Poker News
Improving the quality of play at 3D online poker site
Phil Galfond's new online poker training venture Bluefire Poker and the UK 3D Internet poker...
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Poker disappoints in latest financial numbers
Party Gaming plc may have started out as a primarily online poker destination, but the performance of this sector of its wider group activities was disappointing last year, judged by the 2008 full year financials released th...
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New promo from Party Poker is a big investment for the company
Gibraltar-based Party Poker.com launches its audacious Million Dollar Hand promotion today (March 11th 2009) which will run through to 22nd March. The promotion offers the chance to win a cool $1 million or more through action at the website's real mo...
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New initiative seeks to change a two centuries old ban to allow social games and fundraisers
For 207 years the US state of South Carolina has maintained a law against any games using cards or dice, but that could be about to change. The antiquity of the law makes it ineffective in a new era where games and attitudes have changed, and Charleston senator and Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell has given notice that he intends...
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Bwin partners with poker company in one of the world's great cities
The romantic and historic city of Venice will be the venue for the first major poker tournament in Italy currently being planned by the World Poker Tou...
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A switch in emphasis is better than relocating to the boonies
Russia's ban on land casinos in its main cities, effective July 1st this year, has presented operators with some tough decisions. Is it worthwhile to relocate to the four special gambling zones - mostly out in the boonies - decreed by the government, or is there an alternative course?
A growing number of operators are seriously considering staying where they are, but...
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Svenska Spel Internet poker – keeping an eye on time and money
Online poker players at the Swedish government's gambling monopoly Svenske Spel have been given another optional tool with which to pace their action with the launch of Spelstatus, which shows users how much they have won or lost on tot...
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Tough finale with Vanessa Rousso
With a competitor list of 64 of the top poker players in the world, a buy-in of $20 000 generating a prize pool of $1.28 million and a first prize of $500 000, the 2009 NBC National Hea...
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Beta testing program going well
One of the Internet's fastest rising online poker networks, Cake Poker, has been quietly testing its new mobile offering using what is understood to be proprietary technology.
Launched on February 12th 2009, the Beta test program for the Windows based mobile offering has appare...
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Hot on the heels of the 25th billion hand comes news that 20 million players use online poker site
The numbers are staggering, attracting as much attention as the billions that governments are throwing at sub-prime crisis mortgage banks; Pokerstars talks in the millions and billions when it comes to o...
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Online poker subscription site members have designs on T-shirt prizes
Spade Club.com, an online poker subscription website, is in the middle of an intensely member-participative drive to develop company T-shirts, which it will sell in an online store currently being planned. So far, over a hundred members-cum-designers have responded to...
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Online poker coaching website wants to draw attention to the skill vs. chance issue
Online poker coaching website Bluefire Poker has come up with a high rpofile initiative to draw attention to the skill vs. chance debate in poker - a $1 million challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama and any member of the United States Congress that an...
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Impressive roster of Team Full Tilt pros to coach players
Full Tilt Poker.com is to improve its players' chances of success through coaching by top poker pros following the opening of the site's new Full Tilt Poker Academy this week.
The teachers roster for the virtual classroom reads like a who's who of...
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Ziigmund and Durrr contribute to poker ace's profits
The independent online poker stats site MarketPulse reports that Phil Ivey enjoyed a profitable session Thursday a...
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Cloutier faces 505 charges in Louisiana
33-year-old Louisiana bar owner and poker player Eric "Lafayette" Cloutier is in a world of trouble this week, acording to an Associated Press report. Following a nine month investigation, the former professional ice hockey player faces 505 charges involving tax evasion, fraud and money laundering, and has been arrested by Louisian...
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