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Students Create Smart Poker Table

Nov 30, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There has been a recent problem with cheating with online poker tournaments and online casinos, there is now reports of four college students from Purdue University in Indiana that have created a poker table that is cheat proof.


While this will not help with online ga...


Sweden Takes All At Everest Poker

Nov 30, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
In the recent $100,000 guaranteed poker tournament at Everest Poker as usual was action packed. In this tournament the winner was a Swedish poker player that has the user name xRaySpex who took the winners seat and left the table with $20,000. The $10...

Casino Software Company Has Disappointing Revenues

Nov 30, 2007 by Donna Norman
Category: Online Casino
Online casino software development company, Parlay Entertainment, has revealed it's 2007 3rd-quarter results. Income, revenues and royalties are all down from last year's figures. Based in Ontario, Canada, Parlay Entertainment displayed a total revenue of $5.9...

Victor Chandler Redesigning Sportsbet Site

Nov 30, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
Category: Online Casino

Victor Chandler has now partnered with the digital communications company Reading Room to help the online gambling group redesign its sportsbetting site.

 

The goal is for Reading Room to finish the makeover on the main Victor Chandler site in time to re-la...

Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club Opening a Great Success

Nov 29, 2007 by Sadonna Price
The long awaited opening of the poker club Dusk Till Dawn finally took place on November 28th. The club invited over 200 people to join in the opening festivities and many professional players attended. The night kicked off with a speech at 8 P.M. with Rob Yong, the MD of Dusk...

Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic Winner

Nov 29, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic has begun and the winner for the first event has been announced. The tournament opened with a $1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em event and while two well-known poker players, Michael Binger and Dutch Boyd were entrants in th...

Annie Duke Testifies For Online Poker

Nov 29, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Professional poker player Annie Duke testified at a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA is a bill passed back in October of 2006 that questions the morality of online gambling and prohibit...

Power Play Software To Introduce Cupid 2.0 System

Nov 29, 2007 by Donna Norman
The Power Play Development Corporation is the parent company of the Internet's largest online poker community, National League of Poker (NLOP), and developer of the online poker communities PowerPlay software platform. CEO Michael Clebnik will be making a presentation at t...

More Online Casino Cheating Reports

Nov 29, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There are reports that there has been more online poker cheating going on and this time it has resulted in the suspension of the person in question, this also resulted in his losing not one, but two tournament wins.

Close to one month ago the winner of the Full Til...



Absolute Pokers One Billionth Hand Coming Soon

Nov 29, 2007 by Steve Vaughan

The one billionth hand dealt at Absolute Poker is getting closer by the day.  Though the online poker room is not certain when exactly the historic hand will be dealt, it has announced that it expects it to be between November 30th and December 1st.

 

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I-Play Launches Mobile Poker Game: Negreanu Poker Pro

Nov 29, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
Category: Poker Games

The mobile entertainment company I-play announced today the world wide launch of Negreanu Poker Pro.  This is the second poker game released that is made for mobile.  Earlier this year they launched their first mobile game, Win at Texas Holdem.

 

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Where does Online Gambling Stand

Nov 28, 2007 by Tina Smith
The final seat in the $1 million event in the Tournament Titan is coming to a close. If you want to join in on the action, you had better put a rush on it. The massive freeroll at Titan Poker will be featuring a $1 million prize pool, with a large $200k first...

U.S. tells Harrah's No

Nov 28, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Harrah's Entertainment plans to purchase up to 28 percent of the online gaming group Rank, which would have givem them a significant ownership into the company, in return for Harrah's casino holdings in the UK, seems to have been rejected, according to British tabloid,...

YouTube Being New Poker Tool

Nov 28, 2007 by Tina Smith
When the game of poker very first moved into the world of the Internet sites, a lot of people were taken by surprise. Then it wasn't long before many players was able to find all several different types of online gaming sites they could enjoy, where they could play any gam...

Global Player Sees The End

Nov 28, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
An announcement has been made that one of the longest lasting Internet casinos will be closing their doors to their online poker room on November 30th; this casino is Global Poker Room.

According to Giancarlo Bettini the CEO of Universal Gaming Concepts Inc. who stated ...

Poker Stars Winner Is Driving Away From the Table

Nov 28, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There is one Poker Stars player that is leaving the table driving, this is the poker player who uses the online name DDBeast a twenty one year old from the United States.

DDBeast traded three million Frequent Player Points from playing online poker at Poker Stars and us...

The Danish Have Freddy Blak To Fight For Online Gambling

Nov 28, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
While the United States has Rep. Barney Frank fighting to regulate and license online gambling including online poker by fighting to change the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the Danish have Freddy Blak.

This Danish citizen was a Member of Danish Parliamen...

The CEO of PartyGaming Not Selling Shares

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry

The CEO of PartyGaming, which is an online gaming group of London, is showing great confidence in the company. The CEO has reversed his previous plans he had of selling some of his existing stock in the company and taking options for 3.5 million shares.

 

M...

Legal Issue Ongoing with Bodog Domain

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
A key motion in the Washington state court was filed on November 13 by Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A., claiming that 1st Technology, seized several of their domain names and related trademarks.


"This is a new legal issue triggered by the emergence of Internet techno...


Bulgaria Proposals Submitted to Regulate Online Gambling

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance submitted proposals last week, which would help with the regulation and taxing of online poker, IGaming Business reports. They assuredly wouldn't want to be left out of a potential great source for tax revenue. The regulations that were ...

Daniel Idema wins B.C. Poker Championship

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
Even though the numbers for the B.C. Poker Championships held at the River Rock Casino were a little lower than last years, some top poker players still cashed in big this year. Daniel Idema, of Tsawwassen, British Columbia won the main event, bringing in a $403,500 payday...

Everest Poker 100k Tournament Won by Swede

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
This past Sunday, the Sweden player xRaySpex was the happy winner to take home the first place win and the large sum of $20,000 first prize pot.


Everest Poker just keeps on attracting large numbers of poker players from all over the world with the 100k guaranteed tour...


Five Diamond Poker Classic to begin December 12

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
Doyle Brunson will be lending his name in kicking off the main event of the festivities beginning today with the Sixth Annual Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The preliminary events to be starting in Las Vegas. Super satellites along with No-Limit Hold'em ev...

New EUR 100,000 Power Poker Game at Wild Jack Online Casino

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino
One well known name that plans to start off this Holiday Season with a new video poker game that offers players high payouts, as high as EUR 100,000, is Wild Jack Casino. They are a member of the Jackpot Factor Group as well as being one of the top known in the world for being...

Where does Online Gambling Stand

Nov 27, 2007 by Tina Smith
One of the hot topics in this months Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, was the state of online gaming legislation in the United States.


The Safe Port Act was passed by Congress last October, was to improve port security, but attached to that act also was the Unlawful...


Gambling Cost on the Rise in UK

Nov 26, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

Within the next year the expected rise in the sots of gambling will rise approximately fifty percent being the largest rise since the year 1960 in the UK.  And has been driven up by the changes in the laws, the abolition of betting duty along with online poker and o...

CD Poker Medals Race Coming To The End

Nov 26, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The Medal Race began on October 12th and is set to end on November 30th and the poker players who have been involved in this type of poker tournaments have until November 30th to collect medals in order to with this poker game for every #1 raked the poker player receives t...

