PartyGaming has just posted their interim results up to June 2008, and they show increased revenues in all of the company’s ventures.
The total revenue for this half year grew 17% compared to last year’s revenue at the same point: while 2007 saw $217.4 million, 2008 revenues reached $254.8 million.
The greatest growth was in the Bingo [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 29, 2008

For months now, a small series of satellites and qualifiers have lived in weird colors in the Party Poker lobby. From small buy-in MTTs written in yellow to high-stakes sit-n-goes written in red, the Macau Asian Poker Tour has been all over Party Poker.
For good reason too; August 28th, 2008 now marks the start date for [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | August 28, 2008

The popular €250,000 guaranteed Irish Poker Festival, which will be played in Killarney, Ireland on October 2-5, will be filmed and broadcast on Irish TV as a documentary. The Irish Poker Festival documentary will be initially broadcast on Irish TV station TG4 and later distributed to networks around the world. A web stream version will [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 27, 2008

On September 15th PKR.com is launching its biggest ever promotion, which will give away a WSOP seat every week for 33 weeks in a row.
The promotion, called “Road to Vegas,” will feature weekly freerolls with changing qualifying criteria that will award a total of 33 WSOP dream packages for a value of $200,000. Seats will [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | August 26, 2008

Player, BODYROXER closed a dominant performance in the August 24th Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at 8:45 pm EST with an outright victory and $60,000 in prize money. Here are the rest of the top ten finishers and their respective prize monies (all dollar amounts are in USD.)
1. BODYROXER    $60,0002. YoungSupremacy  $33,0003. purpur18 $20,7004. TFCR1972 $16,3505. wiking_saga1  $13,8006. beathunter  $10,3507. yasima$7,9508. real_deal111 $5,2509. READBLANK $4,05010. Bergmannen86  $2,850

1,417 players entered [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | August 25, 2008

It’s been a while since someone put on a show like BODYROXER did on Sunday night. Of the 73 non-Heads up hands played in the August 24th Party Poker 300K, BODYROXER won 27 of them; not to mention he personally eliminated 4 of the final 5 players all the while suffering two egregious suckouts for [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | August 25, 2008

PokerStars is making the news often these days, and they are all good news: the lawsuit from TheV0id was dropped, the new EPT awards were announced, and the Sunday Million guaranteed became the Sunday $1.5 million guaranteed. But there are more PokerStars good news, as they just announced increases on eight more tourneys.
Business must be [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | August 22, 2008

Brian had puffy eyes. Puffier than I remembered them being in High School anyway.
I’ve had a few friends get deep. I’ve even spent a few nights burning the candle at both ends myself – I write about poker for a living, for God’s sake. Party Poker is far from my sole vice and in [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Peter Laurrell | August 21, 2008

Poker Room has unveiled a new promo, which delivers 8 instant cash prizes when certain hands are hit and an accumulator jackpot for players who win 4 prizes or more.
The new promotion is called “8 Bits of Everyday Poker” and it has the tagline “Can you catch’em all?” Each different hand – or “8-bit monster” [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | August 21, 2008

There are all sorts of controversies in the poker world: who was behind the superuser accounts? Who really played as TheV0id? But the latest controversy is a rather unusual one: is there or is there not a court ruling regarding the Poker Trillion vs. Boss network case?
In April of this year Poker Trillion left the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | August 20, 2008