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Students Create Smart Poker Table

Nov 30, 2007
There has been a recent problem with cheating with online poker tournaments and online casinos, there is now reports of f...

Sweden Takes All At Everest Poker

Nov 30, 2007
In the recent $100,000 guaranteed poker tournament at Everest Poker as usual was action packed.

In this ...

Casino Software Company Has Disappointing Revenues

Nov 30, 2007
Category: Online Casino
Online casino software development company, Parlay Entertainment, has revealed it's 2007 3rd-quarter results. Income, revenues and royalties are all down from las...

Victor Chandler Redesigning Sportsbet Site

Nov 30, 2007
Category: Online Casino

Victor Chandler has now partnered with the digital communications company Reading Room to help the online gambling group redesign its sportsbetting site.

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Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club Opening a Great Success

Nov 29, 2007
The long awaited opening of the poker club Dusk Till Dawn finally took place on November 28th. The club invited over 200 people to join in the opening festivities and...

Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic Winner

Nov 29, 2007
The Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic has begun and the winner for the first event has been announced. The tournament opened with a $1,500 No-Limit Texa...

Annie Duke Testifies For Online Poker

Nov 29, 2007
Professional poker player Annie Duke testified at a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)....

Power Play Software To Introduce Cupid 2.0 System

Nov 29, 2007
The Power Play Development Corporation is the parent company of the Internet's largest online poker community, National...

More Online Casino Cheating Reports

Nov 29, 2007
There are reports that there has been more online poker cheating going on and this time it has resulted in the suspension...

Absolute Pokers One Billionth Hand Coming Soon

Nov 29, 2007

The one billionth hand dealt at Absolute Poker is getting closer by the day.  Though the online poker room is n...

I-Play Launches Mobile Poker Game: Negreanu Poker Pro

Nov 29, 2007
Category: Poker Games

The mobile entertainment company I-play announced today the world wide launch of Negreanu Poker Pro.  This is the second

Where does Online Gambling Stand

Nov 28, 2007
The final seat in the $1 million event in the Tournament Titan is coming to a close. If you want to join in on the action, you had better put a rush on it.

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U.S. tells Harrah's No

Nov 28, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Harrah's Entertainment plans to purchase up to 28 percent of the online gaming group Rank, which would have givem them a significant ownership into the company, i...

YouTube Being New Poker Tool

Nov 28, 2007
When the game of poker very first moved into the world of the Internet sites, a lot of people were taken by surprise. Then ...

Global Player Sees The End

Nov 28, 2007
Category: Online Casino
An announcement has been made that one of the longest lasting Internet casinos will be closing their doors to their online po...

Poker Stars Winner Is Driving Away From the Table

Nov 28, 2007
There is one Poker Stars player that is leaving the table driving, this is the poker player who uses the online name DDBeast a twenty one year old from the United S...

The Danish Have Freddy Blak To Fight For Online Gambling

Nov 28, 2007
While the United States has Rep. Barney Frank fighting to regulate and license online gambling including online poker by fighting to change the Unlawful Internet Ga...

The CEO of PartyGaming Not Selling Shares

Nov 27, 2007
Category: Poker Industry

The CEO of PartyGaming, which is an online gaming group of London, is showing great confidence in the company. The CEO has reversed his previous plans he had o...

Legal Issue Ongoing with Bodog Domain

Nov 27, 2007
A key motion in the Washington state court was filed on November 13 by Bodog Entertainment Group, S.A., claiming that 1st Technology, seized several of their domain n...

Bulgaria Proposals Submitted to Regulate Online Gambling

Nov 27, 2007

The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance submitted proposals last week, which would help with the regulation and taxing of onl...

Daniel Idema wins B.C. Poker Championship

Nov 27, 2007
Even though the numbers for the B.C. Poker Championships held at the River Rock Casino were a little lower than last years, some top

Everest Poker 100k Tournament Won by Swede

Nov 27, 2007
This past Sunday, the Sweden player xRaySpex was the happy winner to take home the first place win and the large sum of $20,000 first prize pot.


Eve...

Five Diamond Poker Classic to begin December 12

Nov 27, 2007
Doyle Brunson will be lending his name in kicking off the main event of the festivities beginning today with the Sixth Annual Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classi...

New EUR 100,000 Power Poker Game at Wild Jack Online Casino

Nov 27, 2007
Category: Online Casino
One well known name that plans to start off this Holiday Season with a new video poker game that offers players high payouts, as high as EUR 100,000, is Wild Jack Cas...

Where does Online Gambling Stand

Nov 27, 2007
One of the hot topics in this months Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas, was the state of online gaming legislation in the United States.


The Safe Po...

Gambling Cost on the Rise in UK

Nov 26, 2007

Within the next year the expected rise in the sots of gambling will rise approximately fifty percent being the largest rise since the year 1960 in the UK.&nbs...

CD Poker Medals Race Coming To The End

Nov 26, 2007
The Medal Race began on October 12th and is set to end on November 30th and the poker players who have been involved in this type of poker tou...

