POKER NEWS

13 October 2006

Belle Rock Entertainment Launches New Poker Room Promotions

Belle Rock Entertainment has announced a number of new promotions across its portfolio of online casinos and poker rooms.
At the Belle Rock poker rooms, the highest hand of each day will win a cool $50 with The Bayou Bounty promotion at River Be

12 October 2006

Fox Poker Club Applies for Further UK Premises

The Fox Poker Club (FPC) hopes to expand its empire having made further applications to the Gambling Commission for the relevant permissions for another venue in London and elsewhere in the UK.

Nguyen Follows Recipe for Hold’em Success at Austrian EPT

Thang Duc Nguyen, a 42 year-old chef from Hamburg, Germany cooked up an exciting win of €487,397 at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Baden, Austria earlier this week.
At the end of the four-day tournament, Nguyen triumphed in heads-up

World Poker Tour Unveils Online Instructional Academy

WPT Enterprises has announced plans for what it describes as “the next breakthrough development in poker” – an online poker education centre which will pool archives of WPT information to improve poker players’ games.

PaddyPowerPoker.com Promotion to Send Player to WSOP 2007

PaddyPowerPoker.com has announced that the last PaddyPowerPoker.com online qualifier standing at the Irish Open 2007 will win a seat at the World Series of Poker 2007 Main Event in Las Vegas as part of its popular “Paddy Last” competition.

Tain Poker Network and Tribeca Table Europe Complete Merger

In the first poker site merger to be announced after the approval of an online gambling prohibition bill in the US, Tribeca Table Europe has announced that it has joined the Tain Poker Network.

11 October 2006

Allen Cunningham Joins Team Full Tilt

Four-time WSOP bracelet winner Allen Cunningham will join the likes of Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer as the latest addition to Team Full Tilt.
Aged 29, Cunningham has been playing poker professionally for the past seven years and

Free Poker Site Hopes to Cash-in on US Gaming Legislation

Poker site developers hope to entice poker-playing victims of the recent US prohibition legislation to their site, offering free poker and ensuring it won’t become a victim of the new bill.

Great Poker League Opens Online Poker Gear Store

A new online shop with everything the avid poker enthusiast could ever hope to own has opened.
The new “GPL Shop” is a trading retail arm of the Great Poker League, which has made a major impact in the world of online gaming this year, and is a

New Blog to Help Students Pay Their Way as a Poker Affiliate

Entrepreneurial Owen Rankin has set up a blog targeted at European students explaining how they can work as affiliates for top poker rooms to pay their way through their studies.
It has long been known that many students play poker to supplemen