October 21st, 2008 by Matt W
The Poker Player Alliance (PPA) has come up with an innovative way to influence the voters ahead of the November elections.
It has graded members of the American Congress, both House and Senate, based on their attitude to poker.
Thus poker players or others who feel that their government’s response to the interests of us poker is [...]
October 17th, 2008 by Tom L
When Dean Hamrick got eliminated in the 10th place on July 15, the final table of nine players was set for the delayed finals of the WSOP 2008 Main Event.
These nine players have come to be known as the November Nine.
They will reconvene on November 9 in a fight to the finish for the coveted [...]
October 17th, 2008 by Tom L
Scotty Nguyen is one of the few living poker players who have a tournament named after him.
And it is set to start its fifth season at the Cherokee Casino Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from the 30th of October. It will run till the 10th of November.
The popularity of the tournament can be gauged from the [...]
October 13th, 2008 by Roger S
First Kentucky Governor issued an order to seize 141 domain names of online gaming organizations for violation of Kentucky law on gambling.
The online gaming companies went to court and received time from Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate for preparation of their case.
The case was heard last week. The judge will mull over the arguments [...]
October 13th, 2008 by Renee K
What Lacey Jones and Christina Lindley can do, Liv Boeree can do better. Last month Lacey and Christina shot a racy lingerie sequence for the Bluff magazine.
This month Liv has done a solo three-page photo spread for the November issue of Loaded magazine.
It hardly matters that Loaded is not a poker magazine. If the previews [...]
October 9th, 2008 by Maria T
It was the first time that PokerStars had organized a High Roller event in conjunction with the European Poker Tour (EPT).
The venue was the Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London, and the event was held on the 5th and 6th of October just after the completion of the London stop of the EPT.
The event, which has been [...]
October 6th, 2008 by Roger S
It was time to celebrate last week as we finally recovered from problems arising from Google and its ranking of poker sites.
Three months ago we were in the depths of the rankings but as of a few days ago, are back on track. This is what we did to celebrate (pics included of course).
I’m not [...]
October 6th, 2008 by Tom L
Parting of ways is sad but perhaps when the parting is amicable then it is not so sad.
Mansion Poker, the Gibraltar based online poker room, and its software provider Ongame Network have amicably parted ways from the 24th of September.
Ongame Network had been servicing Mansion Poker for the last one year. A Mansion Poker release [...]
