POKER NEWS

29 January 2007

UK Super-casino Verdict Due

The winner in the race to host Britain's first Las Vegas-style casino will be announced tomorrow, with Blackpool or Greenwich tipped to win.
The five members of the Casino Advisory Panel (CAP) will on Tuesday give Tessa Jowell, culture secretar

Consultation Launched on Gaming in Clubs and Pubs

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has launched a consultation on new proposals to update the current 40-year old rules permitting gambling in pubs and clubs.
They would for the first time, set clear stake and prize limits on poker in m

26 January 2007

Paddy Power Get Their Manh

Hoa Manh Nguyen, World Series of Poker 'bubble boy' has finally been discovered alive and well living in Sunnyvale, California, and will be flown over to the €2 million guaranteed Irish Poker Open held in Dublin over Easter Weekend 2007.

Hail Caesars

For the third straight year, a field of 64 of the world’s elite poker players will descend upon Las Vegas from March 1st-4th as the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship brings a ‘who’s who’ from the poker world to the Caesars Palace Poker Tournam

25 January 2007

UK Crackdown On Live Poker

As the UK government pushes forward with plans for ‘super-casinos’, the Gambling Commission has issued a warning to ‘illegal’ poker clubs.
The recent guilty verdict at the Gutshot trial appears to have strengthened the Commission's hand, althou

French Fancy Ban On Poker

French authorities have followed their American counterparts in waging a war on poker and online gambling.
PokerStars.com has been hit by news that French club, Le Salon des Ambassadeurs, has banned all images of the online poker room’s adverti

Americans Use Canadian Cousins To Bypass Laws

Americans who want to play online poker are doing so through a loophole that employs Canadian based servers. US-based IP addresses are masked with Canadian ones so to evade the self-imposed US ban by the various online poker sites.

Everest Continues To Scale New Heights

Online poker firm Everest Poker has announced the date for a round 3 event in its $1 million guaranteed poker event, the Everest Poker Avalanche.
The ‘Avalanche’ event will take place on Saturday, 27 January at 15:00 GMT.

24 January 2007

PlayboyGaming Launches New Poker Site

Online gaming site PlayboyGaming.com has announced the launch of its new poker room that will not only give online players the chance to win cash prizes, but also the opportunity to open up the doors to the playboy mansion using the sites alternative

Cryptologic Expands Europe Presence

CryptoLogic, the software developer to the global Internet gaming industry, has launched three new brands on its WagerLogic subsidiary's European-focused poker network. They include PlayboyGaming.