Piggs Peak Casino Winner

Nov 26, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
In the recent All Africa Poker Tournament that was held at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland there emerged a twenty-four year old winner who not only left the table with the million grand prize, this prize also included a $10,000 seat to the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Bodog Pokers 1 Billionth HAnd

Nov 26, 2007 by Tina Smith

For some time at Bodog Poker they have been awarding certain poker players and the table that they are seated for being the number that was a landmark leading up to the one-billionth hand dealt at Bodog Pokers online poker site. Bodog Poker had picked these numbers that w...

Brunson makes History with win at High Stakes Poker

Nov 26, 2007 by Tina Smith
Grabbing a record win in the latest episode of the popular TV show High Stakes Poker, is "The Godfather of Poker" Doyle Brunson. The winner for the 800k pot was a show-down between Doyle Brunson and Cirque du Soleil billionaire Guy Laliberté.


Doyle Brunso...


Canbet Changes to Microgaming Casino Software

Nov 26, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino
After switching to the Microgaming Poker Network earlier this year, Canbet is now using turnkey providers casino software, Microgaming announced.


Using the new platform, players on Canbet can take advantage of more than 350 state of the art graphic games which include som...


EU Trade Commissioner Gets Applauds from Online Gaming Operators

Nov 26, 2007 by Tina Smith
Efforts made by Peter Mandelson, the European Union Trade Commissioner, in addressing the United States unpopular online gambling trade practices, got approval from the European gaming industry.


During his time in Washington, Mandelson used the opportunity to lobby for co...


Million Dollar Tournament

Nov 25, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Many of the online tournaments have large prize pools for their poker players online, however this million-dollar tournament is at the land-based casino Coushatta Casino and Resort in Louisiana and the prize pool for the Seven Clans Poker Cup Series in the Main Event.

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No Visa For Jerry Yang

Nov 25, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Jerry Yang who was a winner at the 2007 World Series Of Poker was expected to return after being absent for some time was a no show at the Asian Pacific Poker Tournament.

  

According to reports yang had problems with his Visa as a resident of the United...

Macau 's Asian Pacific Poker Tour Stop Big Success

Nov 25, 2007 by Sanfy Kitchen
The Asian Pacific Poker Tour Macau proved to be an enormous success this past weekend, being the first poker tournament ever to be held in the republic of China.


Many have thought the Asian market would do well for online casino operators, after the changes with the Unlaw...


Bad Beat Has Six Figure Jackpot

Nov 25, 2007 by Sanfy Kitchen
There has been new in the recent past about the bad beat poker games and these games are being held at Absolute Poker and now the jackpot has grown to six figures for the bad beat poker game. With this game bad beat poker is one poker game that poker players don'...

Poker Stars Nabs A New Pro

Nov 25, 2007 by Tina Smith
There are reports that there is a new member of the Poker Stars and while some may know him by the name Boom Boom there are also those who call him baron Von Slam but for those that only know this poker pro by this poker playing record his name is Boris Becker. Now that he...

Nevada Legislature Unsettled About Online Gaming Laws

Nov 25, 2007 by Tina Smith
Numerous discussions as well as several meetings have taken place in Washington, regarding where the state of Nevada stands, in regards to online gaming. Other online gaming operators as well as land based operators are keeping a close eye on Washington and their decision, whi...

Playtech Partners with Anonymous Asian Licensee

Nov 25, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino
For those who watch closely, you're sure to have noticed that stocks have went up by four percent for Playtech, one of the leading and popular online software developers, after they made the announced that they will be entering into a partnership with another Asia gaming l...

Weeks Poker Tournament Results

Nov 25, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
This Sunday saw the Poker Stars Sunday Million, the Full Tilt $750,000 guarantee prize pool and the recently concluded Full Tilt Online Poker Series. The Poker Stars Sunday Million was $500 + $30 buy-in for the 2,704 entrants to the poker tournament and on...

First Tournament of Asian Pacific Poker

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The first tournament of the Asian Pacific Poker Tournament has started and the game was No-Limit Hold'em at the tournament that is taking place in Macau. This will be the first major event of the Asian Pacific Poker Tournament and it has been anticipated for some time b...

Playtech Signs Deal in Asian Market

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
Many online operators have for some time been watching the Asian market as the next target to increase their online players and Playtech has now signed a three year deal according to reports.

 

This deal that Playtech has negotiated is to provide online poker...

UK Officials Battle Manchester Casino

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
The Manchester City Council has asked for and been given approval to build a Las Vegas style casino in Manchester, this would create thousands of jobs in the area, bolster the local economy with millions of pounds that private residents would be spending.

 

How...

UK Player Wins Freeroll To Aussie Millions

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

Pacific Poker has been holding qualifiers and satellites to win a seat to the 2008 Aussie Millions. These poker players who have participated in these tournaments also played in the freerolls to work their way up to the tournament with the prize package that includes a se...

Update On Absolute Poker Investigation

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There has been an update on the investigation into Absolute Poker this week by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission who issued Absolute Poker's license. The investigation began after cheating was discovered and those investigating will soon be finished and turn over their f...

Irish Open 2008 Schedule Announced

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The full schedule has been announce for the 2008 Irish Open by Paddy Power Poker and included in the 2008 Irish Open there is set to be a ladies event for the first time in this series of tournaments.

 

The head of poker at Paddy Power Poker, Nikki Newman has...

Land Based Poker Online

Nov 24, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
In a partnership between the land based Admiral Tavern in the UK and Victor Chandler who is a Gibraltar based online betting group have launched a pub poker online site. This online poker pub site was developed exclusively for patrons of the seven hundred Admiral Taverns a...

Cristiano Blanco wins a seat at WPS

Nov 23, 2007 by Tina Smith
Cristiano Blanco is one of the five Titan Poker players to win a seat in one of their major live events over the past couple of weeks. Blanco, the happy winner to be taking the win of a $7,000 seat to the World Poker Showdown in the Bahamas, (WPS).


Most recently with ...


Hellmuth Helping with Charity Events

Nov 23, 2007 by Tina Smith
Many players may very well be surprised to find that Phil Hellmuth is scheduled to help with two charity tournaments in December. Hellmuth, generally known for putting down bad players and his huge ego.


The first being the Beauty and the Bet charity poker tournament, whic...


Higher Age Limit Possibly in the Future for Macau

Nov 23, 2007 by Tina Smith
In a recent announcement made by Macau's chief executive, Edmund Ho Hau-wah, revealed his plans of changing the legal minimum age for gamers to enter casinos from the current 18 years old, to 21.

An open question session was held last week with legislators, and they ...


Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, a Huge Success

Nov 23, 2007 by Tina Smith
Distributing 40,000 copies, the Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, has become the biggest magazine publication for poker in Scandinavia. This new magazine brings its readers strictly Internet poker information.


TheOnline Poker Pro Scandinavia is being distributed to all four S...


Visa Issues put a Hold on Yang Appearing in Macau

Nov 23, 2007 by Tina Smith
The very well known 2007 World Series of Poker Champion, Jerry Yang has failed to appear for his greatly anticipated game in the APPT Macau. This well known world poker champion was turned down by officials for his flight to Hong Kong because of having some visa issues, as sta...

Caribbean Qualifiers Set to Begin

Nov 23, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Poker Stars is gearing up for the start of the 5th annual Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure qualifiers. The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure is being held at the Atlantis Resort and Casino located on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

This poker tournament is set to run from ...

New Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker

Nov 21, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Full Tilt Poker has added new tournaments to their list and the name of them is Knockout Bounty Tournaments. These tournaments will pay poker players for each poker player they knock out of the tournament.

These Knockout Tournaments follow the standard rules of all tour...

