POKER NEWS

29 March 2007

Poker’s Good Boy Beats Poker’s Bad Boy in Poularity contest

Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi has won Cardplayer’s Player of the Year title. A sample of 50,000 online poker players who were asked which pro most deserved the title.
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Police Shut Down Tournament in Sweden

Last week we reported that a tournament in Ireland was called off minutes after it had started. This week, over 700 Swedish poker players were disappointed at the 2007 European Poker Challenge in Sweden when police adopted the same approach.

28 March 2007

Mansion Continues Daily $100K Tourneys

Gibraltar based Mansion Poker, having given away over $4 million dollars since January 3rd this year, is continuing to promote its site with $100K a day tournaments. The tournaments have an average of 530 players, so a relatively small field competes

Bad Beat Poker Psycho Skips Town

A man who tried to shoot his opponents following a home game of poker, has gone on the run after a County Judge in Williamsport, Pennsylvania issued a bench warrant against him.
45 year-old Harold Hoskins, decided to run rather than face senten

27 March 2007

Soap Star Finds New Celebrity at Poker Tables

A Welsh fish and chip shop owner and Hoss Parhizkar were both left disappointed when Michael Greco won the Welsh leg of the Grosvenor Poker Tour in Cardiff. Roman Romanello has a string of family-run restaurants in Cardiff.

Sky Bet Poker Takes Off With OpenBet Platform

Orbis, the world’s leading provider of interactive gaming and betting solutions, recently released its Texas Hold‘em poker solution as part of the OpenBet Rake Games module. The Sky Poker launch includes a web-based portal, as well as a dedicated Sky

Sponsors Will Not Be Disappointed by WSOP 2007

Jeffrey Pollack has held a conference call with reporters about the 2007 World Series of Poker, in which he said that he expects the event to be 14% bigger than last year.
Online poker site sponsors were let down when organisers, Harrahs Entert

Planet Uninhabitable in Hostile Online Poker Environment

Planet Poker has decided to end all real money games on its site in response to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
In a press release the management said that they sincerely regretted the decision but explained, “it has bec

26 March 2007

Titan Poker Sends Three European Players to Monte Carlo

Online poker room Titan Poker has confirmed that it will send three of its best poker players to participate in the European Poker Tour's Grand Final Tournament in Monte Carlo this month.

Paddy Power Announces Broadcast Partner for Irish Open

PaddyPowerPoker.com, in association with Winmedia International Ltd, has announced the television broadcast details of the 26th Irish Open tourney.
Extensive coverage of Europe's largest and longest running poker tournament will be televised b