Poker News
Online poker site CEO voices concerns over late payments
Previous reports that the Merge Poker Network is somewhat dilatory with player payouts appeared to be confirmed this week when Mike Eloff, chief executi...
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Mystery Swede's return match with Hastings brings in over a half million dollars
The still unidentified Swedish high stakes online poker player with the ninja avatar, Isildur1, continued his winning run Tuesday, again appearing o...
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Online poker giant Party Poker.com has announced a new online poker championship event with a top prize of $250 000 scheduled for launch in March this (2010) year.
The inaugural Online Cash Game Championships (OCGC) will be divided into seven levels. At each level,...
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Dwan again emerges ahead
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius confronted one another again in a short but sharp clash of 79 hands lasting 16 minutes over the weekend, bringing total hands completed in the 50 000 hand Challenge to 32 874, or 66 percent of the total. It is believed to have been...
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Business magazine again focuses on the industry
Forbes magazine has followed its article on Pokerstars earlier this week with a wider look at online poker, particularly in the United States.
Although the article, which can be read in its entirety at: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0301/gambling-bluffing-gov...
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But not too much in the way of fireworks
Followers of the high stakes poker action on the virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker report the return of phenom Isildur1 - the player who risked millions in super-aggressive play that swung from win to lose and back to win....only to end up overall in the red...
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Third time unlucky for legal action against Full Tilt et al
The litigation launched by Clonie Gowen against Full Tilt Poker and a range of other defendants appears to have run its course with a third adverse judgement for the poker pro.
According to court documents surfacing this week a motion to dismiss...
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Latest Pokerscout stats give a snapshot of the online poker market
The latest weekly statistics from the independent online poker statistical aggregator Pokerscout.com show that Pokerstars still dominates the sector with a daily average of 32 600 cash games players,...
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The pressure stays on in the South
The Alabama state government's drive to suppress illegal gambling continued last weekend with a raid on a Pelham home conducted by a joint task force of Hoover and Pelham enforcement officials armed with a search warrant.
The task force found 72 players in action and thousands of dollars on the tables which led to...
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Pokerstars prepares to celebrate 40 billionth hand of online poker.
There was a time - and it wasn't that long ago - that the achievement of a billion hands of poker...
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Players can test their poker skills against 35 top professional players
The Poker Pros Network announced late last year has gone live, with 35 poker pros ready and willing to provide still competition for poker fans wishing to hone their skills or win prizes by beating the professionals.
The facilities are open 24/7 with a professional team that includes Poker Hall of Famers T.J.C...
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Another 883 hands completed, and Dwan stretches his overall lead to by almost $315 000.
Another three hour chapter in the Dwan 50 000 hand, million dollar Challenge against Patrik Antonius has passed into history, with Dwan stretching his overall lead in the Challenge by $314 828 afte...
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Respect the player, says PPA
The 1.2 million member strong Poker Players Alliance was a prominent testifier at Tuesday's California Senate Governmental Organization Committee hearings (see previous InfoPowa reports), suggesting to state officials that without the buy-in fro...
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$25 000 buy-in planned
There will be some special high stakes action in the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) this year; sponsor Pokerstars.net has announced that the US event will include a special $25 000 b...
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After two weeks of bad cards, Finnish high stakes expert makes a big hit
Followers of the high risk, big win online poker pros who frequent Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables are commenting this week on a change for the bett...
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