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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.
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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."
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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

Meere Wins Paddy Power Poker Irish Masters Winter Festival
2008-10-30 14:42:15
The Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival came to a close, with Fiachra Meere of Limerick being crowned the Irish Masters Champion, who survived a field of 423 poker hopefuls to scoop the €150, 000 main prize.


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

60 Minutes UltimateBet and Absolute Poker Program Delayed
2008-10-24 18:01:04
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.
Read more: Absolute , Poker , Program

Ladbrokes $2 Million Prize Money For European Tournament
2008-10-22 17:06:52
Ladbrokes European Online Championship Of Poker starts on Sunday 26th of October with an estimated $2,000,000 in prize money, making it the biggest added money Poker Festival on the Internet.
Read more: Money , Tournament

World Poker Tour & MySpace Launch Poker Channel
2008-10-22 14:48:44
The World Poker 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 Poker Channel , 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.
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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 Irish Poker Festival has been won by Jimmy McSweeney from Cork, Ireland.


Duplicate Poker Shuts Down Due To Economic Crisis
2008-10-07 14:42:24
Duplicate Poker , one of the few legal online poker room in the United States, abruptly shut down as of Sunday due to the “global financial crisis,” according to a statement posted on its website.
Read more: Crisis , Duplicate , Economic

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.


Poker Players Alliance commends online gambling bill
2008-10-02 15:49:40
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey announced plans to introduce a bill before the Senate which would regulate and legalize online gambling games of skill, including poker.
Read more: Alliance , Players , Poker

September sees remarkable growth in poker player action
2008-10-01 14:28:08
According to the real-time tracking of independent industry monitor Market-Pulse, September has been a month to boost confidence in the Internet poker industry despite economic events.
Read more: player

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 Irish Poker Festival , 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.


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