Prior to Thursday, Party Poker’s roster of sponsored pros boasted quite an international flair, but it was lacking something: women.  That has changed with an announcement from the online poker room that longtime poker commentator and player Kara Scott will be joining Party Poker’s grassroots team.
Scott, who hails from Canada but spent much of her [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 14, 2010

After extraordinary success with its new Italian poker platform, PartyPoker.it, PartyPoker is trying to replicate that success in Denmark. PartyGaming recently announced it will be partnering with Danish gaming group Danske Spil.
Those familiar with the online gaming market in Europe might know that Denmark is notoriously strict when it comes to gambling, especially regarding taxation. The 2008 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | January 13, 2010

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is always the first big tournament of the year and in 2010 the online poker room pulled out all the stops for its flagship event. The 1,529 person field widely surpassed the number of players in 2009, which capped off at 1,347. In addition to boasting a record-setting field, the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | January 12, 2010

What has long been a rumor has finally been confirmed as official. PokerStars, the online poker room behind popular poker circuits like the European Poker Tour (EPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) and Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), announced earlier this week that it would be spreading to North America.
As part of the PokerStars Caribbean [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | January 9, 2010

Players banking on waiting until the last minute to win their way into the Party Poker Premier League will have to adjust their calendars. Due to the extraordinary popularity of the online qualifiers, the site only has one more package to give away and will wrap up its series of weekly $450 qualifiers on January [...]

Read More... | 1 Comment | By Neal Farran | January 6, 2010

In the past six months, the slate of sponsored pros at Bodog has been slashed in half. Last fall, former “Survivor” contestant Jean-Robert Bellande parted ways and now news has broken that longtime Team Bodog member Justin Bonomo is no longer a representative of the site either.
Fans of the Fox Sports Net show “Poker [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | January 5, 2010

As 2009 drew to a close, a number of poker media outlets compiled their lists for the top stories of the year. One story that was almost universally included on all of those lists was PartyGaming’s purchase of World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE). While it did not make #1 on any of these lists, it [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | January 2, 2010

In a move that has come as a shock to many players, a poker room on one of the largest networks on the internet has started, for all intents and purposes, shoving loyal players out the door. VC Poker, the poker arm of UK gambling firm Victor Chandler group, has sent an e-mail to a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | January 2, 2010