Piggs Peak Casino Winner

Nov 26, 2007
Category: Online Casino
In the recent All Africa Poker Tournament that was held at the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland there emerged a twenty-four year old winner who not only left the tabl...

Bodog Pokers 1 Billionth HAnd

Nov 26, 2007

For some time at Bodog Poker they have been awarding certain poker players and the table that they are seated for being the number that was a landmark leading ...

Brunson makes History with win at High Stakes Poker

Nov 26, 2007
Grabbing a record win in the latest episode of the popular TV show High Stakes Poker, is "The Godfather of Poker" Doyle Brunson. The winner for the 800k pot...

Canbet Changes to Microgaming Casino Software

Nov 26, 2007
Category: Online Casino
After switching to the Microgaming Poker Network earlier this year, Canbet is now using turnkey providers casino software, Microgaming announced.


Using ...

EU Trade Commissioner Gets Applauds from Online Gaming Operators

Nov 26, 2007
Efforts made by Peter Mandelson, the European Union Trade Commissioner, in addressing the United States unpopular online gambling trade practices, got approval from t...

Million Dollar Tournament

Nov 25, 2007
Many of the online tournaments have large prize pools for their poker players online, however this million-dollar tournam...

No Visa For Jerry Yang

Nov 25, 2007
Jerry Yang who was a winner at the 2007 World Series Of Poker was expected to return after being absent for some time was a no show at the Asian Pacific Poker Tourn...

Macau 's Asian Pacific Poker Tour Stop Big Success

Nov 25, 2007
The Asian Pacific Poker Tour Macau proved to be an enormous success this past weekend, being the first poker tournament eve...

Bad Beat Has Six Figure Jackpot

Nov 25, 2007
There has been new in the recent past about the bad beat poker games and these games are being held at Absolute Poker and now the jackpot has grown to six figures f...

Poker Stars Nabs A New Pro

Nov 25, 2007
There are reports that there is a new member of the Poker Stars and while some may know him by the name Boom Boom there are also those who call him baron Von Slam b...

Nevada Legislature Unsettled About Online Gaming Laws

Nov 25, 2007
Numerous discussions as well as several meetings have taken place in Washington, regarding where the state of Nevada stands, in regards to online gaming. Other online...

Playtech Partners with Anonymous Asian Licensee

Nov 25, 2007
Category: Online Casino
For those who watch closely, you're sure to have noticed that stocks have went up by four percent for Playtech, one of the leading and popular online software dev...

Weeks Poker Tournament Results

Nov 25, 2007
This Sunday saw the Poker Stars Sunday Million, the Full Tilt $750,000 guarantee prize pool and the recently concluded Full Tilt Online Poker Series.

First Tournament of Asian Pacific Poker

Nov 24, 2007
The first tournament of the Asian Pacific Poker Tournament has started and the game was No-Limit Hold'em at the tournament that is taking place in Macau. This w...

Playtech Signs Deal in Asian Market

Nov 24, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Many online operators have for some time been watching the Asian market as the next target to increase their online players and Playtech has now signed a three year...

UK Officials Battle Manchester Casino

Nov 24, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
The Manchester City Council has asked for and been given approval to build a Las Vegas style casino in Manchester, this would create thousands of jobs in the area, ...

UK Player Wins Freeroll To Aussie Millions

Nov 24, 2007

Pacific Poker has been holding qualifiers and satellites to win a seat to the 2008 Aussie Millions. These poker players who have participated in these tourname...

Update On Absolute Poker Investigation

Nov 24, 2007
There has been an update on the investigation into Absolute Poker this week by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission who issued Absolute Poker's license. The investig...

Irish Open 2008 Schedule Announced

Nov 24, 2007
The full schedule has been announce for the 2008 Irish Open by Paddy Power Poker and included in the 2008 Irish Open there is set to be a ladies event for the first...

Land Based Poker Online

Nov 24, 2007
In a partnership between the land based Admiral Tavern in the UK and Victor Chandler who is a Gibraltar based online betting group have launched a pub poker online ...

Cristiano Blanco wins a seat at WPS

Nov 23, 2007
Cristiano Blanco is one of the five Titan Poker players to win a seat in one of their major live events over the past couple of weeks. Blanco, the happy winner to be ...

Hellmuth Helping with Charity Events

Nov 23, 2007
Many players may very well be surprised to find that Phil Hellmuth is scheduled to help with two charity tournaments in December. Hellmuth, generally known for puttin...

Higher Age Limit Possibly in the Future for Macau

Nov 23, 2007
In a recent announcement made by Macau's chief executive, Edmund Ho Hau-wah, revealed his plans of changing the legal minimum age for gamers to enter casinos from...

Online Poker Players Targeted for MTV Show

Nov 23, 2007
On a thread on 2+2, that was posted last week by a person called 'TrueLife', it stated that MTV would be looking for people who lead online alternative lives....

Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, a Huge Success

Nov 23, 2007
Distributing 40,000 copies, the Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, has become the biggest magazine publication for poker in Scandinavia. This new magazine brings its reade...

