The Kentucky gubernatorial race is heating up and poker is smack-dab in the middle.Democratic challenger, Steve Beshear, wants to bring a limited number of casinos to the state so that its residents will not flee to bordering states when they want to play a little poker.He believes that casinos could bring in hundreds of millions [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | September 21, 2007

For the second time in the span of about a month, online gaming company, Bodog, has changed its address on the web.After failing to appear in court on multiple occasions to defend itself in a patent infringement suit, Bodog was forced to hand over all Bodog-related domains to plaintiff 1st Technology LLC in August.Thus, Bodog.com [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | September 20, 2007

Three members of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event final table and one deep finisher in the same event, all from different countries, have joined  Team PokerStars.
The quartet includes two young online poker phenoms, a retired South African, and a Canadian-via-Vietnam.None were household names as of a few months ago, but as the 2007 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | September 20, 2007

LadbrokesPoker.com has announced that it has inked a deal with software developer, Playwize, in which Playwize supply the poker room with a custom version of its three-dimensional poker software.
Playwize already uses the software for its own poker room, Pokerwize, but has decided to branch out and license the platform to other companies.Both Pokerwize and Ladbrokes [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | September 19, 2007

Alcohol is good for you, but in moderation.Our bodies need fat and sodium, but in moderation.Everything in moderation…even the internet.
On Saturday, a 30-year-old Chinese man fainted while sitting at a computer in a Guangzhou a cyber café.To the horror of the hundred or so people who witnessed it, he actually died.Heart attack?Aneurysm?Choke on a pretzel?Nope.Apparently, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | September 19, 2007

Our research here was limited because of the many European languages, but we managed to gather some opinions from British, German and Dutch forums. 
The Brits are very condescending, but they stay mainly at a level of silly, good-humored fun: a private British poker forum is peppered with comments such as “Don't ya just love whippin [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | September 18, 2007

Norway’s Annette Obrestad, who is well-known in online poker circles as “Annette_15,” win the inaugural £10,000 Main Event at the World Series of Poker Europe this weekend.Still only eighteen years-old at the time of her victory, and not even old enough to play in the “real” WSOP, she became both the first woman to win [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | September 18, 2007

While the professional players are mostly polite and respectful when talking about others, average online players are happy to let rip with abuse. Players from both sides of the pond are vocal – very vocal – about how the other half plays, and their rants are so eloquent they do not need a lot of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | September 17, 2007

Since America is the land that gave us political correctness, it was not easy to come across some honest opinions on how the other half plays. Fortunately for us, top pro Daniel Negreanu is well known for being candid and outspoken to the point of getting in trouble, and this is what he has to [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | September 14, 2007

The £10,000 no-limit hold’em Main Event at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe is underway, and to everyone’s surprise, the haul for the winner will be a cool £1 million.
362 players registered for the tournament, which created a £3.62 million prize pool.With the flattening of the payout structure this year, designed to reward those [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | September 14, 2007