Norway is One Step Closer to Gambling Ban

Nov 21, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
For some time it has been in the news that the Norwegian Minister for Culture and Church affairs has been on a mission to create laws in Norway that are equal to the online gambling laws of the United States.

This man Tronde Giske is the Minister for Culture and Church ...

Poker Room Satellites Set To Run

Nov 21, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Sites

Poker Room who is holding satellites has three that will be running soon for seats to the 2008 Aussie Millions Tournament with the prize package they are offering to the winners of the satellites.

This promotion for the satellites will be running a few weeks and the...

Billions in Online Casino Tax Neglected by America

Nov 21, 2007 by Tina Smith
Online gaming could generate up to $42 billion over the next decade for Federal coffers, in America, Representative Jim McDermott testified.


This total having been based on a very detailed tax revenue analysis that was conducted by an independent accounting firm, and ...


Responses from Poker Rooms About Online Security Questions

Nov 21, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
With the recent security problems found with Absolute Poker, you might be interested in knowing just a few of the responses received from a few of the online poker sites, when they were emailed questions regarding the security of their particular site.


Party Poker simply ...


Scandinavia 'The Game' Clips Being Leaked out

Nov 21, 2007 by Tina Smith
Scandinavia will soon be televising a TV show which will be the very first high-stakes poker cash game to be televised in the area, and it is called, 'The Game' show. Unfortunately clips from the new show have been leaking out. This new and exciting television sho...

Preview of Dusk Till Dawn's New Website

Nov 21, 2007 by Tina Smith
The opening of Europe's first licensed poker club in Nottingham, Dusk Till Dawn, is eagerly being awaited by many on the UK poker calendar. Doors to this exciting club are expected to open at the end of the month.


The good time of lots of fun and playing poker to be h...


Betwin Poker and Ladbrokes to Have 2008 Qualifiers

Nov 20, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

Online poker players as well as some online casinos are gearing up for the 2008 World Series of Poker to be held in Las Vegas and also the World Series of Poker Europe that will be held in London, which will be held in September. Each of these two online casinos will be...

Get To Aussie Millions with Bodog

Nov 20, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

Coming up fast will be the Aussie Millions Poker Championship that will be held from January 14th thru January 20th and Bodog is going to help some poker players win a seat to the tournament.

Bodog will be holding qualifiers and sending some poker players to the Au...

GUKPT Nears The End

Nov 20, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

The Grand Final is set to be held soon in the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, where over the weekend tournament 10 was held and next is to be the Grand Final that will be held in London near the end of November.

In the poker tournament recently held it was a three day eve...

Scotty Nguyen Makes Final Table of SNPC

Nov 20, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

The well-known poker pro whose name is also one of poker players favorite yearly events, this is none other than Scotty Nguyen and the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV and he appeared at the Main Event.

In this part of the Main Event along with Scotty Nguyen there w...

Conveys and Frank Teaming up in Letter to Trade Rep

Nov 20, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Judiciary Committee chairman along with Representative Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee chairman, joined together in efforts to send a letter to the United States Trade Representative which showed criticism on the way the nation had of handling the case aga...

Fred Hepburn to Host 24 Hour Poker Marathong for Charity

Nov 20, 2007 by Tina Smith
With a marathon poker session planned for next month, Warwickshire will be taking their spot on the map. December 29th, a 24 hour non-stop tournament will be taking place for charity, and all the proceeds will be going to the Myton House Hospice.


The event will take place...


Legal Clarity Predicted by Online Casino Chief

Nov 20, 2007 by Tina Smith
Norbert Teufelberger, Co-Chief Executive Officer for Austria's Bwin Interactive Entertainment, announced his optimism growing on the liberalization within the European Union, which includes France, and legal certainty in the business is expected to be achieved by next spri...

United States VS. WTO Over Internet Gambling

Nov 20, 2007 by Tina Smith
As early as next month, if arbitrations were to fail, Antigua and others, including the European Union, could possibly begin exacting sanctions over the U.S. and their decision in withdrawing from a World Trade Organization accord which recognize the legalities of Internet gam...

Ladbroke Poker Site Now 3D

Nov 19, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Although it may have taken a little bit of time for Ladbroke to kick off their 3D virtual reality poker games, they have finally arrived. And they do say that all good things take time. It was first previewed a few months back but has finally been released to the public in ...

Doyles Room Offers "Easy 25K"

Nov 19, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Sites
All month long, Doyles Room will be offering its many players a promotion called Easy $25K. The design is to give players the ability in winning a large amount of money, and being able to do so without having to spend several days to win other online poker tournaments that...

Jerry Yang to Play Pokerstars APPT

Nov 19, 2007 by Tina Smith
Since winning the big World Series of Pokers Main Event, Chris Moneymaker has been added to the star spotlight overnight. This is usually how it happens and normally is to be expected. However with champion Jerry Yang, that has not been the case. Yang's absence in the poker

Legislation to Legalize Online Poker a Possibility

Nov 19, 2007 by Tina Smith
In a session of G2E, Chairman of the Poker Players' Alliance pressure group, and former Senator, Alfonse D'Amato, spoke at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, and has stated that he expects legislation will be passed within the next 18 months in the United States for ...

FTOPS VI Main Event Results

Nov 19, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
The FTOPS VI Main Event was the success that everyone expected that it would be. With a total of 4,371 entrants there was a prize pool that was able to grow up to $2,185,500. And while this is a little bit less then the $2,289,000 prize pool that the FTOPS V gave ou...

iPoker Pulls Plug On Online Poker Site

Nov 19, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
They can't say that they weren't warned. Playtech, a provider of online poker games, had just scolded its iPoker sites that they are against rakeback deals in any way shape or form. And now, just after reminding their iPoker network sites of the rules, the announcem...

Online Forum Challenge at IntertopsPoker

Nov 19, 2007 by Sadonna Price
The website Intertops Poker will be hosting a new challenge called the Online Forum Challenge that will have a prize of over $10,000. There is room for more than 1,000 players and it will take place on November 24th and 25th. The Challenge is sponsored by Intertops Poker a...

Betfair Gets New Talent

Nov 19, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
It has been announced that Betfair Poker had appointed a new director of poker for their online gaming, this new director is Bruce Stubbs and according to reports he will be beginning his new position immediately. Stubbs recently acted as a project manager for Betfair.

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Titan Poker $1,000,000 Guarantee

Nov 18, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Titan Poker is planning to have their online poker room be filled with poker players, as they will be holding online tournaments with $8,000,000 that they have decided will be the amount for the prize pools for these tournaments.   Titan Poker who is p...

GlobetCasino Launches New Poker Site

Nov 18, 2007 by Sadonna Price
Category: Online Casino
GlobetPoker was recently launched on the Microgaming Poker Network by the GlobetCasino site. Globet is a Gibralter-based site that is supposedly owned by a Uruguayan group. Globet now uses a Microgaming Software platform instead of the Chartwell Technology they used to use. Th...

Absolute Poker Turkey Bowl

Nov 18, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Category: Poker Sites
Absolute Poker is inviting their poker players to come to a special holiday tournament, the first ever free Turkey Bowl. The online poker site wants to celebrate the American holiday, Thanksgiving and give their players a bit more to be thankful for in the Absolute Poker Turke...

CelebPoker Offers RakebackCelebPoker

Nov 18, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Category: Poker Sites
CelebPoker is now offering their loyal players and new players to be able to enjoy more poker rakeback promotions through their brand new site that opens today called RakebackCelebPoker.


Rakeback is said to be one of the best creations in online poker, a rack is the propo...