Visa Issues put a Hold on Yang Appearing in Macau

Nov 23, 2007
The very well known 2007 World Series of Poker Champion, Jerry Yang has failed to appear for his greatly anticipated game in the APPT Macau. This well known world pok...

Caribbean Qualifiers Set to Begin

Nov 23, 2007
Poker Stars is gearing up for the start of the 5th annual Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure qualifiers. The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure is being held a...

New Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker

Nov 21, 2007
Full Tilt Poker has added new tournaments to their list and the name of them is Knockout Bounty Tournaments. These tournaments will pay

Norway is One Step Closer to Gambling Ban

Nov 21, 2007
For some time it has been in the news that the Norwegian Minister for Culture and Church affairs has been on a mission to create laws in Norway that are equal to th...

Poker Room Satellites Set To Run

Nov 21, 2007
Category: Poker Sites

Poker Room who is holding satellites has three that will be running soon for seats to the 2008 Aussie Millions Tournament with the prize package they are offer...

Billions in Online Casino Tax Neglected by America

Nov 21, 2007
Online gaming could generate up to $42 billion over the next decade for Federal coffers, in America, Representative Jim McDermott testified.


This to...

Responses from Poker Rooms About Online Security Questions

Nov 21, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
With the recent security problems found with Absolute Poker, you might be interested in knowing just a few of the responses received from a few of the online poker si...

Scandinavia 'The Game' Clips Being Leaked out

Nov 21, 2007
Scandinavia will soon be televising a TV show which will be the very first high-stakes poker cash game to be televised in t...

Preview of Dusk Till Dawn's New Website

Nov 21, 2007
The opening of Europe's first licensed poker club in Nottingham, Dusk Till Dawn, is eagerly being awaited by many on th...

Betwin Poker and Ladbrokes to Have 2008 Qualifiers

Nov 20, 2007

Online poker players as well as some online casinos are gearing up for the 2008 World Series of Poker to be held in...

Get To Aussie Millions with Bodog

Nov 20, 2007

Coming up fast will be the Aussie Millions Poker Championship that will be held from January 14th thru January 20th and Bodog is going t...

GUKPT Nears The End

Nov 20, 2007

The Grand Final is set to be held soon in the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, where over the weekend tournament 10 was held and next is to be the Grand Final that wi...

Scotty Nguyen Makes Final Table of SNPC

Nov 20, 2007

The well-known poker pro whose name is also one of poker players favorite yearly events, this is none o...

Conveys and Frank Teaming up in Letter to Trade Rep

Nov 20, 2007
The Judiciary Committee chairman along with Representative Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee chairman, joined together in efforts to send a letter to t...

Fred Hepburn to Host 24 Hour Poker Marathong for Charity

Nov 20, 2007
With a marathon poker session planned for next month, Warwickshire will be taking their spot on the map. December 29th, a 2...

Legal Clarity Predicted by Online Casino Chief

Nov 20, 2007
Norbert Teufelberger, Co-Chief Executive Officer for Austria's Bwin Interactive Entertainment, announced his optimism growing on the liberalization within the Eur...

United States VS. WTO Over Internet Gambling

Nov 20, 2007
As early as next month, if arbitrations were to fail, Antigua and others, including the European Union, could possibly begin exacting sanctions over the U.S. and thei...

Ladbroke Poker Site Now 3D

Nov 19, 2007
Although it may have taken a little bit of time for Ladbroke to kick off their 3D virtual reality poker games, they have finally arrived. And they do say that all g...

Doyles Room Offers "Easy 25K"

Nov 19, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
All month long, Doyles Room will be offering its many players a promotion called Easy $25K. The design is to give players the ability in winning a large amount of...

Jerry Yang to Play Pokerstars APPT

Nov 19, 2007
Since winning the big World Series of Pokers Main Event, Chris Moneymaker has been added to the star spotlight overnight. This is usually how it happens and normally ...

Legislation to Legalize Online Poker a Possibility

Nov 19, 2007
In a session of G2E, Chairman of the Poker Players' Alliance pressure group, and former Senator, Alfonse D'Amato, spoke at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas...

FTOPS VI Main Event Results

Nov 19, 2007
The FTOPS VI Main Event was the success that everyone expected that it would be. With a total of 4,371 entrants there was a prize pool that was able to grow up to &...

iPoker Pulls Plug On Online Poker Site

Nov 19, 2007
They can't say that they weren't warned. Playtech, a provider of online poker games, had just scolded its iPoker sites that they are against rakeback deals ...

Online Forum Challenge at IntertopsPoker

Nov 19, 2007
The website Intertops Poker will be hosting a new challenge called the Online Forum Challenge that will have a prize of over $10,000. There is room for more than ...

Betfair Gets New Talent

Nov 19, 2007
It has been announced that Betfair Poker had appointed a new director of poker for their online gaming, this new director is Bruce Stubbs and according to reports h...

Titan Poker $1,000,000 Guarantee

Nov 18, 2007

Titan Poker is planning to have their online poker room be filled with poker players, ...

