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PartyPoker Starts Palladium Points Race
Poker Player Arrested for connection with murders
The BC Poker Championship recently finished up and the winner was Sophon Sek. In a surprising turn of events, Sek was arrested just twenty four hours after winning the tournament for his alleged involvement in several murders.
The thirty year old poker player was arrested in ...
PokerStars Super Tuesday Tournament Results
PokerStars Super Tuesday tournament had a really good turnout of players this week. the tournament saw hundreds of players competing which created an increase in the prize pool. Online player KingKobeMVP was able to outlast the field and take down the top prize of the tourname...
Everest Poker Adds new player to roster
Everest Poker is moving into the French market and to help strengthen their move into the market the online poker room has added French poker pro Fabrice Soulier as their newest poker ambassador. Soulier will join fellow French player Antoine Saout as a member of the Eve...
Happy Thanksgiving From Internet-Poker.co.uk
To all of our US readers we’d like to extend a warm “Happy Thanksgiving!” from all of us at Internet-Poker.co.uk to all of you.
As you sit down to a wonderful thanksgiving dinner today, we hope you have plenty to be thankful for – your dear friends and...
2010 Irish Open Venue Announced by Paddy Power
Paddy Power Poker has announced more information for the 2010 Irish Open. The Irish Open is going to take place next year and many in the poker industry are looking forward to the event. Paddy Power Poker has been releasing information about the upcoming tournament as they pla...
PKR Live III won by Vincent Diver
APAT European Team Championships won by Poland
This past weekend was full of APAT events. One of those events was the APAT European Team Championships. The event took place at the G Casino with twelve countries fighting for the title. The event took place over a two day period and it was the Poland team that was able to ta...
APAT European Amateur Poker Title Won by Stuart Ward
One of the big events at last weekend’s APAT was the APAT European Amateur Championships. The event saw a field of 195 players from many different countries. It was Stuart Ward who was able to outlast the field and take down the win at the tournament.
The field was full...
UltimateBet re-launches with new name
UltimateBet recently announced they have re-launched their website and changed their name. the site is now known as UB and the online poker room has completed a makeover to represent a turning point for the company.
Paul Leggett the Tokwiro Chief Operating Officer commented: ...
New Details Announced for Shuffle Up and Deal
A new television show is scheduled to begin airing next year and new details have now been released. The show is called Shuffle Up and Deal and it is scheduled to air in thirteen half hour episodes beginning in 2010.
The show says they are going to “demystify the game o...
GUKPT Grand Final Begins Today
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Festival begins today at the Vic in London. The festival will begin today with the UK Heads up Championship as big name poker pros compete for the title prize. Bambos Xanthos is the recent World Heads up Champion and he is sure to be at ...
Dwan and Sahamies Compete in Round Two of Challenge
Tom Dwan and Ilari Sahamies competed in round two of the Million Dollar Challenge yesterday in London. The competition is named after Dwan and will see him compete against several poker pros in various forms of poker competition.
The game played this time was pot limit Omaha....
CardRunners Offering Players Part of Taylor Caby
Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby is one of the founding members of CardRunners and they are offering players a chance to win some extra cash courtesy of Caby. Caby will be competing in an upcoming poker tournament and CardRunners is giving away one percent of Caby&rsquo...
UK Poker Player could be extradited to United States
Marcus Bebb-Jones is a successful UK poker player who is facing extradition to the United States. It is alleged that Bebb-Jones murdered his wife twelve years ago and dumped her body in a United States National Park.
Bebb-Jones went on a spending spree with his wife’s c...
Absolute Poker Offering Turkey Tournament
Matt Keikoan Wins WSOP Circuit Tahoe Main Event
Durrrr Challenge Starting Today
Today in London the Durrrr Challenge will kick off and begin filming. The durrrr Million Dollar Challenge will take place at the Les Ambassadeurs club in Mayfair. Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan becomes the first player to have a televised poker tournament named after him.
The ...
Betfair Poker Announces Betfair Poker Live
UB Celebrating Joe Sebok Hitting One Million Twitter Followers
UltimateBet pro Joe Sebok recently hit over one million Twitter followers. This is an amazing feat considering all the millions of people that are on Twitter including major movie stars and celebrities. To celebrate the occasion, UltimateBet will be hosting a special tournamen...
Brad Booth Signs with Online Gaming Site
Brad Booth recently signed with online gaming site GR88 as their Head of Poker Development as well as their official spokesperson. “Yukon” Brad Booth formerly was sponsored by Doyles Room and Full Tilt Poker.
The poker pro is known for his appearances on the poker...