Aspinalls Free Play Offer

Nov 18, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Category: Online Casino
Aspinalls Online Casino really wants you to come and play at their online casino, by offering players one of the largest free promotions available online. Aspinalls Free Play Offer is worth £250 free when you download the software, but once you have installed it you can ...

PokerRoom Offers Players New Mini Games

Nov 18, 2007 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites
In the upcoming weeks, PokerRoom will be offering their members a chance to improve their skills and to hopefully be more successful in the game. The site will provide their players with three new mini games to help enhance player's gaming experience.

Also the site pl...

FTOPS VI Event 14 Results

Nov 18, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Event number 14 has been played out in the Full Tilt Poker Series, with more than eight hundred and seventy-three poker players that entered the tournament. For Event 14 the game was Pot-Limit Omaha with re-buys along with several full Tilt Poker pros as entrants in the to...

888.com Announces New Campaign

Nov 18, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
There is a new advertising campaign that is set to begin by 888.com who after losing much of their online casino players and profit have found new online players markets and are coming up with new ideas to market their online casino and using creative advertising.

In thi...


B.C. Championships Hosted By Mansion Poker

Nov 17, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Mansion Poker will be sponsoring this years third annual B.C. Poker Championships that will begin on November 18th, they made this announcement earlier in the week.

According to Marc Goodwin who is a Mansion Poker ambassador as well as a poker pro stated they are t...



House Judiciary Hearing Sways One

Nov 17, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
During the hearings of the House Judiciary Committee seems to have swayed one of the congressmen to favor legalized online gambling, this is Rep. Earl Blumenauer a Democrat from Oregon.

Blumenauer has signed on as a co-sponsor of the Internet Gambling Regulation an...



Limited Poker Tourneys Allowed with new Florida Deal

Nov 17, 2007 by Tina Smith
Signing a gambling 'compact' agreement this week by Governor Charlie Crist and Tribal Chairman Mitchell Cypress, has allowed the Seminole Tribe casinos in Florida the allowance to expand their operation. Included in the agreement, is the allowance for six no-limit poke...

Ron Paul Defends Online Gambling

Nov 17, 2007 by Tina Smith
Republican Texas Congressman and 2008 United States Presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, came to the defense of online gaming and the rights of players betting over the web at a hearing in Washington this week. Paul being the only candidate that voted against the Unlawful Internet ...

Positive Reviews for WSOP 2008 Battle For the Bracelets

Nov 17, 2007 by Tina Smith
The World Series of Poker 2008: Battle For the Bracelets, has recently been released by Activision and Left Field Productions, again producing a game on the market to be one of the best.


Many variations to be included in the WSOP 2008 will be Omaha, Razz, Seven Card Stud,...


Stereotypes Defied by Online and Mobile Casino Survey

Nov 17, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino

The survey that was conducted over the summer starting from July and ending in September, for Online Slots Players, by online casino Slotland, showed some surprising results.

 

The survey included questions concerning players betting habits, their strategies o...

Titan Poker now Offering Millions

Nov 17, 2007 by Tina Smith
Sure to gain the appeal from many players all around, are the prize pools that are continuing to grow, and now the huge amount of $8 million in prize pools that is being guaranteed monthly in online poker tournaments, that is being offered at Titan Poker. With so much traf...

Annie Duke In Spotlight Over U.S. Gambling Ban

Nov 16, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Annie Duke, one of the world's best female poker players, is currently sitting in the spotlight as she gets much attention as she supports change in the current ban on U.S. online poker playing.

 

"The reality is it is very hard for a child to lose mon...

Critics Speak Out On Internet Gambling Ban

Nov 16, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
We all know the details of the ban and whom it does and does not affect. The only real thing left on everyone's mind a year later is how this even makes sense. Many critics of the ban are trying to urge Congress to fix their mistake before it is too late.

 

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Ipoker Networks Remove Online Casino

Nov 16, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
There has been a press release from the iPoker Network as they have removed an online casino from their network for rackbacks and wanted their zero toloerance policy to be known to online casino players and operators of online casinos. At the iPoker Network using rakebacks...

PokerListings and Betfair Hold Freeroll Winner

Nov 16, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
In the monthly freeroll that is held between Betfair in a joint venture with PokerListings this is the $1,000 loyalty freeroll and the winner for this month has been named. The winner of this $1,000 freeroll was a thirty-five year old teacher from London who has...

FTOPS VI Event 11

Nov 16, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The Full Tilt of Poker Series event 11 has been played out and saw six hundred and twenty-two poker players with a $311,500 prize pool, which was over the guarantee by $61,500. The game for this tournament was H.O.R.S.E. a game that shows the true skills of poker p...

CelebPoker Raises Prize Pool

Nov 16, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There has been an announcement by CelebPoker that they have raised their guaranteed prize pool for their online tournaments and feel it will give their poker players an exciting tournament game. This new raise in there tournament prize pool will be seen in their up coming ...

Online Gambling U.S. Debate

Nov 16, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
There has been a lot of news recently about the anti-gambling laws in the United States and the meetings being held in the past weeks.

 

This week saw testimony from each side of online gambling in front of the House Judiciary Committee and began with one of ...

Great British Poker Tour Ends

Nov 15, 2007 by Sandt Kitchen
This season's Great British Poker Tour is over and the results are in for the last tournament and the winner of that tournament. The Grand Final tournament was held on Sunday at the Bristol Harbourside Gala Casino. There were near to one hundred entrants for thi...

Full Tilt Of Online Poker Series VI Event 10

Nov 15, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Event ten of the Full Tilt of Online Poker was played out and as several of the other the guaranteed prize pool was above the set price. The game of Event 10 was $300+ $22 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max with re-buys and there were one thousand one hundred and si...

Harrah

Nov 15, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
According to reports and statements from the CEO of Harrah's Entertainment Inc. Gary Loveman there are plans of placing the World Series of Poker on an Internet casino where online poker players will have access to Harrah's. In statements from Loveman at the...

Criticism Continuing towards Deval Bill

Nov 15, 2007 by Tina Smith
Continuing to make mainstream headlines all across the United States is governor of Massachusetts, Patrick Deval, with his attempts in having online gambling banned, right along with promoting land gambling expansion for the Bay area.


The daily Boston Magazine has stated ...


Oklahoma Crowns four more Winners

Nov 15, 2007 by Tina Smith
The last few days has seen four more winners from the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, as the $5,000 championship nears. Taking home the win in Fridays $300 No-Limit Hold'em poker tournament, with a prize pool of $63,000, where 235 showed up for the challeng...

Scalp Tournaments Becoming Popular

Nov 15, 2007 by Tina Smith
With others already turning to the action to be found in 'Scalp' events, some including a €330 freeze out, where players would receive €30 each time they would bust a player. No exception to this, Full Tilt Poker has also decided to join in on the action to b...

Testimony on Gambling Bills heard by U.S. House

Nov 15, 2007 by Tina Smith
The harms of gaase exponentially," McClusky testified. "(And) when you have the law, the states, financial institutions, religious and family organizations, and an array of law enforcement agencies against you - it's time to fold your cards and go home."


...


Record Breaking Revenues for Isle Of Man

Nov 14, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Record breaking revenue was announced by Isle Of Man, online based gambling software developer and turnkey provider Playtech. 'We are delighted with this quarter's record-breaking figures, which clearly demonstrate the growing strength and presence of Playtech wit...

GigaMedia Revenue Continuing to Climb

Nov 14, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Revenues for their third-quarter have climbed 76 percent, up to $43 million, GigaMedia Limited has announced. Operating income has also increased by 66 percent, to $10 million. The continued growth is due to GigaMedia's software business they have in Continent...

