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Friday, October 31, 2008

Lucy Rokach: Golden Ovaries?

That's right - with a nickname like that she must be good. As of 2006, Cairo born Lucienne (Lucy) Rokach has earned in excess of $1,150,000 in live tournaments. She is heralded by Barry Greenstein as the best female poker player today. Rokach is considered one of the top players of Europe. Although she has yet to win a WSOP bracelet - her money finishes place her among poker's elite.

Jack Zwerner: Back After a 6 Year "Vacation"

It wasn't quite an absence measured in dog years, but it was close. Jack Zwerner's 6 year hiatus between his last cash in and then his first place success in 2006 must have felt like he was buried with the bone. But all it took was that first place â€Â" in no less than Event 8 of the 2006 World Series of Poker â€Â" to feel alive again at the poker table.

Deep Stack Poker at the Venetian Getting Started

One of the most highly anticipated poker events of the year is about to get started in Las Vegas at one of the more popular casinos and resorts. The Deep Stack Extravaganza is the name of the game which features $7,500 in starting chips. The Venetian poker room will run the Deep Stack Extravaganza starting now through April 25, and has included two more events than last year...

Norwegian Poker Championships Coming in April

The 2008 Norwegian Poker Championships are coming this month, but they won't be held in Norway. The Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club will be the location for this event, in Nottingham, England. The UK is playing host to their fellow European country men because the Norwegian Government has a ban on the game of poker, leaving the 7th annual Norwegian Poker Championships without a place to play...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Amnon "Guts" Filippi: Working His Way to Bigger and Better Things in Life

New York City's Amnon "Guts" Filippi has pulled in over $1,619,979 doing what he loves best - namely playing poker, mostly in live tournaments and high stakes cash games. Born June 29th, 1969 in the Big Apple, this "Guts" man of poker is working his way towards bigger and better things on the poker horizon and has his sights set on a WSOP bracelet and more big cash finishes.

WPT Loses Out on TV

This year the orders for TV episodes have been cut nearly in half for the World Poker Tour Enterprises' flagship show, the World Poker Tour, resulting in a huge loss of income. The WPTE has delivered only 22 episodes, where last year they put out 45. The Travel Channel, which ran the WPT, dropped season two of the sister show, the Professional Poker Tour, despite a previous order...

Poker Den Done

The final round of Poker Den: The Big Game III has come and gone and the results are in. 21 players bought in for a $10k minimum to play for a straight 36 hours to see how well they could do, and plenty of them wound up down for the session. This means that many ended the marathon session up, of course, like Robert Williamson III, who walked with $63,675...

Jenny McCarthy Hosts Poker Tournament

Actress Jenny McCarthy hosted a poker tournament recently in order to help raise awareness and raise money in the fight against autism. Plenty of stars showed up to play in the Dana Point, California tournament, including Lance Armstrong and Tony Hawk. Taking a cue from the event started by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle called "Ante up for Africa", this event was named "Ante up for Autism"...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Brady Beats Field to Win Aruba Poker Classic

The Aruba Poker Classic, sponsored by online poker room Ultmate Bet poker, just wrapped up two days ago and the winner was pro poker player Matt Brady. Brady outlasted the 550 players to score the victory, worth $1 million to the poker pro. The final table started with Brady holding the second largest chip stack, and when he went into heads up play, he still had a significant lead...

Online Poker Room Switches Networks

Online poker room Mansion Poker, established in 2004, recently announced they have switched networks, moving their operation over to the iPoker network. The move will be mostly transparent as far as their poker players are concerned, although it has been timed with a revamped poker loyalty points system. Those players with existing loyalty poker points will have their balance converted to the new system of Mansion Club Points...

Online Poker Attack Case Continuance

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is trying to seize online poker room domain names, claiming they are hurting his state's gambling properties, and the court case where the issue is being heard was granted a continuance. The judge issued the continuance to allow the defense attorneys - those representing the online poker rooms - a chance to prepare their arguments. The lawyers represent 141 websites named in the lawsuit...

$1 Million Purse for Poker

An Auckland casino will be boasting a big prize purse soon if SkyCity Entertainment Group has its way. SkyCity will host the inaugural Skycity Festival of Poker next month, shooting for a $1 million, the largest ever prize pool in New Zealand. The event will run from October 4 to October 12, and the field is expected to number in the hundreds as locals and pros flying in will play...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Poker in the Park Schedule Released

The schedule has been released for this year's Poker in the Park, one of the biggest poker festivals to take place in Europe. Poker in the Park will be held in London's Leicester Square and will feature pro poker players, freeroll events and plenty of prizes. On Friday, August 15 The SubTV Student Poker League Cup will be held at 6:30, followed by The LondonPubPoker.co.uk Trophy at 7:30...

Danes Ruled Top in Poker by Magazine

Card Player Magazine has conducted research using a global poker tourney tracking system to determine what place has the most successful poker players in the world. The system, the "World Tracker", found that Denmark is the top spot, with 1.85 medals per million people. The medals are victories in certain qualifying events, such as the World Poker Tour, the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour...

Professor Says Online Poker Should Be Legal

Completing a study of the topic, University of Ontario Professor June Cotte has come down on the side of legalizing online poker. The study has shown the professor that a regulation of online poker in the United States would improve the conditions of gambling in that country. Fellow professor Kathryn Latour of University of Nevada was in on the study, which interviewed 20 live gamblers and 10 online gamblers...

Online Poker Player Youngest to Win Signature Event

Online poker room Titan Poker recently announced that they have had their youngest ever winner for their $250,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament. Amateur player Michael Schwaiger from Austria is just 21 years old, but is showing poker wisdom in his plans for his winnings. Poker professionals often retain a large chunk of the money they win as "seed money" to be used in an attempt to win yet more tournaments...

Monday, October 27, 2008

World Poker Tour Nervous

The World Poker Tour was partially responsible for the poker boom but it looks like they may be looking for a hand out before long. The stock is down and the prospects are bleak as GSN looks like it might pass on purchasing a seventh season of the WPT show. WPT gave them an extension of two weeks to make a decision on keeping them on board...

Poker Games Impounded

Police in Baltimore County have seized poker machines they say are illegal from scores of businesses on a May 8 county raid. There is some question, however, if all 158 of the machines taken from restaurants, liquor stores and bars are truly illegal slot style games. The police were given two weeks to determine if they are all illegal, according to an order from Circuit Court Judge Dana Levitz...

