05 December 2008
Marc Goodwin Up For Dual Player Of The Year Awards?
After a red-hot run the UK pro could win the GUKPT and European Player of the Year Awards in an unprecedented achievement.
Aussie Millions 2009 Schedule Released
Australian poker officials have taken time out from surfing, watching Neighbours and beating us at cricket to release the schedule for the 2009 Aussie Millions tournament series, which is fast becoming one of the most popular in the world.
03 December 2008
Final Ladbrokes Poker Million IV Seat Awarded
To many poker players, this news makes them feel like every other little kid in Roald Dahl’s universe when they heard that Charlie Bucket had found the last Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka’s factory. “Jammy git,” they thought.
Borgata Announces Details Of Fourth Winter Poker Open
Second only to Vegas, Atlantic City is where it’s at; second only to the WSOP, the Borgata Poker Open is where it’s at. Hosted at the Borgata Hotel, Spa and Casino in (you guessed it) Atlantic City, the event this year promises a mighty $2,000,000 prize pool.
02 December 2008
PokerStars Introduce Badugi
Badugi is an ancient Asian game quite similar to lowball where players aim to make a hand consisting of four low cards with all different suits – this is called a Badugi. This means that a hand such as As-2c-3d-4h is the best possible Badugi hand. There are three drawing rounds, much like triple draw poker.
Bad Beat Jackpot Gives Players Some CEREUS Money
Absolute Poker and UltimateBet’s new alliance into the CEREUS network of online poker means that their player base has expanded, their software has improved, they get the chance to wipe the slate clean re: cheating scandals and we’ll keep using this CEREUS=serious pun in headlines.
01 December 2008
JC Tran takes down the PartyPoker Premier League III
After a long battle through the first stages of the tournament followed by a very tough, experienced final table, Asian Poker Tour ambassador JC Tran has walked away with the Party Poker Premier League III title and $300,000.
Three More Winners at Titan’s ECoOP III
Europeans are turning out in record numbers for Titan Poker’s third run of the European Championship of Online Poker. Over the weekend, three more winners were crowned and the best part of $700,000 given away across the tournaments.
28 November 2008
UltimateBet and AbsolutePoker relaunch – CEREUSly
UltimateBet and AbsolutePoker, two sister poker rooms blighted by separate cheating scandals over a year ago, have re-launched in a new game engine.
Ladbrokes Poker Million VIII updates
The inaugural LEOCOP IV Masters Event took place online last week – an exclusive invitation event, it was open only to the top 80 players on the Ladbrokes poker leaderboard.