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Will Frey Crowned PokerStars EPT Budapest Champ 2008-11-03 15:06:42 In his first major tournament outing, Will Fry has been crowned the first-ever
PokerStars European Poker Tour Budapest
champion and claimed its €595,839 top prize. A total of 531 players paid out the €4,350 buy-in for a shot at the PokerStars EPT Budapest title. Read more:Crowned
Strong Growth In Online Poker Sector 2008-11-01 18:00:20 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. Read more:Growth
, Strong
60 Minutes To Air Online Poker Expose On November 9th 2008-11-01 17:13:40 The highly anticipated 60 Minutes online poker expose is expected to
air on November
9th, coinciding with the 2008 WSOP Final Table playing
out. The show promises to "spotlight cheating scams that were discovered over the past year at online poker sites, Absolute Poker
and Ultimate Bet." Read more:Expose
PKR Poker Hosts Singles Poker Night In London 2008-10-31 14:53:27 PKR Poker
, the poker room which recently announced it 2 millionth
member, has broken the mould again by annoucing it will be hosting a
"Singles
Poker Night
" in conjunction with LoveStruck.com. Read more:Hosts
Poker Networks Begin Blocking Access To Kentucky Residents 2008-10-28 14:49:01 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. Read more:Access
, Blocking
Kentucky Court Asked To Dismiss Internet Poker Case 2008-10-25 14:45:07 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). Read more:Internet
, Kentucky
, Poker
World Poker Tour & MySpace Launch Poker Channel 2008-10-22 14:48:44 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." Read more:Channel
, Launch
Full Tilt Poker Guarantee $15 Million This November 2008-10-21 13:46:00 Full Tilt Poker
, the second largest online poker room in the world, has
just announced that their FTOPS X Series will take place from the 5th
to 16th of November
with a total of 25 events scheduled. Poker
variants will include Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Razz and H.O.R.S.E.
and the series is structured to pay out a minimum of $15 million over
25 events.
New Law Allows PokerStars Launch Italian Version 2008-10-18 17:37:58 PokerStars, the largest online poker room in the world, today announced
the launch of an Italian
only version of their poker site. PokerStars
were granted a license to offer online poker in Italy by the
Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS). Read more:Launch
Judge Upholds Move To Stop Internet Poker Sites 2008-10-17 13:03:01 A Kentucky judge today moved not to deny the state the right to seize
the domain names of dozens of Internet
gambling sites. Judge
Thomas
Wingate denied a motion by Internet gambling Web sites, online trade
associations and Internet poker players to stop the state from taking
over the domain names of 141 online gambling sites. Read more:Poker
, Sites
Paddy Power Autumn Poker Festival Details Announced 2008-10-16 19:07:13 PaddyPowerPoker
.com have just announced that Andy Black and Irish Open winners Marty Smyth and Neil Channing are among the poker professionals pre-registering for the Irish Masters which headlines the Irish Winter Festival
. Read more:Autumn
, Paddy
PKR Poker Lauch Their Autumn Poker Festival 2008-10-15 19:18:41 This Friday PKR.com Poker
lauch their Oktoberfest 2008 Poker Festival
where players will be
treated to twelve with $270,000 in guaranteed prizes to be
won. The 2nd annual
Oktoberfest is designed to appeal to every type of player with Hold’em
and Omaha, deep stack and six-seater tournaments
included. Read more:Autumn
Plasterer Wins News Zealand's Biggest Poker Tournament 2008-10-14 14:26:31 A Lower Hutt plasterer has snapped up a cheque for more than $250,000
after winning New Zealand
's biggest poker tournament. Daniel Craker
was crowned champion by outplaying 305 rivals over four days. Read more:Poker
, Tournament
Poker TV Channel Launched In Europe 2008-10-14 14:18:53 Dedicated gaming TV network, The PokerChannel
, has announced
the relaunch of Poker Europe
.com in partnership with the online
video platform Brightcove. The partnership will facilitate the delivery
of video content on the game. Read more:Launched
Kentucky ups stakes in online poker dispute 2008-10-13 15:18:24 Some of the biggest and most controversial companies in the online
poker industry could be stripped of their internet domain names after
state officials in Kentucky
won a seizure order from a US court.
Jason Mercier wins PokerStars.com £1 million Show Down 2008-10-10 17:24:29 Jason Mercier the EPT4 San Remo champion has won the PokerStars.com EPT
London £1 Million Showdown and a first prize of £516,000. His victory
against some of the best players in the world comes only a week after
he made the final table of the WSOP Europe Pot Limit Omaha event. Read more:Jason
, million
Online Poker Rooms Fight For Domain Names 2008-10-09 13:42:30 An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online
gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the
physical location of digital property and the reach of local and
regional governments on the global Internet. Read more:Names
, Online Poker
, Poker
, Rooms
PKR Poker Unveil New Internet Poker Channel 2008-10-08 18:14:32 PKR.com has unveiled PKR.tv an internet
channel dedicated to broadcasting episodes of the popular PKR TV series. The PKR TV programmes have enjoyed a great deal of success and are
currently broadcast to millions of homes across Europe via cable and
satellite channels. Read more:Channel
, Internet
, Poker
Jimmy McSweeney Wins Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival 2008-10-08 13:22:45 Capacity-busting 832 entrants create a prize pool of €416,000 at
the Killarney, Ireland tournament - the largest European ranking event
ever. The €500 + €50 buy-in main event at the Ladbrokes.com IrishPokerFestival
has been won by
Jimmy McSweeney from Cork, Ireland.
American Wins WSOP's European poker crown 2008-10-06 13:32:09 The European
2008 World Series of Poker final table took a record 484 hands to decide a champion and, for the first time ever, an American
player has captured the continental crown.
Paddy Power Poker C*A*S*H VIP Bonus is Now Unlimited 2008-10-01 01:47:57 Paddy Power Poker
, the poker room behind the famous Irish Open and this October's Irish Winter Festival, has recently
re-launched its C*A*S*H VIP programme, increasing the amount cash
players can be awarded each month and making it easier for the bonuses
to be earned. Read more:Bonus
, Paddy
Players Online 'Gambling DNA' helps fight fraud 2008-09-30 15:52:15 Like online banks, web-based casinos suffer phishing attacks: players'
identities are stolen through emails purporting to be from the casino
but actually from fraud
sters trying to obtain account details. Read more:fight
, Gambling
, Players
Danish Poker Player Wins WSOP in London & Vegas 2008-09-29 17:39:31 The poker professional who is sponsored by UK gaming provider bet365
won his first bracelet in Las Vegas
this summer by finishing first in
the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournament. That victory resulted in a
prize money of $610,304. Read more:Danish
, Poker
Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival Sells Out 2008-09-29 17:32:41 Ladbrokes today announced its Ladbrokes IrishPokerFestival
, has sold out despite capacity being increased to 750 during the week. The €500 buy-in event, being held in Killarney from, Oct. 2 to 5, Killarney, had been extended to 750 after pre-registration for the event smashed the original target of 625.