GlobetCasino Launches New Poker Site

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Online Casino
GlobetPoker was recently launched on the Microgaming Poker Network by the GlobetCasino site. Globet is a Gibralter-based site that is supposedly owned by a Uruguayan ...

Absolute Poker Turkey Bowl

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
Absolute Poker is inviting their poker players to come to a special holiday tournament, the first ever free Turkey Bowl. The on...

CelebPoker Offers RakebackCelebPoker

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
CelebPoker is now offering their loyal players and new players to be able to enjoy more poker rakeback promotions through their brand new site that opens today called...

Aspinalls Free Play Offer

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Online Casino
Aspinalls Online Casino really wants you to come and play at their online casino, by offering players one of the largest free promotions available online. Aspinalls F...

PokerRoom Offers Players New Mini Games

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
In the upcoming weeks, PokerRoom will be offering their members a chance to improve their skills and to hopefully be more successful in the game. The site will provid...

FTOPS VI Event 14 Results

Nov 18, 2007
Event number 14 has been played out in the Full Tilt Poker Series, with more than eight hundred and seventy-three poker players that entered the tournament. For Eve...

888.com Announces New Campaign

Nov 18, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
There is a new advertising campaign that is set to begin by 888.com who after losing much of their online casino players and profit have found new online players mark...

B.C. Championships Hosted By Mansion Poker

Nov 17, 2007
Mansion Poker will be sponsoring this years third annual B.C. Poker Championships that will begin on November 18th, they made this announcement earlier i...

House Judiciary Hearing Sways One

Nov 17, 2007
During the hearings of the House Judiciary Committee seems to have swayed one of the congressmen to favor legalized online gambling, this is Rep. Earl Blumenauer a ...

Limited Poker Tourneys Allowed with new Florida Deal

Nov 17, 2007
Signing a gambling 'compact' agreement this week by Governor Charlie Crist and Tribal Chairman Mitchell Cypress, has allowed the Seminole Tribe casinos in Flo...

Ron Paul Defends Online Gambling

Nov 17, 2007
Republican Texas Congressman and 2008 United States Presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, came to the defense of online gaming and the rights of players betting over the we...

Positive Reviews for WSOP 2008 Battle For the Bracelets

Nov 17, 2007
The World Series of Poker 2008: Battle For the Bracelets, has recently been released by Activision and Left Field Productions, again producing a game on the market to...

Stereotypes Defied by Online and Mobile Casino Survey

Nov 17, 2007
Category: Online Casino

The survey that was conducted over the summer starting from July and ending in September, for Online Slots Players, by online casino Slotland, showed some surpri...

Titan Poker now Offering Millions

Nov 17, 2007
Sure to gain the appeal from many players all around, are the prize pools that are continuing to grow, and now the huge amount of $8 million in prize pools that i...

Annie Duke In Spotlight Over U.S. Gambling Ban

Nov 16, 2007
Annie Duke, one of the world's best female poker players, is currently sitting in the spotlight as she gets much attention as she supports change in the current...

Critics Speak Out On Internet Gambling Ban

Nov 16, 2007
We all know the details of the ban and whom it does and does not affect. The only real thing left on everyone's mind a year later is how this even makes sense. ...

Ipoker Networks Remove Online Casino

Nov 16, 2007
Category: Online Casino
There has been a press release from the iPoker Network as they have removed an online casino from their network for rackbacks and wanted their zero toloerance polic...

PokerListings and Betfair Hold Freeroll Winner

Nov 16, 2007
In the monthly freeroll that is held between Betfair in a joint venture with PokerListings this is the $1,000 loyalty freeroll and the winner for this month has...

FTOPS VI Event 11

Nov 16, 2007
The Full Tilt of Poker Series event 11 has been played out and saw six hundred and twenty-two poker players with a $311,500 prize pool, which was over the guara...

CelebPoker Raises Prize Pool

Nov 16, 2007
There has been an announcement by CelebPoker that they have raised their guaranteed prize pool for their online tournaments and feel it will give their poker player...

Online Gambling U.S. Debate

Nov 16, 2007
There has been a lot of news recently about the anti-gambling laws in the United States and the meetings being held in the past weeks.

 

Thi...

Great British Poker Tour Ends

Nov 15, 2007
This season's Great British Poker Tour is over and the results are in for the last tournament and the winner of that tournament. The Grand Final tournament...

Full Tilt Of Online Poker Series VI Event 10

Nov 15, 2007

Event ten of the Full Tilt of Online Poker was played out and as several of the other the guaranteed prize pool was above the set price.

The game o...

Harrah’s Entertainment Revels Online Plans

Nov 15, 2007
According to reports and statements from the CEO of Harrah's Entertainment Inc. Gary Loveman there are plans of placing the World Series of Poker on an Int...

Criticism Continuing towards Deval Bill

Nov 15, 2007
Continuing to make mainstream headlines all across the United States is governor of Massachusetts, Patrick Deval, with his attempts in having online gambling banned, ...

Oklahoma Crowns four more Winners

Nov 15, 2007
The last few days has seen four more winners from the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, as the $5,000 championship nears.


