The other day (and don’t ask how these things enter my mind), I started thinking about how people go about poker training nowadays. What happened was I started thinking about an old poker program that I used to have, Donahoe Digital’s Tournament Poker (otherwise known as DD Tournament Poker), and whether I could still use… Read more »
Party Poker is a monster among online poker sites. They are one of the biggest rooms with tremendous player action at any time of the day. They did suffer a costly hit to their player base when they decided to exclude US customers as a response to US legislation towards online gaming. Party Poker's outstanding marketing efforts have resulted in a rebound of player traffic and they are once again on the rise. Read more »
The Party Poker Premier League season 3 will kick off next week and there won't be any shortage of big names on the roster. Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Phil Hellmuth and World Series of Poker Main Event champion Peter Eastgate are the latest to sign on for the event, which will take place in London between the 24th and 30th of November. Read more »
On Saturday, November 1st, players on PartyPoker will be in for quite a treat. The season of gift-giving will be coming just a little earlier for its members, who will have a chance to take home a portion of an estimated $1.9 million prize pool slated to be given out to 10,000 players. Read more »
The 30-hour marathon Poker Den is over, with Andrew Feldman and Robert Williamson III coming out on top of the star-studded field. Read more »
The final players six remaining in the Party Poker Women's World Open II have been determined and the action concludes today with $50,000 for first place up for grabs. The tournament boasted a prize pool of $108,000 and showcased some of the top female poker players in the world. Read more »
The best female poker players have a date in London this October 3-6 for Party Poker's second Women's World Poker Open. Read more »
The third installment of the Party Poker Den will begin on Tuesday, September 30th and run for 36 straight hours. The high-stakes cash game is expected to draw a lively crowd in London. 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 »
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 »
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 »
Shares of PartyGaming, which are traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "PRTY," were added to the FTSE4Good Index on Friday. 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 »
Party Poker's third Nations Cup will be broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 on September 16-17. But for those who really cannot wait, four hands have been posted online as a sneak preview. Read more »
Just before midnight ET on Thursday, August 14th, the world record for an online poker Bad Beat Jackpot was broken when one lucky table hit a whopping $1,013,381.63. Read more »
The Party Poker Den Big Game is back once more, and this time it will run for 36 hours of continuous high stakes cash play. Read more »
Each week, several of the largest online poker rooms offer gigantic prize pools as part of their Sunday tournament offering. With the news this week that it would bump up the prize pools of the Sunday Million and Warm-Up starting next week, PokerStars saw a nice bump in traffic for its five major tournaments that kicked off Sunday afternoon. Combined, they offered more than $2 million in guaranteed payouts and more than 15,000 total entrants. In this week's online tournament roundup, we'll focus on the online poker action from the largest room in the world, PokerStars. Read more »
Online poker giant Party Poker is getting ready to celebrate its seventh birthday, a lucky landmark for the site and for its members, who stand to profit form generous guarantees and special tourneys. Read more »
It was business as usual in the online poker world this past weekend and the action in the major Sunday tournaments was brisk as usual. One week removed from the PokerStars $2 Million Guaranteed as part of the site's 2X program, thousands of poker players flocked to the virtual felts of Stars, Full Tilt Poker, and Party Poker to try and claim their share of life-changing money. Let's check out the action this week as we recap some of the largest weekly guaranteed prize pools offered online. Read more »
Party Gaming, parent company of Party Poker, gave its stockholders a sneak peek into its finances the other day. According to a press release issued on July 8th gross revenues have fallen slightly since late April due to seasonality and competition for players’ leisure time from the Euro 2008 football tournament. Party’s casino business has… Read more »
With 40 events completed at the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Rio has become the center of the poker universe. This is the one time during the year when online tournaments seem to take a back seat. Read more »
Shares in PartyGaming (PRTY.L), parent company of PartyPoker, were up over 10% Friday amid rumors that it has come to an agreement with U.S. authorities over its prior U.S.-facing activities. Read more »