Lake Tahoe Has Two More Winners

Nov 14, 2007 by Tina Smith
Taking down the win in event 3 for the World Series of Poker Circuit at Lake Tahoe is Sinh Nguyen, making his very first final table, with a win of $33,228. Following Nguyen's win, Barbara Brown Harney won event 4 for the ladies. The prize pool was up to $110,...

NLOP to Sponsor TechCrunch

Nov 14, 2007 by Tina Smith
On November 16, The National League of Poker, a wholly owned subsidiary of US-publicly traded Power Play Development (OTC: PWPY.pk), will be demonstrating to many computer stations located on the Estate, in various spots of the room, their online poker technology.


NLOP, ...


U.S. Position for Online Poker Opposed

Nov 14, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Poker Players' Alliance, through a recent independent survey that was polled, drew attention at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on online gambling. The survey showing unhappy Americans towards the United States government and their stand of anti-online gambling.

Bodog Hits Poker Player 980 Million

Nov 14, 2007 by Sandt Kitchen
In Sunday's tournament there were eight poker players and the prize pool was $4,000 guaranteed when they hit one of their milestones at Bodog in their quest to hit the one billionth player at their poker site. Bodog has been in the news recently with their promotion...

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI

Nov 14, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Event number eight of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series was played on Monday with a one million guaranteed prize pool. The game in this event was a buy-in $1,000+$60 No-Limit Hold'em and this event has one thousand three hundred and thirty-two entrants who w...

Event Nine of Full Tilt Online Poker Series

Nov 14, 2007 by SandyKitchen

Event number nine of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series has been played and the results are in and the list of players at the final table along with the winner of Full Tilt Online Poker Series Event nine.

Event nine had one thousand three hundred and thirty-one entra...

More Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV Results

Nov 13, 2007 by
Many players have gotten in on the action and taken titles and seats in the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV, that is being held this year at the Cherokee Casino in Catoosa, Oklahoma. This $5,000 Championship event will resume play on November 18.


With more than a we...


Hellmuth Back For More Poker After Dark

Nov 13, 2007 by Tina Smith
Coming back for possibly more take-downs, after already having been a five-time loser in the $120k winner-take-all spectacle - of Poker After Dark (PAD), Phil Hellmuth will be returning in this week's edition of PAD. This week's match to be seen on NBC include...

Betfair Adds Blogger, Annette Obrestad

Nov 13, 2007 by Tina Smith
Becoming well known as Annette_15 after becoming the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker, Annette Obrestad will now have a regular blog on Betfair Poker's website, after joining the ranks of other sponsored players.


Winning the World Series of Poker bracelet ...


Costa Rica Hit Hard After Online Gaming Ban

Nov 13, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Costa Rica has been hit extremely hard with the controversial United States crackdown on the $12 billion online gambling industry. Earning it's name of the "Las Vegas of the Internet", Costa Rica was very well known for their large concentration of gaming com...

Ups and Downs after UIGEA

Nov 13, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGEA) has definitely made a huge impact on two well known online poker networks in the last year.


Playtech, owner of the iPoker Network and Cryptologic had very contrasting financial reports for their third quarter. With Playtech show...


Wildest Pot Ever for High Stakes Poker

Nov 13, 2007 by Tina Smith
In the latest episode of the TV show High Stakes Poker, the biggest pot yet, was played. With Jamie Gold and Patrik Antonius in the game, over $700k was on the table, and minimum buy-in's were recently raised to $500,000.


Action on the High Stakes Poker series...


Bluff Gone Bad

Nov 13, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Sunday night saw a poker game at Full Tilt Poker was a game that might not be forgotten soon by one poker player who tried a bluff that cost him. Six players were seated at a Pot-Limit Omaha $200/$400 two of these players were Gus Hansen and Dustin Dirksen who ...

iMega Responds to Massachusetts Governor

Nov 13, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

After the report in the Boston Globe on Saturday that Governor Deval Patrick has file legislation that would propose a law making gambling online for Massachusetts residents a criminal offense.

It is felt this legislation is unconstitutional and the iMega group has...

CAP Euro now open for Registering

Nov 12, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
In January, the CAP Euro will be returning to London and for those who would like to attend, may register now. What started out as only an idea, one late night in Las Vegas, the CAP Euro has become one of the largest events in the Internet gambling industry for affiliates. An ...

The World Poker Store Opening in China

Nov 12, 2007 by Tina Smith
The World Poker Store has made announcements this week of their subsidiary named Shenzhen WPS Entertainment Development Co. Ltd. (SWEDCL), now offering a branch in Shenzhen, China.


This company from Nevada, The World Poker Store, that also has branches in St. Paul, Minnes...


World Series of Poker Circuit WSOPC Lake Tahoe

Nov 12, 2007 by Tina Smith
An astonishing 484 players entered the opening events for this years 2007 World Series of Poker Circuit WSOPC Lake Tahoe games. The only other year that has attracted more players was in 2005 at the very first WSOPC event, in the inaugural season. Having a $220 buy-in, no-...

Charity Tournament Slated For December

Nov 12, 2007 by SAndy Kitchen
Early December poker pros will be heading to the Vegas Hilton in the first Celebrity Charity Poker tournament being held there during the National Finals Rodeo Week.

The event will be held December 11th where it will begin with a media reception and a charity auction th...

GBPT Bristol Winner

Nov 12, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

The Bristol £2,500 Main Event has been played out at the Great British Poker Tour and this event was filled with excitement. There were entrants for this event from as far away as the United States and well-known names of poker pros and some of the Hollywood crowd ...

CryptoLogic Sees Drop In Third Quarter Revenue

Nov 12, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Category: Poker Industry
CryptoLogic, an online gambling provider of software has seen a drop in revenues for their third quarter and they are placing blame on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which was passed in October 2006.

 

The third quarter in 2006 for the...

WSOP 2005 Winner Arrested

Nov 12, 2007 by Tina Smith
During a recent gambling raid this last week, police officials of Tennessee arrested William Paul "Cigar" McKinney, past winner of the 2005 Seniors Event of the World Series of Poker. The raid was said to of taken place at the Hog Wild Saloon in Kingsport, Tennessee,...

New Event for the 2008 Irish Open

Nov 12, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
There is a new event in the works for next year's Irish Open. Coming on May 22nd 2008 is the new event: The Irish Open - Ladies. This is a no limited hold'em poker freezeout that has a decent buy-in of Euro 300 + Euro 30 which means there is a higher chance for a la...

Holland Concerned Over New Tax

Nov 11, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
In the Netherlands the Dutch state companies hold a monopoly in gambling, and they have recent concerns about a new tax that the Dutch cabinet would like to place a sixteen percent tax on gaming machines and slots, the on these machines in to would total about 40.85 percen...

VC Poker Offers Irish Open Seats

Nov 11, 2007 by

The Irish Open 2008 will begin November 19th and with this in mind VC Poker on of the leading online poker rooms is holding a super satellite promotion for the tournament that will take place in Dublin.

   

These super satellites are set to tak...

Patrick Bill is a Target for Internet Gambling

Nov 11, 2007 by Tina Smith
Although Governor Deval Patrick is planning to license three resort casinos in the state of Massachusetts, he also plans to tighten the hold on Internet gambling by making it illegal to place online bets for state residents. Going as far as proposing jail terms that could go u...

Harvard's Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society

Nov 11, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Harvard's Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) headed by law students held a one-day academic poker conference on November 10th. These scheduled seminars are led by Charles Neeson, a Harvard Law School Professor, famed attorney and one of the founders of GPSTS. ...