Taking home the win in Friday...

Scalp Tournaments Becoming Popular

Nov 15, 2007
With others already turning to the action to be found in 'Scalp' events, some including a €330 freeze out, where players would receive €30 each time...

Testimony on Gambling Bills heard by U.S. House

Nov 15, 2007
The harms of gaase exponentially," McClusky testified. "(And) when you have the law, the states, financial institutions, religious and family organizations,...

Record Breaking Revenues for Isle Of Man

Nov 14, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Record breaking revenue was announced by Isle Of Man, online based gambling software developer and turnkey provider Playtech. 'We are delighted with...

GigaMedia Revenue Continuing to Climb

Nov 14, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Revenues for their third-quarter have climbed 76 percent, up to $43 million, GigaMedia Limited has announced. Operating income has also increased by 66 percent, t...

Lake Tahoe Has Two More Winners

Nov 14, 2007
Taking down the win in event 3 for the World Series of Poker Circuit at Lake Tahoe is Sinh Nguyen, making his very first final table, with a win of $33,228. Follo...

NLOP to Sponsor TechCrunch

Nov 14, 2007
On November 16, The National League of Poker, a wholly owned subsidiary of US-publicly traded Power Play Development (OTC: PWPY.pk), will be demonstrating to many com...

U.S. Position for Online Poker Opposed

Nov 14, 2007
The Poker Players' Alliance, through a recent independent survey that was polled, drew attention at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on online gambling. The su...

Bodog Hits Poker Player 980 Million

Nov 14, 2007
In Sunday's tournament there were eight poker players and the prize pool was $4,000 guaranteed when they hit one of their milestones at Bodog in their quest...

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VI

Nov 14, 2007
Event number eight of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series was played on Monday with a one million guaranteed prize pool. The game in this event was a buy-in &#...

Event Nine of Full Tilt Online Poker Series

Nov 14, 2007

Event number nine of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series has been played and the results are in and the list of players at the final table along with the winner ...

More Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV Results

Nov 13, 2007
Many players have gotten in on the action and taken titles and seats in the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV, that is being held this year at the Cherokee Casino in C...

Hellmuth Back For More Poker After Dark

Nov 13, 2007
Coming back for possibly more take-downs, after already having been a five-time loser in the $120k winner-take-all spectacle - of Poker After Dark (PAD), Phil Hel...

Betfair Adds Blogger, Annette Obrestad

Nov 13, 2007
Becoming well known as Annette_15 after becoming the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker, Annette Obrestad will now have a regular blog on Betfair Poker'...

Costa Rica Hit Hard After Online Gaming Ban

Nov 13, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Costa Rica has been hit extremely hard with the controversial United States crackdown on the $12 billion online gambling industry. Earning it's name of the &q...

Ups and Downs after UIGEA

Nov 13, 2007
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGEA) has definitely made a huge impact on two well known online poker networks in the...

Wildest Pot Ever for High Stakes Poker

Nov 13, 2007
In the latest episode of the TV show High Stakes Poker, the biggest pot yet, was played. With Jamie Gold and Patrik Antonius in the game, over $700k was on the ta...

Bluff Gone Bad

Nov 13, 2007
Sunday night saw a poker game at Full Tilt Poker was a game that might not be forgotten soon by one poker player who trie...

iMega Responds to Massachusetts Governor

Nov 13, 2007

After the report in the Boston Globe on Saturday that Governor Deval Patrick has file legislation that would propose a law making gambling online for Massachu...

CAP Euro now open for Registering

Nov 12, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
In January, the CAP Euro will be returning to London and for those who would like to attend, may register now. What started out as only an idea, one late night in Las...

The World Poker Store Opening in China

Nov 12, 2007
The World Poker Store has made announcements this week of their subsidiary named Shenzhen WPS Entertainment Development Co. Ltd. (SWEDCL), now offering a branch in Sh...

World Series of Poker Circuit WSOPC Lake Tahoe

Nov 12, 2007
An astonishing 484 players entered the opening events for this years 2007 World Series of Poker Circuit WSOPC Lake Tahoe games. The only other year that has attracted...

Charity Tournament Slated For December

Nov 12, 2007
Early December poker pros will be heading to the Vegas Hilton in the first Celebrity Charity Poker tournament being held there during the National Finals Rodeo Week...

GBPT Bristol Winner

Nov 12, 2007

The Bristol £2,500 Main Event has been played out at the Great British Poker Tour and this event was filled with excitement. There were entrants for this...

CryptoLogic Sees Drop In Third Quarter Revenue

Nov 12, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
CryptoLogic, an online gambling provider of software has seen a drop in revenues for their third quarter and they are placing blame on the Unlawful Internet Gamblin...

WSOP 2005 Winner Arrested

Nov 12, 2007
During a recent gambling raid this last week, police officials of Tennessee arrested William Paul "Cigar" McKinney, past winner of the 2005 Seniors Event of...

New Event for the 2008 Irish Open

Nov 12, 2007
There is a new event in the works for next year's Irish Open. Coming on May 22nd 2008 is the new event: The Irish Open - Ladies. This is a no limited...

