Online poker news

More poker action for Microgaming-888 French network
07/27/2010 - 888.com?s b2b division Dragonfish reports that it has signed agreements with ad Astra and Full Fun to join the joint liquidity poker network recently established in France with Microgaming.

PPA speaks at internet freedom seminar
07/25/2010 - Pro poker player Andy Bloch used skills learned during his education at Harvard Law School to put forward the case for legalised online poker at an Internet freedom seminar in Las Vegas this week.

100 new features in 888 poker software upgrade
07/24/2010 - The in-house development team at 888.com has been busy of late on a major software upgrade for the group?s internet poker offering.

Pokerstars is Bulgaria bound
07/24/2010 - Pokerstars online poker players are currently competing in internet satellites designed to send winners to a new live tournament on the company?s schedule ? Bulgaria.

Americans want legalised online poker
07/24/2010 - Writing in an op-ed article in the Washington DC publication Politico this week, the chairman of the Poker Players Alliance, former Senator Alphonse D'Amato reminded US lawmakers that large numbers of American poker fans have repeatedly demanded that internet poker be legalised and regulated.

French online poker stats now on Pokerscout
07/23/2010 - The respected independent statistical monitoring site for online poker, Pokerscout.com, has added French action to its purview following the recent implementation of that country's new liberalised online gambling laws.

Million Dollar Cash Game sponsored for another 3 years
07/22/2010 - Emblaze Productions has signed up online poker operator Full Tilt Poker for another three years of sponsorship on its Million Dollar Cash Game, taking the two companies? association with the event into a seventh year.

From Dragonfish to Pokerstars
07/20/2010 - The wide speculation on what persuaded industry executive Gabi Campos to leave 888.com's b2b subsidiary Dragonfish, and where he would be going, has been brought to an end by the news that he will take up the reins of Pokerstars as chief executive officer in October this year.

French iPoker Network launched by Playtech
07/20/2010 - Online gambling software developer Playtech plc has launched a new, dedicated French online poker network in partnership with Chilipoker, JOA, Tranchant and Casino du Golfe.

Energy drink "All In" to form poker pro team
07/19/2010 - The branded energy drink ?All In?, a subsidiary of the Nevada-based Kore Nutrition Inc group, has announced the formation of a mainly US-based professional poker team dubbed Team All In.

European online poker battle coming soon
07/19/2010 - Global Gaming Interactive?s new PokerBattle.com website is expected to launch by the end of this (2010) year, and will offer European players standard poker games and real-money gaming, according to a statement from the company.

18 hours of battle to reach final table (Update)
07/18/2010 - When InfoPowa left Day 8 of the main event at the World Series of Poker in the early hours of Sunday morning the remaining 10 players were playing to see who would be axed in tenth position to decide the final table - the November Nine as it has come to be called.

One more to go before final table (Update)
07/18/2010 - Just before midnight Vegas time Saturday night the 41st World Series of Poker main event was down to the wire as InfoPowa went press. Only ten players remained, playing in the knowledge that a place at the final table of nine and a crack at the really big money was in the balance.

Only 27 left at WSOP main event (Update)
07/17/2010 - Four Day 1 flights, two Day 2 heats and then 5 days of hectic poker action, in which progressively smaller fields of survivors have battled in out for major prize money, have reached the stage where a final table in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event is in sight.

Johnny Chan in the 205 left at WSOP event (Update)
07/16/2010 - It?s been eight tough days since the 2010 World Series of Poker main event started with 7,319 hopefuls ponying up $10,000 apiece to be part of the action, but as Day 5 chips were bagged Wednesday night only 205 players could look forward to another day of play when the competition reconvenes Thursday afternoon.

2,559 survivors start day 3 (Update)
07/13/2010 - After a day off Sunday, the survivors of the preliminary six flights of the $10 000 buy-in Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker came together Monday afternoon, the combined Day 2a and 2b field for the first time joining together to compete in Day 3.

PokerTime intigrates PokerLab
07/13/2010 - Online poker operator Poker Time.com has enhanced its members’ chances of winning by making the poker tracking and analysis software MyPokerLab available on-site.

Day 2a field at WSOP concludes at 1359 players
07/10/2010 - The $10,000 buy-in main event preliminary heats at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas continued to steadily whittle down the Day 1 entry fields Friday afternoon as the first of the Day 2 heats started out.

Chinese cheating reported at Pokerstars
07/10/2010 - Discussions on the popular poker message board 2plus2 reveal that a large scale collusion ring involving several dozen Chinese players, who profited by as much as $750 000 on the PokerStars.com website, has been uncovered.

A good year for WSOP... and for poker
07/10/2010 - Sign-ups for the 56 preliminary events in the current 41st World Series of Poker have significantly outstripped those over the past two years, with the registrations of 65,647 entrants this year so far (the Main Event numbers are yet to be added) easily eclipsing last year's 53,508 at the same point by some 22 percent.

First day ends with 819 survivors (Update)
07/06/2010 - Monday afternoon saw the start of the first heat of the 41st World Series of Poker Main Event kick off as 1,125 entrants for Day 1a action assembled at the Rio in Las Vegas.

