Party Poker has announced that they will be adding a singing competition to the 2009 Irish Poker Championship which runs from January 2nd to January 5th. The organizers of the event have already confirmed that professional poker players Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot, Kenna James, and Jon “Skalie” Kalmar will be taking part in the singing contest.
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Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | December 30, 2008

When the news of PartyGaming’s largest shareholder and co-founder, Anurag Dikshit, pleading guilty to violating the Wire Act of 1961 in the Southern District Court of New York broke this month, a virtual gasp could be heard around the online poker world. One of the most important people in internet poker history decided to voluntarily [...]

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

Just over a week after PartyGaming’s majority owner Anurag Dikshit pleaded guilty to violating the Wire Act of 1961, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) released a statement regarding the situation. The PPA Chairman, Alfonse D’Amato, was the one who read the statement and the following is an excerpt from it:
“The Poker Players Alliance is disappointed [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 26, 2008

With Christmas almost upon us, Party Poker has decided to double the amount of PartyPoints that players can win over the holidays. Starting on December 24th at 12:00 ET and ending at 23:59 ET on December 25th, players will be earning twice the regular amount of PartyPoints when they play in ring games and tournaments [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | December 23, 2008

Party Poker is the only online room that will be giving away prize packages for the 2009 Canadian Poker Tour Finals. The prize packages they’re giving away are worth $8,500 and they cover the buy-in to the CPT Finals Main Event, hotel accommodations at the Sun Village Resort, and spending money.
Players at the Canadian Poker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | December 19, 2008

Anurag Dikshit, a co-founder of Party Gaming (owner of Party Poker), pleaded guilty to “illegal web betting” charges brought on by the United States. He made his plea deal on Tuesday with the United States Department of Justice and agreed to pay the US government $300 million for violating the Wire Act of 1961.
The $300 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | December 17, 2008

The Party Poker Irish Poker Championship Tour recently concluded and the results are in for the event. Jay Renehan finished at the top of the league leaderboard, Galway Casino owner and EPT Barcelona runner-up Fintan Gavin finished second, and Michael Graydon took third place.
The Party Poker Irish Poker Championship Tour began league play on August [...]

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

Party Poker has just announced that they will be upgrading their rewards program so players can earn more money and prizes. The main change made to the Party Poker rewards program is that players will only have to get one type of points in order to earn cash, prizes, and entry into satellites and land-based tournaments. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | December 12, 2008

Just weeks after the record for the largest poker hands in online history were broken, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond broke the record for having the biggest stack at an online poker game. Galfond was playing $500/$1,000 6-max, No Limit Hold’em games at Full Tilt Poker this past weekend and managed to hold a $1.5 million stack at [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 10, 2008

The Party Poker Women’s World Open II starts on December 10th and will be an international affair. 36 of the world’s top female poker players have already paid the $3,000 buy-in and will make the trip to London, England. The overall prize pool will be $108,000 and the winner will take home $50,000 of it.
Some [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | December 9, 2008