May 24th, 2011
The crackdown is running on longer and not just PokerStars, Full Tilt and the Cereus Poker Network were targets. Maryland indicated that three individuals with two online gambling companies are being indicted on charges of conducting an illegal gambling business and money laundering. A statement was issued by the DoJ saying Darren Wright and David [...]
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May 19th, 2011
The King of Swing of online poker himself Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was quiet ever since Black Friday and finally he is roaring again as he won $183.000 last night. A total of 1.576 hands were dished out on PokerStars with the majority of them being against online pro Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky at $50/$100 heads-up Pot-Limit [...]
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May 18th, 2011
World Series of Poker is a grand event and we like to make bets on it. Normally we use our vast knowledge and extensive contacts with a healthy dosis of intuition to get a stable of players that we feel have the best chance to get bracelets this summer. Respect to Jason Mercier, very few [...]
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May 17th, 2011
One player was rising above the field this Sunday. Three final tables for Canadian online poker tournament specialist Russell “rdcrsn” Carson. Seventh place in the Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt Poker, following up with a win in the UB $50k GTD for $14.500. He finally had a second place finish which netted him $223.000 in [...]
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May 16th, 2011
Ali Tekintamgac was the headline for the world known $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship instead of the larger than expected field. The seat for him was because he won the WPT Spanish Championship. He made headlines before when the organizers of the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event found out he used bloggers and media [...]
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May 13th, 2011
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) hosted its annual conference call Wednesday to announce the changes being made to the upcoming series in Las Vegas. On the call were WSOP Communications Director Seth Palansky, WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel and WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart, who were eager to announce that the final table action [...]
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May 12th, 2011
Some big changes and new features are in store for this year’s World Series of Poker. You will have to wait a fortnight and some to see the action get underway at the Rio. The highlights are listed below including Player of the Year and Hall of Fame changes and why your feet will be [...]
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May 11th, 2011
Full Tilt Poker converted tournament tickets to cash and deposited the payments from the Take Two promotion. Absolute Poker and UB Poker made their own announcement Tuesday they have reached an agreement with the US Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. According to the agreement, the US Attorney’s office has agreed to [...]
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May 10th, 2011
T-minus three weeks and counting and we will see the World Series of Poker start. The news now is not for this but for the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE). Here we will present the scheduly of this event in the fall. It will move from London to Casino Barrière in Cannes and will [...]
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May 9th, 2011
3 Official World Series Of Poker packages & 1 Official WSOPE package up for grabs… only at WSOP Online As of May WSOP Online is offering the following: Online satellites run daily, 3 qualifiers, 3 official WSOP VIP packages to Vegas $16.500. One final tournament for the 27 players who made the final tables in [...]
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