Heads-Up Championship Won by Poker Pro

Most people would expect the Heads-Up Poker Championship played on NBC to be won by a poker pro, but when the online world hosts major heads-up poker events, anyone has a chance. In this case, at online poker room Full Tilt Poker, it was a pro who won it though. David Singer took home the big prize when he beat all comers to win the $25k event...

Trial Coming for Poker Shooting Death

In January, twenty one year old Josh Sommervold was shot and killed during a poker game, and three men will stand trial according to a recent report. Gilbert Martinez, a Fourth Judicial District Judge, announced that there was enough evidence for the three accused to stand trial. Adrian Works, 27, Bryant Sherman, 18, and Andrew Dickerson, 33, will stand trial in what some are saying was a gang related homicide...

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Online Poker Room Launches Travel Service

Online poker room Devilfish Poker recently launched a new service called Devilfish Travel. This feature is a way for poker players to arrange for poker playing trips around the world to select locations and select tournaments. Poker players can log on to Devilfish Travel and spend their VIP points, select an event such as the Aussie Millions or the Irish Open, and Devilfish Poker will take care of the arrangements...

Hollywood Dave Joins UltimateBet

A sixth poker player has joined the Star Players Team of online poker room UltimateBet, but this fellow isn't a poker player, he plays blackjack. 'Hollywood' Dave Stann is the newest player to join the UB Star Players Team, the Bad Boy of Blackjack known as much for his eyeliner and antics as his skill at playing blackjack. But don't count him out in the poker arena, as UB spokesperson Annie Duke says Hollywood Dave has been studying up and his poker skills are nearly "on par" with his blackjack skills. Related Articles: Online poker room launches travel service Traffic, promos and features all up at online poker room...

Subscription Poker Site Fails

The last day of play on Fleet Street Gaming.com will be Halloween, as the subscription-based online poker site will be shutting down their operations on that day. Founded just this year, Fleet Street Gaming was a US-based subscription poker site, which means that players did not spend money to join in and play poker games, but rather paid a monthly fee to be a member, and then earned points that could be traded in for prizes and cash. Fleet Street Gaming follows Pure Play, another subscription-based poker site, citing the recent economic downturn as the reason for shutting their virtual doors. Related Articles: Hollywood Dave joins UltimateBet Online poker room launches travel service...

American Cancer Society and Poker

Recently the American Cancer Society Relay for Life got to see the charitable side of poker players as more than 140 went "all in" to help support the organization. These were poker players taking part in the charity poker tourney that occurred at the Berkshire Hills Country Club, and $5,000 was raised. The event was sponsored by Berkshire Poker and the Relay for Life Team known as Rock's Rockers...

Saturday, October 25, 2008

House Building Poker Charity November 1st

The very first Habitat for Humanity Texas Holdem Poker Tournament will kick off on November 1st at the El Dorado Hills Community Center in El Dorado Hills. This event will feature more than just poker: a raffle, cocktails, black jack and a silent auction and is open to the public. The prize to play is $75, which includes admission, but those who want to just enjoy the atmosphere can get in for an admission price of $25...

NBC National Heads-Up Championship: 8 Players Left

And then there were eight. If this statement was attached to an Agatha Christie novel it would mean that some really bad things had happened to everyone but the remaining eight people; and even their future was looking a little on the bleak side. When we are talking about this statement in reference to television poker, it describes where we are in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship.

New York Poker Game Shut Down

Poker players are persistent in breaking the law in New York as yet another underground illegal poker game is shut down by the police this past weekend. In Long Island, NY, police officials arrested the poker game organizer, a 29 year old who was picked up at the William Paca Lodge. Some 10,000 in cash was seized as well as a surveillance system and poker chips and poker tables...

West VA Video Poker Store Robbed

Kelly's Hot Spot was a little hotter last weekend when a woman walked in, brandished a weapon and walked out with cash. The café in South Charleston, West Virginia, sports video poker machines and slots, and was the place where police say a woman walked in with crime in mind. Things seemed normal at first as she entered the bathroom, but then she emerged with a gun and demanded money from the attendee...

Friday, October 24, 2008

No Dealer Poker Challenge

When PokerTek, Inc, came out with an industry first computer driven, touch screen equipped, no-dealer poker tables, called PokerPro - it was only a matter of time before they held a new kind of first; a poker tournament with no poker dealers. The event ran on cruise ships in the Carnival Cruise Line fleet as well as a few land based casinos that used the PokerPro tables. Now that the series is over and done PokerTek is calling it a success...

Traffic, Promos and Features All Up at Online Poker Room

Online poker room Party Poker has let it be known that their recent upgrades have struck a popular chord among online poker players. With new features like better multi tabling(thanks to a lobby redesign) and new promos that put $4 million up for grabs in various new games, it is no wonder that they showed a jump in traffic of more than 20% so far in the month of October. Related Articles: Online poker room signs Adam Levy Italy welcomes Poker Stars poker room . ...

Gus Hansen Wrote a Book

The man they call the Great Dane has another name to add to the list: author. Gus Hansen, the man who tore up the poker tournament field starting with the first World Poker Tour show, recently announced on his blog that his book, "Every Hand Revealed" is available online at various book stores. The real world copy of the book will hit books stores on May 6th...

2008 Late Night Poker Results

The return of Late Night Poker has been called a big success, and an online poker player beat out the pros to win the whole final event. The PartyPoker Late Night Poker event was broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 as 36-year-old Andreas Jorbeck claimed victory. The Swedish player beat out Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Ian Frazer, Maria Demetriou, Eddy Scharf and Surinder Sunar to win...

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Swimmer Sinks Opponents in Poker Tournament

The world's greatest Olympian, US swimmer Michael Phelps, is making good on his threat to bring his skills to the sharks of Las Vegas and the online poker world. Phelps, who had before been linked to online poker room Doyles Room, played in a $1,570 buy-in event at the Caesars Poker Classic and made it to the final table, a respectable finish for the poker novice. He cashed for $5,213...

