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60 Minutes To Air Online Poker Expose On November 9th 2008-11-01 09:30:03 The highly anticipated 60 Minutes online poker expose is expected to air on November
9th, coinciding with the 2008 WSOP Final Table playing out. There has been much speculation about when the program will air ever since ‘60 Minutes’ investigators interviewed poker personalities at this year’s World Series of Poker
.
Now according to Wendeen H. Eolis, [...] Read more:Expose
Strong Growth In Online Poker Sector In October 2008-11-01 09:28:37 According to The Poker
.htm">Online Poker
Traffic Report at the independent poker tracking website MarketPulse the online poker sector has show significant growth. It reports that all of the ten top websites all showing gains led by a massive 21% rise in average players per 24 hours at Everest Poker to 2,813 players.
PartyPoker saw a 15% [...] Read more:Growth
, October
, Strong
PKR Poker announce a series of online and face-to-face poker nights especially for singles 2008-10-30 06:22:48 Singles wanting to make a love match now have Lady Luck on their side. Online poker room PKR Poker and dating website Lovestruck.com have today announced a partnership to create a series
of online
and face-to-face poker nights
especially for singles, starting this November.
The singles poker nights will kick off with a special poker party [...]
Poker Networks Begin Blocking Access To Kentucky Residents 2008-10-28 06:12:38 Merge Poker
was the first Poker Network to publicly announce that they would be blocking IP addresses of Kentucky
residents to any of their poker rooms. Microgaming Poker Network has has followed suit, announcing that they too will begin blocking Kentucky residents, starting from Oct 30, 2008.
The decision comes after Judge Thomas Wingate last week [...] Read more:Access
, Blocking
Kentucky Court Asked To Dismiss Internet Poker Case 2008-10-25 06:09:00 This week, lawyers representing the 141 online poker and gambling sites asked the state Court
of Appeals to dismiss the case. The appeal was filed by the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), the Washington, D.C. based organization which has been on the front lines of the fight for internet gambling in Kentucky
against [...] Read more:Internet
, Poker
60 Minutes UltimateBet and Absolute Poker Program Delayed 2008-10-24 09:24:44 Poker fans who had been looking forward to this weeks highly anticipated feature story that 60 Minutes has been preparing on online poker will now will now have to wait until November. It is now rumoured the hour-long programme will air on November 9, during the final table competition at this year’s World Series of [...] Read more:Absolute
, Poker
, Program
World Poker Tour and MySpace Launch New Online Poker Channel 2008-10-22 06:06:57 The WorldPoker
Tour WPT and MySpace
, the worlds biggest social network, have teamed up to create the first fully integrated online poker destination for the MySpace online community. The new site will be called ClubWPT and will offer “must-see content for poker die-hards and casual fans alike.”
The MySpace WPT community (www.myspace.com/ClubWPT) promiese to delivers [...] Read more:Channel
, Launch
Never Tell A Poker Fish How Loose Their Play Is 2008-10-21 05:21:27 When you’re playing online poker, on of things you should never do is tell a poker fish how poor their play is. After they lay a bad beat on you may be tempted to tell them that they’re a really “terrible poker player”.
This might make you feel good for a while but everyone else will [...] Read more:Loose
, Poker
New Matrix Sit and Gos On Full Tilt Poker 2008-10-20 04:54:42 Recently, one of the most popular online poker rooms in the world, Full Tilt Poker
, introduced Matrix
Sit and Gos. The concept is pretty symbol: battle against eight other online poker players on four different tables at the same time. It’s an ideal situation for any multi-tabling enthusiast and takes its name and likeness from [...]
PokerStars European Poker Tour EPT Poland Open Won By Joao Barbosa 2008-11-21 08:52:36 João Barbosa
of Portugal this week claimed the Poker
Stars.com European
Poker Tour (EPT) Polish Open title and the Euro 367,141 ($457,489) main prize. The €5,200 buy-in event, held in Warsaw, attracted 217 entrants after 4 days of poker action, Joao Barbosa emerged as the first ever EPT winner from Portugal.
For The Full Story Visit - [...] Read more:Poland
Ladbrokes, Everest Poker and PKR Win eGaming Awards 2008-11-20 05:57:34 The big winners at this years eGaming Review Awards
were Ladbrokes, EverestPoker
and PKR Poker. This was the eGaming Review Awards 4th year and as always was adjudicated by an independent panel of gambling industry experts.
The biggest winners of the night were Ladbrokes, who came away with 3 awards, including Sportsbook of the year [...]
US Poker Player Julian Verse Wins FTOPS X Main Event 2008-11-18 05:29:08 The Full Tilt Online Poker
Series 10 (FTOPSX) came to a successful end early Monday morning when US player, Julian
Verse, won the headsup against Irish player sckilla. For his win, Julian Verse took home $450k, while sckilla received $273k for finishing in second place.