Gambling in the Sky

Nov 11, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Category: Online Casino
Beginning next year those who are travelling in the sky on long flights will be able to gamble their flight away as some airlines introduce on-board casinos.


Soon you will be able to take your seat, buckle up and use your on flight TV screen to enter into the online casi...


Leo Kam Wins 130,000 First Prize in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour

Nov 11, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was held in thernGrosvenor Victoria Casino located right in London. And the poker player to takernhome first place entered the £1,000 event by winning in a feeder satelliternwhich cost him only £50 to enter into. This lucky poker...

Titan Poker Offers Seats To ECOOP

Nov 11, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
TitanPoker will be holding super satellites that are planned for poker players to try to win a seat to the upcoming European Championship Of Online Poker these satellites are planned to run from November 30th and continue thru December 6th, . Along with pre-qualifiers for ...

European Union Pressures the United States

Nov 10, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
Peter Mendelson the European Union Trade Commissioner was in Washington to discuss the changing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

During a press conference at Capitol Hill Mendleson stated that "good, responsible competitors in this market excluded...

Party Gaming Signs Deal

Nov 10, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
Patry Gaming is a popular online casino for many poker players and they have now signed a deal with RTL Interactive a one of the top media companies in Germany, which will bring PartyGaming to the German online gambling players.

This deal with RTL Interactive is going to se...

Australian Court to Hear Betfair

Nov 10, 2007 by Tina Smith
Most online poker players are aware that the online
gaming company Betfair , who has recently begun their
proceedings in the High Court of Western Australia
with their case in which they feel they are being
treated unfairly. Betfair feels that there have been
unfair restr...




Online Poker Becoming Ever Popular In Britain

Nov 10, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Once thought of by many as solely an American thing, the game of poker has recently shown a tremendous growth to the International appeal in the game. A new study reported by the World News, has shown that approximately 25% of Britain's Internet users are enjoying mo...

CryptoLogic Pulls Through

Nov 10, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
The Unlawful Gaming Enforcement Agency came down on CryptoLogic (CRYP) last year, banning the company from any operation at all in the United States. During that time, CRYP relied upon the U.S. for 30% of their online gaming operations. Since then, CryptoLogic has decided to c...

Scandal Update for Absolute Poker

Nov 10, 2007 by Tina Smith
Joe Norton, former grand chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake, has said the Kahnawake Gaming Commission's investigation into a security breach is still under way, in a statement that was issued from both Norton and the owner of Tokiwiro Enterprises ENRG, on Thursday.

Casino Affiliate Convention To Be Held In Asia.

Nov 10, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
The Casino Affiliate Convention that is run by the Ticonderoga Ventures Inc.  has planned to be held on November 28th and the  29th of November in Asia for its first part of the Convention.

This event of the convention will be held at the Venetian Hotel and Ca...

Side Event Schedule Announced for 2008 Irish Open

Nov 10, 2007 by Sadonna Price
The 2008 Irish Open is scheduled for March and the Side events have been announced. The tournament takes place over the course of a week and will have many different types of games going on. There will be an event especially for the ladies and it will be the first time the Iri...

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI Begins

Nov 9, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The FullTilt Poker Sign Up Referral Code FTOPS is starting its sixth edition and they expect some of the well-known poker pros to be in attendance and for the entrants to this poker series there is a guaranteed prize pool of more than $9 million. This Full Tilt Onl...

Winning Stats Out From Executive Poker Tour

Nov 9, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The Executive Poker Tour held at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City New Jersey was over in the end of October and the final results have been released and as was announced earlier Lee Childs had won the Main Event.

Child the winner of this Executive Poker Tour Main Ev...

Expansion Barred With Online Poker

Nov 9, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
While it may be true that Svenska Spel has a large monopoly going for online poker and gambling for Sweden, everyone eventually finds limits to all. For Spel that limit was when the Swedish government denied this online gambling company's request in wanting to expand the a...

Quarterly Reports From Two Poker Networks.

Nov 9, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry

The quarterly reports are in from two online poker networks and they are very different from each other in quarter three, and much different since the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act. While one seems to have sufferered the loss of American poker players at ...

WinAJackpot.com Has New $2.7 Million Winner

Nov 9, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Category: Online Casino
It has just recently announced by WinAJackpot that they have produced another lucky player who was able to pocket a cool $2.7 million. This fortunate player has joined the club of individuals who have found great success, luck, and money at WinAJackpot.

 

I...

Two Jackpot Wins Within 4 Hours At UltimateBet

Nov 9, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
It was announced just yesterday that UltimateBet had two of their online players took home some high jackpot amounts and they were just within four hours of each other. Combined, the two received $782,378.68 as their winnings for the online poker games.

 

T...

Profit Rise Reported by Online Casino

Nov 9, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino
Net Entertainment, an online gambling software developer, has shown a net increase in their third quarter figures. The increase reflects 30 percent profit in sales, with after-tax profits being up 73 percent. That, along with having five new Casino Module licenses in the third...

Poker Hand History Converter

Nov 9, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Software
The Internet site FlopTurnRiver is becoming a site that many online poker players are visiting as a site with free poker advise, reviews, poker forums and poker tools and a hand history converter. Online poker players are finding this site filled with resources to make the...

2007 WPT Controversy with J.P. Tran

Nov 8, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Players
The opening day of the 2007 World Poker Finals (WPF) proved to be unnerving for J.C. Tran, player of the year for Season 5 of the World Poker Tour. Being involved in a very controversial hand, had everyone at the Foxwoods Resort Casino talking about the J.C. Tran controversy.

Reports for NETeller Showing Recovery

Nov 8, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
"The third quarter has demonstrated the resilience of the NETeller business and the results from our European and Asia Pacific businesses show that we are regaining the trust of customers and continuing to deliver innovative solutions to our merchants," said Ron Mart...

WSOP Oldest Winner Arrested

Nov 8, 2007 by Tina Smith
Holding the record as the oldest bracelet winner for the World Series of Poker, Paul McKinney was arrested in Tennessee on Friday at a raid made by police on a poker game.


Police who made the arrest said that they were able to seize playing cards and an amount in cash alm...


Mansion Poker's Great Value Tournaments

Nov 8, 2007 by Tina Smith
Mansion Poker, increasingly becoming known for their great value tournaments since they made the move onto the OnGame network, has decided to go even a step further. With a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000, last month's Grand Tournament attracted 627 poker players, pu...

CelebPoker.com Has Select Promotions At Rakeback Site

Nov 8, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Sites
CelebPoker has new promotions and deals they will be offering only at their new site RakebackCelebPoker with the launch of this new site rakeback poker will be more available to online poker players.

  

This new site Rakeback CelebPoker opens today and wi...

Taxies and 888.com

Nov 8, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
The online casino 888.com has struck a deal with All Response Media who will now be advertising for 888 Holdings.

This planned advertising is to also include advertising on taxicabs however it will not only be on the outside of the taxicab but inside also in a uniq...



WSOP Team Ticket By Ladbrokes

Nov 8, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: WSOP
Ladbrokes is now offering a new promotion; this is a team ticket for the 2008 WSOP the tournament will have a $20,000 guarantee and this includes a Ladbrokes team WSOP prize package of $14,000. Ladbrokes is also planning to add $6,000 in bounties for this ...

European Union Asks For Change From U.S.

Nov 8, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The top trade official stated that the United States must change their online gambling law, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as it discriminating against European companies and preventing them from doing their business in the United States markets.

