POKER NEWS

20 July 2004

Vinnie Jones to Become the Poker Face of Getmintedpoker.com

Cashcade, the company behind the first pound sterling poker room getmintedpoker.com, has signed up ex soccer hard man turned Hollywood star, Vinnie Jones as the chiselled face of its new marketing campaign.

Full Tilt Poker Backs Poker’s Olympic Bid

Full Tilt Poker, the new software that some of the world’s greatest players helped to design, has thrown its full weight behind the “Poker for Athens” campaign. “Poker for Athens” is an organization whose ultimate goal is to get poker internationally

Poker Champ Wins Monopoly Title

New Zealand Poker Champion, Andrew Dimock, is proving he has something of a monopoly on championship titles by winning the Monopoly Championship title. Andrew, 26, triumphed by scoring $4,964 worth of assets during a 90-minute game in Auckland on Fr

PokerBook Gaming Corporation To Launch Charity Poker Room

The PokerBook Gaming Corporation has announced it is the process of developing www.worldpokercharitytour.com the first ever charitable poker site and what the company claims will be the only legal poker site based in the US.

Rock Star Poker Hits Vegas

Clear Channel Entertainment is offering poker fans the opportunity to play their favourite rock stars in the first ever Vegas Rock Star Poker Tournament and Sweepstakes. Clear Channel has go together with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authori

08 July 2004

Gambling Exchange.com’s New Commercials

The Gambling Exchange said it wanted a fresh new angle for its new poker commercials, so it hired innovative writer/director team, the Goetz brothers, to help create something a little bit different.

PokerStars.com’s World Championship of Online Poker

PokerStars.com has announced it is running satellites for qualification into its World Championship of Online Poker, the Internet’s biggest poker tournament. The tournament will run from July 28th to August 8th and will guarantee $4 million in payout

Claws Come Out in Celebrity Poker World

Acting is a notoriously catty profession; so given Ben Affleck’s recent triumph at the poker tournament it was only a matter of time before the venomous backbiting started. The New York Daily News has reported that Wilie Garson, who plays Sex in the

‘Poker Kings’ Film Released

After two and half years of shooting and editing, Poker Kings, a documentary following the fortunes of five poker players on the road to the 2003 World Series of Poker. Directed by award winning filmmaker Maciek Wszelaki, the film follows English tri

World Poker Tour Company To Float on Stock Exchange

Lakes Entertainment Inc, the company that owns roughly 80% of the World Poker Tour, has announced that it’s to be listed Chicago Board Options Exchange and that trading equity options on Lakes Entertainment common stock began on July 1, 2004.