POKER NEWS

17 March 2005

Canadian turns $4 tournament into $605,000

Jay Martens, an online ParadisePoker.com player who lives in Prince George, British Columbia placed second at the final table of the WPT Shooting Stars Tournament in San Francisco this weekend.

16 March 2005

$5,000 Freeroll Tournament from Poker Partnership

Online poker room Noble Poker (www.noblepoker.com) have joined forces with Pokernews.info (www.pokernews.info) to bring poker players their favourite thing – Free Money.
The No Limit Texas Hold Em freeroll tournament will be held on March 27, 2

15 March 2005

Online Poker gets Online Blog

In an effort to combine two of the hottest online trends of the last year, NoLimitVegas.BlogSpot.com Henry Smithfield has authored a Blog that he claims will make over $1000 by playing break even poker.

David Williams and Josh Arieh Hit the Tables for Bodog

Josh Arieh and David Williams, Bodog’s sponsored poker players lucked out at last weekend’s NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Josh Arieh started well, beating Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil in the first round.

14 March 2005

Absolute Poker Experiences Tremendous Growth

AbsolutePoker.com one of the Web’s most popular and successful online poker sites, now hosts more online tournaments than any other online poker room and claims that it is now the world’s fifth largest online poker destination.

09 March 2005

UKBetting launches online poker site

UKBetting has announced it is jumping on the online poker bandwagon to launch a new poker portal on its European gaming site, GoldBet.com.
The new offering presents playing options for a number of poker games including Texas Hold'em, 7 Card St

Woman Wins Poker Battle of the Sexes

Kathy Liebert was handed over the $130,000 prize as she won the Battle of the sexes tournament beating the men who had dominated the contest until then.
Settling the debate in the final episode, Liebert skillfully played her way around top poke

PokerStars.com gives NBA superstar World Series seat

PokerStars.com gave Shaquille O'Neal a range of poker gifts at his star studded 33rd birthday soiree. Gifts included one year of poker tutelage from 2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer, as well as a complimentary seat, worth $10,000, in t

07 March 2005

Online poker champ will attend world series of poker

Online poker star poker and texas hold’em author Kim Birch recently launched his winning online poker course and website and has now announced he will be attending his first World Series of Poker later this year after winning an online WSOP qualifier

04 March 2005

Bodog release more odds on poker tournaments

Bodog has announced the addition of the 2005 Heads-up Poker Championship at Bay 101, and the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Buy-In Event to their books. Fans can now bet on the result of the tournaments.