Poker News
$13.3 million settlement reached with processor
Federal prosecutors continue to go after financial processors in their attempts to stifle online poker, reports Forbes Business, revealing that the authorities reached a settlement worth $13.3 million Tuesday with Ahmad Khawaja, together with his firms, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems.
The settlement brings to a close a year-long is...
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Euro 400 000 winner's prize for Kevin Stani
The Pokerstars European Poker Tournament's Estonia stop was concluded in Tallinn this week with the surprise defeat of respected French pro Arn...
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An exciting finish with a heads up deal for edition XVII
The seventeenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series came to an exciting close this week after 12 days, as an original field of 4 805 players was refined to a heads up between TyboVegas and DQnk that ended with a win for the former but a better...
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Government support for a monopoly may have serious consequences for media and advertising companies
Finland's government may need to batten down the hatches for an imminent media and advertising storm generated by its attempts to establish an online poker monopoly.
The Finns started manoeuvring on the issue at the beginning of 2010, when the government released its plan to open a...
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Complete top-to-bottom re-development of a 3D fave
The UK and Alderney licensed 3D online poker site PKR.com has undergone a number of software upgrades since it launched in 2006, but the biggest re-development to date has just been completed with the launch of the company’s v. 2.0.
PKR was among the forerunners in i...
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This one is a freebie....for now.
The respected Card Player magazine has launched a well thought through and effective aid for iPhone poker players...and for the moment it’s available free of charge.
Users can calculate the winning od...
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Internet poker among issues in which casino association is interested
The American Gaming Association spent $360 000 – an increase over the $326 000 it spent last year in the same period - in Q2/2010 lobbying, mandatory disclosure filings have revealed.
However, the Q2 spend is considerably lower than Q1/2010’s expenditure on lobbying which amounted to $430 000.
The Associatio...
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19-year-old Austrian leads throughout
A 19-year-old Klagenfurt, Austria internet poker player who qualified in an online satellite took home the $247 441 main prize in the Pokerstars Latin Ame...
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PTR confirms encryption issue has been addressed
The encryption issue at the Cake Poker network which was picked up by independent poker information website Poker Table Ratings.com has been successfully addressed.
PTR confirmed this week that the problems at Cake Poker had been solved by adding SSL encryption to the old XOR client and new beta software.
The site's confirmation followed earlier assurances from Cake's card ro...
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$50 million in guaranteed prize pools for 62 events available from September 5th.
Pokerstars has released the full and final schedule for its 2010 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), after seeking input from the o...
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888’s business-to-business arm targets the United States
Dragonfish, the b2b division of 888 Holdings plc, has announced the launch of a free play World Series of Poker (WSOP) offering for the United States.
The offering is part of Dragonfish’s agreement with Harrah's Interactive Entertainment (HIE), and follows the successful launch of a real money WSOP-branded site...
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$19 million in guaranteed prize pools
The seventeenth edition of the popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicked off this week with 34 events offering a total of $19 million in guaranteed prize pools and plenty of action over an average of three events a day for the next 11 days.
Highlights of the 34 tou...
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After a three month hiatus, Antonius and Dwan resume the action
It's been a long three months - with the World Series of Poker, online high stakes action and a slew of other tourneys in between - since Tom Dwa...
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Daily tourneys planned by Pokerstars
Poker fans among the fairer sex have a new online destination this week as Pokerstars.com launches it's Women's Poker League with the emphasis that this one is strictly and exclusively for the female gender.
The initial plan is to run the League until the end of 2010, with dail...
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Playdom powers Poker Palace
The World Series of Poker has launched a new Facebook application called Poker Palace, where fans of the game can play for free and win virtual cash.
Poker Palace is powered by Playdom Games and has five and ten-handed ring games and Sit & Go tournaments. Players begin with 6,000 virtual chi...
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