First of all, dealmaking is free. If you pick up nothing but this much from the entire forthcoming article then you will still be infinitely better off: it is always free to look at the deal. You may or may not like the numbers of the deal itself, but you should at least give the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | July 31, 2008

Forbes magazine reported yesterday that $24 million have been seized from accounts belonging to Bodog in four of the largest banks in the U.S. Calvin Ayre is nowhere to be found, and a lawsuit has just been filed – things do not bode well for the poker and sports betting monster.
Calvin Ayre is nothing short [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | July 31, 2008

After the compound Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet scandals, their regulating entity had come into question. To appease public opinion, the Kahnawake Commission has commissioned an independent monitoring team to evaluate Tokwiro Enterprises, but it appears that there are questions about the independence of this monitor.
A few days ago, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission released a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | July 30, 2008

Player slow_gherkin completed a stunning come-from-behind victory against massive chip leader HeavyB111 to win the $66,000 prize for outright victory in the July 27 Party Poker $215 $300,000 Guaranteed Weekly No Limit Hold’em Tournament. Here are the top ten finishers and their respective payouts (all dollar values are in USD)
1. slow_gherkin $66,0002. HeavyB111 $33,0003. xprimex $20,7004. tsarremi $16,3505. Santiago36 $13,8006. kasiiino [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | July 29, 2008

Take the deal. For the love of God, just take the deal.

I don’t know what has been going on in the July
PartyPoker 300K’s but something is making the final few players of every tournament deal weirdly with possible deals. First came the lunacy of the
July 6 PP 300K, then the madness [...]

Read More... | 1 Comment | By Peter Laurrell | July 29, 2008

When the Game Show Network (GSN) decided not to bring back the World Poker Tour for a second season on the network, many poker fans felt that the end was near for High Stakes Poker, as well.After weeks of speculation, GSN announced Thursday that High Stakes Poker will return to the network for a fifth [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | July 25, 2008

We’re not sure where the name came from, but some time in August, the Cereus online poker network will make its debut.Created by sister sites Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, the Cereus network will combine the player bases of the eleventh and eight most popular sites for cash games, respectively (source: PokerScout.com).The new network will pull [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 25, 2008

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission, one of the major regulatory organizations in online poker, addressed the cheating scandals at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker in an official statement Wednesday.
The discussion of the Absolute Poker case was brief, as it has already been wrapped up.The statement summarized what the KGC said earlier this year, that the cheating was [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | July 24, 2008

Since its inception sometime in the early nineteenth century in the dark alleys of New Orleans, poker has become an international gaming phenomenon. From Party Poker to the WSOP, here are 25 questions to test just how much you know about poker.

Counting the 2008 WSOP results, how many players have 5 or more bracelets? How [...]

Read More... | 1 Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 24, 2008

The poker world knows that the Poker Players Alliance fights for the legalization of online poker, but it is good to realize that their duties do not end there – the PPA is also keen to defend online poker from the negative image created by fraud and unscrupulous operators within the industry, and particularly by [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | July 23, 2008