Poker News
Latest com.Score numbers again illustrate the popularity of internet gambling sites
The statistical measurement firm com.Score's July 2010 report on internet activity again illustrates the universal popularity and interest in online gambling, with gambling related websites among the highest gainers compared with the month of June 2010....
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Now Durrr takes on the Jungleman
With his 18 month long 50 000 hand million dollar Challenge competition with Patrik Antonius still running, internet high stakes maniac Tom 'durrr' Dwan has embarked on another mammoth confrontation.
Dwan announced the new Challenge in a typically...
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Mizzi denies allegations that he planned to multi-account
Currently generating a tremendous amount of heated online poker message board discussion (the last time we checked the 2plus2 thread was 42 pages long) is an allegation that...
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Commerce Casino's opposition to the legalisation of online poker attracts the Alliance's ire
The one million member online poker action group Poker Players Alliance came out with all guns firing this week in a press release criticising the Commerce Casino for its opposition t...
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Former Wall Street trader shows them how at the LA Bicycle Casino
In our last report on the $5 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Legends of Poker in Los Angeles, the final table of six was down to three handed play between New Yorker and former Wall Street trader Andy Frankenberger, Kyle Wilson and Tom Lee - sole survivors of an original field of 462 entrants, all keen to corral the $750 00...
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Little known e-gaming company buys Tokwiro's internet poker network
Taking many industry observers off-guard late Thursday was a press release from the largely unknown e-gaming firm Blanca Games revealing that it has acquired the interests of the C...
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Six survivors pursue a main prize of $750 000
The excitement is mounting at the Bicycle in Los Angeles as the final table of the $5 000 buy-in World Poker Tour Legends of Poker starts Wednesday with a $750 000 main prize awaitin...
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Government should be prepared to give up gambling monopoly and licence a small number of private operators
A Dutch Justice Ministry commission set up by Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin to look into the pros and cons of internet gambling has recommended that the government abandons its "barely enforced" monopoly on gambling and instead licenses a small number of pr...
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Bosnian player takes down Cyprus High Roller Freezeout
Bosnian poker pro Perica Bukara, who is now based in Germany, is enjoying a profitable August, having just taken down the $373 207 main prize in the $25 000 b...
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The indications are that its new home will be Cake Poker
Victory Poker.com, the online poker site owned by Dan Fleyshman's Who's Your Daddy energy drink company, is to move to the Cake Poker Network next (September) month, according to an unidentified Poker News Dai...
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Online poker flourishing in small Baltic nation
The Estonian Tax and Customs Board has issued PokerStars, the world's largest poker site, an activity license in Estonia.
Tomas Larsson, PokerStars’ Baltics country manager, said, "Applying for a licence is always...
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But pigs could fly and hell freeze over before the California Tribal Business Alliance will support it.
The Morongo Band of Mission Indians still appears intent on cornering the internet poker market in California, and has been joined by another 21 tribes in a consortium designed to claim exclusive rights to intra...
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Could operators and providers do more?
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout.com's report for mid-August showed that across the industry, online poker traffic dropped 1.1 percent, with nine of the top ten tracked sites all booking a loss for the week.
Considered in the context of a growing number of corporate financial re...
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3D online poker site is not resting on its laurels
PKR.com, the UK-based 3D online poker website, has come a long way since its historic launch on August 17, 2006 with advanced graphics and innovative proprietary software.
In the past four years the online poker compa...
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Expanding in the US, social games developer is building up a stake in Asia, too.
The San Francisco-based internet social gaming developer Zynga has made its Zynga Texas Poker offering available in China as well as on Facebook in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, with a localised version playable in traditional Chinese or English - part of a continuing drive into the Asian market, report...
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