POKER NEWS

20 July 2005

Play Poker ProBot Online

For years scientists and computer programmers were trying to build a machine so cunning and devious that it could outwit a human. Eventually they developed Deep Blue, a chess playing computer that could defeat the greatest human grandmasters.

19 July 2005

William Hill Announce First Major Poker Table Tournament

Top British Bookmaker William Hill announced today that they are to launch the William Hill Grand Prix Poker Tournament, which is good news in an industry that is becoming swamped with 'fast and furious tournament' scheduling.

Nine CryptoLogic Players Take Home $850, 000 At WSOP

Nine World Series of Poker competitors, who got to the Las Vegas tournament by playing poker on software created by leading software developer CryptoLogic, have finished at the prestigious tournament in the top 10 per cent, taking home a combined $85

18 July 2005

Full Tilt Poker’s Mike Matusow Finishes 9th at WSOP

Poker veteran Mike Matusow turned in a gutsy and often-times brilliant performance before finally finishing 9th at the World Series of Poker Main Event.
Matusow, long known as one of the game’s most outspoken and aggressive players, bested 5,6

Robot’s bluff their way to $100,000

Walking away from the poker table with 100 large in your pocket is nothing special in Sin City. But until Thursday, the gambling capital had never seen a robot do it.
Last week, six programmers converged on Binion's, the downtown casino that i

Aussie wins the World Series of Poker

A 39-year-old former chiropractor, Joseph Hachem, from Australia is $7.5m richer after emerging from a field of 5,600 players to win the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Joseph Hachem defeated a mortgage banker, Steve Dannenmann of Maryland

15 July 2005

Poker’s World Series Down to 18 Players

Poker's top players and unknowns were in a high-stakes showdown Thursday, each looking to make the nine-person final table at the World Series of Poker's main event and grab a piece of gambling glory.

Rock Star Poker Returns

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and Clear Channel Entertainment Properties have announced the second annual Vegas Rock Star Poker Tournament and Sweepstakes.

14 July 2005

InterPoker Qualifier Takes Bracelet at World Series of Poker

Internet poker qualifier Todd Witteles has won the $3,000 Buy In
Limit Hold’em Tournament and collected a $347,385 1st place cash
prize at the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Although Todd, a
Las Vegas resident, has been playing online at

CEO of 24hPoker On His Way to WSOP Title

The World Series of Poker is now in the final stages. Mr Per Hildebrand, CEO and founder of 24hPoker, is in 20th place in the WSOP and has a bit more than $1,000,000 in chips. He is one out of five Swedes remaining in the tournament where 58 players