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.