Holland Concerned Over New Tax

Nov 11, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
In the Netherlands the Dutch state companies hold a monopoly in gambling, and they have recent concerns about a new tax that the Dutch cabinet would like to place a...

VC Poker Offers Irish Open Seats

Nov 11, 2007

The Irish Open 2008 will begin November 19th and with this in mind VC Poker on of the leading online poker rooms is holding a super satellite promot...

Patrick Bill is a Target for Internet Gambling

Nov 11, 2007
Although Governor Deval Patrick is planning to license three resort casinos in the state of Massachusetts, he also plans to tighten the hold on Internet gambling by m...

Harvard's Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society

Nov 11, 2007
Harvard's Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) headed by law students held a one-day academic poker conference on November 10th. These scheduled semina...

Gambling in the Sky

Nov 11, 2007
Category: Online Casino
Beginning next year those who are travelling in the sky on long flights will be able to gamble their flight away as some airlines introduce on-board casinos.

Leo Kam Wins £130,000 First Prize in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour

Nov 11, 2007
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was held in the Grosvenor Victoria Casino located right in London. And the poker player to take home first place entered the &po...

Titan Poker Offers Seats To ECOOP

Nov 11, 2007
TitanPoker will be holding super satellites that are planned for poker players to try to win a seat to the upcoming European Championship Of Online Poker these sate...

European Union Pressures the United States

Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Peter Mendelson the European Union Trade Commissioner was in Washington to discuss the changing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

Du...

Party Gaming Signs Deal

Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Patry Gaming is a popular online casino for many poker players and they have now signed a deal with RTL Interactive a one of the top media companies in Germany, which...

Australian Court to Hear Betfair

Nov 10, 2007
Most online poker players are aware that the online
gaming company Betfair , who has recently begun their
pro...

Online Poker Becoming Ever Popular In Britain

Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Once thought of by many as solely an American thing, the game of poker has recently shown a tremendous growth to the International appe...

CryptoLogic Pulls Through

Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
The Unlawful Gaming Enforcement Agency came down on CryptoLogic (CRYP) last year, banning the company from any operation at all in the United States. During that time...

Scandal Update for Absolute Poker

Nov 10, 2007
Joe Norton, former grand chief of the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake, has said the Kahnawake Gaming Commission's investigation into a security breach is still unde...

Casino Affiliate Convention To Be Held In Asia.

Nov 10, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
The Casino Affiliate Convention that is run by the Ticonderoga Ventures Inc.  has planned to be held on November 28th and the  29th ...

Side Event Schedule Announced for 2008 Irish Open

Nov 10, 2007
The 2008 Irish Open is scheduled for March and the Side events have been announced. The tournament takes place over the course of a week and will have many different ...

Winning Stats Out From Executive Poker Tour

Nov 9, 2007
The Executive Poker Tour held at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City New Jersey was over in the end of October and the final results have been released and as was ...

Expansion Barred With Online Poker

Nov 9, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
While it may be true that Svenska Spel has a large monopoly going for online poker and gambling for Sweden, everyone eventu...

Quarterly Reports From Two Poker Networks.

Nov 9, 2007
Category: Poker Industry

The quarterly reports are in from two online poker networks and they are very different from each other in quarter three, and much different since the passing ...

WinAJackpot.com Has New $2.7 Million Winner

Nov 9, 2007
Category: Online Casino
It has just recently announced by WinAJackpot that they have produced another lucky player who was able to pocket a cool $2.7 million. This fortunate player has...

Two Jackpot Wins Within 4 Hours At UltimateBet

Nov 9, 2007
It was announced just yesterday that UltimateBet had two of their online players took home some high jackpot amounts and they were just within four hours of each ot...

Profit Rise Reported by Online Casino

Nov 9, 2007
Category: Online Casino
Net Entertainment, an online gambling software developer, has shown a net increase in their third quarter figures. The increase reflects 30 percent profit in sales, w...

Poker Hand History Converter

Nov 9, 2007
Category: Poker Software
The Internet site FlopTurnRiver is becoming a site that many online poker players are visiting as a site with free poker ...

2007 WPT Controversy with J.P. Tran

Nov 8, 2007
Category: Poker Players
The opening day of the 2007 World Poker Finals (WPF) proved to be unnerving for J.C. Tran, player of the year for Season 5 of the World Poker Tour. Being involved in ...

Reports for NETeller Showing Recovery

Nov 8, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
"The third quarter has demonstrated the resilience of the NETeller business and t...

WSOP Oldest Winner Arrested

Nov 8, 2007
Holding the record as the oldest bracelet winner for the World Series of Poker, Paul McKinney was arrested in Tennessee on Friday at a raid made by police on a

Mansion Poker's Great Value Tournaments

Nov 8, 2007
Mansion Poker, increasingly becoming known for their great value tournaments since they made the move onto the OnGame network, has decided to go even a step further. ...

CelebPoker.com Has Select Promotions At Rakeback Site

Nov 8, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
CelebPoker has new promotions and deals they will be offering only at their new site RakebackCelebPoker with the launch of this new site rakeback poker will be more...

