Archive for the ‘Poker News’ Category
Poker Website Scandals
Poker websites scandals seem to be happening more and more often, which isn’t a surprise. One would expect that as the popularity of online poker grows, the number of players would grow too. And with more players, there’s more opportunity…
Posted by admin at August 27th, 2010 | No Comments »Back To School Poker Freeroll
I guess it would be wrong for a poker room to call it a “Back to school freeroll”, but I don’t really care how old you are, and I don’t care if you’re not 18 and you still play online…
Posted by admin at September 5th, 2009 | No Comments »Pokerstars Thwarting Full Tilt’s World Record Attempt
Full Tilt had planned to hold a world record setting tournament on July 19th and take the title of “World’s Largest Poker Tournament” from Pokerstars. The plan was to have a $5 buy in with 50,000 entrants and it looked…
Posted by admin at July 18th, 2009 | No Comments »High Stakes PLO From Outer Space
Guy Laliberte has reportedly dumped more than $10 million into the online poker games over the last year. He has been the fuel keeping these games going, but it looks like he has other plans for his money now.
It…
Posted by admin at June 4th, 2009 | No Comments »Annie Duke on The Celebrity Apprentice
I hate to admit this, but if you could see me right now you would see me watching The Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump on Hulu. The truth is that I don’t know why I’m watching this show. This isn’t…
Posted by admin at April 4th, 2009 | No Comments »Make That 25 Billion Hands of Poker
Pokerstars is approaching yet another record-breaking milestone. They are getting ready to deal out their 25 billionth hand and they are not
letting this go without celebration.
Pokerstars is getting ready to pay out prizes to 150 different tables…
Posted by admin at February 12th, 2009 | No Comments »Poker Revolution in Russia?
Generally speaking, it is very rare when Russia can clam being innovative and progressive in something not related to space or weapons technologies . Amazingly, it is poker where Russia made an advance which looks like a real revolution, especially…
Posted by admin at January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »2009 Aussie Millions High Stakes Gam
Many Internet sites are reporting about million dollar buy-in poker game on Sunday in Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The game started as head-up match between Patrik Antonius and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan with $ 1,000/ 2,000 blinds and alternation between no-limit hold’em…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »Doyle’s Room to Join Cake Network
Cake poker continues to expand.
Doyle’s Room is set to join the Cake network and leave the Microgaming Network. Cake has been doing all it can to become a strong competitor in the online poker world, especially in the…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge
It looks like one of the exciting on-line poker stories of the year is quickly emerging after Tom “Durrrr” Dwan announced his open challenge in heads-up Holdem or Omaha. In his statement, Tom Dwan describes the conditions of the challenge.…
Posted by admin at January 15th, 2009 | No Comments »Pokerstars Makes a $150,000 Mistake
There has been another mistake at Pokerstars, this time in favor of the players and this is one that they can’t reneg on.
Pokerstars is going for a world record. They want to have the most entrants ever in…
Posted by admin at December 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »Charity Poker Tournament on Full Tilt
Full Tilt is going to be hosting an online poker tournament in conjunction with the Bad Beat on Cancer organization. So far, the foundation has raised more than $1,ooo,ooo for cancer research.
This is going to be a $5 buy-in…
Posted by admin at November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »Kentucky Trying to Seize Gambling Domains
If you thought that the state of Kentucky was bluffing when they said that they would seize more than 140 domain names that are currently owned by internet gambling sites, you were wrong. Lawyers representing the online gaming companies met…
Posted by admin at October 9th, 2008 | No Comments »Duplicate Poker is Closed
I think the title says it all. Duplicate Poker has closed it’s website down. That’s too bad for them, because I know that they have been spending a lot of money on TV advertising lately.
I sort of predicated…
Posted by admin at October 6th, 2008 | No Comments »The Utter Failure Known as the Kahnawake Gaming Commission
Somewhere in Canada there is a small ice fishing shack that serves as the home of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. The KGC is responsible for regulating many of the internet’s largest poker rooms. A lot of people may have noticed…
Posted by admin at July 28th, 2008 | No Comments »