Online Poker Room Signs Adam Levy

Online poker pro Adam Levy has a new home online, the poker room UltimateBet. The home of Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth, UltimateBet ads Levy as the fifth member of their Star Players Team. Some consider Levy an interesting choice considering the ads and commercials for UltimateBet all feature Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth, and it was Levy that sent Hellmuth on a tirade during the 2008 World Series Of Poker main event, one that earned Hellmuth a penalty...

Foxwoods WPT Event Running Strong

It started on October 20th, the latest in a string of World Poker Tour events in the current season, this one playing out at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. Fifteen preliminary events will run, with buy ins from a low of $300 up to a buy in of $5,000. Plenty of No Limit Holdem games will be held, along with Omaha and other game types, leading up to the final event, a $10,000 buy in No Limit Texas Holdem freezeout event...

Poker Society Turns to Protesting

The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society was founded by a Harvard Law Professor who found poker to be a great tool for teaching critical thinking at the college level; apparently professor Charles Nesson finds protesting anti-poker laws to be proper strategy. He and some of his poker playing students will be protesting outside the State House in Massachusetts in order to help thwart Gov. Deval Patrick's bill...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Champ

The latest poker player to hit a million dollars winning a World Poker Tour event is one Brandon Cantu, the winner of the World Poker Tour's Bay 101 Shooting Star event in California. One of the more popular of the WPT events, the Shooting Star is a bounty tournament where each table boasts a target. If you knock out the target, you will win cash on the spot...

World Poker Tour Splits with CryptoLogic Inc

The partnership of the World Poker Tour and online poker platform software provider CryptoLogic Inc is drawing to a close according to a notice filed Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Both WagerLogic and its parent company CryptoLogic were notified by the WPTE that the agreement would be terminated as of November 14th. This leaves the WPT branded online poker room without support, and would indicate that it is being shut down as well...

FTOPS X Featuring Mike Matusow

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is about to kick off their tenth season, and as in all the previous nine, poker pros will serve as the hosts of the various events. FTOPS X will feature 24 preliminary events (some of which have yet to be tied to a specific poker pro) and wrap up with a 25th event, a $2.5 million guaranteed No Limit Holdem freeze out. The first event, starting on November 5th, is a $1 million guaranteed prize pool short handed event (meaning no more than six players per table) featuring Mike "the Mouth" Matusow as the host. Related Articles: Bluff Poker Tour Festival of Poker winner keeps it in country...

WPT Festa Al Lago Starts Today

The World Poker Tour's Festa Al Lago starts today, Monday October 20, and poker players from around the globe will arrive to try for a shot at the title and big cash prizes. The event will run at the famous Bellagio casino's poker room, for the first time since the last Festa Al Lago in 2006. Then it was Norwegian player Andreas Walnum who took the $1 Million prize after beating a playing field of 433 poker hopefuls...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

WSOP Circuit Ends with Student Victor

When the World Series of Poker Circuit event in the Horseshoe Southern Indiana poker room came to an end, it was a 22 year old student who emerged as the victor. Winning a seat in the 2009 WSOP main event as well as a cash prize of $143,064 was Samuel Oberlin, who overcame a five to one deficit in chips. A double up with pocket queens started the comeback trail, and in the end another set of pocket queens won the event for him...

Italy Welcomes Poker Stars Poker Room

Online poker room Poker Stars is now fully licensed to operate in the country of Italy, news that surely sits well with Italian poker superstar and long time Poker Star pro, Dario Minieri. Dario was the first player in the poker industry to pay for a Porsche with frequent player points he won playing on Poker Stars. Now the Italian poker players can sign up at the Italian language site, and special tournaments are set up that fall within the restrictions of Italian Law...

Poker Royalty Hits London

A London branch office of Poker Royalty has opened up, and the player representation firm will look to the new digs to help them manage their European clients. Poker Royalty is an agency that helps manage the careers of well known poker pros, such as Phil Hellmuth, Patrik Antonius, Scotty Nguyen and "Kid Poker", Daniel Negreanu. Poker players seeking fame to go along with their fortune are often approached by Poker Royalty to help them manage their new found celebrity, especially after winning a big event. Related Articles: Poker Players Alliance rates representatives Texas Holdem tourney for HFH...

Poker Players Alliance Rates Representatives

The grassroots pro poker organization known as the Poker Player Alliance has recently come out with a ranking of government officials and how they rate in terms of poker friendliness. With a ranking guide that follows US school marks from A (for the best grade) to F, there were more who scored around a D than any other grade. There were, however, more than a hundred members of congress with a score of B or better...

Monday, October 20, 2008

World Poker Tour CFO Faces Tough Choices

Just in time to welcome him to his new job with the World Poker Tour, the new CFO, or Chief Financial Officer, has to face the possibility that his company will be removed from the listing on NASDAQ. Thomas Flahie faces this challenge thanks to the drop in shares below one dollar, the minimum for listing on NASDAQ. Flahie's experience in previous roles as CFO for Intermix Media, which runs the website MySpace, should prove invaluable to his new role...

Unusual Poker Court Case

These days it is more common to see a court case being brought against a poker home game by the state than any other kind, but in Denver one poker playing host is bringing suit against a man for nearly thirty grand. The defendant is Sean S. Ahn, who joined nine other players at the home game of Francois Safieddine, where he allegedly bought into the game for an eventual tab of $29k in chips, which he lost to other players...

Soldiers Get Visit from Poker Pros

The Poker Players Alliance recently joined forces with the USO of Metropolitan Washington to bring poker pros such as Phil Gordon to Walter Reed hospital to visit injured soldiers and their families. Gordon, along with plenty of other high profile poker pros, expressed their gratitude to the troops for their service while showing them a trick or two in a poker game. Howard "The Professor" Lederer, Victor Ramdin, Rhett Butler, Gavin Griffin and Andy Bloch were all on hand, as well as Leeann Tweeden, the hostess of the hit NBC show Poker After Dark. Related Articles: Poker Players Alliance rates representatives Texas Holdem tourney for HFH...

World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars Champ

The latest poker player to hit a million dollars winning a World Poker Tour event is one Brandon Cantu, the winner of the World Poker Tour's Bay 101 Shooting Star event in California. One of the more popular of the WPT events, the Shooting Star is a bounty tournament where each table boasts a target. If you knock out the target, you will win cash on the spot...

