Poker News
462 vie for Euro 878 110 winner's prize
19-year-old Finn Jens Kyllonen is the latest Pokerstars European Poker Tour champion, having defeated a field of 462 entrants - many of them top Scandinavian players - in Copenhagen, Denmark to accep...
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66 tourneys in 22 events planned
Online poker website PokerStars.com is about to roll out one of its largest and most ambitions promotions yet - the $30 million Spring Championship of O...
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Poker enterprise continues to battle in a worsening economic climate
The news from World Poker Tour Enterprises was not good this week as the troubled company released its Q4 and 2008 finals. The announcement followed the more positive news that WPT and Fox Sports had extended their broadcast agreement (see previous InfoPowa report) but that did little to sweeten a bitter results pil...
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Reports that online poker room is unhappy with exclusion of US players
Players at the Poker Host.com online poker venue, currently operating on the Microgamin...
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Deal will include soon-to-be-filmed episodes from Season VIII
Steve Lipscomb's World Poker Tour will continue to fill television screens for the forseeable future following an extension of the broadcast agreement between Fox Sports Network and the poker company signed this week.
The new deal will include episodes from Season VIII which begins filming in the middle of this year and...
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Bad Beat jackpots on two online poker networks total over $2 million
The weekend saw over $2 million paid out in online poker badbeat jackpots at just two networks, Merge and Cereus.
On Saturday the Merge network reported that its $1.2 million bad beat jackpot ha...
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A South Carolina judge could be about to hand down another positive decision for poker
Online poker industry observers and legal experts are currently watching a key case play out in a South Carolina court, where Municipal Judge Larry Duffy has been hearing expert argument on the skill vs. chance poker issue, critical in establishing wh...
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London analyst's advisory raises some intriguing possibilities
A recommendation this week from a London analyst firm, Daniel Stewart & Company, that investors switch their holdings from PartyGaming to 888 has industry observers trying to second guess what may soon be in the corporate works.
The recommendation is based on the possibility that 888 is "likely" to c...
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FTOPS XI MILLIONAIRE EVENTS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE BIG MONEY
Event 17 winner collects $245 696.40
The latest of several million dollar prize pool events in the...
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Event 12 - a thousand dollar buy-in NLHE tourney - in the currently running Full Tilt Online Poker Series XI produced a great return on investment for player "Zugwat" this week, earning him a $350 450 payday.
The event was just one of several $1.5 million guaranteed events in the current series, which has had...
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As the new England state girds itself for another battle over land casinos, a controversial clause is axed
The so far unsuccessful attempt by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to introduce tax-raising land casinos to the New England state has entered its third year with a new bill introduced by Representatives Brian Wallace and Martin Walsh.
The attempt to expand gambling in the state has attracted the attention o...
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Six figures payouts for top three players in NLHE event
The eleventh edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued to attract large crowds of players this week, with Event 10, a $300+22 no-limit hold 'em tournament guaranteeing $1,5 million in prizes, pulling 'em in.
The event was supported by 5...
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Higher player liquidity and prize pools flow from new powerhouse in poker
Ladbrokes Poker has announced the completion of its merge and migration to the Microgaming Poker Network this week, offering its players more action from higher...
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Conflicting rules steer argument to Superior Court
Poker fans who were cheered by the recent news that a Pennsylvania court had ruled that skill dominated chance in poker (see previous InfoPowa report) will have to wait a little longer for a definitive legal opinion following the news late last week that the issue has been referred to the Pennsylvanian Superior Court.
The skill vs...
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