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This week, word spread across the offices of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) that All In Energy Drink, which is partly owned by 10-time bracelet winner Johnny Chan, had signed a multi-year partnership to remain as a sponsor of the marquee tournament series. Read more »
CBS News program "60 Minutes," which aired on Sunday night, claimed on multiple occasions that online poker was illegal in the United States. Near the top of the show, correspondent Steve Kroft narrated, "We should tell you that this $18 billion industry is illegal in the U.S." However, is that really the case? Read more »
In a move that was revealed on Saturday on several online poker forums, World Series of Poker bracelet winner and accomplished online poker star Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy announced that he was no longer affiliated with Ultimate Bet. Previously, he had served as a member of the site's Star Players Team after signing in May. Read more »
Airing as the first feature on CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday was an investigation into the online poker scandals that rocked Ultimate Bet and its sister site, Absolute Poker. Both rooms are owned by Tokwiro Enterprises. Read more »
In the United States, Thursday marked the annual Thanksgiving holiday. Serving as a time for friends and family to join together, the holiday was also a cause for celebration on online poker room Bodog. On Saturday, the third of four special Thanksgiving tournaments will occur on the site, a $100,000 Thanksgiving Qualifier. Read more »
As the calendar clicks to the final month of 2008, poker players are preparing to take on the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, one of the most prestigious tournament schedules of the year, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Read more »
As we previously reported on Poker News Daily, the story by CBS News program "60 Minutes" about the online poker cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th. In a blog posted by Nat Arem, who has been close to the investigation, it was revealed that Tokwiro COO Paul Leggett issued a memo to Ultimate Bet employees about the program airing. Read more »
Poker News Daily has confirmed that the story by CBS News program "60 Minutes" concerning the cheating scandals on Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th. The story serves as the finale of a four month-long investigation by 60 Minutes as well as Washington Post newspaper correspondent Gilbert Gaul. Read more »
When the poker world woke up on Tuesday morning, the player bases of online poker rooms Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker had been merged to form CEREUS. As of 12:30pm ET, over 17,000 players were seated at tables on the new network, manifesting the higher player counts that customers can expect to see in the future. Read more »
If you're a regular here on Poker News Daily, then you know that the site looks just a little bit different than it did last week. Over the weekend, our programming team was hard at work redesigning PND to make the latest breaking stories easy to find once users log onto the site. Read more »
In an e-mail sent by affiliate group Chipleader to its business associates on Monday, it was revealed that CEREUS, the merged player base of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, would launch on Tuesday. The formation of the network was originally announced back in July. Read more »
Today, many members of PokerStars were able to pick the brain of one of the top names in the poker industry. Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro member Barry Greenstein held a Masterclass Eight Game Single Table Tournament. Read more »
ESPN World Series of Poker commentator Lon McEachern is one of the most recognizable faces in the poker industry. Fresh off the production of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, McEachern sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the process of airing poker. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the fifth season of the popular cash game television series "High Stakes Poker" will be filmed at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas from December 19th to 21st. The minimum buy-in will be $200,000 and the show will once again air on cable station GSN. Read more »
Peter Eastgate recently became the youngest Main Event winner in World Series of Poker history at age 22, breaking Phil Hellmuth's record by two years. He was the fourth Danish poker pro to win a bracelet during the 2008 World Series and pocketed the second largest WSOP payout ever. Read more »
The PokerStars-sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT) just wrapped up its event in Warsaw last night. There were 217 entrants into the 21,000 PLN (approximately €5,200) event and when the smoke cleared, João Barbosa received the best birthday present imaginable, emerging as the champion and pocketing a €367,140 first place prize. Read more »
On Tuesday, GigaMedia Limited, which is the exclusive provider of software to online poker room Everest Poker, reported a 24% growth in consolidated net income to $12 million during the third quarter of 2008. The figure was up from $9.7 million during the same period in 2007. Read more »
In a move announced on Tuesday, the Peak Group Malta, the parent company of Sun Poker, announced that its online poker site, along with Omni Casino and CSCasino.com, will be moving to Playtech's iPoker Network effective in the middle of December. Read more »
In the longest final table in Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) history, Australian poker player Van Marcus defeated Korean Noh Tae Jun to take home his first APPT title. Marcus has lodged three cashes over the course of his APPT career; all three have been final table appearances. Read more »
Collecting memorabilia is normally associated with sports like baseball, football, and basketball. However, very rarely has poker gear been one that collectors look for. Officials from the World Series of Poker are looking to change that trend by holding the first ever WSOP auction featuring items from the final table of the 2008 Main Event. Read more »
A revolutionary concept sweeping the industry is the concept of "team poker." The first Dream Team Gaming event was held last week at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas and, at the end of the day, Team Bluff was crowned champions of the tournament. Read more »
Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Kentucky Court of Appeals has granted the request of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) to stay a ruling handed down by Judge Thomas Wingate last month. Oral arguments will now be heard in a Louisville courtroom on Friday, December 12th. Read more »
Many had questioned whether the decision by Harrah's to move the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event back 117 days would be effective. Would the decision really generate renewed interest in poker? Read more »
On Wednesday, the regulations of the UIGEA were finalized as part of so-called midnight rule-making by the Bush Administration and will be implemented on January 19, 2009, one day before Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Read more »
In a press release posted on Marketwire this morning, it was revealed that the online poker clients of the CryptoLogic Network will merge with Boss Media in the beginning of the 2009 calendar year. Sites on the CryptoLogic Network include Sun Poker, Playboy Poker, Interpoker, Classic Poker, Betsafe Poker, and William Hill. Read more »
