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PartyPoker Starts Palladium Points Race

Nov 30, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites
PartyPoker is now offering their poker players a chance to win a piece of $155,000 in cash as part of the Palladium Lounge. Players will be competing for cash prizes as well as one package to the Premier League Poker Final. The Premier League Poker Final will be in Las Ve...

Poker Player Arrested for connection with murders

Nov 30, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 27, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 27, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites

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

Nov 26, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 25, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 25, 2009 by Sadonna Price
PKR Live was hosting their third tournament on the UK poker circuit this past weekend and the event saw a good size turnout. The tournament took place at the Loose Cannon Club in London and it was Vincent Diver who earned the first place win. The tournament had a buy-in of &#...

APAT European Team Championships won by Poland

Nov 24, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 24, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 23, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites

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

Nov 23, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 20, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 20, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 19, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 19, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 18, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites
Next Thursday online poker room Absolute Poker will be hosting a special Turkey Tournament. The online poker room will be hosting special qualifiers next Thursday for players to win a seat to their Sunday $200,000 guaranteed tournament. Absolute Poker will be holding twen...

Matt Keikoan Wins WSOP Circuit Tahoe Main Event

Nov 18, 2009 by Sadonna Price
The World Series of Poker circuit recently stopped at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe to host the $5,000 no limit hold’em championship. The event attracted sixty four players which created a prize pool of $299,400. The tournament lasted two days and it was Matt Keikoan...

Durrrr Challenge Starting Today

Nov 17, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 17, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Online poker room Betfair Poker has announced the Betfair Poker Live event. The event will take place in Kiev on December 15th through the 20th at the River Palace. The River Palace is located in the center of Kiev on the bank of the river Dnepr. The main event is a $1000...

UB Celebrating Joe Sebok Hitting One Million Twitter Followers

Nov 16, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 16, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 13, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 13, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 12, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 12, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 11, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites

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

Nov 11, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites

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

Nov 10, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 10, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Ilari Sahamies recently commented in his blog that he will be playing a $500,000 pot limit Omaha heads-up challenge against Tom Dwan. The challenge is expected to take place next week on the 17th or 18th of November in London. The rules of the challenge are as follows: pl...

Blackpool Leg of the GUKPT Begins

Nov 9, 2009 by Sadonna Price
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is continuing this week with its Blackpool leg of the tour. The tour kicks off today with a £ 300 + 30 No Limit Hold'em tournament and will continue until Sunday the 15th. The Blackpool event is one of the more exciting stops on the GUKPT ...

DTD Deep stack Won by Alex Bowler

Nov 9, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 6, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 6, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Software

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

Nov 5, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Sites

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

Nov 5, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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+

Nov 4, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players
Tom Dwan has a very up and down year in 2009 as he has seen big losses and big wins. But this past week has probably been his worst week of the year. In just one week Dwan has managed to lose over $1 million on two different occasions. Dwan has lost over $2 million in ...

WPT Enterprises purchased by Peerless Media

Nov 4, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 3, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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

Nov 3, 2009 by Sadonna Price
Category: Poker Players

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

Nov 2, 2009 by Sadonna Price

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...

Caesars Classic Main Event Won by Isaac Baron

Nov 2, 2009 by Sadonna Price
The Caesars Palace Classic $5,000 Main Event recently concluded and it was Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron who earned the first place win. Baron managed to gain a huge chip lead to earn the just over $246,000 first place prize. The event took two days to complet...
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