PokerStars announced Tuesday that the site will be offering a freeroll to all players left in the LAPT Nuevo Vallarta event that was suspended last week. Each of the 89 remaining players will begin the freeroll with the same number of chips they had when the tournament was paused and will play down to the final table. Read more »
The Chief Executive Officer of Sportingbet Australia, Michael Sullivan, was the target of an attack this week. A BMW X5 car was in flames outside of his North Shore home, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Sullivan was not present at the time of the fire. Read more »
The recent story that aired on 60 Minutes regarding the cheating incidents on online poker rooms Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker caught the eye of a number of newspaper columnists around the world. In Canada, the Toronto Star's Dave Perkins used the opportunity to call for legalization and regulation of the industry. Read more »
The Gold Strike Resort Casino in Tunica is one of the premier gambling destinations in the Southern United States. Recently, Poker News Daily sat down with George Goldhoff, the Gold Strike's General Manager, to learn about the local poker and casino industries. Read more »
Paradise Poker's €1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament, set to take place on December 14th, will award a minimum of €200,000 to the first place finisher along with sponsorships to the rest of the final table; from a €10,000 sponsorship to any of Team Paradise's live tournament events around the world to a €1500 sponsorship for smaller tournaments for finishing in tenth place. Read more »
A former marketing director and dressage equestrienne, Katja Thater's start in the world of poker was, in part, thanks to her husband stepping away from the poker table. She took his place and, while she had never played before, Katja used the skills she had observed in Jan and was able to win the hand. Read more »
34-year old Sidney native Martin Rowe came out on top of a 476-player field to win AUD$1,000,000 and the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Grand Final championship. Read more »
The PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) culminates on December 21st. Prizes for the top 100 finishers include buy-ins into the Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP. Although no details have been released, the event has now been indirectly announced by the world's largest online poker room. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Moorman: A few friends of mine in the university found a student freeroll on the internet. We started playing competitively between ourselves, but it didn't really become fierce for a few weeks. One week, I managed to fluke a second place. Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table is finally over. After the 117 day intermission, the November Nine finally reassembled in Las Vegas to continue their quest for the WSOP Main Event bracelet. Although poker traditionalists were originally against the idea, many poker fans are considering this experiment to be a success. Read more »
Twenty miles south of the airport in Memphis, Tennessee is Tunica, Mississippi. In the gaming metropolis, one building stands tall above the surrounding landscape: the Gold Strike Casino Resort. The casino previously hosted the World Poker Open, a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, one of the legendary Southern poker events. Read more »
On Friday, the first day of play began at the Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico stop of the PokerStars sponsored Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT). However, within 48 hours, the tournament had been unexpectedly broken up by local authorities. Read more »
Last week, CBS News program "60 Minutes" ran a feature story outlining the cheating scandals that erupted on online poker rooms Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. Jim Waters, Director of Communications for the Bluegrass Institute, sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the episode. Read more »
This week, the largest online poker site in the world announced it was invading the Russian market with the first ever Russian Poker Tour. PokerStars is banking on the popularity of World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up and Russian sensation Ivan Demidov. Read more »
The Poker Players Alliance, the grassroots organization dedicated to the political protection of the rights of Americans to play poker online, named Dianna Donofrio as its Nevada State Director on Thursday. Read more »
Ladbrokes officials this week announced that Peter Jepsen has signed a one year sponsorship agreement with the online poker room that will begin on January 1st, 2009. Jepsen, who hails from Denmark, was the winner of the European Poker Tour's (EPT) Polish Open in 2007. Read more »
Despite the tournament no longer being a sanctioned World Poker Tour (WPT) event, the Borgata Winter Poker Open will nevertheless host a $3,200 buy-in Main Event with a $2 million guaranteed prize pool in 2009, casino officials announced this week. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get your start in the game of poker? Plens: When I graduated from college, I didn't want to get a job. At the time of the Moneymaker boom, I was about 25 years-old and in college. I was always a gambler and as poker started getting popular, I found out that it could be beat with skill. Read more »
Poker After Dark, NBC's hit late night poker show, has announced its schedule and lineup for season 5. This season will feature many new players and more of the popular cash game shows. Read more »
Recently, Harvard's and Yale's football teams squared off against each other on Harvard's campus. The day before the game, representatives from the Harvard chapter of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) battled against their Yale counterparts on the poker felts. Read more »
The Aussie Millions, which is held every January at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, recently released its schedule of events for 2009. The festivities kick off in a little over one month and will feature a Main Event that guarantees at least AUD $2 million to its winner. Read more »
With the preponderance of six-max ring games now dominating the online scene, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of theory on full ring games with between eight and ten players. Read more »
On Sunday, CBS News program "60 Minutes" aired a feature story outlining the online poker scandals that occurred on Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. Keeping a watchful eye on the show was Republican Congressman Spencer Bachus, who hails from Alabama and is a staunch opponent of internet gambling. Read more »
Judge Richard Kramer from the San Francisco Supreme court declared Yahoo!, Google and a number of other sites "immune from liability" when dismissing a lawsuit filed against these sites for displaying advertisements for online gaming. Read more »
On Monday it was announced that internet gaming software provider Microgaming, looking to break into the list of the top ten online poker networks in the world, had acquired the rights to the three dimensional technology created by the now-defunct British company Playwize PLC. Read more »
