Poker News
Giant online poker site reacts to credit card clampdown
The clampdown by Mastercard and Visa - allegedly on grounds that some online gambling operators are falsely coding transactions as non-gambling activities - last week has received a fast response...
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TSN, PokerStars.net launch TSN Poker Club
The Pokerstars.net marketing arm of the world's largest online poker site scored a solid coup last week with the announcement of a deal with Canadian sports broadcaster TSN to create a custom built poker environmen...
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Players Only and Sportsbook.com to change networks
Media statements released this week by online poker sites Players Only and Sportsbook.com have confirmed rumours circulating last week in affiliate circles that the two companies are about to move from the...
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The taxman wants his cut
The twoplustwo message board has been on fire this week after disclosures were made that a Dutch player was having tax problems.
The tax authorities are claiming a 29 percent cut of poker earnings in terms of the amended Betting and Gaming Tax Act, which claims the right to tax online winnings from foreign, but not dom...
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Antonius and Dwan clash again
After a famine of 36 days in the Dwan 50 000 hand challenge against Patrik Antonius, the last two days have seen a feast as the duo clashed again not once, but twice in 48 hours. And on both occasions it was Tom Dwan who walked awa...
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23-year-old bests a field of 745 to collect A$2 million main prize
The 2010 Aussie Millions main event concluded over the weekend with a local victory by Tyron Krost, a 23-year-old pro from from Bondi in Sydney who qualified via an online satellite on Party Poker, besting a star-studded field of 745 players over 7 da...
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After almost a year of desultory action, the Dwan Challenge surfaces again
If they've forgotten about the long-running Dwan 50 000 hand poker challenge, readers could be forgiven, as the action started again this week after a break of over a month...and almost a year since the first clash be...
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700 million mahjong players are out there.
The new Mahjong Logics software, recently approved and licensed by the Isle of Man regulator has already racked up its first sale.
Adriaan Brink's Mahjong Club this week signed up as a licensee for the software in an agreement that will see the Club will introduce one of the world's most popular and classic games over the Internet using Mahjong L...
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Aussie Millions gets underway, and a big win for Shak
In the land Downunder, the Aussie Millions main event is in progress with an entry field so far of 476 players, many of them top names in the game, and more expected to register Tuesday.
Names famous in both live and online poker games were among the entries, including Erick Lind...
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Over 50 000 players have made charitable donations to ease the suffering Haiti
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a Washington-based poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended the generosi...
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Young gun Cody teaches Timex, Eastgate and ElkY a few tricks
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Deauville, France has been won by a 21-year-old largely unknown poker pro called Jake Cody, who took down names like 'Timex' McDonald, f...
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And a well known poker name signs up
The burgeoning Cake Poker Network has added eight new poker rooms including international poker ace Phil 'The Unabomber' Laak's new site Unabomber Poker.com
"We knew we wanted to launch the sickest poker site...
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Rev up your playing speed with new hotkey system
Speed is important to many online poker players, especially those adept at multi-tabling, and the tracking and analysis specialist platform Holdem Manager has come up with the answer.
Enter Table Ninja, which the company is offering on a 30 day trial, confident in its ability to convince turbo-players on sites...
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Online poker division is building a formidable team
Party Gaming's online poker division, Party Poker continued to build its increasingly interesting professional player team this week with the add...
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More action as French gambling liberalisation approaches
With gambling liberalisation growing closer, the increasingly hectic French market saw yet another partnership deal between major companies taking shape this week.
The state gambling monopoly Francaise des Jeux and land casino group Lucien Barriere were reported to be teaming up to launch a seriously compet...
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