Big tournament series are all the range now, with PokerStars, Full Tilt (FTOPS VII is currently underway), and UltimateBet battling it out for supremacy. Along comes Bodog now, throwing its hat into the ring with the Bodog Poker Open (BPO). Debuting March 3, the BPO will feature six events, culminating with the $500 buy-in, $25,000 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 14, 2008

One of the most long fought and seemingly endless debates about poker, namely whether or not it is a game of chance, has taken a turn for the worse for Europe’s poker players. A UK court of appeals declared earlier this week that poker is definitely more a game of “chance” than skill.
This issue has [...]

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

PartyPoker is the top of the line in online poker. PartyGaming (PartyPoker’s parent company) was founded in 1997 making it one of the original online poker companies, and PartyPoker itself became the first site to market itself on internationally televised poker events such as the WPT.One of the pillars of the online gaming community, PartyPoker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 13, 2008

The World Poker Tour and Game Show Network (GSN) released the television schedule for the WPT’s sixth season Tuesday.This will be the first season the show will be on GSN after five seasons on the Travel Channel.GSN will pay WPT $300,000 per episode and has set aside $3 million to market the program.
Each of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 13, 2008

UltimateBet has completely changed its player loyalty program, turning it from something that was less than thrilling to something that is, well, less than thrilling.
Called RAI$E, the program’s aim seems to be to reward its most frequent and highest stakes players.There are five status levels, which are achieved by earning Status Points through contributing to [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 13, 2008

At a seminar organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, a Harvard professor will be speaking today (Tuesday) about the highly controversial discriminatory US ban on Internet gambling and related financial transactions. The speaker, Professor Charles Nesson, will be discussing the implications that the results of the UIGEA legislation has for free trade [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 12, 2008

Online poker and casino software developer, Playtech, announced that revenues grew sharply in the final quarter of 2007 and it predicts continued success in 2008.
When excluding revenue from U.S. customers, who were banned from Playtech sites not long after the UIGEA passed, revenues grew 101 percent to $32.7 million.The bulk of this was from casino [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | February 12, 2008

This past weekend, PokerStars announced that it will hold a brand new, one-time mega-tournament, featuring a total prize pool of $2 million.The kicker: players cannot buy-in with money.
Instead, the buy-in for Sunday’s Turbo Takedown tournament is a hefty 10,000 Frequent Player Points (FPP).The tournament will accept as many as 12,000 entrants, and one in every [...]

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

The Monte Carlo Casino in Las Vegas, which drew the attention of America for a couple hours on January 25 as its roof caught fire, will reopen this Friday, February 15.The fire, which along with thick clouds of black smoke, looked worse than it actually was, forced the evacuation of around 6,000 guests and employees. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | February 12, 2008

A Dutch government official postponed a vote in the Senate over the weekend that would have granted the Netherlands-owned Holland Casino a temporary, exclusive online gaming license. The postponed vote came from Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin. He reasoned that the measure would have been rejected by the Dutch Senate if voted on at this [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 11, 2008