Poker News
Gioia International gets the green light
Gioia International, a company that has pioneered a poker game based upon the deal of a real deck of shuffled cards by the fully automated “Cut N’ Shuffle” system, has been granted a gaming licence allowing it to operate on the Isle of Man.
The company and its management had to satisfy the Isle of Man’s tough licensing requirements and com...
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Sixty percent contribution to positive performance
Online poker and skill gaming operations have proved to be a winner for the giant Italian online gambling company Microgame, accounting for 60 percent of the firm’s Euro 1 billion turnover in 2009.
Releasing i...
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Poker legend claims that former UB/AP owners are still around
Doyle Brunson triggered interested speculation this week when he referred to...
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Cole South, and now Townsend moves on to new challenges
Brit poker pro Brian Townsend has blogged that he is leaving his post as top instructor at the CardRunners organisation following careful consideration.
"When I joined CardRunners back in 2007, I joined because I thought it was a great company and because I wanted to gain experience helping run my own small business. CardRunner...
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$1.55 million in prize money, a prestigious bracelet and other rewards for poker pro
Mike Mizrachi won through in the $50 000 buy-in mixed game Player’s Championship at the World Series of Poker early Wednesday, besting a field of 116 of the best players in the world to win his first WSOP bracelet, $1.55 million in cash, a...
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TF1 to use Eurosport UK for French initiative
Societe Television Francaise 1 (TF1), France's largest broadcaster, has confirmed that it intends starting a new online gambling operation in a liberalized French market
In a press release this week, TF1 announced that it is to extend its Eurosportbet U.K. gambling service, which inc...
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Tournaments outside of casinos are banned
The bad news from Geneva, Switzerland this week is that the country's highest court has ruled that poker is a game where chance, rather than skill, predominates.
The ruling affects poker tournaments, will can now only be legally held in li...
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590 entries for A$ 1 100 buy-in main event
The media noise level from the first days of the World Series of Poker championships unfolding in Las Vegas have almost obliterated coverage of another important tournament currently winding down in Melbourne, Australia.
The Crown Casino in Melbourne has been hosting the Melbourne Championship, which this week saw 590 player...
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Vanessa Roussos follows Annie Duke into the App Store
Following the example set by poker ace Annie Duke, poker pro Vanessa Rousso has launched a poker app for the iPhone.
Poker 1 on 1 with Vanessa Rousso is now available in Apple's App Store, and focuses on heads-up play in an interactive learning environme...
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Snapshot of five ongoing events
The 41st World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas is now well into its stride, with several events running at the same time.
Probably the largest of these is the $50 000 buy-in Player’s Championship, which over the past four days has seen an original field of 116 playing down to just short of the final table heads up as InfoPowa w...
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New b2b partnerships and an as yet unidentified addition to French poker network
Online gambling software provider Microgaming, which recently unveiled its partnership...
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Partnership sets the scene for some French online poker market action
Microgaming associate Spiral Solutions Limited, better known for its activities as a provider of mobile gambling technology, has teamed with the Santa-Maria group, which distributes Bally games and systems to the French land casino industry, to...
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As Day 4 comes to a close the elimination of Alex Kostritsyn seats the final 9
One of the biggest events in this year's World Series of Poker - the $50 000 buy-in Player's Championship - has reached a table of nine after four days of action involving 116 of the game's best players.
Just before midnight Monday Vegas time the departure of Alexander Kostritsyn in tenth...
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Only 21 survivors of an original field of 116
We're close to the final table of the $50 000 buy-in Player's Championship tourney at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with the 21 survivors of an original 116-strong field bagged up at the end of Day 3.
Average stack as play closed was around $828 572 with Michael Mizrachi making an impressive last minute spr...
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Wright bill seeks a legalised and regulated intra-state dispensation
Senator Rod Wright's recent promises to introduce a Californian bill legalising and regulating online poker were met this week when he launched an amended version of bill SB 1485 late on Friday.
Wright leads a California Senate Committee responsible for gambling matters, and the bill seeks to introduce an intrast...
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