15 August 2007
Poker As Educational Tool
A Harvard Law School Professor will announce the formation of a
group with the aim of organising ‘poker strategic thinking
societies’ at universities and secondary schools around the world
using the game as an educational tool to teach everything fro
Online Poker Provider Posts Record Profits
Leading Taiwanese online poker software provider and licensor
GigaMedia Ltd has announced that second quarter revenues climbed 88
percent to $40.1 million with operating income increasing 119 per
cent to $10.
14 August 2007
Pace Hailed for Women’s World Poker Victory
The wife of British comedian and avid poker player Norman Pace, has
won the inaugural PartyPoker Women’s World Open in London, picking
up the $50,000 first prize in the televised tourney.
DoylesRoom.com Unveils $50K Poker Freerolls Finale
DoylesRoom.com is giving online poker players the opportunity to
face poker legend Doyle Brunson in a big money heads-up online cash
game. The poker site concludes its Summer Series of Freerolls with
a no buy-in $25,000 Grand Finale event, where the
10 August 2007
Four Winds Casino Unveil All-Electric Poker Room
Leading American casino Four Winds Casino Resort of New Buffalo,
Michigan, has launched the world’s first poker room to feature all
electric tables.
The room sports fifteen PokerPro ten-seat tables and four
heads-up tables presented by North Ca
PokerStars Holds its Largest Tournament
One of the world's largest online poker sites, PokerStars.com, has
claimed that it shattered the record for the world’s largest cash
poker tournament recently.
Its Sunday Hundred Grand tournament on July 29 drew a field of
20,000 online poker p
Poker Business Down at Ladbrokes
The UK’s largest publicly quoted bookmaker, Ladbrokes, has
published its interim results for the first half of 2007 and
announced that, despite record profits, its poker channel at Poker.
Revenue Drop For WPT
The company behind the World Poker Tour (WPT) American television
series, World Poker Tour Enterprises Inc, has reported a drop in
revenue for the second quarter of 2007 when compared with the
corresponding quarter last year.
HotPokerBonus Goes Deutsch
Top online poker guide HotPokerBonus.com has announced the launch
of a German language web portal that connects to a variety of poker
sites.
The new gateway has been designed to assist novice players as
well as the more experienced in honing th
09 August 2007
APAT Announces 6th Live Event of Season 1
The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (“APAT”), in conjunction
with Blue Square, has announced details of the sixth live event in
its critically acclaimed tour.
The European Amateur Poker Championship will be held at the
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