 ...

France Slow in Negotiations with EU

Nov 7, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
The European Union and France have been haggling for sometime now, where at one point it appeared that France would open their gambling to other members of the European Union.

At this point France has not loosened it grip on their gambling monopoly but they have express...

The Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV Event Winner

Nov 7, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Sunday saw one hundred and nineteen entrants for the $300 Limit Hold'em and the prize pool was $29,360 and a seat for the Championship Event that will be held November 18th.


The event on Sunday took place at the Cherokee Casino Resort in Catoosa Oklahoma an...


Two Country

Nov 7, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

This week Germany has been in the news with their view of online gambling and it seems Germany and their Administrative Court of Appeals have the opposite thoughts on it than France.

 

In Court this week a German Administrative Court of Appeals in Hessen r...

PokerListings and CD Poker Table

Nov 7, 2007 by Tina Smith
PokerLisitngs and CD Poker are planning two final games in their six freeroll series, the buy-in is free to the $1 million European Championship of Online Poker final. These freerolls are set to be held on November 7th and November 14th to qualify poker players can do ...

First Day of FTSOPS VI

Nov 7, 2007 by Tina Smith
The FTSOPS VI has begun with the first event being a $200+ $16 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max and in this tournament there will be sixteen events with over nine million in prize pools that is guaranteed.

 

The guaranteed prize pool includes the main eve...

High Stakes Poker Bluff

Nov 7, 2007 by Tina Smith
Poker player Jamie Gold tried to bluff his hand and failed against Guy Laliberte in the latest episode of High Stakes Poker. Jamie Gold has been quoted as stating that he would like to become the best at bluffing his poker hands in the world, although his bluff did no goo...

Third Quarter Down For WPT

Nov 7, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry
Steve Lipscomb, President and CEO for World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE), was very comfortable with respects to the future of the company during a conference call Monday.

"The third quarter represented continued progress for WPT Enterprises," stated Lipscomb. &qu...

Western Union a Safe Option For Online Casino Accounts

Nov 7, 2007 by Sadonna Price
Category: Online Casino
Online poker players and casino visitors want a safe and secure way to transfer their money to their online casino accounts. Many of the online casinos offer Neteller or will take credit cards. Not everyone has these options or feel safe using them. A good option for transferr...

CelebPoker Enters Sweden

Nov 6, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Sites
In June CelebPoker obtained a gaming licnese from the European Union and now there has been an announcement that they will launch a new CelebPoker site in Swedish with their new version of their poker software.

This new addition of CelebPoker in Swedish will have a differe...


Simon Charity Will Break Last Years Record

Nov 6, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The poker community has come out again this year to support the Simon Poker Day which gives donations to the homeless. This second annual Simon Poker Day is being held in Dublin with seats that have been donated as part of PokerStars European Poker Tour. This year's...

World Poker Finals Begin

Nov 6, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The World Poker Finals is set to begin tomorrow and is being held at the Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut for its entirety, which is being held from November 7th thru November 13th for six complete days of poker excitement and a winner that will leave the final ta...

Ultimatebet Releases New Software

Nov 6, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Sites

Ultimatebet has announced the release of their latest online poker software that is designed to give online poker players an enhanced online poker experience.

In their statement George Maclean the spokesman of Ultimatebet believe the new software that has been rele...

UK Online Gambling Survey

Nov 6, 2007 by Tina Smith

There has recently been a study done by the British Gambling Commission has released their findings and this survey shows that online gambling has risen.

While online gambling has become more popular and more UK residents are entering online games the chief demographi...



Scott Clements Joins Full Tilt

Nov 6, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

There have been reports that Full Tilt Poker has signed Scott Clements the poker pro who holds two gold bracelets in their team of professional poker players, the terms of this signing of Clements has not been released.

Scott Clements is the poker pro who won the 20...

Casino Becomes More Secure

Nov 6, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Online Casino
All the recent news in online gambling has players and operators questioning how secure online gambling sites are and Victor Chandler who is based in Gibraltar has decided to make certain their online casinos are safe.


They have announced that they have ensured though...


Duplicate Poker Will It Work For American Poker Players

Nov 6, 2007 by Tina Smith
Recently there has been a way of playing poker that has some wondering if this could be a way of getting around the United States Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, this is Duplicate Poker.


Duplicate Poker is a game where the same cards are dealt to different...


PokerStars Sunday Millions Winner

Nov 5, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Sunday was the big day at PokerStars and with it WhatArunAA left the poker table a winner, he is also known in the Full Contact Poker forum, after there was a four-way deal between nicky998, MarktheShark, and Francix.   

WhatArunAA left the final table wi...

Everest Poker Avalanche Final

Nov 5, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Everest Poker Avalanche final was played and leaving the final table last was Frank Stumpf, this final event was played aboard a Costa Cruise ship in the Mediterranean. Stumpf of Germany left the ship with $233,000 as the final prize, where he and ten other h...

Great British Poker Tour Begins

Nov 5, 2007 by Tina Smith
The Great British Poker Tour has begun with a £300+£30 No-Limit Hold'em Freeze-Out; the tour will be at the Gala Casino Harbourdside in Bristol. Two events will be held prior to the four-day main event. This poker tournament began today and there wa...

More Mergers In The Works For 888.com

Nov 5, 2007 by Tina Smith
Category: Poker Industry

888Holdings who recently has been in the news for a merger and today announced a merger deal with Rank, they are a company that runs an online betting site. This site is Blue Square and has its bookmaking capabilities they can offer 888.com online poker players along wi...

Nguyen Poker Challenge IV

Nov 5, 2007 by Tina Smith
Sunday began the Nguyen Poker Challenge IV and is being held at the Cherokee Casino and Resort in Oklahoma, with the first event being the Jack and Jill Tournament; this event had a $100+$20 buy-in. this brought out three hundred and five teams who signed up to bat...

Britain Shows Increased Interest In Online Gambling

Nov 5, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
It seems that the British demographic is steadily accepting online gambling as the Gambling Commission, the British gambling regulator, has their survey showing that this past time is increasing in popularity among the British. These survey results also indicate that online...

Titan Poker Awards $1 Million Seat

Nov 5, 2007 by Tina Smith

The Tournament Titan Million table is limited to twenty poker players and Swedish poker player Jon Doemstedt is the latest of the twenty poker players at number nineteen.

Doemstedt won the seat with points he made by playing poker at Titan ring games and tournaments...

Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee Makes It Without Overlay

Nov 5, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Last night's $750,000 guaranteed event on Full Tilt brought in 3,751 players and almost needed an overlay with the tournament having a prize pool of $750,200. If the poker tournament had two players less, they would have needed that overlay but they made it. The ...

Online Casino Games Quickly Accessible With Mansion

Nov 4, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Category: Online Casino
With the online poker and casino playing growing worldwide at an incredibly rapid rate, it is no wonder that many gaming operations have to move with the times. With people of our time always on the go and wanting fast results, Mansion has expanded their game list with over...

This is The Nuts Revamps Site

Nov 4, 2007 by Sadonna Price
New features and site design have been added to the rakeback site This is The Nuts recently. The site has added features to their rakeback system that gives members more freerolls and improved customer support. The site also features a new cash-out system that is more accommod...

Abolute Poker Scandal Update

Nov 4, 2007 by
In the Old West they had their own way of dealing with cheaters in a card game. More than likely the punishment for cheating in poker was dealt by having a revolver unloaded into you, it just was not tolerated.


Today we do things a bit differently, nowadays the law handle...


