September Brings Flood Of Online Poker Players

September 18, 2008

According to the Poker Listings MarketPulse, there’s been an incredible swell of online poker player traffic at pretty much every online poker room this September, and there are two very good reasons that might have contributed to this sudden burst of extra participation.
First and foremost, we must recognize that thousands upon thousands of students are undertaking their [...]

US Online Poker News: Barney Frank’s HR 6870 Passes In Committee

September 17, 2008

Since the deceptive passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006, Congressman Barney Frank has spent a great deal of time and effort to halt the enforcement of the bill and further clarify its intentions. Yesterday, Frank got one step closer when his proposed bill, HR 6870 – the Payments System Protection [...]

Titan Poker ECOOP III Announced: $4.15M Guaranteed

September 11, 2008

Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, announced in a press release the launch of ECOOP III; the online poker room’s third installment of the European Championship of Online Poker. Within the release came the marvelous news that the upcoming ECOOP III will boast a record-breaking overall guarantee of $4.15 million in [...]

Online Poker Room Hits Milestone: PKR Announces 2-Millionth Member

September 10, 2008

PKR Poker, still considered a relatively new online poker room, has made the historic landmark announcement of reaching its 2,000,000th member mark. Launched in 2006, and not even a year after announcing the 1-millionth member, this is a sensational event for the celebrated 3D online poker room.
Only the most popular and long-time established online poker [...]

Calvin32 Wins $452k In PokerStars WCOOP Event #6

September 9, 2008

Since September 5th, the opening day of PokerStars 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), the action has been purely non-stop at the online poker room, having awarded millions in prize money already. WCOOP Event #6, the highest prize pool thus far, guaranteeing at least $3,000,000, was scheduled as a 2-day event that actually crept [...]

Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up PLO Championship; Antonius Falls to Slaktarn

September 8, 2008

A field of 64 players, the maximum allowed, handed over $25,000 a piece to converge on Full Tilt Poker’s Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha Championship tables Saturday, battling it out for their share of the tremendous $1.6 million prize pool. The two-day event came to a close Sunday as Patrik Antonius and “slaktarn” went one-on –one [...]

PokerStars WCOOP Kicks Off Today

September 5, 2008

It’s Friday, September 5, and that means only one thing in the world of online poker – the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicks off today.
The first round of the 33-event series is a No Limit Hold’em 6-Max tournament with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, scheduled to begin at 2:30pm ET. Then, at [...]

California Online Poker Bill Put On Shelf Until 2009

September 4, 2008

Californians who have been anxiously awaiting the result of Assemblyman Lloyd Levine’s online poker bill, AB 2026, will have to wait a little longer now. The bill was put on the shelf for the remainder of the year, scheduled to be reintroduced to the Senate Appropriations Committee in January of 2009.
Originally introduced in February of [...]

Notorious Poker Player Jimmy Chagra Dead At 63

September 3, 2008

Jamiel Alexander “Jimmy” Chagra, notorious drug runner, fanciful poker player and suspect in a 1979 federal judge assassination, has lost his battle with cancer. Battling the disease since November, Jimmy’s sister Patsy Chagra said he passed away on Friday, August 19, 2008. He was 63 years old.
Jimmy Chagra led a tarnished existence, a known drug [...]

Dublin wins Bluff Europe’s European Poker Capital of the Year Award

September 3, 2008

Online Poker Press Release: (London, UK) - Dublin has been awarded the title of European Poker Capital 2008 by Bluff Europe Magazine. The Irish capital piped last year’s winner, London, to the post — with Vienna, Amsterdam and Barcelona named third, fourth and fifth places respectively. Bluff Europe praised Dublin’s lively and friendly poker scene, [...]

Brian Townsend Confesses To Online Poker Multi-Accounting

August 29, 2008

American professional poker player Brian Townsend came clean Tuesday, confirming the growing suspicions of many poker fans by confessing in a blog post that he was in fact guilty of multi-accounting at two of the most prominent online poker rooms in the industry, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
Townsend, currently one of the top instructors of [...]

Titan Poker - Single Satellite Awarding 50 Seats In $2.5M GTD

August 28, 2008

It’s no breaking news headline that Titan Poker is the premier online poker room of the iPoker Network, but what has the industry in a stir is the announcement of a single Satellite tournament awarding a record-breaking 50 seats in an upcoming $2,500,000 guaranteed.
Titan Poker will be hosting its largest guaranteed online poker tournament Sunday, [...]

Democratic Convention Charity Tourney Results

August 27, 2008

On August 16th we brought you the news of a charity poker tournament that was going to have over 200 professional poker players and celebrities in attendance.  The reason that this charity tourney got so much attention was that it was held at the Democratic Convention.
The Poker Players Alliance hosted the tournament and the proceeds [...]

Titan Poker Hits $7M Mark In SNG Jackpot Payouts

August 27, 2008

Titan Poker, the pride and joy of the iPoker Network, happily announced today the pay out of more than $7,000,000 in Sit’n’Go Tournament Jackpot prizes.
Titan Poker was launched in 2005, and it wasn’t long before the online poker room introduced its now famous Sit’n’Go jackpot tournaments. Since that time, the popularity of these tournaments has [...]

Bodog Poker Open II; Main Event October 5th

August 26, 2008

In March 2008, Bodog Poker launched the very first Bodog Poker Open, a 6-event series that proved highly lucrative for Main Event winner “phatcat”. Now, as September draws near, Bodog Poker has finally announced a date for the Bodog Poker Open II Main Event, schedule for Sunday, October 5th at 4:00 pm ET.
The online poker [...]

Living Large - Former AP Exec is a Big Spender

August 24, 2008

It has been reported recently that Allan Grimars also known as AJ Green has been seen in Costa Rica, AJ is one of the people that was implicated in the Absolute Poker Cheating Scandal.
According to rumors he just bought a brand new Toyota Prato Land Cruiser it’s also been said that he owns what some [...]

Titan Poker Satellites Reward Twofold For Online Poker Player

August 22, 2008

Titan Poker has been promoting some major tournament Satellites of late, and Austrian online poker player Michael Schwaiger has made the most of it, not winning just one exceptional Satellite competition, but two.
Schwaiger has landed himself an all-expense paid trip and buy-in to the illustrious Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament in South Africa, as [...]

New Poker Lounge for Hard Rock Casino in Vegas

August 21, 2008

The Hard Rock Casino is usually on top of most trends, a trend creator rather than a follower, but they are definitely behind the competition when it comes to poker, poker rooms, and poker profits.
In the past a lot of the visitors of Las Vegas were found wandering a long the strip were [...]

FTOPS IX Rides Into The Sunset: Full Tilt Poker Series Recap

August 21, 2008

It was a short, but intensely thrilling 11-days at Full Tilt Poker as the ninth installment of the 25-event Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS IX) has closed its final chapter, locked the door and ridden off into the sunset – at least until FTOPS X rolls around next year (and the crowd goes wild!).
The [...]

Absolute Poker Back in the Hot Seat

August 20, 2008

The online poker cheating saga began with Absolute Poker, insider cheating, corrupt ownership, or a programmer that left a whole in online poker software, a whole that millions of dollars leaked out of. Then the Ultimate Bet Scandal put Absolute Poker and their skeletons back into the proverbial closet. However, according to Poker News Daily [...]

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