Airing as the first feature on CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday was an investigation into the online poker scandals that rocked Ultimate Bet and its sister site, Absolute Poker. Both rooms are owned by Tokwiro Enterprises. Read more »
The long-awaited final table of the third Party Poker Premier League is set and, needless to say, the lineup will not disappoint fans of the spectacle. It features six of the world's top poker players, including 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Peter Eastgate. Read more »
The third European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is currently underway. Kicking off on Saturday is a $1,060 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool and seated among its many tables will be Antanas Guoga, who is better known in the poker world as Tony G. Read more »
In the United States, Thursday marked the annual Thanksgiving holiday. Serving as a time for friends and family to join together, the holiday was also a cause for celebration on online poker room Bodog. On Saturday, the third of four special Thanksgiving tournaments will occur on the site, a $100,000 Thanksgiving Qualifier. Read more »
In a recent poker tournament held at the Fort McDowell Casino in Scottsdale, Arizona, the TASER Foundation held its fourth annual Hold'em for Heroes charity poker tournament. The event raised over $500,000 for federal law enforcement officers lost in the line of duty. Read more »
The fight for poker around the world, in the minds of many, has boiled down to whether the game is ultimately based on skill or chance. Is luck the dominant factor in poker or is skill? In Texas, State Representative Jose Menendez has introduced House Bill 222, the Poker Gaming Act of 2009. Read more »
The Party Poker Premier League pitched 12 of the world's top poker players on a league-style competition for a share of $1,250,000. After 3 days, JC Tran and Peter Eastgate are coming out on top, followed closely by Juha Helppi, Vicky Coren and Tony G. Read more »
As the calendar clicks to the final month of 2008, poker players are preparing to take on the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, one of the most prestigious tournament schedules of the year, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Read more »
This week, it was revealed that one of Ultimate Bet's main spokesmen, 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, would debut his very own clothing line. The gear is designed and marketed by the Poker Brat Clothing Company. Read more »
SQUARE ROUTE won the very first Bad Beat Jackpot on the newly-formed CEREUS poker network, which was born when the player bases of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker were combined on Tuesday. His bad break was worth $256,000 and the total jackpot at the time was nearly $800,000. Read more »
Titan Poker's third European Championship of Online Poker has started, with its largest guaranteed prize pool to date: $4,150,000. The kick off event had 1,420 players vying for the guaranteed $250,000 prize. Less than two years after the inaugural ECOOP, Titan Poker players are showing no signs of slowing down, with ever increasing guaranteed prizes and player fields. Read more »
One of the more common sayings at the poker table is one that has always really annoyed me: "I'd rather be lucky than good." What does "lucky" even mean, anyway? I personally deem it to be a word created by leprechauns and state lottery executives to give people a reason to believe that maybe one day they'll catch their big break. You hit the jackpot you say? You must be the luckiest person in the world! False. Read more »
The poker world has had some time now to digest the final table at the World Series of Poker, won by Denmark's Peter Eastgate over Russia's Ivan Demidov in a heads up duel that lasted four hours. Now that the crowds have gone and the remaining prize money has been divvied up by "The November Nine," it is time for the poker community to ask themselves whether the 117 day delay in play at the final table of the Championship Event was worth it or not. Read more »
As we previously reported on Poker News Daily, the story by CBS News program "60 Minutes" about the online poker cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th. In a blog posted by Nat Arem, who has been close to the investigation, it was revealed that Tokwiro COO Paul Leggett issued a memo to Ultimate Bet employees about the program airing. Read more »
Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Borgata Poker Classic has been removed from the schedule for Season VII of the World Poker Tour (WPT). Officials from both the WPT and Borgata confirmed that the event will not be a part of the seventh installment of the marquee poker tour. Read more »
Following in the footsteps of major gaming locales such as Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Macao, a leading online gaming web site has determined that online gaming rooms, once thought to be ‘recession proof,' are actually showing a decline in action as well. Read more »
On April 30th, 2009, internet gambling companies and their affiliates will pack the Amsterdam Rai for the first ever CAP Euro Amsterdam. The conference will run through Sunday, May 3rd. Taking place during that time span is Queen's Day in The Netherlands. Read more »
Poker News Daily has confirmed that the story by CBS News program "60 Minutes" concerning the cheating scandals on Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th. The story serves as the finale of a four month-long investigation by 60 Minutes as well as Washington Post newspaper correspondent Gilbert Gaul. Read more »
When the poker world woke up on Tuesday morning, the player bases of online poker rooms Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker had been merged to form CEREUS. As of 12:30pm ET, over 17,000 players were seated at tables on the new network, manifesting the higher player counts that customers can expect to see in the future. Read more »
In a letter sent to the membership of the World Poker Association (WPA), its founder, Jesse Jones, sought out new members for the organization's Board of Directors. Jones told Poker News Daily that he has found two new participants for the Board, Tom Franklin and John Leontakianakos. Read more »
If you're a regular here on Poker News Daily, then you know that the site looks just a little bit different than it did last week. Over the weekend, our programming team was hard at work redesigning PND to make the latest breaking stories easy to find once users log onto the site. Read more »
In an e-mail sent by affiliate group Chipleader to its business associates on Monday, it was revealed that CEREUS, the merged player base of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, would launch on Tuesday. The formation of the network was originally announced back in July. Read more »
On December 12th, a three judge Appeals Court panel will convene in Louisville, Kentucky. Lawyers from the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) will be among those present. Joe Brennan, Chairman of iMEGA, sat down with Poker News Daily to talk about what we can expect in the landmark case. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Lynch: Like most people, after Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 Main Event, everyone was playing. I got invited to a lot of home games and I stunk. I got tired of losing money, so I started learning the game and tried to figure out what to do. Read more »
As I am writing this, I have just returned from watching the World Series of Poker Main Event live at the Rio. I, like most poker players and fans around the world, was very curious to find out how all the hype and buildup around the three and a half months off would impact the final table. Read more »
