On January 1st of 2008 Germany passed a set of laws that banned all forms of online gambling across the country, save for horse racing. Since that time, Austrian based online gaming firm Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, has been actively mounting a legal battle through the European Union to reverse what they see as an [...]

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

Poker history was made last Sunday night during the WPT Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic. For the first time ever in the poker history a women’s tournament required a record buy-in of $1,500 – in the past, the WSOP Ladies Event buy-in had been capped at $1,000 and never exceeded this amount.
This year, that [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | April 17, 2008

One could not help but think of the irony of it all as the 2008 PartyPoker.com Nations Cup concluded this week with the British poker team defeating the Guinness-swilling island nation of Ireland in what proved to be a first-class poker championship round.
Team Great Britain was captained by Roland de Wolfe; the other members [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | April 16, 2008

When the UIGEA gets overturned a lot is going to change.
First of all, the value of certain companies is going to go through the roof. Remember that Party Gaming, pLc, the parent company of Party Poker lost about 65% of its value overnight – literally, over night. On October 13, 2006 (the date that [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | April 16, 2008

In an effort to maintain their relatively impeccable legal standing, Party Poker has hired a new lawyer at Party Gaming’s head office in Gibraltar. The newest addition, a bright attorney named Victoria Allison, will help Party Gaming continue to hold together their ship and keep it from sinking during these stormy UIGEA years.
Allison previously [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | April 15, 2008

Shortly following the Congressional hearing two weeks ago which addressed the feasibility of the proposed UIGEA regulations, two prominent Congressmen are aiming to block the implementation of those regulations.House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) and senior Financial Services Committee member Ron Paul (R-TX) have introduced H.R. 5767 which will forbid the Secretary of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | April 15, 2008

Poker pro Jennifer Harman is getting ready to host another charity poker tournament: the Nevada SPCA.Last year, her first tournament helped raised $130,000 for the organization, which was used to build two new wings for the no-kill shelter.She also hosted a small buy-in charity tournament on Full Tilt Poker last month.
The next tournament will be [...]

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

Deposit options for American online poker players became scarcer Friday as ePassporte put a stop to poker transactions by its U.S. customers.The company had not allowed casino and sports gambling transactions for quite some time, but had still permitted transactions for poker.Because of this, it replaced Neteller as the e-wallet of choice for most American [...]

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

PokerStars announced this week that it had snatched up two of the few remaining well known players to become part of team of pros.Joining the list of pros that includes the likes of Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Isabelle Mercier, Barry Greenstein, and Daniel Negreanu are Gavin Griffin and Chad Brown.
Griffin is one of the young [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | April 12, 2008

Last year marked the debut of the WPT Spanish Championship on the World Poker Tour. Won by Austrian Markus Lehmann, it was, by all accounts, quite successful. This season, the WPT’s seventh, the event was nowhere to be found on the schedule. Have no fear European poker fans, as the WPT announced this week that [...]

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