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Party Poker Launches Double Hold'em Poker

Party Poker Launches Double Hold'em Poker
Oct 12, 2010 by Susan Arnold
Category: Poker Sites

Party Poker officially announced the launch of Double Hold’em, a new poker variant offered exclusively on their site. Though the game has been live on Party Poker for several weeks, it was only today that the site announced the game’s availability for both play mon...

First Real Money Online Poker Site Launches for iPad

First Real Money Online Poker Site Launches for iPad
Oct 8, 2010 by Susan Arnold
Category: Poker Sites

With the popularity of Apple’s mobile products, it was only a matter of time before someone made a real money online poker site that was playable on their products. That eventuality finally became a reality today, as Switchpoker.com opened for business and allowed users ...

Prizes Awarded for PokerStars' 50 Billionth Hand

Prizes Awarded for PokerStars' 50 Billionth Hand
Sep 23, 2010 by Susan Arnold
Category: Poker Sites
PokerStars dealt their 50 billionth hand Wednesday, earning one lucky player over $50,000 in cash and prizes. The hand was played at 10:35 am on Wednesday, at a .02/.05 No Limit Hold’em 6-max table. Anticipation built in the hours leading up to the fateful hand. A...

Jason Mercier Wins WCOOP Event #42

Jason Mercier Wins WCOOP Event #42
Sep 21, 2010 by Jason Mercier Wins WCOOP Event #42
Category: Poker Sites
Jason Mercier blew through a high profile final table at the 42nd event in the World Championship of Online Poker, adding a WCOOP title to his ever growing resume of tournament victories. Mercier won $435,862 for taking first place in the $1,050 buy-in event. Event ...

Texas Woman Hits UB Bad Beat Jackpot

Texas Woman Hits UB Bad Beat Jackpot
Sep 9, 2010 by Michael Mancini
Category: Poker Sites
They say that everything is bigger in Texas – apparently, this even applies to bad beat jackpots. A sixty-year-old woman from Ferris, Texas won over $218,000 this week as her quad nines were cracked at one of Ultimate Bet’s Bad Beat Jackpot tables. The woman, ...

PokerStars Believes They Comply with US Law

PokerStars Believes They Comply with US Law
Aug 1, 2010 by Steven Lock
Category: Poker Sites

PokerStars responded to questions regarding the legality of their operations in the United States this week, stating that to the best of their knowledge, they have behaved lawfully in the US market. These issues came to the forefront as a provision was added to legislation wor...

PokerStars Launches Women's Poker League

PokerStars Launches Women's Poker League
Jul 30, 2010 by Susan Arnold
Category: Poker Sites
PokerStars has announced the launch of the PokerStars Women’s Poker League, a tournament series designed specifically for their female players. In the Women’s Poker League, women will be able to play against players in daily tournaments with buy-ins as low as $...

Security Issues Uncovered at Cake Poker

Security Issues Uncovered at Cake Poker
Jul 26, 2010 by Michael Mancini
Category: Poker Sites

The security team at Poker Table Ratings released a report today detailing security concerns throughout the Cake Poker Network. The concern was over a “serious vulnerability in the network encoding for the Cake Network” that could result in various types of informa...

Cake Poker Adds Five Rooms to Network

Cake Poker Adds Five Rooms to Network
Jul 22, 2010 by Michael Mancini
Category: Poker Sites

Cake Poker recently announced the addition of five new sites to the Cake Poker Network. The new network partners include Broadway Tables, Come On, PokerXRC, Unleashed Poker, and WingsPoker. Each site will act as a skin for Cake Poker, allowing players from each site to play ag...

PokerStars Closes Ten Bot Accounts

PokerStars Closes Ten Bot Accounts
Jul 20, 2010 by Susan Arnold
Category: Poker Sites

PokerStars has frozen 10 player accounts on their site after investigations revealed that the accounts were almost certainly poker bots. The automated poker playing programs were playing nearly identically to one another, both in terms of statistical analysis and in the way th...

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