Online poker news
This week, members of the online poker community wishing to donate to victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti last week can take advantage of several tournaments being held across cyberspace. Read more »
As the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV draws closer, the field of 12 continues to take shape. On Tuesday, PartyPoker.com announced that poker's newest bad boy, Luke "FullFlush" Schwartz, has been confirmed as the fifth player for the February contest. Read more »
At most online sites, the hands in a ring game are dealt at nearly twice the speed of what would occur during a live session. This isn't quick enough for some players, who prefer playing at multiple tables to earn more money for their bankroll and satisfy their desire for action. A new innovation at Full Tilt Poker has responded to the call for faster play on the virtual felt. Read more »
Last Thursday, David "Doc Sands" Sands, currently the number one ranked player on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, put a call out to his fellow tournament players on the PocketFives forum to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Read more »
From January 25th to 31st, Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest site, is doubling the prize pools of its guaranteed tournaments. A total of $25 million will be on the line throughout the week, leading up to a special $1.5 million purse for the site's marquee $750,000 Guaranteed on Sunday. Read more »
On Thursday, one of the top online poker networks in the industry, Microgaming, announced its intentions to eliminate datamining on its family of sites. Read more »
The tragic earthquake that rocked the island country of Haiti a few days ago has grabbed the attention of the entire world and the poker community is no exception. In the wake of the natural disaster, a number of poker players have reached out to help the millions of people affected by the quake. Read more »
Online poker site RealDealPoker.com is planning to provide private high-stakes cash tables for mysterious Scandinavian phenom "Isildur1." The site, set to launch in March 2010, will be the first and only poker site that will use a Cut N' Shuffle system rather than a Random Number Generator (RNG) to deal its cards Read more »
The DoylesRoom Brunson 10 saw its stable of five pros shrink to four this week, as Alec "traheho" Torelli parted ways with the USA-friendly online poker site to pursue "another project," according to a press release obtained by Poker News Daily on Friday. Read more »
It's been an exciting few months for Kara Scott. The professional poker player and television presenter recently signed on as Gabe Kaplan's new co-host of GSN's "High Stakes Poker" in November, and this week she became the newest member of "Team Party," where she will represent PartyPoker.com at poker related events around the world. Read more »
This past weekend, UB.com's Joe Sebok provided the poker community an update on where things stand with disseminating hand histories to those players affected by the cheaters that "won" money from players on UltimateBet in 2006 and 2007. Read more »
The online poker site Everest Poker has awarded 10 of its most talented and active players with a $100,000 contract as part of its Live The Dream promotional event in Vienna, Austria. The winners outlasted 190 other hopefuls. Read more »
On Friday, a top European online poker professional announced that he would quit playing poker, citing fatigue and a depleted bankroll as the reasons. Swedish professional Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, in a rambling blog post issued prior to this last weekend, stated (in a rough translation from the original Swedish) that, "The fire and passion I had for poker is now complete. It's like a bonfire that burned all night and now (it) hisses in the morning." Read more »
More positive news for online poker in Europe: Denmark's state-operated Danske Spil has signed a five-year agreement with PartyGaming, which will use its expertise and know-how to offer online gaming to the Danish market. Read more »
Estonia, a small European country bordering with Russia, has recently legalized online gaming as a way to increase its tax income. The decision seems to have been aided by the success of the Baltic Poker Festival hosted by PokerStars. Read more »
Doyle Brunson is the Godfather of Poker and one of the greatest living legends in the game, but to represent his poker site, he is carefully choosing a team of 10 poker pros under the age of 25, which will be known asthe Brunson 10. Read more »
Poker training site DragTheBar.com announced Friday that renowned online player and instructor Dusty "Leatherass9" Schmidt has joined the company as a lead instructor. Read more »
Much of the attention of the poker community in recent days has been focused on the amicable parting of Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo and Bodog. In another announcement that came out earlier this week, a top poker teacher has announced that he will no longer be a part of the poker training team he helped reach its current prominence. Read more »
The popular Microgaming Network is trying to motivate players to throw more chips on the felt with a change to its rake calculation policies, which will now follow the "weighted contribution" method instead of the previous "contributed" method. Read more »
While the news of his dismissal as a sponsored professional continue to make noise around the poker community, poker professional Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo has issued his response to his departure as a sponsored player on the online poker room Bodog. Read more »
As 2009 came to a close, popular poker publication CardPlayer announced its Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award. The winner was New Jersey pro Steve "gboro780" Gross, who became the third honoree of the prestigious award, joining Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis (2008) and Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron (2007). Read more »
Kicking off on February 10th on Full Tilt Poker is the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). The quarterly tournament series is the first of 2010 and features 27 events with more than $17 million in guaranteed prize money. Read more »
American poker fans who are intrigued by the newest - and youngest - World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion can now play for a chance to spend a day in Las Vegas with Joe Cada, sponsored by PokerStars. Read more »
It may be over six months away, but Titan Poker is getting players warmed up to battle for their chance to participate in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Read more »
DoylesRoom sponsored pro Chris moorman1 Moorman stormed through the competition in 2009, capturing the Yearly PocketFives.com Leaderboard (PLB) title. In addition, he claimed the Monthly PLB for December, his second of 2009. Read more »
