If you are making big plans to play in the $50,000 World Championship HORSE event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, stop and read this before booking any non-refundable plane tickets.
The HORSE event, which was to begin on June 22 at noon will now start on June 25 at 5:00pm PT.It will swap places [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | February 19, 2008

According to Columbus Business First, the Kentucky General Assembly was presented with a proposal Tuesday that would authorize the building of as many as twelve casinos statewide.Newly-elected Kentucky Governor, Steve Beshear, the man who developed the proposal, believes that the revenue that legalized gambling would generate could help the state immensely.
"If the people of Kentucky [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 19, 2008

European online gaming conglomerate Unibet Group plc went public today (Monday) with the prospectus for their €100 million bond which was issued on 21 December, 2007. Unibet intends to complete their listing of the bond on the Retail Bond list at the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm by tomorrow.
The prospectus is currently available in Swedish [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 18, 2008

Earlier this month, Boss Media announced that GEMed AB, a company jointly owned by GTECH and Medströms, had expressed its intent to purchase 100 percent of the online gaming company’s outstanding shares for SEK 19.00.The Boss Media had until February 27 to accept the offer.
No need to wait that long.Wednesday, GEMed AB drastically increased its [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 18, 2008

Plans are currently being finalized for the launch of the first ever India Poker Tour (IPT), slated to go live in September 2008.The Tour will be comprised of four events, culminating with the Grand Final in Goa, where tournament organizers anticipate the prize pool to hit at least $1 million.
The Tour will kick off in [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 18, 2008

Slowly but surely, many online gaming companies are climbing out of the abyss created by the loss of U.S. customers stemming from the UIGEA in 2006.888 Holdings, operator of internet poker stalwart, Pacific Poker, as well as Casino-On-Net, is no exception.
2007 was 888’s first full year with no American players, and compared to its 2006 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 18, 2008

Men “The Master” Nguyen, widely revered as one of the most fearsome cash game and tournament players in the world, has had an impressive start (to say the least) so far this year.
So far in 2008 Nguyen has managed to take home nine cashes, and these winnings did not come from small tournaments either: [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 15, 2008

After making extensive plans to open a supercasino in Manchester, the UK abruptly made a backtracking move giving a not so welcome surprise to Las Vegas Sands Inc executives. The Sands casino, based in Las Vegas, was planning on building the Manchester casino in partnership with the British government, but now they have revealed that [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | February 14, 2008

Fifth Street Publishers, owners of both Canadian Poker Player magazine and the Canadian Poker Tour, announced earlier this month that both ventures must be shut down.Citing a lack of advertising for the magazine and a lack of sponsorships for the tour, the company has indicated that this may be a temporary action, but there is [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | February 14, 2008

One of the biggest gripes players have had with Full Tilt Poker over the last couple years is that the popular poker room does not allow players to convert a non-rakeback account to one with rakeback.The site did try it for a very short time last year, but it became a hassle, so it stopped [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | February 14, 2008