Party Poker advertising might become thin on the ground if the British have their way. After a recent controversy with Victor Chandler International, Lord Faulkner has called on the British Department for Culture Media and Sports to ban advertising from bookmakers licensed in more lenient countries if they do not adhere to the more strict [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | October 31, 2007

The UK city of Nottingham is well known as home to the legend of Robin Hood, but now it has a much better claim to fame as home to the UK’s first (and only) exclusive poker club, Dusk Till Dawn.
Nottingham entrepreneur Rob Yong had the idea of creating a poker-only club, but found it difficult [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | October 30, 2007

Is gambling about to go private in Sweden? Another Swedish party joins the motion to end the nation’s gambling monopoly – and this time it is the ruling party.
The Moderate Party, which holds the rule at the moment, announced at its annual conference last Saturday that they have decided to back the de-monopolization of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | October 29, 2007

The fight over patent rights between Bodog and 1st Tech has become even more entertaining, as Bodog owner Calvin Ayre has publicly challenged Scott Lewis, CEO of 1st Technology, to a Mixed Martial Arts fight to settle the dispute.
The legal aspect of the dispute has already been partially settled, as both Bodog’s appeal against the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | October 26, 2007

Despite a slowdown in new signups, PartyGaming reported revenue growth of 24 percent to $115.7 million for the third quarter of 2007.
The third quarter is typically a slower period for online gambling, as the prime European holiday season cuts right through it.Thus, new signups were down 18 percent from the second quarter.They were also down [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | October 26, 2007

Party Poker led the way with steps tournaments, where one could progress up the sit-and-go staircase, starting with a small buy-in, and have the chance to make hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.Other poker rooms followed suit, the rooms on the Microgaming network come to mind, but for the most part, steps have been Party’s [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | October 25, 2007

China seems to be really opening up to poker – a few weeks ago Lanzhou hosted the launch of the first ever Traktor Championship, and now Macau will host the first ever real money Hold’em tournament in the People’s Republic of China.
The Poker Stars Asia Pacific Poker Tour was known to include destinations such as [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | October 25, 2007

The hit television show, High Stakes Poker, will take its nosebleed stakes to full-blown gusher status in November.Starting with the November 5th episode, the customary $100,000 minimum buy-in will be increased five-fold to $500,000.
All told, there will be more than $5 million on the table at any given time.The “Higher Stakes Poker” will be broadcast [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | October 24, 2007

Back at the beginning of the month, PokerStars’ popular World Championship of Online Poker concluded with its $2,500 buy-in Main Event.Almost 3,000 players entered, pushing the prize pool to over $7 million.When the dust cleared, “TheV0id” was the champ, taking home over $1.2 million.
Within the last week, however, he has been disqualified for cheating.
The reasons [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | October 23, 2007

The cards are in the air at two West Virginia racetrack casinos.For years, the racetracks in the state have had slot machines, but not until now, as the result of new legislation, have table games been introduced.Residents of the counties where the casinos reside still had to vote to approve the games, but three counties [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | October 22, 2007