Online poker rooms AbsolutePoker.com and UltimateBet.com have announced the impending launch of the new Cereus platform, which will integrate the customers and features from both to create the world’s third largest Internet poker network.
The result of twelve months’ of development, Cereus will allow both operators to retain their unique assets while sharing more players, tournaments […]
Friday, July 25th, marked the final day of the 2007-2008 National Deaf Poker Tour (NDPT) season. The Venetian in Las Vegas played host to the last of four stops on the NDPT’s 2007-2008 schedule. The Venetian stop consisted of four events, including the $200 buy-in Main Event.
The Main Event was open to deaf players only, […]
July 25 (Bloomberg) — Poker players have been busy dispelling any notions the game is falling on hard times.
This year’s World Series of Poker has seen a record 58,720 entrants from 118 different nations and more than $180 million in prize money across the 55 tournaments that comprise poker’s world championships. The event reached […]
We are all now very familiar with terms such as the pinch, the credit crunch, recession and stagflation. You will have all surely noticed that your petrol bill has increased and will soon be noticing the same on the weekly trip to Sainsbury’s. If you want to lend money right now you will be paying […]
St. Johns, Antigua (PRWEB) July 25, 2008 — Bodog Poker is once again giving its online poker players the chance to freeroll their way to poker stardom and riches while traveling to exotic locations in total Bodog style. The Asian Poker Tour event in Macau, held Aug. 26-31, is guaranteeing $1.5 million in prize […]
Just when it looked like the Game Show Network would shift to a pokerless schedule, it has been announced that High Stakes Poker will be back for another season. HSP will begin filming Season Five episodes in September.
“GSN has picked up the option on the fifth season of ‘High Stakes Poker’ and continues to enjoy […]
The foundation’s aim is to bring Brianna Denison’s killer to justice, to enhance punishments for sex offenders and to educate the community on safety and encourage awareness. It was created for all crime victims in memory of Denison, 19, who disappeared in January and was found strangled the following month in a Reno field. Authorities […]
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), which oversees numerous online poker sites using Kahnawake-based Internet services in Canada, has released an official statement regarding the unfolding situation on UltimateBet Poker. The statement follows by several months the KGC’s earlier involvement in the resolution of a similar scandal at Absolute Poker.
In its statement, the KGC affirms that […]
The inaugural Asian Poker Tour is so far a big success, with one player already claiming a big prize in the first leg. Major online poker site Titan Poker (the largest site on the iPoker network) is preparing to send its own team of players to China.
Nine players have already qualified for this event and […]
The Tasmanian Government is facing growing pressure to start cutting back the number of poker machines.
The State Liberals are reassessing their gaming policy and deciding whether to support reducing the number of machines in Tasmania.
A report released yesterday pointed at poker machines as the main source of problem gambling.
The Liberal leader, Will Hodgman, says his […]