Online poker news

Dwan dumps a million
10/31/2009 - Phil Ivey's bad week at the Full Tilt high stakes cash game online tables perked up as the week closed with a profit on Pot Limit Omaha of over a million - mainly at the expense of Tom Dwan, who haemorrhaged over a million through the night.

Mandalay ups its offer for WPT
10/31/2009 - The Mandalay Media last-minute attempt to snatch World Poker Tour Enterprises from earlier bidder and Party Gaming subsidiary Peerless Media (see previous InfoPowa report) continued to excite press attention going into the weekend.

Zynga´s Texas Hold´em a winner
10/29/2009 - Forbes magazine carried an interesting feature this week on the 43-year-old Internet entrepreneur behind some of the social networking scene's most successful applications - Mark Pincus, a man who has made a fortune from giving networkers something to do.

WSOP champ sues Harrah´s
10/29/2009 - 2007 World Series of Poker Ladies Event champ Sally Ann Boyer is sufficiently angry and offended at Harrah's Entertainment and the World Series of Poker Academy to open litigation against the two.

Sahamies a nosebleed millionaire
10/29/2009 - Ilari Sahamies, the intimidating Finnish high stakes cash game poker pro, pretty much swept all before him on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables mid-week, ending his night's work with a profit of $1.1 million.

Durr still ahead in challenge
10/29/2009 - It was only sheer exhaustion that stopped Tom Dwan from continuing to play beyond 2 040 hands in his latest 50 000 hand Challenge match against Patrik Antonius this week. The two called it a night in the wee small hours of the morning, promising to continue later.

Chili online poker rising to new heights
10/29/2009 - Online poker operator ChiliPoker may be only three years old, but its ambitious management has taken it into several major deals. The most recent is a partnership agreement with GO Voyages to become the official partner for its new direct airline service from Paris to Las Vegas, operated by XL Airways, which will literally take off on 23 May 2010.

Hectic 7-game action online
10/28/2009 - The numbers looked like a telephone directory as the big names came out to play Monday night on the online high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker.com.

NY player takes down WPT Festo Al Lago
10/28/2009 - Narrow escapes and determined comebacks characterised the exciting victory of Queens, New York pro poker player Tommy Vedes as he took down the $15 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Festo al Lago tournament this week, taking home $1 218 225 for his efforts.

EPT Warsaw end in triumph for the French
10/26/2009 - French entrepreneur and poker player Christophe Benzimra, who had only two prior live tournament cashes to his name, surprised them all at the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Warsaw in Poland over the weekend, sweeping all before him at the final table.

Merge Poker Network comments on PIC withdrawal
10/25/2009 - A war of words could be shaping up between online poker payment processor Players Investment Company (PIC) and the Merge Poker Network following the ending of a business relationship between the two organisations.

Polish poker final table decided
10/25/2009 - 203 entries from 33 countries have ponied up around Euro 6 000 each for a crack at the over Euro 1 million prizepool on offer at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Warsaw tournament, which this weekend comes to a climax with a very competitive final table.

Trebax poker widget for sportingbet sites
10/25/2009 - The major online gambling and poker operator Sportingbet.com has become the latest company to sign up for the Damn Small Poker widget developed by software provider of acquisition strategies Trebax Innovations to promote its sites, which include Paradise Poker.

Poker player´s lawsuit fails
10/24/2009 - Professional poker player Clonie Gowen's $40 million attempt to sue Full Tilt Poker et al for breach of contract (see previous InfoPowa reports) has been dismissed a second time by a federal judge, although she has one last shot at a resolution.

Bad night for Benyamine
10/23/2009 - Full Tilt Poker's online nosebleed tables created a haemorrhage for high stakes cash game pro David Benyamine mid-week when he lost bigtime, mainly to Gus Hansen and Ilari Sahamies, leaving the virtual 7-Game tables down by $405 000.

A timely Brit ruling
10/23/2009 - In an interesting parallel story to the Kentucky hearings, LexisNexis Butterworths reported on a legal preemptive strike through its domain name registrar but clearly aimed at the state of Kentucky...before a British court!

European action for online poker site
10/22/2009 - Tokwiro Enterprises subsidiary and member of the Cereus online poker network Ultimatebet.com is planning to warm up the competitive atmosphere in Europe with the launch of UltimateBet.de, a dedicated German language information website that will outline the company’s all new series of live poker tournaments destined for Germany and the Czech Republic.

Rugby presence for Pokerstars
10/22/2009 - Those sports-minded marketers at online poker giant PokerStars.com have scored another promotional try by inking an agreement with Britain's Rugby Football Union.

Tough online poker
10/21/2009 - Ulitimate Fighting Championships (UFC), a subsidiary of the martial arts and fight club group Zuffa LLC is offering its many followers the chance to slug it out on the virtual poker tables.

Party Poker introduces bounty tournaments
10/21/2009 - Party Poker.com's latest online poker software update sees the introduction of a new bounty tournament facility this week, the highlight of a product upgrade that also sees the introduction of a ‘remember table layout’ feature and enhanced players notes.

