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2006-10-26
Ladbrokes planning giant poker game
LADBROKES, the bookmaker and gaming operator, is to invest £3 million in its Poker Million tournament next year in an effort to turn the event into a European competitor to Las Vegas’s World Series of Poker.
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2006-10-20
NETeller to Follow Jurisdiction of UIGE Act
It Says Act Is Unclear on How to Deal With Companies like NETELLER.
NETeller has decided to take a more cautionary approach in dealing with the United States’ recent attempt at stemming online gambling.
2006-07-06
PokerLoco offers you $1000 in deposit bonus
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2006-07-05
FullContactPoker to Match Five Percent of Negreanu's Winnings at the WSOP
Register and participate in FCP’s Wear the Name, Share the Fame promotion and you can take part in the success of Daniel Negreanu at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
Full Contact Poker will match five percent of Daniel Negreanu’s gross winnings from all the World Series of Poker (“WSOP”) events he plays from June 26, 2006 to August 10, 2006 to create a prize pool for promo participants to split accordingly.
2006-05-27
Absolute Poker offers a $250.000 freeroll
Absolute Poker has 3 daily freeroll Qualifiers for the big $250.000 freeroll on the 23:rd of June. The first place finisher gets $50.000.
2006-05-21
DreamPoker is giving away one free seat to the World Series of Poker 2006, worth over $12,000
The DreamPoker players that accumulate 200 DreamWSOP points over the six weeks between the 9th May 2006 and the 22nd June 2006 will be entered into an exclusive WSOP freeroll.
2006-05-13
$15.000 Deep Pockets Guaranteed at Pokerhost
All new players who despoits $25 or more gets to play $15K Deep Pockets Guaranteed for free. You also get 110% extra up to $500 on your deposited money.
2006-04-23
$15.000 freeroll at Dreampoker
Don't miss the freeroll at DreamPoker tomorrow (24 april). Everyone that don't have an account and registers also get $10 for free
2006-02-23
$500,000 Tournament Winner Disqualified
The winner of a popular $500K MTT on Party was revealed as a cheater playing with two account at the same time from the same IP.
2005-12-21
NYC transit strike means boom for poker
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- It was no coincidence that record numbers of people played online Texas Hold'em poker on the same day New York City's transit system was shut down by a strike.
Marty Wallace, chief operating officer for DoylesRoom.com, told the Chicago Tribune the site usually has 3,000 to 3,500 people playing during business hours, but Tuesday, the count jumped as high as 6,500 players.
"At first we didn't know what was going on with the flood of players we were getting from New York City," he said.
BetOnSports.com's poker room also experienced a "30-35 percent increase in both free-play and real-money games, and it was a clear connection to the New York transit strike," said spokesman Kevin Smith.
Some 7 million people normally use New York buses and subways each weekday. The strike entered its second day on Wednesday.
2005-12-16
BETandWIN To Acquire Ongame For At Least EUR473.6M
BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment AG said Friday it has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Ongame e-solutions AB.
2005-11-14
Grand opening of the worlds first 3D Internet poker site
The 15th of November at 2pm EST and 7pm GMT, the doors to the worlds FIRST fully 3D Internet poker site will open.
2005-11-02
WSOP Announces Foreign Satellites
One of the great innovations that Benny Binion brought to tournament poker, other than the World Series of Poker itself, was the opportunity for players to earn their way into the greatest event in poker through smaller buy in tournaments called satellites. Traditionally, they have been held in Las Vegas (first at the Horseshoe and now carried on to the Rio by Harrah's) around the time of the WSOP starting. Over the past few years, this has changed and will face another change starting this year as well.
Online satellites have been one of the most popular ways that the World Series has expanded the field. Those first online entries came in 2003, which brought over 800 players to the felt, a record at that time. In 2004, it tripled the field to over 2500 players and, in 2005, set the record at an astounding 5619 players. What hasn't been seen, though, is satellites in brick and mortar casinos that players can earn their way into the Main Event through.
2005-11-02
Betfair buys PokerChamps
Top online gaming company Betfair closed a deal it has been working on for months, when it reached an agreement to buy top online poker site Poker Champs, and their software company Aglet.
2005-11-02
The Tournament Poker Shift To No-Limit Hold 'Em
With the announcement last week of the schedule of events for the 2006 World Series of Poker, there has been a maelstrom of protest from pretty much everyone. Of the forty four events that make up the 2006 schedule, over half are No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em events, with games such as Omaha, Seven Card, Razz and others reduced to second class citizen status, battling for the other twenty or so slots. This hasn't set well with many players and has brought a tremendous amount of criticism upon Harrah's, who set the schedule for the 37th renewal of the World Series.
2005-10-26
US Airways to Help Tune Poker Skills
The World Poker Exchange is Sponsoring In-Flight Video Tutorials Soon, poker players flying to their favorite poker rooms can pick up some tips while up in the air.
2005-10-12
Running a Major Poker Tournament is Hard Work
Without a doubt, playing poker is a tough business. The long hours and mental strain can wreak havoc on the minds of even the best in the game, but poker players aren't the only ones on the floor who are trying to beat the energy-draining environment...
2005-10-10
N.M. doctor tests pill that may help gambling addicts
When something gets skewed in the brain's pleasure pathways, an ordinary person can turn into a compulsive drinker, drug-user or gambler.
Read more on "The Albuquerque Tribune"
2005-10-03
Play it, Own it
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2005-09-26
Online Poker Room Offers to Stamp Name on Town
New online poker room, PokerShare.com, has taken a page out of Golden Palace’s book and has come up with a bizarre marketing ploy. It has offered the town of Sharer, Kentucky, $100,000 to change its name to PokerShare.com.
Read the article on Poker News Daily
2005-09-23
New Frontier must pay $110,000 to card counter
A Clark County District Court jury has awarded a gambler $110,000 for an incident in 2001 in which he was detained in a security office at the New Frontier.
Las Vegas Sun
2005-09-23
New Frontier must pay $110,000 to card counter
A Clark County District Court jury has awarded a gambler $110,000 for an incident in 2001 in which he was detained in a security office at the New Frontier.
Las Vegas Sun
2005-09-22
Tournament Poker: A Team Sport?
Only the most successful players in the world are well served by maintaining the style that has brought them success. For the rest of us, tournament poker is a constant quest to get better.
Read the article on CBS News
2005-09-18
The results from EPT in Barcelona
1st - €416,000 (plus €10,000 buy-in into EPT Grand Final) - Jan Boubli
2nd - €228,000 - Christer Johansson
3rd - €117,000 - Patrik Antonius
4th - €91,000 - Patrick Mortensson
5th - €78,000 - Gus Hansen
6th - €65,000 - Anton Bergstroem
7th - €52,000 - Dario Alioto
8th - €39,000 - Romain Feriolo
2005-09-13
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Bot
In the booming world of online poker, anyone can win. Especially with an autoplaying robot ace in the hole. Are you in, human? Read more on Wired Magazine
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