Not only is the final table of the prestigious World Series of Poker (WSOP) $50,000 buy-in HORSE event packed with familiar faces and live poker pros, it also keeps the Player of the Year race after many thought three-time 2009 bracelet winner Jeffrey Lisandro had it in the bag.
The HORSE event drew only 98 runners [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 30, 2009

After staying out of the sponsored player wars for its entire existence, Party Poker is rapidly expanding “Team Party Poker” after the announcement of two more players to its roster.
Earlier this week, Party Poker announced that England’s Ian Frazer would join Party Poker ambassador and World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton as a sponsored player. [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 27, 2009

I’m going to honest with you. I’m not going to sugar coat it. Historically, Party Poker has not been known to blow away its players with its customer service. Things have generally improved over the last year or two, as noted in an article now and again on this website, but in years past, you [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 26, 2009

Over the past few months the World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced expansion into several new and exotic locales including Cyprus, Marrakesh and Venice. In the past two weeks they’ve added yet two more locales to their tournament schedule: Bratislava, Slovakia and Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
The WPT and the Slovak Poker Sport Federation joined forces to put [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | June 25, 2009

For the first time in its illustrious history, PartyPoker has announced that they are stepping into the player sponsorship pool by tapping English poker professional Ian Frazer to represent the company.
Besides their decade long sponsorship of their poker ambassador, professional player and World Poker Tour announcer Mike Sexton, PartyPoker has traditionally stayed out of the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | June 24, 2009

On Tuesday the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) announced that July 19th-25th will serve as National Poker Week, a week dedicated to promoting the game and advocating for the rights of card players in the United States. The announcement was made at a press conference at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas shortly before [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | June 23, 2009

While the action by the United States Department of Justice in seizing nearly $30 million - which is believed to be from American online poker players - from online payment processors shouldn’t have an effect on the company, Party Poker has seen a sizeable increase in action over the past couple of weeks.
According to the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | June 20, 2009

You know how it is. You meet someone and one of the first things they ask is, “So, what do you do?” In my case, people are always surprised when I tell them that I work in the online poker industry. Fortunately, they usually think it’s really cool and proceed to tell me they saw [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | June 19, 2009

PartyGaming continues to move forward full force with its 2009 business plan to grow its online casino brand and focus on business to business deals in order to diversify its holdings. Egaming Review and several other gaming news outlets are reporting that PartyGaming is planning to take over Cashcade sometime in the coming weeks.
Cashcade is [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | June 19, 2009

Back by popular demand, Party Poker’s Million Dollar Hand promotion has entered into its final two weeks with only one straight flush awarded to this point.
This popular promotion at Party Poker, which enables players to earn cards for playing on the cash games tables on the site, was extremely popular in its first run back [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | June 17, 2009