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News coming in this week indicates that a super Euro online poker consortium could shortly be realized and that just could be good news for online poker players in the USA as well as Europe.
Partying whilst gaming
One of the top UK based internet poker companies, PartyGaming who own the PartyPoker website, has been in talks [...]
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The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on the exclusive Paradise Island, Bahamas, is now entering its closing stages. All the PokerStars satellite tournaments for online poker players have ended and the real action has moved on to a $25,000 High Roller game, which saw PokerStars professional, Dario Minieri forging an [...]
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The poker talk this week is centering on just one thing – is ‘Isildur1’ talented or just a chancer at poker? Only just a few weeks ago Isildur1 seemed to be a veritable online poker enigma – taking top professional players for millions and yet managing to remain the mystery player of the moment at [...]
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If any of you online poker fans fancy winning big this month then, with just a few days to go now, a European poker website, Titan Poker, could be the site to go to. Until the end of the month Titan Poker is running a ‘turbo’ poker tournament totaling $50,000 and this week-end is your last [...]
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Despite the 2009 WSOP Main Event only having just been completed last week it appears that a ‘night of the long knives’ has erupted over the way it was handled, resulting in the resignation of commissioner Jeffrey Pollock. Describing his departure as “bittersweet” all that Jeffrey would say was that he had “great memories” and [...]
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After waiting months for the 2009 WSOP Main Event to begin in just a few days it was all over and Joe Cada emerged as the 2009 WSOP Main Event winner. Apart from the prestige of winning this event Joe walks away with a winners check for $8.5 million and that all important WSOP winners [...]
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Many rookie internet poker players will also enjoy playing poker machines; however that enjoyment could soon take a dive for the worse if US gambling legislators are watching developments down under, in Australia; where moves are afoot to limit bets on poker machines to $1. A report on Australian gambling claims that of the $18 [...]
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Published this week is the list of candidates to be added to the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009. Based at the famous Horseshoe Casino, in Las Vegas, the Poker Hall of Fame is in its thirtieth year, not bad going for something devised by the casino’s owner, Benny Binion, as a way of attracting [...]
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The WSOPE reached the six day Main Event stage in London, UK, last weekend. Seated at the tables who, along with the usual professional and top ‘celebrity’ players included a few who had qualified via online poker satellites. One particularly interesting inclusion in the professional’s field was ten times WSOP bracelet winner and poker legend, [...]
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Great news for poker fans everywhere is that the World Series of Poker has just signed a four year renewal of its contract with IMG Sports and Entertainment, in conjunction with Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, for the global representation rights of WSOP – meaning that we can all be assured of continued and uninterrupted access to [...]