Grand Prive Announces Supernova and Live Cash Draws

Nov 4, 2007 by Rebecca Miller
Category: Online Casino
The Grand Privé Group has already been one of the leaders in the online casino industry, now they are taking it one step beyond to allow its players to be a part of history.


Grand Privé is very proud to announce its new creations , Supernova and Live Cash D...


Italian Online Casino Players Get New Payment Method

Nov 4, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Category: Online Casino
There is now an easier and faster way for Italian players to use for buy and take out credits from their favorite online casino, JackpotFactory. In fact, it was just recently announced by JackpotFactory that they are introducing Postepay onto their list of preferred paymen...

$2 Million Event Begins at Ulitmatebet

Nov 4, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The online Championship is set to begin on December seventh with Ultimatebet and will be a Texas Hold'em tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Ultimatebet has announced this tournament and with it they have announced that in this series will be feat...

It is Second Place for Annette Obrestad

Nov 4, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
At the European Poker Tour Annette Obrestad had made it to the final table in Dublin and Saturday found her at the final table as the chip leader with $788,000.

The game was on her side through elimination of several final table poker players, Casper Hensen, Michae...

New Software Poker Crusher Offers Online Poker Stats in Real Time

Nov 4, 2007 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Software
Mutatum Solutions Ltd. has released their new online poker software tool Poker Crusher. The new software gives players instant access to millions of hands of information. The software gives stats from real-time and has one click access and instant ranking to the softest tables...

UltimateBet Grows In Popularity

Nov 3, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
With a Bad Beat Jackpot quickly approaching $600,000, it is no wonder that UltimateBet is showing an increase in numbers. This jump can be found at their Texas Hold'em poker tables and the jackpot is currently at $560,000 but is fast approaching that $600,00...

Final Table of the North American Championship

Nov 3, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Then North American Championship is winding down, and the final tables entrants are seated with skilled poker players and among them are two poker players that are nineteen.

At the final table there are six poker players that will be using all their skill to reach the w...

WSOP Winner At EPT Final Table

Nov 3, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Today at the European Poker Tour there will be a bracelet winner from the World Series of Poker joining the other poker players at the final table, Annette Obrastad is again using her poker skill to compete.

Online she is known as Annette_15 and is the youngest poker p...

China To Tighten Up On Internet Gambling

Nov 3, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen

China has recently been reviewing their requirements for online gambling and Internet poker, and has announced it is there intention to put laws into place for online gambling to protect their citizens. They intend to have these laws protect underage children from enter...

Antigua To Meet With U.S. Politicians

Nov 3, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
Antigua plans to use the approaching Caribbean business conference that will be attended by the United States legislators.  This conference is planned as a way to show their case on discriminatory online gambling legislation in the United States.

 

Officia...

Sunday Warm Up Held

Nov 3, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Online poker players will find that Sundays are big poker days at PokerStars as they are holding their Sunday Millions Tournaments and the Sunday Warm-Up. The Sunday Warm-Up has been started for poker players to warm their skills up prior to the Sunday Millions or who find...

The New Face In Poker After Dark

Nov 3, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
In the television program Poker After Dark which airs on Monday's will have two new players joining their lineup, these will be Paul Wasicka and Alan "Boston" Dvorkis.

Since placing secnd in the 2006 World Series of Poker Tournament main Event Paul Wasic...


Unibet CEO Speaks Out

Nov 3, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Industry
The head of Unibet who was recently detained in the Netherlands under a French warrant is now speaking out and not only giving his side of the detainment and arrest.

Currently Petter Nylander has been released on bail, the detainment and arrest had been made after the ...

Everest Poker

Nov 2, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
It was announced today the information of who the winners were for the first ever tournament of the Live The Dream Promotion. Ten players were selected to receive a chance to become the professional poker pro they have always wanted to be. Players get to compete against eac...

EPT Dublin Chipleader: Annette Obrestad

Nov 2, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
Category: Poker Sites
It doesn't surprise many people that Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad is at it again. This young female poker pro, from Norway, is the chipleader in the EPT Dublin. Many feel that since she has already accomplished the World Series of Poker Europe main event an...

Fresh Managers for the WPTE Team

Nov 2, 2007 by Jennifer Spriggs
In an attempt to boost their online poker presence and to broaden their presence in the online market, two new managers were hired onto the World Poker Tour Enterprises team. They are also hoping that by making this move, their current managers will gain positive perspectiv...

Bet Direct Sold

Nov 2, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino

Stan James Bookmaker is in the final stages of buying Bet Direct and is coming complete in the online market with casino, poker and sportsbook, plans are to merge these two entities together.

According to Peter Fisher the CEO of Stan James the company feels that th...

CasinoUnreal Offers Promotional Codes

Nov 2, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
The online site CasinoUnreal who began their site in 2001 to online bettors and poker players who also has an affiliate program that allows website owners to place their banners on their websites.

This program is also formulated to work off line and for this a promotio...

November The Month For Tournaments

Nov 2, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
All through this year there has been poker tournaments and the same is true for November, there are several that will either be ending this month or beginning for poker players.

One of these tournaments that will be ending is the World Poker Tour North American Champions...


World Lottery Association Acquires Permission In Sweden

Nov 2, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
With the change in Sweden's online gaming policies Svenska Spel will have company and Boss Media will be assisting the World Lottery Association in delivering as well as operating a rather technical gaming platform, they will also be merging Svenska Spel's security...

Bodog.com to Reach One Billion

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
The poker site Bodog will reach dealing their one-billionth hand toward the end of November, and the operator has decided to celebrate by rewarding their online poker players.

In statements from Calvin Ayer who founded and is the CEO of Bodog, gives the credit to their...

Mansion Adds Flash

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Online Casino
The online site Mansion as been busy adding to their online games, and these new games as many as fifty are Platech's software for flash casino games. While they have the same quality the online gamblers have come to enjoy from Playtech with their other software that is do...

New Ulitmatebet Software Released

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Category: Poker Sites
Recently there have been reports that Ulitmatebet would release new and today is the day this company has released this new software.


According to Ultimatebet reports this software will bring a better game to the online poker player with the newly added features that hav...


Doyle Brunson Ready for High Stakes Poker War

Nov 1, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
Doyle Brunson, poker legend says the stakes are going to be higher in the upcoming episodes of High Stakes Poker. "Never thought I'd see the day they had a poker game this big on TV," Brunson said in a trailer for the next episode. "It's going to be...

Updated Poker Jackpots for Titan

Nov 1, 2007 by Steve Vaughan
Exciting news for Titan Poker's Jackpot Sit and Sit and Go's update for this month. Jackpot's have risen for Maui, Rio and Fort Knox, with Fort Knox's Jackpot reaching a staggering amount of $110,000. Its clear that Titan Poker holds the value for Sit...

Executive Poker Main Event Winner

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
This years Main Event winner of the Executive Poker Tournament that was held at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, and Lee Childs left the final table last.

This is the same Lee Childs that was an entrant in the 2007 World Series Of Poker in the Main Event, and left ...


Titan Poker Hosts Super Satellites For EPT

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Titan Poker will be hosting super satellites with prize packages to the European Poker Tournament that will be taking place at the Hilton Prague Hotel located in the Czech Republic from December tenth thru December fourteenth.

These super satellites will be taking place on...


Live The Dream With Everest Poker

Nov 1, 2007 by Sandy Kitchen
Everest Poker like other online casinos offers promotions and one for these is their "Live the Dream" and while this is a promotion and as usual they are affordable for everyone. This promotion however is different; this one while there are cash prizes will offer the...
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