20 percent more registrations at WSOP (Update)
07/06/2010 - Official statistics from the 41st World Series of Poker currently running at the Rio in Las Vegas indicate that through the first 56 events, there have been 65,647 entries, surpassing last year’s total entries including the main event of 60,875. And this year’s main event registration numbers have yet to be recorded!

Latest from WSOP (Update)
07/06/2010 - Weekend action in the 41st World Series of Poker spilled over into the early hours of Monday morning, with two events reaching a final table, popular pro Daniel Alaei winning his third WSOP bracelet and Huck Seed receiving the accolades as the best of 27 top names in the Tournament of Champions.

Poker - skill vs luck in court again
07/06/2010 - Four years ago the police in the South Carolina town of Mount Pleasant busted a group of residents playing poker in a private home. Whilst many of those arrested took the easy way out and pleaded guilty, five took exception to the raid and hired lawyers to defend them in court, claiming that poker did not fall within the definition of illegal gambling because it was a game in which skill predominated, not chance.

Still three WSOP events to be completed (Update)
07/05/2010 - Most Americans were celebrating Independence Day on Sunday with feasting and relaxation, but in Las Vegas players in the last three preliminary events were still fighting on the felt for big money prizes and the last three winner bracelets before the main event kicks off Monday.

Young online players make impact at WSOP (Update)
07/04/2010 - With the 41st World Series of Poker headed into the widely publicised main event next week, the newspaper USA Today carried an interesting weekend perspective on the rising influence of young guns on international poker.

Dawn out as Taylor, Charity and Kelly win (Update)
07/04/2010 - There will be some relieved members of poker's elite set who made bets that Tom Dwan would not win a bracelet in this year's WSOP; his best chance (barring success in the main event) crashed in flames in event 55 Saturday as he headed for the rail in 17th place for a $31,288 paycheck, but no bracelet. It was the latest of several attempts in a slew of events entered by the high stakes internet phenom that came to cashes….but no cigar.

WSOP main event is near (Update)
07/04/2010 - Monday will see the start of the $10 000 buy-in Main Event of the 41st World Series of Poker, so it's perhaps a good time to refresh memories on what the main event is all about.

WSOP gold oppertunities are running out (Update)
07/04/2010 - Friday saw the start of the fifty-sixth event in this year’s 41st World Series of Poker, and with it fewer opportunities to win gold bracelets and tempting prizes, as only the Main Event now remains on the starter grid.

Linn, Kornuth and Welch awarded bracelets at WSOP (Update)
07/02/2010 - Three more gold bracelet have been awarded to players at the 41st World Series of Poker over the past twenty-four hours as the world’s biggest poker spectacular closes in on the much-anticipated Main Event 57.

Poker laws relaxed in Florida
07/02/2010 - In Florida, a new law effective on July 1st eased buy-in restrictions for no-limit poker games in card rooms and extended playing hours.

Most of the money still gone but robbers go to jail (Update)
07/02/2010 - A German criminal court sent four men aged under 21 to jail Thursday for perpetrating a daylight raid on a million-euro poker tournament in Berlin earlier this year (see previous InfoPowa reports).

WSOP event 47 final table (Update)
06/30/2010 - Hopes that Scott Montgomery might achieve a second bracelet at this year’s World Series of Poker are diminishing following his bust out of event 47, one of the popular $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em competitions, which reached a final table Tuesday night after three tough days.

Bracelets for Rockowitz, Bell and Eskeland (Update)
06/29/2010 - With the World Series of Poker going into its 32nd day in Las Vegas, three more players claimed gold by winning their events.

PPA plan huge money drive in July
06/29/2010 - Building on the momentum of the past year, the Poker Players Alliance announced this week that it will drop a fundraising "money bomb" on July 1st in order to raise additional funds leading up to a crucial vote this summer on legislation to license and regulate online poker.

Online Poker hackers busted in South Korea
06/28/2010 - Police in South Korea have revealed that they have arrested 33 hackers who used a malware program to cheat online poker players out of 55 million won ($45,265) from last November through May, the publication Joongang reports.

World Series of Poker Update
06/28/2010 - The poker action continued on several events at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas over the weekend, and the much anticipated Tournament of Champions kicked off.

Has Unabomber's Guiness Book of Records entry been beaten?
06/26/2010 - Message board scuttlebutt and claims on the Cake Poker blog as the week ended suggest that the two-week-old, 115 hour endurance record for playing poker set by Phil ‘Unabomber’ Laak in Las Vegas may have been eclipsed.

Pokerstars restrict French players on main site
06/26/2010 - The world’s largest online poker provider, Pokerstars.com may be prepared to tangle with the confused US legal system, but when it comes to French players the operator is playing it strictly by the book.

Steve Jelinek wins event 41 for 5th British bracelet (Update)
06/26/2010 - British players continue to do well in World Series of Poker, with Steve Jelinek claiming a fifth gold bracelet for the Brits in event 41 of the 41st WSOP.