November 17th, 2008 by Maria T
Now that Peter Eastgate is the new WSOP champion and the youngest one at that he will be the talk of the town, at least till there is something new to talk about.
Now that Peter Eastgate is the new WSOP champion and the youngest one at that he will be the talk of the town, [...]
November 13th, 2008 by Maria T
It seems that the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) was too late in exhorting its members to try and block the revised UIGEA regulations.
The Treasury Department has released the revised regulations and they are not as bad as expected.
The revised regulations become effective from January 19, 2009, one day before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath [...]
November 13th, 2008 by Maria T
It has been confirmed that Cake Poker, as of today is blocking players from the state of Kentucky.
Official word came through a forum post with the error message graphic shown in this article.
Being that the domain name Cake Poker was hosted at Godaddy, and Godaddy said they would transfer domains over it is not a [...]
November 13th, 2008 by Matt W
A financial settlement has been reached between Tokwiro Enterprises, the present owner of Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet, and Excapsa Software, the previous owner.
Excapsa is to pay $15 million to Blast-Off Limited, the Tokwiro controlled company that originally acquired UltimateBet.
These funds will used to immediately repay the players affected by the super user cheating as [...]
November 11th, 2008 by Tom L
Move over Phil Hellmuth. Peter Eastgate from Denmark has just become the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
He has broken this record that Hellmuth had held on to for the last 19 years.
In the Heads up Eastgate defeated the Russian Ivan Demidov. Dennis Phillips, the chip leader and favorite [...]
November 11th, 2008 by Roger S
The names of this years entries into the Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Dewey Tomko and Henry Orenstein were honored with this distinction on November 9 at the Rio All-Suites in Las Vegas.
Poker Hall of Fame
Just like the WSOP final table this year, the induction of beneficiaries to the poker Hall of Fame [...]
November 9th, 2008 by Renee K
Ever since the Ultimate Bet (UB) scandal broke out almost two years ago, the popular poker blog site Wicked Chops Poker (WCP) has been asking the question “Why is Annie Duke still sticking on as one of the leading brand ambassadors for Ultimate Bet?”
Given the high reputation that Annie enjoys in the poker fraternity [...]
November 6th, 2008 by Matt W
Barack Obama was not the only person to win an election on November 4. Half of the seats in the House of Representatives and one-third of the seats in the Senate were also up for grabs, what does this mean for poker?
The politicians who will now be occupying these seats who will be affecting [...]
