Poker News
Squabble over the spoils from a poker event at Australia's Crown Casino
A long-running legal scrap between two well known New Zealand poker players, Jamil Dia and Constantine Harach, is back in a Wellington court for the fifth time in an attempt to resolve a dispute over shares in a $500 000 win at Melbourne's Crown Casino...
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A new concept for televised poker shows
In the United States, NBC and Full Tilt Poker.com are joining up again, this time to produce Face the Ace, a new concept for a poker show where players who qualify online get to play heads-up against three Full Tilt pros for a million dollar prize.
A spokesman for N...
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Online poker exec calls for stricter policies
The chief operating officer of UK online gambling group William Hill Online.com, Peter Marcus, has appealed to colleagues i...
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Just before midnight, Las Vegas time on Thursday, Matt Hawrilenko was declared the winner in Event No. 56, scooping a first placing prize worth $1 003 163 and a coveted WSOP bracelet in the last of the preliminary tournaments this year.
Internet and live tourney player Hawrilenko defeated Josh B...
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The last of the preliminary tourneys nears the end, and a charity event reaches its final table
In Las Vegas, excitement is building as Friday and the traditional "shuffle up and deal" call that launches the Main Event dawns.
In the meantime, Thursday saw the last of the preliminary tournaments in this year's 40th annive...
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Euro will be the currency going forward, and a new approach to tournament action
The Microgaming Poker Network has announced important new changes that include the use of the Euro as the sole currency fo...
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New York pro claims his first WSOP bracelet
New York pro Abe Mosseri has claimed his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the top prize of $165 521in Event 55 - the $2 500 buy-in 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit).
Besting a field of 258 players for his slice of the $593 000 prize pool, Mosseri sent runner-up Masayos...
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One for the record books, surely?
A 20 hour final table of 492 hands, culminating in a 7 hour heads up endurance test....surely this is the stuff of World Series of Poker records? 10am Vegas time Wednesday morning finally saw 37-year-old former professional bowler from Georgia, David Bach, victorious in Event 49 - the $50 000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. competition - one of the m...
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Poker is a recognised sport in Russia....for now.
The draconian Russian ban on gambling in major cities which came into effect this week (see previous InfoPowa reports) has thrown an interesting anomaly in Russia law into sharp focus, reports The Telegraph newspaper.
The reports says that many Russian operators are considering re-fashioning themselves into poker clubs under a quir...
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Relatively unknown German player takes WSOP event 52
Jorg Peisert, a hitherto relatively unknown poker player from Dusseldorf in Germany, is the latest bracelet winner at the World Seri...
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Carstens Joh wins his first WSOP bracelet....and a cool $664 426
Event 51 - the $1 500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition at the World Series of Poker has ended in victory for German poker pro Carsten Joh, who bested a packed entry field of 2 781 to win the lion's share of the massive $3 796 065 prize pool after three day...
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Injured innocence is not an appropriate response to double accounting
Online poker pro Dan 'Wretchy' Martin's reported air of injured innocence at being banned by PokerStars.com is surprising....
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At WSOP, the final table is set for the $50k H.O.R.S.E. event
Big names continued to fall by the wayside as Day 3 of Event 49 - the $50 000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. competition ended, and as InfoPowa went to press late Monday night Las Vegas time the following were among the many who had been eliminated from an original starting field of 95 players: Alex Kravchenko, Barry Green...
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Unique audio feature enhanced table action
A new US-friendly online poker monthly subscription site has launched at Hog Wild Poker Leagues.com that allows players to enter competitive leagues in order to compete against with other players.
Developed by Amber Gaming, which is the brainchild of American entrepreneurs Joe Luber and Jef...
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Almost 200 000 signatures in the first week
Just a week after launch at the World Series of Poker, a petition organised by the Poker Players Alliance to leg...
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