Software update from Full Tilt Poker
10/20/2009 - The latest software upgrade at Full Tilt Poker.com includes a new "Run It Twice" feature which should prove popular, enabling as it does an option where the players can pre-select a facility that allows them to see up to five community cards dealt a second time.

Moroccan Magic
10/20/2009 - The World Poker Tour Marrakech provided a little Moroccan magic - and a Euro 377 262 bank booster - to the relatively unknown French player Christophe Savary over the weekend as he bested a record field of 416 players to win the event.

Good turnout for Boylepoker tourney
10/20/2009 - Fears that the popularity of poker as a tournament game may be waning were put aside this week when Boylepoker reported that its International Poker Open tournament in Dublin, Ireland had attracted an entry field the envy of most countries outside the United States.

Kiwi wins APPT Auckland
10/19/2009 - The honours and the NZ$209 085 cash main prize in the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event stay in New Zealand this time around following the news that Kiwi software developer Simon Watt (26) had bested the best in the final table over the weekend.

Payment processor with a difference severs merge network links
10/18/2009 - The online payments processor with a unique business model, PIC Club, has severed its business relationship with the Merge online poker network for undisclosed reasons.

Down to the wire
10/18/2009 - Three days on from attracting 263 players to its tables, the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event final table has been decided.

Hendon Mob ace wins WPT Marrakech
10/16/2009 - Hendon Mob stalwart Ross Boatman beat out 45 other players this week to win the WPT Marrakech High Roller event, pocketing $135 535 for his time and trouble.

Unabomber wins Party Poker World Open V
10/16/2009 - Facing a talented final table, poker pro Phil 'Unabomber' Laak triumphed in the fifth edition of the Party Poker World Open in London Thursday night. But Laak's last opponent was not one of the big names - Austrian online qualifier Jan Veit was the man he had to beat to win the trophy and the $250 000 main prize.

World Open V poker : Final table set
10/16/2009 - The final table is set at the Party Poker.com World Open V poker spectacular, and it includes some big poker names. The Matchroom Sport organised event has reached its climax after a run that has lasted since Sunday 11 October.

A night of big losers
10/15/2009 - Midweek saw a mass turnout of big name poker players on the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker, but according to the independent poker stats site MarketPulse, few of them escaped unscathed.

Antonius on a roll on internet high stakes tables
10/14/2009 - Finnish poker ace Patrik Antonius may be trailing Tom Dwan in the 50 000 hand Dwan Challenge (see previous InfoPowa reports), but he is running like an express train on the Full Tilt Poker high stakes cash game virtual tables, according to the latest independent reports from MarketPulse.

Fill Tilt Poker comments on litigation
10/13/2009 - The $80 000 lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker.com filed in California recently by two players banned for multi-accounting and robot play (see previous InfoPowa report) has triggered an official statement from the company.

S.C. church in line for a big building boost
10/12/2009 - A South Carolina priest has won first $25 000 and this weekend another $100 000 on the "Pokerstars Million Dollar Challenge," a new poker game show, advancing substantially the church building fund which is his motivation.

20-year-old US player takes the Aruba Classic
10/12/2009 - Poker pro Robert Mizrachi will be a disappointed man this morning following the end of the Ultimatebet 2009 Aruba Classic tournament in the Caribbean; after leading the pack for four days and making the final table holding the chip lead, he had to settle for a chopped second placing with winner Brandon Hall.

Silenced gun used to kill online gambling exec
10/10/2009 - Andreas Oscarsson, the hugely successful 36-year-old who reportedly made a fortune from affiliate marketing and the PokerListings information site in the online poker sector, was possibly murdered by a professional hitman, his father disclosed in a Swedish television interview recently.

Poker Channel expands in French market
10/09/2009 - The Poker Channel, Europe’s largest gaming television network, has announced the signing of a new distribution agreement in France with Neufbox TV, the popular TV service from SFR, the second largest telecoms company in Europe.

More on Ultimatebet hand histories
10/09/2009 - Recently recruited UltimateBet poker pro Joe Sebok, who appears to have become the online poker firm's spokesman regarding the cheating debacle by former consultants last year, has revealed further details on the company's attempts to satisfy disadvantaged players

Million dollar record
10/09/2009 - The virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker Wednesday night were the scene for a new record in online cash game poker as Phil Ivey beat a succession of hardcore Internet pros to end the evening with a record take-home.

New online poker tools
10/08/2009 - Novice poker players intimidated by tales of the need for math prowess to calculate the odds and stay ahead in the game may be interested in yet more poker tools designed for the purpose.

Is Pitbull Poker turning into a banner farm?
10/08/2009 - The Pitbull Poker debacle (see previous InfoPowa reports) took an interesting turn mid-week when players reported that the non-operational online poker website was sporting a formal announcement - something that has hitherto been lacking from alleged owner Kevin Baronowski and his partners.