Mansion Poker announced this week that Andreas Krause has won the Mansion Poker European Poker Player of the year award. Kraus who is from Germany bid farewell to 2007 by beating out the Rookie of the Year award winner, who originally appeared to be a shoe in for the award. ...

In the ongoing effort to protect gambling addicts, Reverend Tim Costello, an anti gambling and poker machine campaigner has made a request to newly appointed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.  The request is for the Prime Minister to enable commonwealth law...

Gambling establishments are close to become a reality east of the Philippines, to the island of Rota, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Despite the fact that last Friday, the appropriation bill almost failed at the House of Representatives...

Last Friday, the Poker Million VI was coming to a close and final table play would begin to determine who would go home one million dollars richer. Joe Beevers would make it to the final table and win the top prize. He was up against very stiff competition with Ian Cox, Liam...

It was recently reported that Hagen Berman Sobol Shapiro, the law firm in the Yahoo!, Google case, released a statement saying that the civil trial against the two companies will test the liability of both and ask the courts to further restrict their ability to produce simil...

2008 will bring a sombrous change to smokers who gamble in casinos in the state of Colorado (US). December 31st will be the last day that those players can light up a cigarette inside a gambling establishment. January 1st will enact a new law and these smokers will need...

With every New Year bringing new innovative changes and commerce finding new ways catering to consumers, casinos are no exception. The near future has us looking at casinos trying to gain the patronage of the next generation of gamblers. Closing the generational gap in slot ...

Ireland will soon have their own gaming commission to ensure that upcoming new laws are followed by companies seeking to attain a casino license. Justice Minister Lenihan had announced that he feels there can be compromises made in regards to gambling and that he does not wa...

iAmplifyVegas, an online poker coaching site has announced their latest in instructional videos. This video, iAmplify Poker University joins together to of the biggest legends in poker.

This video which will be only available at iAmplifyPoker combines the knowledge ...

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The 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) can breathe a sigh of relief that business will continue to be structured as usual, even though Harrah Entertainment has a multi-billion dollar pending sale to two non-public firms. According to Gary Thompson, WSOP Communications Directo...

According to rep...

The ten lucky finalists will battle it out on January 7th, 2008, at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, for...

iAmplifyVegas.com will have the privilege of Doyle Brunson and Mike Caro’s expertise in creating their latest innovative instructional video. The online poker site had made the announcement the two professional poker players and iAmplify Poker University are teaming up...

Pham is familiar with the Poker Player of the Year Awar...

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Increasing their poker business with an online casino was a logical progression for Stryyke Entertainment Ltd.; licensed in Malta, this gaming operator offers sports betting and poker on the Ongame Network.

Stryyke Entertainment Ltd. signed an agreement to ...

"On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me"... Sound familiar? One poker website is taking cues from the popular Christmas song, but instead of golden rings and turtle doves, they are giving free rolls and prize money. The website Pacific Poker began a ...

For a long time English speaking poker players have had access to the Poker Academy instructional programs, Poker Academy Poker Pro and Poker Academy Prospector. But as poker continues to grow in many nations and countries, players who speak different languages were not able...

The fourth annual NBC National Heads-up Poker Championship is scheduled to take place this February 29th through March 2nd. It will take place in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace and NBC will air the event on their television in April. The station has already begun sending invita...

Seats at United Kingdom (UK) poker tournaments or satellites cannot be won as prizes to those that are not in the UK Gambling Commission’s list approved areas. The UK may be in offense of the Gambling Act of 2005, Section 331.  According to a statement i...

The European Commission has come under fire from the European Gaming and Betting Association over their delay in taking the Denmark government to the court. Denmark has been blocking all access to foreign online poker and gambling operators. The Denmark government has been r...

The Full Tilt Poker website has been running a tournament series where players can participate in freerolls and win World Poker Tour prize packages. The latest winner is twenty-four year old maintenance worker coralreefers. He has only been playing for a short time, a little...

The Action Poker Network launched a new poker website last week called GearPoker. The site will find the same standard games that the Action Poker Network provides and also a few new features. The site has Big 2 Poker, Guts Poker and Chinese Poker games. The site also provid...

The gambling issue has yet another opponent, certain religious sectors.  Leaders who have been at odds surrounding gay marriages and cannot seem to come up with a compromise have seamlessly come together regarding the issue of gambling.

US Governor, Deval Patrick...

The 2008 Irish Poker Championship has just invited one of the newest and up and coming faces in poker, former female light welterweight champion, Agniezka

A new poker site enters the market with the launching of Action Poker Network’s latest addition, GearPoker.com.  Having debuted on December 6th, GearPoker is licensed and regulated through the Government of Antigua and Barbuda.  Action Poker is a Playsafe Hol...

In New Zealand, a nine year old girl reported seeing a poker website commercial on television while watching The Simpsons. She reported seeing the commercial two times on two separate occasions. The girl told her father about the commercials. Her father happens to be John St...

Many online casinos and poker sites have been expanding their markets to other countries and languages. As other countries expand their laws to allow such sites to advertise and run in their country the need for sites in other languages have grown. Also poker has become incr...

This past Saturday morning James Po Ho Cheung was found dead inside of his vehicle. He had been shot by someone who is believed to have been waiting for him to return home. Cheung was the president and CEO of 777 Sports Entertainment Group, which runs the website 777Betz. Th...

