This year saw the launch of Party Poker’s Premier League Poker, a televised poker show filmed in the UK. The new TV series featured 12 of the world’s best players playing in a unique league format for a $500,000 pot.
Party Poker developed a system to showcase the legendary poker prowess of each player: all 12 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 31, 2007

The word is going around even before Absolute Poker makes an official announcement, but it is too exciting a piece of news to let it wait: as an extra reward to their best customers, Absolute Poker will start paying a yearly interest of nine percent on the daily account balances of “Elite VIP” Players.
We have [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 31, 2007

The largest jackpot in online-poker history has just been hit at Absolute Poker. Yesterday KADI and her fellow players made some very tidy sums thanks to a very nasty beat which would have left any other player in tears.
Recent news pointed out that Absolute Poker’s Bad Beat Jackpot had reached record heights, breaking both its [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 30, 2007

If so, you can play in KickOffPoker.com’s new tournament, billed as the most expensive multi-table tournament in the world.Well, at least a world that doesn’t include brick and mortar poker.
KickOffPoker.com, an online poker room on the 24h Poker network, will host a €5,000 ($6,800) no-limit hold’em tournament on the first Sunday of each month.The lone [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 30, 2007

PartyGaming, operator of PartyPoker.com, reported a large first half loss for the first six months of 2006, the result of the anti-online gambling legislation in the United States last fall.
In 2006, the company showed a profit of over $298 million for the first half of the year, but the loss of its U.S. customers showed [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | August 29, 2007

Bodog players must have wondered about the website problems in the past few days – was it just an upgrade? A server crash? Had Bodog been hacked?
The truth came out, and as Bodog was once again available as www.newbodog.com this is what Calvin Ayre had to say regarding the outage:
Welcome to the new (temporary) Bodog. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | August 29, 2007

The small island nation of Antigua and Barbuda is intent on remaining a major thorn in the United States’ side.Already seeking more than $3.4 billion in annual sanctions from the U.S. for not complying with a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that its restrictions on online gambling were illegal, Antigua is now seeking even more.
The [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | August 28, 2007

Police in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, have charged seven people for operating illegal gambling houses.The Ontario Provincial Police, through its Organized Crime Section – Illegal Gambling unit, arrested the organizers after executing search warrants from July through this week.
The investigation actually began in December, but finally culminated with a raid on one establishment [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | August 28, 2007

Kicking off is the European Poker Tour, already underway in Barcelona. Sponsored by Poker Stars, it looks to be as successful as last year’s. With 490 players already registered out of a maximum of 600, the Barcelona event looks like a sellout already, no mean feat if you remember the buy-in is €8,000. Many high-profile [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | August 28, 2007

The 2007 Legends of Poker is off to a good start, with a larger field and prize pool than last year. 485 players registered yesterday for a shot at a $1.6 million top prize and a minimum of $16,000 for players who make it to the money.
The field was studded with big names, including two [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | August 27, 2007