25 February 2010
Glamorous opening for VictoryPoker
There is no shortage of poker sites to choose from if you're looking to play online. One site is promising to add a touch of extra glamour to its poker room experience and showed it with a spectacular red carpet opening party.
International Olympic Committee set to support poker as skill game
The International Federation of Poker will be accepted as a member by the International Mind Sports Association in April. What this means is that the International Olympic Committee will add poker to a list of games including chess and Go - skill games.
Tom Marchese wins PokerStars NAPT Venetian Main Event
They say you're getting old when policemen start looking young. The same could be said about poker players and Bluff Europe is feeling quite aged this morning after a pair of young whippersnappers with a combined age of 43 took the top two places at the NAPT Main Event for almost $1.4m.
High Stakes Poker hostess Kara Scott returns to Irish Open
Kara Scott last year netted her biggest tournament cash when she came second in the Irish Open main event, taking home a nice payday of €310,000 after losing the heads-up battle to Swedish professional Christer Johansson. Hey, maybe he's Isildur1 and the €600,000 first prize was his beginning bankroll... nah, probably not.
AJKHoosier1 added to Doyle Brunson's chosen ten
Online tournament legend, Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis, has become the latest member of a line-up including Chris Moorman and 2 Months, 2 Million star Dani Stern - the Doyle Brunson 10. This group of young, talented poker players are hand-picked by Brunson himself.
24 February 2010
Ziigmund’s poker site offers adult entertainment
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, who plays a large part in Coinflip.com, is a man’s man. He likes drinking, gambling, having a good time and, apparently, porn.
Blog – should I join a video training site?
If you’re an online poker player and you’re unaware of video training sites, or haven’t signed up to them, you’ve obviously been playing hunched over your PC under some sort of rock. You’re probably losing money to all the people that do take advantage of training sites, too. And doesn’t playing under a rock hurt your back terribly?
NAPT Venetian High Roller – final table set
The final table has been set in one of the most exciting tournaments seen – the NAPT Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout event. Yeah, how cool does that sound?
And then there were eight. NAPT final table confirmed
Just eight players remain in the PokerStars NAPT event at the Venetian with the winner set to scoop $827,000.
Paddy Power Poker player scoops $110,000 Fort Knox jackpot
Fort Knox is supposed to be unbreakable. The one in America that serves as home to America's gold supply may well be but the Fort Knox single table tournament jackpot on the iPoker network has been well and truly cracked.