Online poker news
On December 13th, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will head to the Bellagio in Las Vegas for the annual Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Among those in attendance will be members of DoylesRoom, which makes its home on the Cake Poker Network. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that Dirty Stack Poker and Propaganda Poker may soon be leaving the iPoker Network, according to a high-ranking official. Our source explained, "Both rooms are currently not accepting deposits nor giving rakeback to players as promised and both will be leaving in the next few days." Read more »
Starting today, customers on PartyPoker can take advantage of the Million Dollar Hand, a popular promotion that is back due to its resounding success. Up to $1 million is at stake for each five-card hand collected on the site. Read more »
Heads-up online poker player Lary "pokergirl z" Kennedy and former Full Tilt customer Greg Omotoy filed their complaint on October 1st and levied accusations of fraud, libel, slander, false advertising, and racketeering against the popular online poker room. Read more »
Starting on October 4th, satellites will be available for the Absolute Poker College Challenge, which makes its return to the popular Tokwiro-owned online poker site. $30,000 in prizes can be won, including a $10,000 grand prize tuition for the Player of the Year. Read more »
We're nearly at the halfway point in the Tom "durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge. Dwan and Patrik Antonius have logged 23,597 hands, almost half of the 50,000 required for the challenge to be completed, and Dwan leads by $235,000. Read more »
Come one, come all to the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Poker players looking for their share of $20 million in guaranteed prize money will only need to wait one month for the high-stakes action to kick off on the world's second largest online poker site. Read more »
Cool Hand Poker, an online poker site that appeals to the laid-back poker player, is offering a unique promotion for its members in October. The site's method is to provide novice players with a fun and relaxing poker playing experience, but also give frequent customers cash prizes this month. Read more »
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which verified the results, September 6th saw PokerStars defeat its own world record for most players hosted by an online poker room. On that day, during which the WCOOP was in full swing, PokerStars recorded 307,016 players. Read more »
Poker News Daily can confirm that Pitbull Poker, a small site on the Flash Poker Network, closed down on Wednesday, according to a high-placed source. Contrary to rumors, no arrests were made in Costa Rica. The future of player funds held on the site is up in the air. Read more »
With the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event on the horizon, the Cake Poker Network site DoylesRoom has made a splash, signing Chris "Moorman1" Moorman to its prestigious Brunson 10. Read more »
Longtime PokerStars representative Isabelle Mercier of Canada ended her relationship with the site a few weeks ago, but another woman has already been added to the roster. PokerStars recently announced the signing of Fatima Moreira de Melo, an Olympic gold medal winning field hockey player from Holland. Read more »
The top two online poker sites in the world, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, have recently released software updates. These additions have a ripple effect in the poker software industry, as every time there's an update for a site, third party software developers must update their programs in order for them to continue to work. Read more »
Continuing what has been one of the most successful years that a professional poker player could have, Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko won the Main Event of the 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), earning over $1.7 million for his efforts. Read more »
Recently, Terrence "Unassigned" Chan took down a $1,050 buy-in Limit Hold'em Six-Max event during the PokerStars WCOOP a few months after winning two SCOOP Limit Hold'em events. He sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his feat. Read more »
Long considered to be one of the top poker professionals without a major sponsorship deal, it was announced late Monday evening that Joe Sebok will be joining Ultimate Bet's roster of poker pros. Sebok will also take a prominent position inside of the Ultimate Bet organization. Read more »
During the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker in April, Terrence "Unassigned" Chan made headlines by winning both the high- and mid-stakes versions of Event #20 (Six-Max Limit Hold'em) on the same day, earning him more than $185,000. It was an accomplishment deemed nearly unachievable by poker aficionados. Read more »
More than a week has passed since the Kahnawake Gaming Commission issued an 11-page report documenting its investigation into the cheating that transpired on the online poker site Ultimate Bet. Earlier this week, the company's COO, Paul Leggett, offered his personal thoughts on the matter in his official UB blog. Read more »
The list of people and organizations that have a bone to pick with Full Tilt Poker keeps growing. Two new lawsuits involving Full Tilt have brought the online poker room into the legal spotlight. Read more »
Marc Karam is a well-known online poker personality who has been playing professionally for a number of years. Recently, his sponsored site, Eurolinx, went into liquidation on the Microgaming Network and potentially thousands of players won't see a dime of the bankrolls they held on the site for the foreseeable future. Read more »
Lock Poker, a site on the popular Cake Poker Network, has inked 12 non-U.S. online poker pros to grow its player base worldwide. Poker Players International's Randy Kasper orchestrated the signings. Read more »
In recent months, a group of users made a claim that they believe that small poker site Pitbull Poker had superusers. A similar controversy was revealed on Absolute Poker and UltimateBet with millions of dollars having changed hands. This time around, the scale of the accusations is much smaller, but the premise remains the same. Read more »
Denmark, home to reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate, is notorious for having one of the most heavy-handed taxation codes of any country in the European Union. Eastgate, who took down $9.1 million when he captured the WSOP Championship Event bracelet last November, was taxed at a 45% rate for… Read more »
Former Ongame Network CEO Patrik Selin is leading the launch of the Bodog Network, whose player base consists of customers of Bodog Europe, the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, and Haydock Entertainment. Read more »
Online poker room Ultimate Bet (UB) issued an official response to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission's (KGC) 11-page report discussing their conclusions about the UB cheating scandal. The report, issued on Thursday, claimed former World Series of Poker Main Event winner Russ Hamilton and 31 co-conspirators used 117 screennames and 23 different Ultimate Bet accounts to cheat users on the site out of over $22 million from 2003-2007. Read more »
