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Defending WPT Player of the Year Jonathan Little captures the championship of the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, defeating Jonathan Jaffe in the longest heads up battle in the history of the WPT to take the title. Read more »
The long-awaited winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event was crowned on Monday night. The heads-up match pitted a Russian, Ivan Demidov, against Denmark native Peter Eastgate. In front of a packed house at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas, the two battled it out for the $9.1 million first place prize. Read more »
After a 117 day layoff, the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event resumed on Sunday night. At the end of play, two men were left standing and will now compete for the $9.1 million first place prize: Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. Read more »
After the furious action from Friday, where nearly 160 players were eliminated, Saturday at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals did not disappoint. Many in the field wondered if Jonathan Jaffe could sustain his chip lead and drive his way to the final table. Read more »
The end of October marked the cessation of business for Fleet Street Games, a subscription-based online poker room. Each month, members of these sites, which are generally legal in the United States, pay a fee which allows them access to thousands of dollars in tournaments. Read more »
After an article was published by the Dow Jones Newswire, word spread like wildfire through the online poker world that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had received the final regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) on October 21st. Read more »
In breaking news on Thursday, the World Poker Tour announced that it had signed an agreement with FullTiltPoker.net, the educational site owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. The online poker room will receive title sponsorship to the 26 episodes that will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the WPT's seventh season. Read more »
In the latest twist in the reimbursement of players at Ultimate Bet, a subsidiary of the parent company (Tokwiro) of the online poker room has won a $15 million judgment against Excapsa, a software manufacturer and former owner of the site. Read more »
Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass) is one of the biggest allies of the online poker world. He's introduced several pieces of legislation favorable to the industry, including HR 2046. Frank, along with every other member of the United States House of Representatives, was up for re-election on Tuesday night. Read more »
Due to ongoing liquidation involving software manufacturer Excapsa, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), Ultimate Bet's regulatory agency, may give the online poker site an extension on its mandates that were set forth on September 29th. Read more »
Amidst an ongoing legal battle in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States, several online poker rooms and networks have altered their policies towards players from that locale. Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Merge Gaming Network has blocked any new players from Kentucky from setting up an account on any of its client poker rooms. Read more »
The chip leader at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table is Dennis Phillips. He sits with nearly 27 million chips, one of just two players over the 20 million mark. Phillips has undertaken a massive amount of charity work since the tournament played down to its final nine participants in July. Read more »
Qualifying satellites have already begun for the €1,650 buy-in Belgium Poker Championship, which kicks off on November 15th from the Casino de Namur. Organizers of the event have capped the field at 1,000 entrants, but the tournament promises to sport some of the world's top pros, including WSOP bracelet winner Davidi Kitai. Read more »
The World Series of Poker is one of the marquee events to air on ESPN. New episodes currently air on Tuesdays and are replayed numerous times throughout the week on its family of networks. On November 11th, just a few hours after it concludes, the WSOP Main Event final table will air. Read more »
Recently, cable station GSN announced that it had decided to move poker-related programming to Sunday nights. The network is the home of popular cash game show "High Stakes Poker" and holds the rights to the sixth season of the World Poker Tour. Read more »
Ylon Schwartz is a member of the World Series of Poker November Nine, the players at the Main Event final table. He is passionate about the fact that the conclusion of the tournament should not have been postponed and now finds himself in the middle of the fray, holding the fifth largest chip stack when play resumes. Read more »
The second running of the Winter Bayou Poker Challenge at Harrah's New Orleans is shaping up to be bigger than ever. This time around, the tournament series boasts 15 events in total, up from 10 during the 2007 installment. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the three judge Appeals Court panel in the case involving the seizure and forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names will convene for the first time on November 18th, according to Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) attorneys. Read more »
Professor I. Nelson Rose is one of the leading legal minds in the internet gambling industry. He has over 1,000 published works and has testified in gambling-related cases around the United States and around the world. He gave Poker News Daily his thoughts on the events unfolding in Kentucky. Read more »
For the first time ever in its five year history, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is entering into Budapest, Hungary, for a slate of tournaments starting on Tuesday. Read more »
Bertrand Grospellier, who is known in the online poker world as "Elky," controlled the final table of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago event, eliminating every person and holding more than a 15:1 chip lead when play was heads-up. Read more »
According to a report published this week by the Reuters news agency, which cited a report in the Financial Times as its source, PartyGaming, the parent company of popular online poker room Party Poker, may enter into a partnership with Cryptologic to "increase liquidity while reducing expenses substantially." Read more »
Rather than waiting for an appeal in the Kentucky case involving the forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) fired back. The organization filed a writ of mandamus on Wednesday, which essentially asks the State's Court of Appeals to step in and overturn Judge Thomas Wingate's ruling. Read more »
Another online poker room has closed its doors. This time, Fleet Street Games has announced that it will be shutting down operations effective next Friday, October 31st at 11:59pm. The subscription-based online poker site will maintain operations as normal until then. Read more »
On Thursday, the third day of play concluded from the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the site of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago. The $15,000 buy-in tournament attracted 368 players, creating the largest prize pool for the tournament ever. After Day 3 had concluded, Ryan Fair led the way with 1.3 million chips. Read more »
