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In an e-mail distributed to affiliates of Eurolinx Poker on Thursday, the online poker room stated that the Microgaming Network will be blocking customers from 13 different states in the U.S. from accessing any of its rooms' poker or casino clients. However, players from the states in question may still bet in the sports book. Read more »
One of the largest tournaments in the Mid-South region of the United States, the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge V, is set to put cards in the air starting on October 30th. Read more »
As previously reported on Poker News Daily, the story about the online poker scandals was rumored to air on the CBS news program "60 Minutes" this Sunday, October 26th. However, when prompted for confirmation by PND, show producers declined to verify the air date, instead saying that the content of the October 26th edition of the program had not yet been determined. Read more »
There were a total of 368 players who entered the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament. Although the size of the field was down in comparison to the last two WPT tournaments held, the prize pool set a new record for a Festa al Lago event due to the larger $15,000 buy-in. Read more »
Jim "Krazy Kanuck" Worth and Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon, two of the most well-known names in the online poker world, are teaming up to debut a new show on Rounder's Radio called "The Krazy H0 Show." The one-hour show premieres this Sunday night at 8:00pm ET on Rounder's Radio. Read more »
The ruling handed down last week by Judge Thomas Wingate regarding the potential forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domain names in Kentucky has grave consequences, according to Ed Leyden, the President of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) and one of the leading lawyers in the case. Read more »
Last week in a monumental ruling, Kentucky District Judge Thomas Wingate refused to dismiss a case involving the seizure and potential forfeiture of 141 internet gambling domains. They include the websites of the largest online poker rooms in the industry that cater to U.S. customers. Governor Steve Beshear issued his response to the ruling. Read more »
Formerly a World Poker Tour event, the World Poker Open at the Gold Strike Casino in Tunica, Mississippi began this week. The Main Event is a $5,150 buy-in tournament that starts on Sunday, October 26th. Read more »
With accomplished poker pros Gavin Smith, Kathy Liebert, and Marc Karam all seated at the final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), few people likely gave 67 year-old Glen Witmer any shot at winning. Read more »
Around 4:30pm ET on Thursday, Judge Thomas Wingate issued a ruling denying motions filed by the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC) and Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) to dismiss the case. Instead, a final forfeiture hearing was scheduled for November 17th at 10:00am. Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will kick off at 4:00pm ET today. At it will be a pair of well-known pros, Gavin Smith and Kathy Liebert. Both will seek to make poker history at the final table. Read more »
A fax received by Poker News Daily today just before 5:00pm ET stated that the ruling by Judge Thomas Wingate concerning the future of 141 internet gambling domain names will be delayed until Thursday due to a computer glitch. The one-page fax simply stated "Computer problems. Order will be issued tomorrow." Read more »
At the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), Vivek Rajkumar is trying to do something that no other player has ever done on the WPT circuit: win back to back Main Event titles. Rajkumar, the champion of the WPT Borgata Poker Open, is the chip leader with 27 players remaining. Read more »
Recently, BoylePoker signed Irish poker star Padraig Parkinson. He finished third in the 1999 World Series of Poker Main Event and took down Season 5 of "Late Night Poker," defeating Korosh Nejad heads-up. Along with Marty Smyth, Parkinson serves as the face of BoylePoker. Read more »
The tenth installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will get underway in just a few weeks. The first tournament kicks off on Wednesday, November 5th. There are 25 events in total, capped off by a $535 buy-in Main Event. Read more »
By the time many workers across North America take their lunch breaks on Monday, the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will be well underway on Day 2, which kicks off at 12:00 noon local time. There were 166 players who coughed up the $10,300 CDN entry on Day 1C on Sunday, raising the overall field to 454. Read more »
Saturday marked the second of three starting days of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship. In advance of Sunday's Day 1C, Jamie Rosen, who plays on PokerStars under the name "thecronic420," led the way with 196,300 chips on Day 1B, giving him 25% more than the next closest stack. Read more »
Day 1A of the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship occurred on Friday and leading the pack after the conclusion of five levels of play was poker pro J.C. Tran. The World Series of Poker bracelet winner held 159,300 chips when the day concluded and now has two days to explore Niagara Falls in advance of Monday's Day 2. Read more »
The World Poker Congress (WPC) will occur on October 29th and 30th in Budapest, Hungary. The conference, which is being held at the Budapest Marriott Hotel, is being organized by Dawn Kirkwood, Events Director for Clarion Gaming. Read more »
The MGM Grand poker room in Las Vegas was packed with celebrities and well-known poker pros on Thursday night, all playing with one purpose in mind: to raise money for Road 2 Recovery. At the end of the day, Tiffany Michelle emerged as the winner. Read more »
Sweden may change the panorama of online gaming in Europe with five questions it recently issued to the European Court of Justice. Read more »
Late Wednesday afternoon, legal firm Flachsbart & Greenspoon, which argued on behalf of 1st Technology, LLC, announced that a $46 million judgment had been reached against online poker room, casino, and sports book Bodog. Read more »
Fresh off its stop in Macau, which occurred in August, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) revealed on Wednesday that its Manila event will occur from January 27th to February 1st, 2009. The buy-in will be $2,500. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that Judge Thomas Wingate will issue a historic ruling in the Commonwealth of Kentucky next Wednesday, October 15th. A formal hearing was held in a Franklin County courtroom this morning. Read more »
In Killarney, Ireland, one man rose above the rest in the Main Event of the Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival over the weekend. Jimmy McSweeney pocketed €100,000 for the win, besting a tournament field of 832 players. Read more »
