On Thursday, one of the top online poker networks in the industry, Microgaming, announced its intentions to eliminate datamining on its family of sites. Read more »
Microgaming Network Attempts to Curb Online Poker Datamining
Month: January 2010
Internet Gambling Bill Introduced in New Jersey
Legalized internet gambling and online poker may be coming to New Jersey. State Senator Raymond Lesniak introduced S 3167, which specifically legalizes the internet version of popular brick and mortar games like poker, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, craps, the big six wheel, slot machines, mini baccarat, red dog, pai gow, and sic bo. Read more »
Poker Tournament Scene in 1980 by Linda Johnson
I'm sure some of today's young players would scoff at the conditions 30 years ago. First of all, we didn't have all of the conveniences of modern technology such as a tournament clock. Read more »
Kentucky Internet Gambling Decision May Come January 21st
It's been 16 months since 141 internet gambling domain names belonging to some of the world's largest online poker sites were seized in Kentucky. As their assets face potential forfeiture, the owners of the domain names may learn their fate as soon as January 21st. Read more »
Poker Community Reaches Out to Haiti Earthquake Victims
The tragic earthquake that rocked the island country of Haiti a few days ago has grabbed the attention of the entire world and the poker community is no exception. In the wake of the natural disaster, a number of poker players have reached out to help the millions of people affected by the quake. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Double Guarantees
All Full Tilt Players will be able to participate at the double guarantees that will be available for only one week. Starting on January 25th and ending at midnight on January 31st, players will be battling at the tables for twice the payouts. All tournaments will remain on their normal schedule, the only thing that… Read more »
Isildur1 High Stakes Tables Created at Real Deal Poker
Online poker site RealDealPoker.com is planning to provide private high-stakes cash tables for mysterious Scandinavian phenom "Isildur1." The site, set to launch in March 2010, will be the first and only poker site that will use a Cut N' Shuffle system rather than a Random Number Generator (RNG) to deal its cards Read more »
Cake Poker Doubles Donations for Haiti
Helping others when they are facing difficult times is something that we should all do: we all share the world, and at some point in your life you might need some help from a person or charity that will extend you a hand when you are facing a difficult situation. We help when we can,… Read more »
Absolute Poker Enables New Satellite Buy-in Options
All Absolute Poker players will now have the possibility to pay the buy-in fees into satellite events by choosing one of three different methods. The options available will be: cash, tournament dollars or AbsolutePoints. Players will be prompted to choose the type of payment they prefer when registering for the tournament, and methods can be… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker Aid for Haiti Fund Raising
Full Tilt, the second largest online poker room in the world, wants to help those in need at Haiti by gathering funds through player transfers to a specially created account named “Aid For Haiti”. For those players that want to avoid doing players transfers and instead would like to donate a set amount of money,… Read more »
Alec Torelli Leaves DoylesRoom for New Venture
The DoylesRoom Brunson 10 saw its stable of five pros shrink to four this week, as Alec "traheho" Torelli parted ways with the USA-friendly online poker site to pursue "another project," according to a press release obtained by Poker News Daily on Friday. Read more »
William Reynolds Wins PCA High Roller Event
Iowa poker player William Reynolds took down the $25,000 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) High Roller Event at the tender age of 21. His victory was worth $576,000. Read more »
Online Poker Sites Rally for Haiti Earthquake Victims
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the tiny nation of Haiti left the country in shambles and perhaps as many as 50,000 people may have perished. In response, the online poker world has come together to raise money for the natural disaster's victims. Read more »
IStakeU.com Tops $300,000 in Poker Staking
Poker staking site IStakeU.com hit an important milestone. The total amount staked recently passed the $300,000 threshold, not too shabby for a website that opened for business in May. In addition, several of its players made waves over the weekend to bump their total earnings to $434,000. Read more »
Senator Jon Kyl Blocks US Treasury Nominations Due to UIGEA Delays
Many political bloggers are criticizing Senator Jon Kyl's recent tactic of stalling Treasury appointments in response to delays in the implementation of his Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Read more »
PartyPoker Signs Kara Scott
It's been an exciting few months for Kara Scott. The professional poker player and television presenter recently signed on as Gabe Kaplan's new co-host of GSN's "High Stakes Poker" in November, and this week she became the newest member of "Team Party," where she will represent PartyPoker.com at poker related events around the world. Read more »
Ladbrokes CEO Chris Bell Steps Down
After what is considered in the online gaming world as a long stint as the Chief Executive Officer of an organization, Ladbrokes' Chris Bell has announced that he will leave the company. In a statement from Ladbrokes PLC on Tuesday, Bell announced his resignation from the lead position at the European gaming organization, although no reason was given for the departure. Read more »
Tobias Reinkemeier Leads PCA High Roller Event Entering Final Table
Wednesday marked a hectic day of play in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) High Roller event. Entering Thursday's eight-handed final table, Germany's Tobias Reinkemeier leads the way with nearly 1.1 million chips. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker High Stakes Tables Heat Up
It took almost two weeks for the Full Tilt Pros and high stakes regulars to start moving large chips stacks around, but the wait was well worth it. Railbirds were able to witness a lot of action at the high stakes tables and the best part was the large number of players that were eager… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event Final Eight
The remarkable field of eighty four players that registered to the PCA high roller event had plenty of the world’s best known pros. Among the field were previous EPT, WSOP and WSOPE winners and it looked like the tournament would have lots of exciting moments. Luckily it did not disappoint. Day three started with Dario… Read more »
Joe Sebok Provides Update on UB Cheating
This past weekend, UB.com's Joe Sebok provided the poker community an update on where things stand with disseminating hand histories to those players affected by the cheaters that "won" money from players on UltimateBet in 2006 and 2007. Read more »
Poker2Nite Pays Homage to Amir Vahedi
Wednesday night's installment of the Fox Sports Net poker news show "Poker2Nite" featured a stirring tribute to the late Amir Vahedi. Layne Flack paid a visit to the UB.com sponsored series, which airs at 11:00pm ET on Wednesdays. Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Patrick Antonius Starts the Year with Big Losses
After a cold start at the Full Tilt tables this year, some pros finally took the time to visit the high stakes tables and that led to large amounts of chips changing hands. Gus Hansen recorded a win that exceeds half a million dollars, which will probably motivate him for the year – if he… Read more »
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event Day Three
The High Roller tournament began three days ago and the field has been dramatically reduced, the action today kicked off with the PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri on the chip lead even though with his style of play he is used to leaving tournaments in the early stages. The current chip lead is held by the… Read more »
Everest Poker Announces Live the Dream Team
The online poker site Everest Poker has awarded 10 of its most talented and active players with a $100,000 contract as part of its Live The Dream promotional event in Vienna, Austria. The winners outlasted 190 other hopefuls. Read more »
