Phil Laak richer by a quarter-million dollars Facing a talented final table, poker pro Phil 'Unabomber' Laak triumphed in the fifth edition o...
Star-studded lineup The final table is set at the Party Poker.com World Open V poker spectacular, and it includes some big poker names. The Matchroom Sport organised event has reached its climax after a run that has lasted since Sunday 11 October. For the first time, the final table action takes place in the prestigious Palm...
Top names take a hammering at the online high stakes tables Midweek saw a mass turnout of big name poker players on the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker, but according to the independent poker stats site MarketPulse, few of them escaped unscathed. Th...
Legislative carve outs make possible Internet gambling in Illinois The notorious legislative carve-outs for US online horseracing have made possible another gambling tax bonanza, this time for the state of Illinois. Online gamblers with a penchant to play t...
He may be trailing in the Dwan challenge, but on the nosebleed tables the famous Finn is doing well Finnish poker ace Patrik Antonius may be trailing Tom Dwan in the 50 000 hand Dwan Challenge , but he is running like an express train on the Full Tilt Poker high stakes cash game virtual tables, according to the latest independent reports from M...
But an increasingly voracious appetite for higher levys could scare bookies away A report by the Sports Business Group at Deloittes has revealed that horseracing is the UK's second most popular sport after football and generated expenditure of GBP 3.4 bill...
Californian robot-play lawsuits described as "baseless" by online poker company The $80 000 lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker.com filed in California recently by two players banned for multi-accounting and robot play has triggered an official statement from the company. In the statement, the company claims: “Full Tilt Poker has bee...
Pastor's success in gaming is generating some good poker revenues for charity project. A South Carolina priest has won first $25 000 and this weekend another $100 000 on the "Pokerstars Million Dollar Challenge," a new poker game show, advancing substanti...
New distribution agreement with Neufbox TV The Poker Channel, Europe's largest gaming television network, has announced the signing of a new distribution agreement in France with Neufbox TV, the popular TV service from SFR, the second largest telecoms company in Europe. The Poker Channel will be available 24 hours a day to all SFR's TV sub...
Sebok expands on scandal follow-up Recently recruited UltimateBet poker pro Joe Sebok, who appears to have become the online poker firm's spokesman regarding the cheating debacle by former consultants last year, has revealed further details on the company's attempts to sat...
Ivey sets the pace in online high stakes cash games The virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker Wednesday night were the scene for a new record in online cash game poker as Phil Ivey beat a succession of hardcore Internet pros to end the evening with a record take-home. Playing the high-stakes fixed-limit H.O.R.S.E. genre of the game, I...
And why? The Pitbull Poker debacle took an interesting turn mid-week when players reported that the non-operational online poker website was sporting a formal announcement - something that has hitherto been lacking from alleged owner Kevin Baronowski and his partners....
Antonius and Dwan make a determined 1 063 hand assault of long-running contest Eight months after playing the first hand in the million dollar, 50 000 hand Dwan Challenge, first contestant Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan hit the virtual tables again this week in a determined assault on the slow-moving competition. The two managed to at last cr...
Internet pro wins EPT London 23-year-old Internet poker pro Aaron Gustavson from Las Vegas continued his successful online and live tourney run this year with a resounding win in the main event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour event in London this week. Surviving a record field 730 playe...
Mansion88 and 5050Poker sign up. The Isle of Man-based online gambling software and poker network provider Microgaming has signed up two new operators for its Microgaming Poker Network - Mansion88 and 5050Poker. Management of the 5050Poker w...
European Poker Tour competition eclipses WSOPE numbers The management at PokerStars will be delighted with the news this week that registrations for the online poker company's European Poker Tour main event in London have eclipsed those of the WSOPE in the same city last month. 730 players entered for the EPT London main event now playing,...
Ten major online poker networks will initially be tracked After nearly a year of development the online gambling consultancy H2 Gambling Capital has released its Internet poker-tracking product to clients. The product, which provides up to 250 data points for each poker platform covered every day, will initially be available to three group...
Insider sources point to early departure of two troubled poker sites Unconfirmed insider information that two skins on Playtech's iPoker Network - Dirty Stack Poker and Propaganda Poker - are on the way out of the network has been reported by the onli...
Skill the key factor, says court The Poker Players Alliance has issued a statement applauding the latest developments in a case in which five South Carolina poker players appear to have won the skill vs. luck argument, ultimately defeating charges of unlawful gambli...
Mixing it up on poker diversity The popularity of the H.O.R.S.E multi-poker variant at major live tournaments illustrates well the demand for the more diverse and challenging concept of switching to other genres of the game during a competition, and online gambling sites have been quick to respond with their own versions, and some innovative al...
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