After passing the UIGEA last year, the federal government then dropped the enforcement of the regulations of that law in the laps of the US banking industry. The banking industry warned the US Treasury today that it will be impossible to comply with the enforcement unless...

USA Poker Players competing in ...

888.com, a leading online casino, has announced it has entered into a white label partnership deal with Kamay Holdings Ltd. This agreement will allow Kamay Holdings to provide gambling software beginning in January 2008.

The partner ship is hoping to allow for increa...

The age old debate about skill vs. luck in the game of poker has now been taken up by The British Broadcasting Corporation who examines the argument using the insight of a professional poker player, a statistician and a regulatory authority spokesperson.

Graham Newma...

In the final hand of the tournament Hachem held an 8 to 1 chip lead over Greg ...

The PokerTek company who created the Heads-Up Challenge World Series of Poker Edition, dealer-less tables have announced they will be distributing their product to the United Kingdom and Ireland. The dealer-less tables were introduced earlier this year and have already been ...

This past Wednesday was the last day comments could be submitted to the United States Department of Treasury on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Comments could be made about the proposed regulations that are being set up for the UIGEA and iMEGA got their comme...

The 2007 1st Annual Asia Pacific Tour (APPT) announced Grant Levy as the winner of the tournament that ended Sunday.

The Tour which was hosted by PokerStars had been full of excitement as unexpected players had emerged.  In a quote Saturday, APPT P...

It has been 2 months since Ultimatebet finished up the 6th annual Aruba Poker Classic.  With it receiving praise from the US and international poker community, UB announced plans for the 2008 Aruba Classic poker tournament on the poplar island resort area.

Geor...

This week there will be a hearing in Massachusetts on Governor Deval Patrick legislation to bring three resort casinos to Western Massachusetts, Southeastern Massachusetts, and metropolitan Boston. It will also contain verbiage that would make online poker and online gamb...

In a move to distinguish themselves from their online gaming site 24hPoker.com, 24hPoker Holding Group AB (formerly Daydreams Holding AB) is changing its name. They will now become Entraction Holding AB and will be able to solely focus on the product and service end for the...

Yesterday the world was supposed to find out what decision the World Trade Organization had made on the Antigua case against the United States. The panel was supposedly going to award Barbuda and Antigua some or all of what they were asking for in their case.

According...

Top online gambling businesses use the Income Access Offers to bring players and affiliates to their sites. The Income Access Offers European CPA has added more gaming partners to their ad network and this is bringing more traffic to gaming websites such as Pacific Poker and...

A contemporary online poker room whose concept was created “by online poker players for online poker players” has newly launched; Greyhound Poker.  Paying close attention to poker players’ specific needs and wants, Greyhound Poker promises to be cuttin...

It was announced yesterday that beginning in 2008, VEGA PROMOTIONAL SYSTEMS, INC will be launching a Latin American Poker Tour. The tour would take place in eight different Latin American countries. These countries include Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Puerto Ri...

There is a new online poker room being launched this weekend. Greyhound Poker new room will be 100% flash based meaning it will have no software to download and will be played straight from the browser.

This new poker room will feature all the popular online poker g...

Microgaming, a leading online gambling software developer based in Isle of Man has plans to reveal its latest online poker software at the International Casino Exhibition (ICE) in London at the first of 2008.

In the new poker offering, Microgaming claims to offer a c...

The website FlopTurnRiver recently announced that they have joined forces with Full Tilt Poker and have added their Hand History Converter tool to the FullTilt website. The Hand History Converter has become very popular especially for sites that see a lot of traffic such as ...

This Tuesday will be the first ever Celebrity Poker Tournament hosted by the T.J. Martell Foundation. The foundation was founded by Tony Martell after the death of his son who suffered from leukemia. The foundation raises money to fund research centers for treatments and cur...

Mansion poker recently added a new feature to their website. This new feature is called "Create Your Own Tournaments" and is an option for players who may not find the type of tournament they are looking for or just want to have one with their friends with customiz...

The European Poker Awards took place this past week in Paris and Annette Obrestad became the youngest player ever to win an award. She won the Tournament Performance of the Year award and beat out fellow nominees Bruno Fitoussi and Carlos Mortensen. Annette was congratulated...

          Over the past few months, Representative Barney Frank has been steadily receiving support for his Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act. Mr. Frank now has three Representatives that are helping support hi...

              A thirteen poker tournament series kicks off today at Ultimate Bet and will be the largest online poker series the site has ever had. The tournaments will take place over a ten day period and has ...

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Late registration is one of the new features available. Players can...

More than a year ago the offices of the online casino well known for the purchase of several strange eBay products, including Paris Hiltons tooth floss, Golden Palace was raided by the Montreal police.

According to the French language news service of CBC, Golden Pa...

December 15th will see a tournament that will benefit the Happy House that was founded by Nancy Cartwright and Rose Gross.

Gross an author and producer of documentaries, along with Cartwright feel it is their mission to aid communities in becoming after and building...

Three Titan Poker Players have been added to the list of online  poker players that will be going to the European Poker Tournament after having one satellite prize packages from Titan Poker Two of the winning poker players have won trips to Prague, the other to Dubl...

With the recent Dinh Le’s recent victory at the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the Vietnamese talent in poker has once again come to light. Le was playing for Britain, where he has lived for the past 10 years, but is of Vietnamese decent. Other players who ha...