23 March 2012
London Clubs International announces new live tour
Tournament players are really being well catered for when it comes to live MTT events in Britain. The latest name to throw its hat into the ring is London Clubs International which has announced details of a new live tour.
Black Friday civil complaint extended again
Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Absolute Poker, Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, Rafe Furst and payment processor Chad Elie have been granted extra time to respond to the civil complaint filed by United States Justice Department last year.
Daniel Tzvetkoff witness in Campos/Elie trial
Payment processor Chad Elie and banker John Campos are going to trial for their involvement in US online poker six days before the one year anniversary of Black Friday, on April 9th.
LAPT Chile hosts record field of 651 players, Joao Lopes leads
Season 5 of the Latin American Poker Tour in Chile is the biggest yet with a field of 651 players beating the 2011 field by 30. Day 1b attracted 367 players combined with a 284-strong turnout for Day 1a.
Mark Karoullas wins Western Club's Spring Guarantee
Mark Karoullas has won the Western Club's Spring Guarantee event. The London venue had promised a prize pool of at least £15,000 and they easily delivered with the 192-runners creating an impressive £24,000 prize pool (including £25 bounties).
22 March 2012
Real money iPad app from bwin
bwin is the latest online operator to launch a real money poker app for the iPad. The new software is based on the mobile interface previously used for iPhones and Android devices which were launched last year.
Negreanu’s latest vlog gets him banned from Two Plus Two
Daniel Negreanu is back with another edition of his Weekly Rant, this one another 20-minute special and less rant-based than the last. This time he’s excited about iSeriesLIVE and has also included a sketch of him interviewing, er… himself. As Scotty Nguyen.
Sauce123 dominates the $100/$200 PLO games on PokerStars
A Canadian, an Irishman and an American all play high stakes PLO… that was the situation on PokerStars yesterday as Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky dominated the action in the $50/$100 and $100/$200 Omaha games.
Sheffield leg of Genting Poker Series rescheduled
Genting Poker has announced details of a slight amendment to its Genting Poker Series live tour. The Sheffield leg, which was originally scheduled for September has been put back to November.
21 March 2012
Vicky Coren announces engagement
Vicky Coren has announced her engagement to actor and comedian David Mitchell. The pair took the more traditional route of revealing the news via the notices section of The Times rather than The Hendon Mob forum.