Sunday, October 19, 2008

More Online Poker Cheating Questions

The company that owns online poker room Ultimate Bet, Tokwiro Enterprises, has some experience dealing with accusations of cheating. They also own Absolute Poker, which came under fire in the recent past thanks to an employee cheating. Now it is Ultimate Bet under the microscope as accusations are being floated about one account, playing under the name of NioNio, that has been singled out for suspicious activity...

Australian Poker Room

A new player has arrived in the online poker arena, and it is from Australia. The site, JamPoker, is based out of Brisbane and has been opened with support from the Merge Gaming Network. The site offers a downloadable software that supports many of the standard poker games that online poker players expect to find, such as Stud and Draw poker, Omaha and the ubiquitous Texas Holdem...

Online Poker Room Announces Second Prague Event

Online poker room VC Poker has announced the second Prague Poker Palooza, the Czech poker event that was very popular last year. The Prague Poker Palooza II will run on November 24 and the following three days, with a $25,000 live freeroll on the last day. The main event has a €1000 buy in but online satellite qualifiers are running now at VC Poker, for this and the other preliminary events...

Unknown Beats Pros, Wins WPT Event

The World Poker Tour event playing in Canada is over and done, and the winner is the player with the least well-known name. Gavin Smith, Marc Karam and Kathy Liebert were among the big names playing in the North American Poker Championship, but they all fell short to relative unknown Glen Witmer. Witmer stayed ahead of Smith in heads up play after a start with a five to two lead...

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Online Poker Room Announces Summit Club

European friendly online poker room Everest Poker has recently announced their brand new reward program, one they claim will be the new standard in the poker industry. New and existing players are targeted for rewards in the VIP Summit Club, with rewards that run all month long, priority customer service and up to $200 for referring a friend. A few interesting benefits include the ability to register for live tournaments via the VIP Summit Club on Everest Poker...

Another WSOP Spot for Sale

Yet another poker pro is offering up some advertising space on his clothing for the upcoming World Series of Poker final table for 2008, but this time its for charity. Unlike the pro putting up an eBay ad for multiple spots, chip leader Dennis Phillips is hosting an eBay auction for one spot and one spot only, and he will donate the proceeds from the auction to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The auction will run from October 16-26, 2008...

Poker Tour of the Americas Schedule

It's the first ever Poker Tour of the Americas, by Vega Promotional Systems, and the schedule for the five inaugural events has been released. The 2009 season starts in February and runs through October. The events are: February 21-27 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 10-17 in San Jose, Costa Rica, June 5-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, August 15-21 in Cartagena, Colombia and on October 24-30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Poker Run for a Cure

Boaters and poker players alike were running on water on Sunday's Leukemia Cup Series, the annual aquatic poker run to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's National Capital Area Chapter. In this event boaters traveled to various spots via boat to pull together the best poker hand, collecting playing cards. In addition to the chance to earn prizes, participants enjoyed a BBQ hostd by the Old Dominion Boat Club...

Friday, October 17, 2008

European Poker Tour Heads for Barcelona

The next stop on the European Poker Tour is Spain, where players will take their seats at the Casino Barcelona and take a shot at life changing cash prizes and fame. Online poker rooms such as Hollywood Poker are giving their players a shot at winning prize packages to this event. Prize packages to the EPT, include the buy in, travel money, and accommodations in the host city...

Online Poker Domain Case Not Dismissed

Defense efforts to have the case dismissed by Judge Thomas Wingate of the Franklin County Circuit Court did not go forward, as the Judge cited November 17 as the date the case will go to trial. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is attempting to seize control over 141 online gambling sites, including many well known poker rooms. According to reports, Beshear has received some 12k letters of protest, but this does not seemed to have swayed the Governor from his course...

Texas Holdem Tourney for HFH

Habitat for Humanity will be shuffling up and dealing soon with their latest fund raising effort, a "Habitat for Humanity's Texas Holdem Poker Tournament" to be held in California. Saturday, November 1st is the date in El Dorado when players will plunk down $75 to participate in the pirate-themed event (entry gets the player a mug of grog and dinner.) Rebuys are available for $25, and proceeds will go to support Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for those in need. At the event there will also be music and entertainment as well as black jack. Related Artcicles: 60 Minutes online poker show New Poker Channel Europe...

Market Trackers Augmented on Poker Site

Online poker players have to try plenty of tricks to stay profitable, including following other player's history, finding those weak enough to make money form. Some online poker sites, have tools for just this purpose, and eight new categories have been added to MarketPulse to aid the cause. Nearly three and a half million online poker players are tracked, with the results up for grabs for the curious...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

WSOPE to Stay at Empire Casino This Year

Last year was the first World Series of Poker Europe, with events spread out over three London casinos. This year all the events will be held in one of those casinos, the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square. Lots of big name players will appear at the tables this year, including Phil Hellmuth, who showed up last year with a bevy of English beauties as an entourage...

Chip Leader Rajkumar Going for WPT Record

The winner of the World Poker Tour Borgata Open is the current chip leader in the currently-running World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship. Should he win, Vivek Rajkumar will do what no other player in the history of the World Poker Tour has been able to do - win back to back WPT titles. He has to overcome a significant obstacle, one that will prove difficult despite his chip lead - Gavin Smith...

60 Minutes Online Poker Show

American new program 60 Minutes is known for hard hitting investigative journalism, so it should come as no surprise that they have prepared a program about online poker. They seemed to wait for a scandal to launch it however, and it seems the focus of their expose will be the cheating scandal at the offices of online poker rooms Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. The poker industry itself is split over whether or not this is a good thing - some see this scandal being treated by 60 Minutes as a needed step to move towards legalization and regulating, but others think it will hurt the industry...

iPhone Draw Poker

The biggest card game in the world is No Limit Texas Holdem, but some folks like to play good old fashioned five-card draw, and now they can do it right on their iPhone. The software, which works on the iTouch as well, is called 5 Card Touch and is published by Griffin Technology. The game gives a player a $1k bankroll and allows to bet up to $5 per round...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Surviving a Short Stack Flurry

At both the World Poker Tour this year, we have seen some pretty big heads-up leads evaporate. Somebody who started the last phase of a tournament with a tremendous chip lead has often found themselves accepting the second place check and wondering what the hell happened. According to logical concept of Ockham's razor, where the simplest explanation is generally the right one, the cause is easy to diagnose.

