Poker News
"LarsLuzak" enjoys a truly millionaire month
According to the independent online poker statistical site MarketPulse, many top online poker players continued to score bigtime during February games, mainly at high s...
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But it is presently doing the online gambling industry some good
The business news agency Bloomberg has realised what many online gambling operators are starting to acknowledge - times may be tough, but there are great business opportunities for the industry being generated by the current economic crisis and its impact on the consumer.
In an interesting article this week, the news...
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Industry veteran Hilly Ehrlich to join Initial's board
Loyalty rewards specialist firm Initial Rewards Limited has signed a three year deal with online poker network group Merge Gaming to provide loyalty platforms and support across all of the latter's licenced brands.
Initial director Lee Reuben said: “Through this deal with Merge Gaming, Initial Rewards re-affirms its leading po...
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Earnings claims questioned
The online poker chestnut 'pokerbots' surfaced in the UK press again over the weekend as The Times carried a short story in which a botmaster claimed to earn up to GBP 50 000 a year deploying remote softwares on small stakes and multi-table games.
The article was questioned by some readers, who pointed out that bots are only really good playing Limit gam...
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But only if he or she is an UltimateBet qualifier
Tokwiro Enterprises, the owner of the UltimateBet.com online poker website on the Cereus Network, is budgetting a massive $10 million bonus for this y...
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Fifth session only lasts for 34 minutes
Tom "Durrr" Dwan and his first opponent in the Dwan million dollar challenge, Patrik Antonius, managed to put together a fifth session of play over the weekend, although it was brief at only just over half-an-hour and 226 hands with Dwan pleadin...
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But Cimpan pulls it off to take home $1 686 760
The finale of the 2009 WPT Los Angeles Poker Classic this week saw a final table to daunt all but the strongest hearts - Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, hot Internet player Mike Sowers, Chris Karagulleyan, Cornel Andrew Cimpan, Pat Walsh and Binh Nguyen faced each other at the Commerce Casino, California.
It took a tough 12 hour session to f...
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European Cash Game gets a wider audience
Poker Channel Europe.com has launched a new website catering to German speaking viewers and readers that is accessible through the Poker Channel home page and at Poker Channel Europe.com/de
The website provides the latest in poker videos, poker news, interviews, gaming site promotions and poker strategy in German and English with French and...
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Experienced Internet poker industry names involved
Poker Nations.com president Anthony Martino has revealed that his company is working on a new social networking website with a view to a late summer 2009 launch.
"Our team is comprised of a number of respected industry members, including Jeremy Enke (poker affiliate extraoirdinaire)...
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Dwan ahead in fourth session...but there are still 46 048 hands to go!
Tom 'durrr' Dwan's epic online poker match against Patrik Antonius, ultimately for million dollar stakes, saw the end of the fourth session yesterday with 3 952 hand...
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Online poker site switches to Cake Network to retain US business
The speculation over a week back (see previous InfoPowa report) that online poker site Poker Host.com was switching fro...
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Internet poker player takes home first prize of $213 136
PokerStars enjoyed another major turnout for one of its tournaments last weekend, signing up 8 799 entrants who generated a $1.7 million prize pool and first prize of $213 13...
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Poker wedding for two Kiwi lovebirds
The entertaining New Zealand edition of the international magazine Stuff reported last week on an all-in poker wedding sponsored by the Christchurch Casino in a "To Have and To Hold" innovative promotion for poker couples.
The promo saw nine engaged couples playing for two-and-a-half hours over the weekend with the main prize a sponsored weddin...
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Two great cash game players duke it out in instalments
Remember the million dollar challenge issued by online poker pro Tom "Durrr" Dwan? The first challe...
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14 tournaments in one of the world's most exciting gambling locations
Pokerstars has released the final schedule for one of the world's most glamourous poker events, the Pokerstars European Poker Tour Grand Final, which starts in Monte Carlo on April 27 2009.
This year's schedule features 14 tournaments headed...
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