), with substantial focus on the differing opinions of two Indian gambling groups.

Ashman103 takes the high roller honours
02/27/2010 - The 21-year-old fearless nosebleed stakes online player Ashton Griffin took down the $25 000 buy-in Pokerstars North American Poker Tour Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout as the week came to a close, winning a total prize of $560 000 and earning the respect of the 49 other top players in the field.

Victory Poker launched
02/25/2010 - The merged Everleaf Gaming and Universal Poker Networks have a major new member following the glitzy launch this week of Victory Poker.com.

"king of cards" is well named
02/25/2010 - Despite his ambitious nickname, Tom 'kingofcards' Marchese had yet to cash in a big live competition, but he remedied that in style this week as he took down the inaugural main event of the Pokerstars North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas.

Devilfish in B2B deal with German leisure group
02/24/2010 - It seems an ever growing number of online gambling companies are entering into b2b deals in the industry, with the London-listed Devilfish Gaming the latest to ink a contract.

Getting the poop on SCOOP
02/24/2010 - Online poker provider Pokerstars has released details of the next SCOOP (Spring Championship Of Online Poker) tournament, which is scheduled for May 3 and is to run for two weeks with guaranteed prize-pools totaling $36 million.

Big winners in sunday online poker tourneys
02/23/2010 - Last Sunday saw the fourth anniversary of the Pokerstars Sunday Million regular tournaments, and the world's largest Internet poker provider did it in style with a record $4 million guaranteed prize-pool that brought in some 36 169 global poker fans, boosting the prize-pool to $7 233 800 - the largest Sunday Million treasure chest yet.

Swedish ace wins Danish prize
02/23/2010 - It took 22-year-old Anton Wigg of Sweden a tough four hours to beat his final opponent in the heads up of the PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen in Denmark this week, but it was worth the effort....he took home Euro 494 000, a seat in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and the respect of 422 other players who entered the tourney.

Full Tilt under the US microscope?
02/22/2010 - As yet unconfirmed reports circulating on the popular poker message board twoplustwo suggest that FBI agents may be probing the activities of the Full Tilt Poker site, online poker's second largest and global provider of Internet poker.

Good turnout for NAPT Vegas
02/22/2010 - The well planned launch of Pokerstar.net's inaugural North American Poker Tour at the Venetian in Las Vegas got off to a good start with its $5 000 buy-in NLHE tournament over the weekend, with 872 players registering, many of them well known names in international poker.

Cheeky online poker recruiting
02/21/2010 - Whilst it is true that the Australian government has not been exactly ferocious in enforced its laws against online gambling, the fact remains that the Interactive Gaming Act 2001 does make it an offence for any company in Australia or overseas to provide online casino games to any person who is ''physically present in Australia''.

Massachusetts and poker...again
02/20/2010 - Last year’s attempts to bring the legalisation of poker on to the ballot in Massachusetts may have failed (see previous InfoPowa report) but fans of the game have not given up on lobbying for a more sensible classification of poker as a game of skill.

Pokerstars deals its 40 billionth hand
02/20/2010 - Last week’s speculation on when Pokerstars.com would deliver its forty billionth hand of online poker (see previous InfoPowa report) was answered this week when the milestone event took place on the table Naef III.

Betfair backs Amateur Poker
02/20/2010 - The giant UK-based online betting exchange group Betfair is to sponsor the fourth season of the Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT), it announced this week.

Isildur slows down
02/20/2010 - There was speculation on the rapidly diminishing bankroll of Swedish high stakes online poker ace Isildur1 this week following a massive almost $900 000 downswing in his fortunes

Vive la Benyamine!
02/19/2010 - 37-year-old online and live poker professional David Benyamine has taken down Party Poker's Premier League IV title at the M Resort in Las Vegas.

The ups and downs of Isildur1
02/19/2010 - Just when it looked as if the unidentified Swedish high stakes online poker ace Isildur1 was recovering this week (see previous InfoPowa reports), he suffered a serious reversal of fortunes on the Full Tilt virtual tables Wednesday.

Party Poker Premier League IV final table underway
02/19/2010 - The final table is set for Party Poker's Premier League IV, after Daniel Negreanu saw off JC Tran, while Roland De Wolfe secured a final table berth after winning a titanic tussle with Team Party’s Ian Frazer in heads up matches.

Poker still has pull
02/18/2010 - The Digital Journal reports that National A1 Advertising has sold the domain name Poker.org for $1 million to Pokercompany.com, in what is believed to be the highest value sale yet of a .org domain.

More concerns over poker network payouts
02/18/2010 - Previous reports that the Merge Poker Network is somewhat dilatory with player payouts appeared to be confirmed this week when Mike Eloff, chief executive of Poker Nordica.com, publicly voiced his concerns regarding the network.

Isildur1´s revenge
02/18/2010 - The still unidentified Swedish high stakes online poker player with the ninja avatar, Isildur1, continued his winning run Tuesday, again appearing on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables to take on the Internet's best pros.

New online poker championship
02/18/2010 - Online poker giant Party Poker.com has announced a new online poker championship event with a top prize of $250 000 scheduled for launch in March this (2010) year.

Isildur1 making money again
02/17/2010 - After several desultory appearances since the beginning of this (February) month (see previous InfoPowa reports) the high risk, exciting player Isildur1 was back to winning large amounts this week on the Full Tilt high stakes online poker tables.

Latest Dwan challenge session was short and sharp
02/16/2010 - Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius confronted one another again in a short but sharp clash of 79 hands lasting 16 minutes over the weekend, bringing total hands completed in the 50 000 hand Challenge to 32 874, or 66 percent of the total. It is believed to have been the shortest session yet in the Challenge.

Poker still tops
02/13/2010 - The fifteenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Series of Poker (FTOPS) started Wednesday night with the first event sending a clear signal that online poker has lost none of its popularity.

More Forbes coverage for online poker
02/13/2010 - Forbes magazine has followed its article on Pokerstars earlier this week with a wider look at online poker, particularly in the United States.

The return of Isildur1
02/13/2010 - Followers of the high stakes poker action on the virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker report the return of phenom Isildur1 - the player who risked millions in super-aggressive play that swung from win to lose and back to win....only to end up overall in the red for the Swedish mystery player (see previous InfoPowa reports).

Has Clonies litigation run its course?
02/13/2010 - The litigation launched by Clonie Gowen against Full Tilt Poker and a range of other defendants (see previous InfoPowa reports) appears to have run its course with a third adverse judgement for the poker pro.

Pokerstars still tops the popularity list
02/11/2010 - The latest weekly statistics from the independent online poker statistical aggregator Pokerscout.com show that Pokerstars still dominates the sector with a daily average of 32 600 cash games players, pursued at some distance by its old rival Full Tilt Poker with comparative player numbers of 16 600.