The 40th edition of world poker's most spectacular live event is underway in Las Vegas The planet's bi...
Hi-tech studies of cerebral activity in gamblers reveal some interesting traits InfoPowa readers may recall previous reports on the activities of Foviance, a hi-tech researcher into online user-experience that has developed specialised technology to identify subconscious decisions made by gamblers. Still working with t...
New Wii game has an adult element A new game for the Wii game-playing system will have to be handled sensitively by the company's WiiWare division but has solid adult potential. The game, developed by GameLoft is branded Sexy Poker and has been accused of using nudity as a reward. The game has already run into approval difficulties with the...
Handsome return on the $25 000 buy-in Analogies with the fall and rise of the Phoenix are perhaps inevitable when considering Ashton "theASHMAN103" Griffin's huge win this week in the Full Tilt $25 000 Heads Up World Championship, playing some of the biggest names in p...
Florida legislators suggest research on the implications of Internet poker Savvy political observers in Florida last week were suggesting that the Bill to watch is HB 425, a regulatory proposal which easily passed through the legislature and contains an interesting provision that could portend future attempts to legalise internet poker in the s...
PKR combines with Bluff Media in WSOP live broadcasting project The British online poker room PKR.com announced this week that they have agreed a blockbuster deal with poker publisher Bluff Media that will see PKR.com act as the exclusive sole live broadca...
New Interactive division formed, and Garber involvement confirmed The major US gambling group Harrah's Entertainment Inc set the Internet message boards alight as the week ended by announcing the establishment of a new subsidiary, Harrah's Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (HIE) to manage the global growth of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and...
Dwan down another $32 706 in latest session Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan got it together for another session in the million dollar Dwan Challenge midweek, playing 700 hands to bring the total played of the 50 000 required to 14 249. It was another weak session f...
New reality television show will appeal to pokerheads Online and live poker fans alike can look forward to an absorbing new poker series on US cable television come August 2009. Cable operator G4's new show "2 Months, $2 Million" is expected to debut with a new concept that follows the progress of four poker players competing to win $2 mil...
$445 709 collected by winner Lunkin Vitaly Lunkin had to contend with a final table that included Internet and live poker aces like Alexander Kravchenko and Ivan Demidov this week as the final table of the Pokerstars Russian Poker Tour Moscow played out....
Partypoker, 888 and Pokerstars get the best search engine results Interesting research by the search marketing firm Greenlight positions Partyp...
Appeal Court rules against government gambling monopoly Radio Sweden reports that Swedish poker players are elated by a decision earlier this week by the Court of Appeal in Gothenburg that declares poker tournaments in the country generally legal. The court threw out an earlier verdict by a district court in Uddevalla that had sentenced p...
12 days of action culminates in main event and a $432 400 win for Internet player The twelfth edition of Full Tilt Poker's online series of poker (FTOPS) ended with a disappointingly low turnout for the main event, resulting in the guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 million having to be topped up by $200 000. Entries for the $535 buy-in event number...
Cannibalisation fears as players opt for the cheaper option One of the more interesting reads this weekend was an interview in Poker Daily News with Dan Stewart, the very clued-up owner of the independent online poker tracking website PokerScout.com. In the interview, Stewart makes some astute observations about the introduction of mini-tournam...
Conservative state could be moving out of the gambling Dark Ages Draconian and antiquated gambling laws that prohibit gambling, and especially poker, in the state of South Carolina could be in for revision as two key bills move out of the legislature committee stage and toward full debate and voting. Senate Bills 535 and 628 cleared the sta...
Lee Jones departs CardRunners to join growing network Poker pro Lee Jones, who was at one time poker room manager for the giant PokerStars.com website but has more recently been chief operating officer at the poker coaching site CardRunners, is joining the Cake Poker network. Jones departed CardRunner earlier this year, commenting on the si...
Gambling bills run out of time Fears that gambling measures would run out of time in the Texas legislature were realised this week when it was revealed that these were among dozens of proposals that the state House of Representatives would not have time to consider in a calendar that already stretches to 28 pages. The proposal to change the...
Popular social gaming specialist to sponsor main event seats San Francisco-based Zynga, which claims it is the world's largest developer of social games for giant sites...
One of online and live poker's great characters to act as ambassador for online poker site Scotty 'the prince of poker' Nguyen will have to watch his cussin' and tournament behaviour to live up to his new post as roving ambassador for the major online poker we...
WSOP gaming expo rebranded The lifestyle expo that supports the annual World Series of Poker events is to have a remake this year. Out goes the old 'Gaming Lifestyle Expo' to be replaced by a more upbeat branding 'PokerPalooza'. Commenting on the change, Ty Steward, marketing director for the WSOP, said: "It's going to be part trade show,...
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