POKER NEWS

08 March 2006

Spades Lounge Helps Poker Players See Better

If spending an entire day, supposedly set aside for ‘work’ and ‘looking after the kids’, in front of the PC playing poker has left you with tunnel vision and walking into furniture, it might be time to start playing at Spades Lounge.

07 March 2006

Forrest Beats Ferguson Heads Up in Vegas

Ted Forrest has won the National Heads Up Championship at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. The final went all the way down to the wire against Chris Ferguson, when Forrest moved ‘all in’ pre-flop – his three Kings beat Ferguson’s pair of Queens.

Glitz and Glamour at Jeff Gordon Foundation Poker Classic

The simple fact is that you were never going to be able to buy your way onto the red carpet for Oscar night. However, if you’ve got a spare $1,000 floating around, you can shmooze your way along the press line and onto the green felt at this year’s J

2006 Poker Money List Already Has Six Millionaires

It’s most likely that you’ve spent the first two months of this year working your regular job, maybe putting a little money aside, or maybe you’ve just been spending all your hard earned cash playing poker with your buddies and facing the wrath of yo

Player Complaints Stack Up at UltimateBet

If you’re one of those people who simply prefer sitting down at the felt for a game of poker rather than logging on and playing online, now you may have an even stronger case.
Having opted to recently upgrade their software, poker site, Ultimat

Police Raid Illegal Virginia Beach Poker Ring

If you’re a hotel owner looking for a raft of bad publicity, you could do a lot worse than host an illegal poker ring. And this is exactly what’s been happening at the Tropicana Hotel in Virginia Beach, where police have just busted a poker ring that

06 March 2006

Jennifer Tilly Snubs Oscars for Heads-Up Poker Tournament

For some, the opportunity to take a stroll down the red carpet at the Academy Awards and have your name hollered by the rabid press corps is a dream. For others, it’s something that they can take or leave – usually because they’ve already done it.

Alan Goehring Wins $2.4 Million Birthday Present

The majority of us would surely be happy with a few beers with friends and maybe a new sweater for our birthday. Not so Alan Goehring, who celebrated his birthday by winning $2.4 million at the LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino.

Legal Small Stakes Poker Becomes a Big Problem

It seems that by giving a little in the form of relaxed gambling laws is costing the State of Minnesota big.
Last year, they allowed games of small stakes Texas Hold’em to be played across the state in bars and clubs as long as they stuck to s

Departing PartyGaming Boss Now Eyeing Brunson

Last week, PartyGaming announced a set of incredible financial reports; reason enough, you’d think, to crack open a bottle of champagne and maybe sit down to a casual game of poker in the office before getting on with the job at hand.