Joe Cada Wins 2009 WSOP Main Event
Just a few days ago twenty one year old Joe Cada became the youngest player to ever win the WSOP Main Event. Cada won the Main Event after defeating Darvin Moon in heads up play this past Tuesday morning.
The event took place at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suit...
Tom Dwan Challenges another poker player
The durrrr Million Dollar Challenge is set to take place in London next week and news has broke that Tom Dwan has invited online poker player Isildur1 to come and compete. Isildur1 is an online cash player based in Sweden who took millions from Dwan at Full Tilt Poker at the h...
Tom Dwan Joins Full Tilt Poker Team
Full Tilt Poker recently announced that they have a new member on their poker team. After many months of speculation, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan is the newest member of Team Full Tilt. At just twenty three, Dwan is the youngest person on the fourteen person team.
Dwan is k...
Doyle Brunson Comments on Joan Rivers Remarks
Just the other day, Joan Rivers and Doyle Brunson were scheduled to appear on the Dan Le Batard radio show in Miami. As many should recall, Rivers has a hatred for Annie Duke and the game of poker so she had words for Brunson while she was on the show. When Brunson appeared la...
IPN Bad Beat Hit Yet Again
GTECH G2’s International Poker Network (IPN) recently announced their bad beat jackpot was hit when an unlucky player was beat on a qualifying poker hand. The losing player Roger2010 earned over €210,000 for losing the hand and hitting the €601,000 jackpot.
Ro...
Brunson 10 Adds New Member
Doyles Room recently announced the signing of the fifth member of the Brunson 10. The Brunson 10 is a group of young talented poker players who will help revitalize the online poker room. The newest member is Dani ‘Ansky’ Stern.
Stern joins Alec Torelli, Amit Makh...
Poker pro Neil Channing Robbed
Popular UK poker pro Neil Channing recently revealed in his blog that he was robbed while in Dublin. Channing was robbed while he was in Dublin for the BoylePoker International Poker Open last month.
Channing had stopped at the CityWest Hotel, the same place where he won the ...
Tom Dwan Challenged by Ilari Sahamies
Blackpool Leg of the GUKPT Begins
DTD Deep stack Won by Alex Bowler
Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham was busy this past weekend as the monthly deep stack event was taking place. A total of 280 players participated in the event and the eventual winner was online poker pro Alex Bowler.
Players posted the £300 buy-in to compete in the event an...
Ivey to Win WSOP According to PartyBets
The World Series of Poker Main Event Final table is set to begin this weekend and although Phil Ivey will begin play seventh in chips, many think he is the man to beat. Ivey has been such a popular pick to win the Series that PartyBets has made Ivey the favorite to win at 7-2.
Playtech Limited Releases New Version of Poker Client
Playtech Limited is an online casino software developer and they recently announced the release of a new version of their poker client. The new version has been released on the iPoker Italian site and will be distributed among the domains on the iPoker Network.
Playtech state...
ClubWPT offering Players a Chance to Play Annie Duke
ClubWPT has announced they are going to be the title sponsor for the upcoming Annie Duke Celebrity Poker Night charity event. the tournament is scheduled for November 19th and ClubWPT is offering players a chance to play in the special tournament.
Two players will be able to ...
Vanessa Rousso to star in new television show
Many poker pros have opened up Twitter accounts so their fans can get a peek into their personal lives. One poker star who has a Twitter account is Vanessa Rousso and according to her latest Twitter post she is going to be starring in a new television show.
Rousso’s Twi...
Tom Dwan down Yet another $1 million+
WPT Enterprises purchased by Peerless Media
WPT Enterprises Inc., the mother ship of the World Poker Tour released a press release this past Monday which read that WPT Enterprises Inc. is now the property of Peerless Media, Ltd. The Peerless Media Ltd is a subsidiary of PartyGaming.
WPTE shareholders approved the deal ...
Worlds Heads Up Poker Championships won by Bambos Xanthos
This past weekend the Vic in London played host to the World Heads Up Poker Championships and the event finished up with Bambos Xanthos earning the first place finish. The final match up was between a new player James Mitchell and a legend at the Vic Bambos Xanthos.
Mitchell ...
Doyle Brunson Rooting for Darvin Moon This November
The November Nine is set to begin in just four days and pros who did not make the final nine are giving their support to certain players who did make the final cut. Legend in poker and no stranger to the final table, Doyle Brunson, commented that he will be supporting Darvin M...
Poker Pro Sues Harrah
Sally Ann Boyer is the 2007 World Series of Poker Ladies Event champion and she recently filed a lawsuit against Harrah’s. The lawsuit was filed because Boyer says the company used her name and likeness in advertising without her authorization.
Not only does Boyer claim...