31 January 2007
Here’s Johnny
Pro poker player John Hennigan took down the WPT Poker Classic in
Borgata yesterday to bag nearly $2 million and his first WPT
title.
In a thrilling final hand against amateur Chuck Kelly, Kelly
accidentally showed his hole cards after the turn
UK Online Poker Advertising To Be Restricted
Online gambling and poker companies based outside Europe and
Gibraltar will have to apply to the government if they want to
advertise their products in the UK when the activity is legalised
on September 1.
Ladies’ Night
The first Ultimate Women's Poker Challenge is scheduled for
February 9 & 10, 2007 at Binion's Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sponsored by Woman Poker Player Magazine, The Ultimate Poker
Challenge (UPC) is America's number one syndicated poke
Titan Offers Bonza Deals For Aussies
Online poker room Titan Poker has announced a series of low buy-in
tournaments scheduled at prime evening hours for players from
Australia and New Zealand.
The growing number of players from Australia and New Zealand led
the popular online pok
30 January 2007
New Book’s Foolproof Formula for Poker Players
In his new book, Mathematical Strategies to Winning Casino Poker,
engineering PhD and mathematician Michael Stelzer shares some
simple playing and betting strategies that guarantee poker players
will leave both tables and tournaments as winners.
Infra-Red Card Tracking System Comes up Trumps
A novel card identification system developed jointly by Sagentia
and its client iKnowledge is being made available to producers of
televised poker programmes.
Perlego reportedly uses a combination of infra-red readable bar
codes, image processi
$10,000 WPT Borgata Main Event is Underway
With an attendance list that reads like a ‘who’s who’ of poker, the
first day of the $10,000 World Poker Tour Main Event at Borgata was
always going to be something special. Indeed some 570 players
descended upon the 85-table poker room for their sta
New Satellites in Kiwi Orbit
Kiwi Poker has undergone something of a facelift in recent weeks,
which has seen the addition of a number of new features including a
four colour deck, improved filtering, waiting list and search
options, “No DP” (Disconnection Protection) tables, a
Mansion Poker to Continue $100,000 Tourneys
Following the success of its US$100K a Day promotion this month,
Mansion has announced that it is extending the guaranteed
tournament series into February.
With a change in the daily US$100,000 Guaranteed Tournament
Schedule to a timely 18:00
29 January 2007
All That Glitters Is Not Gold For Poker Champ
2006 World Series Of Poker champion Jamie Gold has been dropped
from Team Bodog Poker.
The move leaves Gold as the only WSOP champion from the last
five years without a deal with an online poker room.