Dream Team Poker Debuts

A new form of tournament poker is on the schedule at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, "Dream Team Poker." This tournament poker game is, as the name suggests, team based and it starts with a private invitational tournament on November 7-9. The new team poker tournament model uses a scoring system (patent pending) that helps to determine the winner. Team strategy comes into play in a game that is traditionally an individual competition...

WSOP Player Offers Sponsorship on Ebay

There is no question that the nine players that will be fighting at the final table of this year's World Series of Poker main event in November are in an enviable position. On top of this one player has decided to capitalize early by offering space on his clothing for sponsors to put their names and logos. Ylon Schwartz has an ad up on Ebay offering companies the chance to bid for space on his hat, chest and sleeves, and at least one bid is in the tank for more than $35,000. Related Articles: Tiffany Michelle wins charity poker event Pam Brunson wins Hard Rock poker event...

FSN Picks Up WPT

The World Poker Tour, much to the relief of fans of the hit poker show, has found a home for the broadcasting of their seventh season. Season VII will be shown on Fox Sports Network (FSN), and will consist of 26 episodes, although details about the broadcast content have yet to be released. The Bellagio Cup, which recently finished, will be the first two episodes of the broadcast season...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

New Poker Game for iPhone

Mobile game lovers, poker lovers and iPhone owners can rejoice as a new game has been added to the App Store on Apple.com: MotionX-Poker. Produced by Fullpower the game uses the mutli touch display and the accelerometer of the iPohne to offer up unique game play. The game doesn't deal cards in traditional fashion: players roll dice, with each side of the die representing a different card...

Online Poker Points Race Running

Online poker room UltimateBet is currently running a race to see which of their players can accumulate the most points. Promoted by UB pro Annie Duke, the Points Race has put up $115k for their players, who would cash in until October 31st. By playing in the variety of sit and go tournaments, regular multi table tournaments and real money cash games, players have the chance to accumulate enough points to get into the top 100, which will get a piece of the prize...

Rebranding of Riverboat Poker

The Horseshoe Southern Indiana (formerly known as Caesars Indiana) has completed the remodeling of a riverboat casino, now known as the "Glory of Rome." This is an official World Series of Poker circuit poker room, with a 30 table spread, and it is the Indiana stop of the 2008-2009 WSOP Circuit. Play began on September 30. Last year the winner was Carlos Uz of Miami Lakes, Florida, who took home a prize of more than $223k after outlasting a field of 144 players in the circuit's main event...

Poker's Harry Potter Wins WSOP Gold

Last year one of the more colorful characters at the World Series of Poker was Italian poker pro Dario Minieri, who wore a bright yellow and red scarf. This along with his small size earned him the nickname Harry Potter, and he did work some magic at the games. This year he completed the spell by picking up a WSOP victory in the $2500 No Limit Holdem Six-Handed Event...

Monday, October 13, 2008

Video Poker Bad for Owner

Five months in jail is the sentence for Michael Waguespack the owner of Funtime Amusements, a Cumberland County business, who was sentenced thanks to his role in what the US Attorney's office in Raleigh calls an illegal poker operation. Waguespack will follow up that five months in jail with another five months of house arrest. The company sold video poker machines that paid out prizes of $10 per hand...

High Stakes Poker May Be Canceled

The poker blogs are abuzz with the rumor that the very popular cash poker TV show High Stakes Poker is on the way out. The show, airing on the GSN network, brings poker pros and personalities together for a cash game that routinely puts hundreds of thousands of dollars in the pot. Unlike a tournament game these are actual dollars coming out of the bankrolls of the players...

Online Poker TV at PKR.COM

The online poker room famous for their amazing computer game like graphics is now offering an interactive, on-demand TV channel for their players with shows that highlight events from high stakes tournaments. PKR is the name of the poker room, and PKR TV is what they are offering, with animated highlights from final tables of $10k and $20k guaranteed tournaments, offering viewers the chance to study big winners in their natural environment. As players can manipulate their avatars to bluff and do chip tricks the shows are sure to be entertaining...

All Japan Poker Championship Starts Sunday

The largest poker tournament in Japan will kick off this Sunday, April 27th and will run through the middle of May. Last year was the inaugural event which drew hundreds of Japanese poker players to prove who was the best and compete for cash prizes. Casinos are not allowed to operate in Japan, and due to this special circumstance the players will not pay any money to participate...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Tran Ruling WPT Event

JC Tran is no stranger to the World Poker Tour. He was one of those players who managed to make it to the final table time and time again without winning until last year, and on day one of the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship it looked like he was using his experience to his advantage. At the end of the day he held 159,300 chips, a comfortable place to be in while he spent the weekend in Niagara Falls waiting for Day 2 on Monday...

Tiffany Michelle Wins Charity Poker Event

Tiffany Michelle took some flak during her run for the big time during this year's World Series of Poker's main event. She went further than any other woman this year, but when she hit the TV table, she dropped her first sponsor and wore gear from a new sponsor, raising the ire of the poker playing community. She still knows how to play lights out poker, however, as shown when she won the MGM Grand poker room charity event last week, raising money for Road 2 Recovery...

Big Win for Kids Thanks to Poker Event

Poker remains a popular way to raise money for charity, and the Make a Child Smile Organization found out in a big way just how popular. The recent event hosted to benefit Make a Child Smile brought in more than 50 players and raised more than $5,000. Held at a Knights of Columbus Hall the event raised enough money to provide essentials - and toys - for more than one hundred children...

Online Poker Room Gives Players Choice

One of the most popular goals of online poker players is to win a seat into a live poker event, and one online poker room is helping their players do that to any poker event they want to play. Mostly poker rooms will hold promos to specific events, but CelebPoker is putting up a prize package worth 9000€. This includes €1500 for travel and accommodations and €7500 for the actual tournament cost...

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Boys and Girls Club Plays Poker

It is poker to the rescue for the Boys & Girls Club of Simi Valley as they host their 4th Annual Texas Holdem Poker Tourney. The 18th of October, a Saturday, is the day poker players will come together for a tax deductible donation of $150 to play poker and support the Boys and Girls Club. The price of admission includes dinner, drinks and the tournament buy in, which starts at 6 PM...

