It's nearly back to square one for the cast of the G4 online poker show "2 Months, $2 Million." This week's episode, which was the first to air on a Wednesday night, saw Brian Roberts drop $111,000, essentially pushing the team back to even overall. Read more »
On October 22nd, oral arguments will be heard in the Kentucky Supreme Court in Frankfort. Attorneys for the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association will argue why Governor Steve Beshear and company did not have jurisdiction to seize 141 internet gambling domain names. Read more »
Absolute Poker will host several big guaranteed tournaments today. The first big prize pool will be played out in a $50 + $5 $15K No Limit Hold’em re-buy tournament at 7 pm ET. For players who like deep stack tourneys Absolute Poker will have a $20K prize pool tournament at 8 pm ET, where each… Read more »
Players at Full Tilt Poker had some crazy action with all the guaranteed prize pools during the weekend, including numerous MiniFTOPS events. The Sunday Brawl had 2,413 registered players and a prize pool of $100K guaranteed, and it took “Tannina80” almost ten hours at the tables to take down the first place prize of $98K.… Read more »
Fans of televised poker will be relieved to hear that the popular program "High Stakes Poker" will be returning to GSN in early 2010. Poker News Daily has learned that the show will be filming new episodes in November that will begin airing in February of next year. Read more »
The World Championship of Online Poker tournaments have had a bigger success than expected by PokerStars, with most of the guaranteed prize pools exceeding their target numbers with ease. Today, Wednesday September 16, PokerStars will host two WCOOP tournaments. The first one will be a No Limit Hold’em with big antes at 2:30 pm ET… Read more »
On September 27th, the 15th installment of the CBS reality franchise "Amazing Race" will kick off at 8:00pm ET. Appearing will be professional poker players Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho, the last women standing in the 2008 and 2007 WSOP Main Events, respectively. Michelle sat down with Poker News Daily to preview the season. 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 »
Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event hit television airwaves on ESPN on Tuesday night, with two hours of coverage dedicated to the festivities. Seated at the feature table were two Aussies, Joe Hachem and Jeffrey Lisandro. Read more »
French pro Thomas Bichon outlasted a field of 181 players to win the inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cypus Classic on Sunday. Bichon collected his first WPT title and a prize of $579,165 after six days of grueling play. The event, held at the luxurious travel destination in the Mediterranean, attracted many of the… Read more »
Laura Lane returned from vacation to bring the poker community its seventh installment of ESPN.com's "Inside Deal." This week, Lane and co-host Bernard Lee welcomed Daniel Negreanu and Michael Binger. Read more »
In January, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled by a 2:1 margin that the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet did not have jurisdiction to seize 141 internet gambling domain names. In October, the Kentucky Supreme Court will hear the case. 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 »
With Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event set to kick off on Tuesday night on ESPN, network officials have announced that ratings for the September 8th broadcast were the highest of the 2009 season. Read more »
One might think that when Republicans suffered much-deserved humiliation in the last general election, the notorious Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) would soon be history. Remember, it was back in 2006 that Senate Republican leadership effectively guillotined the "Moneymaker Effect." Read more »
A couple of decades ago, billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump wrote a book called "The Art Of The Deal." In it, he detailed out how he went about creating, executing, and finishing major real estate transactions. The same idea can be applied to one of the most difficult tasks in poker, bluffing. 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 »
Last year, Full Tilt Poker introduced a new type of Sit-and-Go tournament called Matrix tournaments. They received a decent amount of attention at the time as players tried them out, but after a while, interest faded. 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 »
Saturday’s episode of “Face the Ace” on NBC featured a memorable contestant named Adam Ehrlich who was far and away the most talkative player in the show’s three episodes. Ehrlich, a 33-year old stock trader from Philadelphia, was the only player featured on the episode as he battled through matches with Full Tilt Pros Chris… 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 »
An effort between some California card rooms and the Morongo band of Mission Indians in Southern California to regulate online poker in the Sunshine State has been put on the backburner. Read more »
In a surprise announcement on Friday, Harrah's Interactive Entertainment, the branch of the company created earlier this year for the eventual foray of the longtime land-based casino powerhouse into the online gaming world, stated that they had entered into a long term deal with Dragonfish, a private business to business enterprise under the 888 Holdings PLC banner. Read more »
The much-anticipated report from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) regarding the Ultimate Bet cheating scandal was released to the public on Thursday. The 11-page document determined that a total of 23 accounts, 117 usernames and 31 individuals were involved in the cheating operation and the KGC pointed the finger at former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Russ Hamilton as the individual who benefitted the most financially from the four years of cheating on the site. Read more »
Earlier today, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) released a final report on their investigation into the cheating scandal involving Ultimate Bet (UB) and several online poker players. The story first broke in January of 2008, when complaints started filtering in about possible fraudulent activities taking place on Ultimate Bet's tables. Read more »