Taxies and 888.com

Nov 8, 2007
Category: Online Casino
The online casino 888.com has struck a deal with All Response Media who will now be advertising for 888 Holdings.

This planned advertising i...

WSOP Team Ticket By Ladbrokes

Nov 8, 2007
Category: WSOP
Ladbrokes is now offering a new promotion; this is a team ticket for the 2008 WSOP the tournament will have a $20,000 guarantee and this includes a Ladbrokes te...

European Union Asks For Change From U.S.

Nov 8, 2007
The top trade official stated that the United States must change their online gambling law, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as it discriminating agai...

France Slow in Negotiations with EU

Nov 7, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
The European Union and France have been haggling for sometime now, where at one point it appeared that France would open their gambling to other members of the Euro...

The Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV Event Winner

Nov 7, 2007
Sunday saw one hundred and nineteen entrants for the $300 Limit Hold'em and the prize pool was $29,360 and a seat for the Championship Event that will b...

Two Country’s Two Different Views

Nov 7, 2007

This week Germany has been in the news with their view of online gambling and it seems Germany and their Administrative Court of Appeals have the opposite thou...

PokerListings and CD Poker Table

Nov 7, 2007
PokerLisitngs and CD Poker are planning two final games in their six freeroll series, the buy-in is free to the $1 million European Championship of Online Poker...

First Day of FTSOPS VI

Nov 7, 2007
The FTSOPS VI has begun with the first event being a $200+ $16 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max and in this tournament there will be sixteen events with over ni...

High Stakes Poker Bluff

Nov 7, 2007
Poker player Jamie Gold tried to bluff his hand and failed against Guy Laliberte in the latest episode of High Stakes Po...

Third Quarter Down For WPT

Nov 7, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
Steve Lipscomb, President and CEO for World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE), was very comfortable with respects to the future of the company during a conference call Mo...

Western Union a Safe Option For Online Casino Accounts

Nov 7, 2007
Category: Online Casino
Online poker players and casino visitors want a safe and secure way to transfer their money to their online casino accounts. Many of the online casinos offer Neteller...

CelebPoker Enters Sweden

Nov 6, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
In June CelebPoker obtained a gaming licnese from the European Union and now there has been an announcement that they will launch a new CelebPoker site in Swedish wit...

Simon Charity Will Break Last Years Record

Nov 6, 2007
The poker community has come out again this year to support the Simon Poker Day which gives donations to the homeless. Th...

World Poker Finals Begin

Nov 6, 2007
The World Poker Finals is set to begin tomorrow and is being held at the Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut for its entirety, which is being held from Novemb...

Ultimatebet Releases New Software

Nov 6, 2007
Category: Poker Sites

Ultimatebet has announced the release of their latest online poker software that is designed to give online poker p...

UK Online Gambling Survey

Nov 6, 2007

There has recently been a study done by the British Gambling Commission has released their findings and this survey shows that online gambling has risen.
...

Scott Clements Joins Full Tilt

Nov 6, 2007

There have been reports that Full Tilt Poker has signed Scott Clements the poker pro who holds two gold bracelets in their team of professional poker players, ...

Casino Becomes More Secure

Nov 6, 2007
Category: Online Casino
All the recent news in online gambling has players and operators questioning how secure online gambling sites are and Victor Chandler who is based in Gibraltar has ...

Duplicate Poker Will It Work For American Poker Players

Nov 6, 2007
Recently there has been a way of playing poker that has some wondering if this could be a way of getting around the United States Unl...

PokerStars Sunday Millions Winner

Nov 5, 2007
Sunday was the big day at PokerStars and with it WhatArunAA left the poker table a winner, he is also known in the Full C...

Everest Poker Avalanche Final

Nov 5, 2007

The Everest Poker Avalanche final was played and leaving the final table last was Frank Stumpf, this final event was played aboard a Costa Cruise ship in the M...

Great British Poker Tour Begins

Nov 5, 2007
The Great British Poker Tour has begun with a £300+£30 No-Limit Hold'em Freeze-Out; the tour will be at the Gala Casino Harbourdside in Brist...

More Mergers In The Works For 888.com

Nov 5, 2007
Category: Poker Industry

888Holdings who recently has been in the news for a merger and today announced a merger deal with Rank, they are a company that runs an online betting site. T...

Nguyen Poker Challenge IV

Nov 5, 2007
Sunday began the Nguyen Poker Challenge IV and is being held at the Cherokee Casino and Resort in Oklahoma, with the first event being the Jack and Jill Tournament;...

Britain Shows Increased Interest In Online Gambling

Nov 5, 2007
It seems that the British demographic is steadily accepting online gambling as the Gambling Commission, the British gambling regulator, has their survey showing tha...

Titan Poker Awards $1 Million Seat

Nov 5, 2007

The Tournament Titan Million table is limited to twenty poker players and Swedish poker player Jon Doemstedt is the latest of the twenty poker players at numb...

Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee Makes It Without Overlay

Nov 5, 2007
Last night's $750,000 guaranteed event on Full Tilt brought in 3,751 players and almost needed an overlay with the tournament having a prize pool of $...

Online Casino Games Quickly Accessible With Mansion

Nov 4, 2007
Category: Online Casino
With the online poker and casino playing growing worldwide at an incredibly rapid rate, it is no wonder that many gaming o...

This is The Nuts Revamps Site

Nov 4, 2007
New features and site design have been added to the rakeback site This is The Nuts recently. The site has added features to their rakeback system that gives members m...

Abolute Poker Scandal Update

Nov 4, 2007
In the Old West they had their own way of dealing with cheaters in a card game. More than likely the punishment for cheating in

Grand Prive Announces Supernova and Live Cash Draws

Nov 4, 2007
Category: Online Casino
The Grand Privé Group has already been one of the leaders in the online casino industry, now they are taking it one step beyond to allow its players to be a pa...

Italian Online Casino Players Get New Payment Method

Nov 4, 2007
Category: Online Casino
There is now an easier and faster way for Italian players to use for buy and take out credits from their favorite online casino, JackpotFactory. In fact, it was jus...

$2 Million Event Begins at Ulitmatebet

Nov 4, 2007
The online Championship is set to begin on December seventh with Ultimatebet and will be a Texas Hold'em tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. ...

It is Second Place for Annette Obrestad

Nov 4, 2007
At the European Poker Tour Annette Obrestad had made it to the final table in Dublin and Saturday found her at the final table as the chip leader with $788,000....

New Software Poker Crusher Offers Online Poker Stats in Real Time

Nov 4, 2007
Category: Poker Software
Mutatum Solutions Ltd. has released their new online poker software tool Poker Crusher. The new software gives players inst...

UltimateBet Grows In Popularity

Nov 3, 2007
With a Bad Beat Jackpot quickly approaching $600,000, it is no wonder that UltimateBet is showing an increase in numbers. This jump can be found at their Texas ...

Final Table of the North American Championship

Nov 3, 2007
Then North American Championship is winding down, and the final tables entrants are seated with skilled poker players and among them are two poker players that are ...

WSOP Winner At EPT Final Table

Nov 3, 2007
Today at the European Poker Tour there will be a bracelet winner from the World Series of Poker joining the other poker players at the final table, Annette Obrastad...

China To Tighten Up On Internet Gambling

Nov 3, 2007

China has recently been reviewing their requirements for online gambling and Internet poker, and has announced it i...

Antigua To Meet With U.S. Politicians

Nov 3, 2007
Antigua plans to use the approaching Caribbean business conference that will be attended by the United States legislators.  This conference is planned as a way...

Sunday Warm Up Held

Nov 3, 2007
Online poker players will find that Sundays are big poker days at PokerStars as they are holding their Sunday Millions Tournaments and the Sunday Warm-Up. The Sunda...

The New Face In Poker After Dark

Nov 3, 2007
In the television program Poker After Dark which airs on Monday's will have two new players joining their lineup, these will be Paul Wasicka and Alan "Bost...

Unibet CEO Speaks Out

Nov 3, 2007
Category: Poker Industry
The head of Unibet who was recently detained in the Netherlands under a French warrant is now speaking out and not only giving his side of the detainment and arrest...

Everest Poker’s Dream Tournament Results

Nov 2, 2007
It was announced today the information of who the winners were for the first ever tournament of the Live The Dream Promotion. Ten players were selected to receive a...

EPT Dublin Chipleader: Annette Obrestad

Nov 2, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
It doesn't surprise many people that Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad is at it again. This young female poker pro, from Norway, is the chipleader in...

Fresh Managers for the WPTE Team

Nov 2, 2007
In an attempt to boost their online poker presence and to broaden their presence in the online market, two new managers we...

Bet Direct Sold

Nov 2, 2007
Category: Online Casino

Stan James Bookmaker is in the final stages of buying Bet Direct and is coming complete in the online market with casino,

CasinoUnreal Offers Promotional Codes

Nov 2, 2007
Category: Online Casino
The online site CasinoUnreal who began their site in 2001 to online bettors and poker players who also has an affiliate program that allows website owners to place...

November The Month For Tournaments

Nov 2, 2007
All through this year there has been poker tournaments and the same is true for November, there are several that will eithe...

World Lottery Association Acquires Permission In Sweden

Nov 2, 2007
With the change in Sweden's online gaming policies Svenska Spel will have company and Boss Media will be assisting the World Lottery Association in delivering a...

Bodog.com to Reach One Billion

Nov 1, 2007
The poker site Bodog will reach dealing their one-billionth hand toward the end of November, and the operator has decided...

Mansion Adds Flash

Nov 1, 2007
Category: Online Casino
The online site Mansion as been busy adding to their online games, and these new games as many as fifty are Platech's software for flash casino games. While they ...

New Ulitmatebet Software Released

Nov 1, 2007
Category: Poker Sites
Recently there have been reports that Ulitmatebet would release new and today is the day this company has released this new software.


According to Ulti...