Poker Chip Dress Worth $1 Million

Kicking off the SkyCity Festival of Poker was MTV host and former Miss New Zealand Amber Peebles, and she not only looked like a million bucks, she was wearing a million bucks. At least, that was the value of the poker chips cleverly joined together to make her dress, and a security detail was on hand to make sure Peebles and her chips were safe. The dress was made up of 200 casino chips worth $5k apiece, and was made only for this event at the SkyCity Casino in Auckland, and will never be worn again. Related Articles: Boys and Girls Club plays poker Dream Week Two on Poker After Dark...

US Casinos Agree to De-Lead Poker Chips

Some believe playing poker and gambling can be bad for you, but they probably were not thinking about lead poisoning. It turns out, however, that some casinos used poker chips that contained nearly 50% lead, putting the dealers and players in danger from consistent handling of the chips. A major chip manufacturer, however, has recently agreed to drop their lead content down to less than one percent in future chips...

Ladbrokes Poker to Join Microgaming

Online poker room Ladbrokes Poker will be leaving its standalone network in order to join the slew of other poker rooms on the Microgaming poker network. In actuality, Ladbrokes was already on the Microgaming system, but as a stand alone client. Now that Ladbrokes will be a full member of the Microgaming poker network they will be part of a team of over 40 poker rooms sharing a player base...

Friday, October 10, 2008

Pam Brunson Wins Hard Rock Poker Event

The new poker room at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino and Hotel started things off with a VIP poker tournament with a lot of big name pros, such as Evelyn Ng, Chip Jett and Hoyt Corkins. Doyle Brunson was there as well as his son Todd Brunson. But it was the lady Brunson, Todd's sister Pamela, that won the day, taking down the eighteen table tournament and winning a Hard Rock custom motorcycle as her prize. Related Articles: Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival done Student Union supports online poker tournament...

US State Seizes Online Poker Domain

It is business as usual at online poker room Doyle's Room, except for one thing: they technically don't own their domain name anymore. That might be a temporary situation, but Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate voted in favor of the state of Kentucky to seize control over the Doyle's Room's URL, as well as the domain names of three other sites. The judge says, however, that Kentucky can't interfere with the domains until after his final ruling on October 15. Related Articles: Online poker site gets overhaul Online poker room closes...

World Poker Congress to be Held in Hungary

The Third Annual World Poker Congress will be held at the end of the month in Budapest, Hungary. Poker industry players, both brick and mortar and online, will gather at the Budapest Marriott Hotel to discuss the current state of poker around the world and discuss methods for strengthening the industry, both online and land-based. Speaking up for players everywhere will be Marcel "The Flying Dutchman" Luske and John Kalmar and the keynote speakers will include WPT CEO Steven Lipscomb, as well as bwin.com marketing head Hendrik Knopp. Related Articles: Online poker site gets overhaul Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival done...

Justin Bonomo Cashes in Bodog Main Event

Online poker pro Justin Bonomo took down a lot of players to make it to the final table of a big online poker tournament, the Bodog Poker Open. The event started off with a group of 477 players and got down to the top nine with Justin Bonomo still in the running. He busted out there, however, and the final prize of $75k (about $70k more than Justin made) was taken by zubs laa...

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Online Poker Site Gets Overhaul

With a new look and new features the players at online poker room Littlewoods Poker are being treated to new game types as well. The same poker games are being played, such as the ubiquitous No Limit Texas Holdem poker and games like Omaha and Seven-Card Stud, but new tourney types are adding to the fun. For example there is the "Double or Nothing" poker tournament, where exactly half the players in the game wind up taking the money from the other half...

Big Turnout for Charity Poker

Nearly sixty players generated HK$88,500 for a good cause in Macau over the weekend. The Macau Cup, held in the PokerStars Macau Poker Room at the Grand Waldo Casino, pulled in players who put up HK$1,500 each to play. The money was gathered up and passed on to Macau Caritas, while players vied for a seat to the second season Asia Pacific Poker Tournament to be held in Macau...

Second Poker Machine Match Goes to Machine

The second man versus machine poker challenge recently took place in Las Vegas between a team of poker pros and a computer program called the Polaris II. The first challenge was narrowly won by the humans, led by poker pro Phil Laak, but this time the machine got the upper hand. The game was Limit Holdem played heads up, and the program's tally was 3 wins, 2 losses and a tie...

Poker Pro Offers Shot via Mobile Game

World Series of Poker top bracelet holder Phil Hellmuth is offering his fans a chance to play him in his specialty, No Limit Texas Holdem Tournaments, but they have to win a chance via playing Texas Holdem on their mobile phones. They could also win $2,500 by downloading and playing "Texas Holdem with Phil Hellmuth" on their mobile phones. Full details of the contest can be found at HellmuthHoldem.com...

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Poker Kid Wins a WSOP Event

Daniel Negreanu, the poker player from Canada they call the "Poker Kid", has recently won his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet. The $2,000 Fixed Limit Holdem Event, Event 20, was filled with 479 players seeking a big pay off with a prize pool of over $800,000. Kid Poker held his own to the final table, where he beat out the last few to pick up over $200,000 and a coveted gold WSOP bracelet...

Student Union Supports Online Poker Tournament

A free online poker competition is being advertised at Cape Breton University and the administration seems to be okay with it. The online poker room supporting the online poker tournaments is offering prizes to the students every week, including the top prize - having their tuition paid for. The tuition fee is $5,660, not an insignificant amount to a college student, and because students don't have to pay to play, the student union feels that there is little risk that playing in the events would support an online gambling addiction. Related Articles: Brady beats field to win Aruba Poker Classic Jenny McCarthy hosts poker tournament...

Annie Duke to Be on Celebrity Apprentice

The eighth season of the TV show that pits job applicants against each other to win a position with Donald Trump will feature a familiar face to many poker players - Annie Duke. Duke was tapped to be in the second ever Celebrity Apprentice, where the competitors fight for money to go to charity instead of a job with The Donald, and her rumored competition will include Dennis Rodman, Joan Rivers and singer Brian McKnight. Duke had to skip the Aruba Poker classic, at which she was scheduled to play, in order to answer the call of the Apprentice. Related Articles: Olympic gold medalist to play poker Hockey star plays poker instead...

