Online poker news
Sportingbet, the parent company of Paradise Poker, is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2008. It's rewarding its loyal poker players with €275,000 in promotions, including €150,000 in freerolls. Read more »
The much-expected new version of Party Poker is finally out. New features include a quick seat option, table preview, favorites and an integrated account. Read more »
On Friday, online poker room Bodog released additional details about its second Bodog Poker Open, which begins on Sunday. As part of the event, 19 Bodog celebrities will have bounties placed on their heads in select tournaments. Read more »
Six of the nine Final Table players for the WSOP Main Event are sponsored by Poker Stars, which is why the site is celebrating with promotions, freerolls and chances to play against the potential champs. Read more »
The Main Event of the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker concluded on Monday night. It awarded $1.2 million to its winner, ckingusc. According to a press release distributed by PokerStars, the Main Event was the largest online poker tournament ever held. Read more »
Italian gaming behemoth Sisal signed with Playtech to launch a poker site, becoming the third Italian gaming company in the past few weeks to do so. Read more »
The roster of pros on Full Tilt Poker just got a little bigger. Poker News Daily has confirmed that the online poker room has signed Hal Lubarsky to be a Full Tilt Poker sponsored pro. Read more »
Players on Party Poker got a sneak peak at the site's new lobby look on Monday. In an image posted on the online poker room's official blog, the new lobby was unveiled. Gone will be the days of the lobby that many players grew up with on the site. Read more »
The $5,200 buy-in PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event began on Sunday, the first of two days of the world's largest online poker tournament. When registration closed around 5:00pm ET, there were 2,185 entrants. Read more »
The 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is drawing to a close, but PiKappRaider made the most of the final events, taking home $211,133 for first place in the $530 Rebuy No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event (#29). Read more »
On Friday, the full schedule for the Bodog Poker Open II was announced. The premier event held on the online poker site will begin on Sunday, September 28th. Read more »
Up and coming poker site Million Dollar Poker Club is awarding players with poker training opportunities. Up to 50 of the trained players will then be sent to the WSOP. Read more »
Top poker software developer Playtech expands its customer base in Italy, adding to its recent deal with Snai by also signing Eurobet Italia. Read more »
Party Poker gave the very first view of its brand new table look today. The new Party Poker is slated to debut next week, celebrated by a $50,000 customer freeroll on Saturday and a media freeroll in October. Read more »
The 2008 WCOOP continued on Tuesday, with the $530 buy-in cubed event kicking off. The tournament sported a $530 price tag and allowed one rebuy and one add-on per person, meaning the most anyone could invest was $1,590. Read more »
Leading gaming software provider Cryptologic has joined global fraud-fighting community Ethoca in a bid to make online gaming safer for all. Read more »
The $25,500 buy-in High Roller Heads-Up Event, part of the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, kicked off on Sunday afternoon. It attracted one of the most competitive fields ever assembled. Read more »
The third Ultimate Bet Online Championship Series (UBOC) begins on January 9, 2009, the online poker room announced last week. Ultimate Bet will host 22 events in total. Read more »
At the upcoming Aruba Poker Classic, Ultimate Bet will hold a $200 rebuy Ante Up for Africa tournament. Poker News Daily has learned that actor Don Cheadle will appear at the event. Read more »
MillionDollarPokerClub.com is breaking into the poker industry with an aggressive and original approach and never-before-seen bonuses and promotions. Read more »
PKR.com makes headlines again by announcing called PKR live, the popular site's first ever live poker festival. Read more »
In an opinion filed by a panel of judges in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, PartyGaming, the parent company of Party Poker, may be liable for up to $287.4 million in damages. Read more »
Legal online poker site PurePlay is proving a success in the US market, as it just announced its player base has reached 1.5 million players. Read more »
The first of three two-day tournaments of the 2008 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker played down to a winner on Monday. In the end, Calvin32 outlasted an enormous field of 7,351 players and took home $452,086. Read more »
It was a busy weekend across the major online poker sites. The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker kicked off on Friday and as of Sunday night, five events were in the books. Read more »