This years Main Event, a $500 + $35 No Limit Hold [...]
No title 2008-11-17 08:25:19 Europe’s largest online poker school, Everest Poker School (www.everestpoker.net) is organizing 27 events across the continent plus dozens more online tournaments in one of Europe’s biggest ever free poker competitions. The aim of the Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC) is to teach Europeans how to play poker and give thousands of beginners their first poker [...]
2 Million Households Tune In To ESPNs World Series Of Poker Final Table 2008-11-17 05:43:12 ESPN’s ratings for this week’s World
Series of PokerFinalTable
were up about 50% to almost 1.9 million households, compared with 1.25 million households in 2007. WSOP Organizers changed the schedule of the main event this year so the program would air the same day as the final table play finished. Before this year, [...]
Peter Eastgate Wins World Series of Poker 2008-11-11 09:34:14 Peter Eastgate has defeated Ivan Demidov to win the 2008 World
Series of Poker
and become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event. Eastgate clinched the title when his straight beat Demidov’s two pairs after the longest final table in WSOP Main Event history.
The 22-year-old from Denmark claimed [...] Read more:Peter
Full Tilt Poker And WPT Announce TV Sponsorship Deal 2008-11-08 07:50:46 A television sponsorship deal has been announced between the World Poker
Tour (WPT) and FullTiltPoker.net, the educational website owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. Under the new agreement, Full Tilt Poker will receive title sponsorship and exclusive rights to in-show educational gaming brand integration for the 26 episodes of the World Poker Tours seventh [...]
Paddy Power Poker Offers Sole Survivor €100k Prize 2008-11-05 09:31:01 To celebrate the launch of Europe’s longest running poker festival, Paddy
Power Poker
have announced the launch of their biggest ever Irish Open promotion, called the €100,000 Sole Survivor.
The rules are simple, the player who outlasts all the other online qualifiers will become the ‘Sole Survivor’ and win the €100K package. All Paddy Power Poker [...] Read more:Offers
Full Tilt Poker Tournament FTOPS X Schedule Announced For November 2008-11-04 05:44:15 Incredibly it was just back in August of 2006 when the first Full Tilt Online Poker
Series (FTOPS) was held, with eight events and a combined guaranteed prize pool of more than $1 million. The series has now become one of the best known on the web, and will feature an amazing $15,000,000 prize money [...] Read more:November
, Poker Tournament
, Schedule
, Tournament
High Stakes Poker Season 5 Starts On March 1 2009 2008-12-22 09:29:05 The highly anticipated 5th season of High StakesPoker
looks set to debut this year on the 1st of March
, 2009. The GSN network will be airing the popular cash game television programme as part of their new Sunday “Poker Night”. This season looks set to be a thriller will a new buy in [...] Read more:Season
Carbon Pokers Bad Beat Jackpot Promotion Reached Quarter Of A Million 2008-12-18 05:28:28 A lucky player at the online poker room, Carbon
Poker, could have a very merry christmas indeed, if they were to scoop the massive $777,000 dollar jackpot that is now on offer. The promotion is attracting massive attention as it only takes a hand of quad 7’s or better getting busted for a player [...] Read more:Jackpot
WSOP Bracelet Winner Marty Smyth Wins Ladbrokes Poker Million tournament 2008-12-15 10:12:41 The Ladbrokes televised Poker
Million tournament came to a thrilling climax this weekend when Belfast man and WSOP Bracelet
holder MartySmyth
came from nowhere at the final table to clinch the title and walk away with the one million dollar first prize. Second and third places went to PaddyPowerPoker pros Ciaran O’Leary and [...]
High Stakes Poker Players Lineup Revealed 2008-12-11 06:11:19 THe lineup for this years “HIGH STAKES POKER” cash game television show and they haven’t disappointed us. Included in this years line-up is Poker
Legends and multi bracelet winners Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson. They also included young guns like the 2008 WSOP Winner Peter Eastgate. They also increased this years buyin [...] Read more:Players
, Stakes
LATP Nuevo Vallarta Mexico Event Restarts On PokerStars 2008-12-10 06:21:18 Last weeks cancelled LAPT Nuevo
Vallarta, Mexico
Event looks set to resume in the form of an online freeroll at PokerStars. The event was shut down by local officials due to some disagreement with the organisers. PokerStars are now offering the remaining 89 players a shot at the title and will fly the [...] Read more:Restarts
Latin American Poker Tour LATP Mexico Cancelled 2008-12-08 06:29:17 The LatinAmericanPoker
Tour LATP event in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico
has been cancelled after just 1 days play. The PokerStars sponsored event was halted late on Friday by local officials. The LAPT issued a short statement stating: The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) confirms that it is cancelling the poker tournament in Nuevo Vallarta, [...] Read more:Cancelled
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