New Poker Tables Online for Offline

The poker industry has created many small businesses like the one that recently announced via press release poker tables available for sale that differ from the norm. The standard poker top for a poker table is green felt, but the two sets offered by Buy Poker Tables Online use khaki colors. The company sells octagonal complete poker tables that have flip up extensions to allow up to eight players...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

North Carolina Poker Raid

The Southern state of North Carolina in the United States has had yet another poker raid, with police closing in on a tournament in Fayetteville, shutting down a game that had forty or more people involved. In addition to the poker chips and cash police found - when searching the vehicles of the players - crack cocaine, marijuana, handguns and Oxcyontin pills. Chris Lusardi of Fayetteville, the alleged game operator, was taken into custody and charged with running a gaming operation; his home was also raided and $3k in cash seized. Related Articles: Poker scammers indicted Former WSOP champ named in cheating scandal...

Online Poker Room Closes

An online poker room that took a new approach to the game in order to dodge legal issues in the United States has closed their virtual doors. Duplicate Poker, which dealt the same cards to players in the same seats at different tables in order to take the "luck" factor out of the game, cited the current economic conditions as the reason for shutting down. This announcement of closure came not long after an announcement that the site was doing better than ever and had recently celebrated a milestone of record attendance and player base. Related Articles: Online poker room suffers overlay for being nice Online poker room switches networks...

Poker Players Alliance and Bluegrass Institute Hold Talks

The grassroots poker organization known as the Poker Players Alliance has teamed up with Kentucky's Bluegrass Institute, an association of writers who keep an eye out on state public property, in order to discuss the ramifications if the state goes forward with plans to seize 141 online gambling and poker web site domain addresses. Discussions centered around topics that covered the rights of the state, national and international ramifications, and the future of internet freedoms should it go through. The move by Kentucky governor Steve Beshear to seize the domain names was put on hold by the judge reviewing the case. Related Articles: Online poker attack case continuance US state attempt to hijack poker URLs failed...

2008 WSOP Diary, June 5: Event 5 and Event 6 Winners Are Crowned

Event #5 ($1,000 No Limit Holdem with Rebuys), eventually managed to crown a winner, but for a while those participating in the final table seemed content to treat each other like a Pit Bull's chew toy. Steve Gross and Jamie Rosen both went on tandem Kamikaze runs during the fifth hand of the final table. Lyric Duveyoung took this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and eliminated both players.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Poker Stars Sign Contracts

With the World Series of Poker for 2008 underway some of the bigger names in the business have found early success, going deep in the $10k Pot Limit Holdem event. In addition to cashing two of them found a boost to their careers, likely as a result of their success. Kathy Liebert signed with PokerStars as a new poker pro, and Patrik Antonius did the same with Full Tilt Poker...

Two New for Sky Poker

The poker TV channel known as Sky Poker is living up to its name with two more poker shows on the horizon. "Stacked Up" is the name of one, while the other is called "Sky Poker Unlimited". The first will focus on cash poker games, played with teams of three players and aired on Sky Poker Channel 846, and will be hosted by Norman Pace along with Tony "Tikay" Kendall...

Online Poker Room Suffers Overlay for Being Nice

Online poker room Doyles Room decided to offer a free ticket into a $250,000 Guaranteed event for new deposits by existing players, which wound up costing the poker room $50k. This was the overlay, the amount that they fell short in meeting the $250k guarantee, and so the funds had to come out of Doyle's Room's coffers. The total number of players in the event were just over 1,300, but many of them did not have to pay to enter, so the prize pool came up just under $200k...

Two New Shows for Sky Poker

The poker TV channel known as Sky Poker is living up to its name with two more poker shows on the horizon. "Stacked Up" is the name of one, while the other is called "Sky Poker Unlimited". The first will focus on cash poker games, played with teams of three players and aired on Sky Poker Channel 846, and will be hosted by Norman Pace along with Tony "Tikay" Kendall...

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Poker Scammers Indicted

Four men who were charged with participating in a high stakes poker scam in Atlantic City have been indicted by New Jersey authorities. James Harrison, Joseph Ingargiola, Stephen Phillips and Steven Forte all faced charges of second-degree attempted theft by deception. Two hotel rooms at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa were rigged with surveillance cameras in order to spy on a man who was invited to play Chinese poker...

WPT Boot Camp Returns

After a year and a half the World Poker Tour Boot Camp will be returning to the Isles of Capri Casino and Racetrack at Pompano Park in South Florida on November 15th and 16th. The camp works on improving poker players' skills in order to give them a chance at going deep in a World Poker Tour tournament. The skills that are to be focused include cash games, which are different from the tournament style play of the WPT events but are popular...

Lawson Wins WSOP Circuit and Tops Two Million

The World Series of Poker is not long off, and players are getting warmed up playing in the many WSOP Circuit events around the country. The latest, which took place recently at Caesars Palace, was the longest running single tourney at a circuit event at eight hours of play. The final victor was pro Ted Lawson, who with this victory made his tournament career cashes top two million dollars...

Liv Boeree Holds Court at a Wembley Event

What does Absolute Poker's Liv Boeree have to do with the communications industry? The answer to this question is that she has absolutely nothing to do with that particular segment of the business world. Despite that, Ms. Broeree will be appearing at Comm Solutions 2008. Liv will be there to offer a number of fifteen minute lessons to the convention attendees, and give the people the benefit of her knowledge.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Poker Players Get Choice of Tables

While online poker continues to grow and thrive, live poker is not far behind. People are picking up the game and setting up their own tournaments at home, and as such have a need for poker tables: enter Buy Poker Tables Online. This online poker table store has recently announced a new line up of poker tables for summer, giving consumers more choice in setting up their home games...

Poker Staking Site Snatched Up by Part Time Poker

Online poker website Part Time Poker announced recently the acquisition of a poker staking site called NeverBeg. The acquisition was staged in order to provide an additional service to the users of the Part Time Poker site. The additional traffic boost from Never Beg's regular customers was also a factor: those users will now find the same services under a new name, Part Time Poker Staking, which boasts 15,000 members...

Poker Room Gets the Jeff Madsen Touch

Poker pro Jeff Madsen recently wrote in his blog that he will be involved in a redesign of the look and feel of the Bellagio poker room. He and an artist friend have put the word out that they will be forming committee comprised of people who wish to donate to this project. The committee will then select poker players who will have their portraits done by the artist...

