Some of the biggest names in poker showed up for event number nine of the 2008 Aussie Millions, the $100,000 No-Limit Hold‘em event, only to suffer a resounding defeat to Howard Lederer, also known as “The Poker Professor”. Howard Lederer, brother of world famous woman poker star Annie Duke, came to Australia to play some [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 14, 2008

In what Absolute Poker hopes to be the final chapter in the “superuser” cheating debacle, the company has issued a statement regarding the Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s investigation.All in all, the statement reveals nothing out of the ordinary and while it will probably satisfy some, skeptics will still remain unconvinced that AP really had nothing to [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 14, 2008

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has released a report on its findings from its investigation of Absolute Poker following the “superuser” cheating controversy in the fall of 2007.It had been found that a high-ranking consultant with access to the inner workings of AP had used software which allowed him to see opponents’ hole cards in a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | January 13, 2008

William Hill, the London based online gambling company, has seen its share price fall to a 52-week low, partly the result of its termination of its anticipated new software upgrade.
The new platform, dubbed “NextGen,” was supposed to offer William Hill’s customers products that were "clearly superior to anything currently available to our major competitors,” according [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | January 12, 2008

Today is the last day to get a seat into Party Poker’s $10,000 Gridiron Party qualifiers, where you can play to win the most extravagant party to celebrate the Super Bowl – big screen TV, cheerleaders and all.
All you have to do to enter is earn five PartyPoints by 23:59 ET on January 11, which [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | January 11, 2008

Australia’s Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is shooting for a different sort of online gambling ban.He isn’t looking to make it illegal, but rather, he wants to disallow it on “his” high-speed network.
By “his,” we mean the Australian government’s.Rudd is currently working to follow through on a campaign promise to build a nationwide high-speed internet backbone, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | January 11, 2008

The Poker Players Alliance has well over 800,000 members, but only thirty of them are State Directors.The PPA wants twenty more.These State Directors are key in the PPA’s grassroots effort to defend the rights of poker players around the United States.
State Directors are volunteers; they are not paid for their time.At the same time, however, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 11, 2008

If you are a big fan of tournaments, this may be the thing for you: a free Poker Tournament Toolbar that delivers constantly updated live tourney info from the top poker rooms right into a ticker display in your desktop.
Online portal pokersites.co.uk has recently launched this free software, which gathers poker tournament info from all [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 10, 2008

The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced this week that it has launched an all-female poker league and tour, dubbed WPT Ladies (WPTL).The tour will consist of five stops – two on the west coast, two on the east coast, and the Championship in Las Vegas – beginning on January 20, 2008.Buy-ins will range from $300 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 10, 2008

Online poker software developer, Playtech, said this week that because of record monthly sales, it was “confident” that its 2007 earnings would meet analysts’ estimates.
While the final tallies are still being counted, median analyst estimates place 2007 profits at $68.8 million, based on estimated revenues of $102.8 million.Compare this to the numbers for the first [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 10, 2008