APAT Goes to Vienna

The Amateur Professional Association & Tour will be holding their European Championship in Vienna this weekend. Locals and those who showed up in town for the event will get seats at Poker Royale Casino to compete in the No Limit Holdem freezeout tournament event, which last year had 300 players. One of the biggest draws of APAT events are the slow clock format as well as the relatively cheap buy ins...

Friday, October 3, 2008

Last Chances to Play in €250k Poker Tournament

The €250,000 Guaranteed online poker tournament at online poker room CelebPoker will start in just two days, and online qualifiers are still running. The buy in is €200+15, but qualifiers can get players in for less. There are rebuy tourneys and sit and go's as well as feeder satellites, where you start for a very little and work your way up through a number of events to get into the main €250,000 Guaranteed...

US State Attempt to Hijack Poker URLs Failed

The US State of Kentucky had supported an effort to take control of 141 online gambling site URLs, including some of the more popular online poker sites like Full Tilt Poker and Pacific Poker, stating they encroach on the state's own gambling businesses. Judge Thomas Wingate however defeated the move after allowing defense attorneys a continuance to build their case. The court ruling puts a temporary hold on any attempts to seize these URLs, which means the issue is not completely resolved but is a blow for the side of online poker players everywhere. Related Articles: US poker license fans hopeful Online poker attack case continuance...

WSOPE Main Event Continues

The World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continues apace and the pro poker players continue to knock each other out of the running for the top prize. The biggest pro killer was John Juanda, who knocked out fellow pros Erick Seidel, Andy Bloch and Mel Judah on his way to accumulating chips. In the end the chip leaders, and the players at the final table, are Robin Keston, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Elliott, Bengt Sonnert, John Juanda, Ivan Demidov, Toni Hiltunen, Scott Fischman and Stanislav Alekhin, ending the hopes of Annette Obrestad fans that the young pro would pull off back to back wins. Related Articles: Negreanu cleans up at WSOPE Pros rise and fall at WSOPE...

Andy Bloch Doing Well at WSOPE

The World Series of Poker Europe main event is coming along and many top pros are holding out as chip leaders after the first two days. The biggest chip leader is a big name in poker, Andy Bloch, with more than 300k in chips. Right behind him is online poker pro Brian Townsend (sbrugby) with about 290k, Erick Seidel, John Juanda and Daniel Negreanu are all in the top ten...

Thursday, October 2, 2008

New World Poker Tour TV Show

The FNS network has joined forces with the WPT to launch a new poker show, a series based on a subscription poker site. The ClubWPT will be the show and is the name of the site, a US positive effort by the World Poker Tour that does not require gambling to play and win cash and prizes but rather a monthly subscription. The show will feature six amateur poker players from the US and Canada...

US Poker License Fans Hopeful

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez recently introduced an act that, should it be made into law, would eventually allow online poker to be legalized, licensed and regulated, something the poker fans in the US have been hoping for. The Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act of 2008, official designation S. 3616, would specifically change the current US gambling code to allow for the licensing of "Internet skill game facilities." This would allow for many card games that are played for money to be played online legally, with games like bridge joining poker. Reated Articles: Police raid poker conference in Spain Poker lobbyists spend $283,000...

Negreanu Cleans Up at WSOPE

While he didn't finish the day at the very top of the stack, he was close enough: Kid Poker showed his stuff at the World Series of Poker Europe main event, sponsored by Betfair and currently running in London. Plenty of big names were still in the event, such as Phil Laak and Justin Smith, but other than the eventual chip leader John Juanda, non were doing as well as Daniel Negreanu. These and others totally 36 made the money in the tournament, and only the top 24 made it through to the next day of the WSOPE. Related Articles: Andy Bloch doing well at WSOPE Pros rise and fall at WSOPE...

Upcoming Online Poker Features Real Cards

Playing online poker requires skill, discipline, luck, a decent bankroll - but also faith in the company and their algorithms. Computers decide what cards are dealt and when, and many players worry that there is no way for them to confirm everything is legit. One man has banked on that fear by developing a company that will run an online poker site, but will use real poker cards for the dealing...

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Las Vegas Looking to Auto Dealer Poker Tables

The infamous dealer-less poker tables that come from PokerTek have made their way into casinos in Atlantic City, and now are working their way towards Las Vegas. Recently the Nevada Gaming Control Board approved the tables, called Poker Pro, to be tested in Sin City. These computer controlled tables are outfitted with touch screens, and all card shuffling, chip wrangling and cash transactions are handled by the table's computer programming...

Dream Week Two on Poker After Dark

Hit NBC poker TV show Poker After Dark typically has six pro poker players pay $20k of their own money to form a $120k winner take all prize, but this week the show is dropping an amateur at the table. This will be the second "Dream Match" week, where a qualifying amateur got to pick five of their favorite poker players to play against. This time it is Paul Featherstone of Woodland, California, who chose Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Mike Sexton, Jennifer Harman, and Gavin Smith. Related Articles: Poker popularity dropping Back to back poker TV...

Big Poker Oktober at the Bike Casino

The Bicycle Casino in California, better known simply as "The Bike", has started their Big Poker Oktober tournament series, which will run through October 12. The main event, which starts on October 10, has a $500 buy in, is a No Limit Holdem championship event, and is boasting a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The preliminary events have buy ins ranging from $50 to $300 and incorporate a number of poker games, from No Limit Holdem to Omaha Eight or Better, a Seven-Card Stud tournament and a NLHE with rebuys. Related Articles: Soldiers supporting Sunday poker tourneys 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure boasts $25k event...

New Poker Engine Debuts in Barcelona

While the online poker industry was on hand for the latest i-Gaming Congress and Expo in Barcelona the Ongame Network Ltd showed off what is being touted as the first game engine "designed specifically for online poker", the P5 Poker Engine. The P5 Poker Engine will be put to the test with the AG poker platform, according to a press release from the site owner, bwin Interactive Entertainment. Ongame Network is a subsidiary of bwin...

Police Raid Poker Conference in Spain

The Casino Affiliate Programs poker tournament was in full swing with the police stopped by, and they were not interested in taking a seat and drawing some cards. The Barcelona police raided the Hotel Princesa and started shutting down the conference, where former World Series of Poker champ Jamie Gold was scheduled to hold a poker clinic. The reason for the raid is not clear, but all the gambling equipment was confiscated and the organizers of the CAP program were detained...

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